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by smw 12y ago
Why is it impossible to buy web hosting from you without buying or transferring a domain?
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by smw 12y ago
Netflix was paying Cogent to link it to the internet. Now Netflix's servers are directly linked to Comcast, so Comcast is connecting it to the internet, and that's who they're paying instead. No, Netflix is paying Com
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by smw 13y ago
Besides the ease of installation, the thing that most impresses me is the very low resource usage and amazing responsiveness on even a tiny VPS. PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command 31378 smw 20
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by smw 13y ago
I just tried to submit the same thing. This seems particularly relevant to how difficult it's going to be for the Internet to recover from the heartbleed bug [1] currently being discussed everywhere on HN. [1] http://heartb
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by smw 13y ago
Am I missing something, or doesn't the browser have to explicitly check for key revocation? I know the checkbox was off in my version of Chrome. Maybe I set it, but I'm not sure. This [1] Seems to suggest that Firefox, for insta
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by smw 13y ago
One of his other businesses sells an 'appointment reminder' service to businesses. It's wildly successful. One could argue that perhaps that gives him some insight into the B2B sales process, which is a large content of the
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by smw 13y ago
I see Patrick's point being that Colin did the hard technical work to create the service, he should probably take the huge profits for himself. But sure, it does sound like there's room for what you describe -- even more so if Col
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by smw 13y ago
I think his point was simply that, for the most part, the only reason you'd pay $500 a month for backup is if you value your data much more than if it's a personal or hobby thing. Many businesses do. Making it easy for them to b
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by smw 13y ago
This is pure brilliance. And probably a massive windfall for Colin if he acts on it. I loved leaving the existing service as a poorly publicized option, as it keeps the hn-crowd-early-adopter-technical-consultants using the service, and th
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by smw 13y ago
Just FYI, Brighthouse is no longer affiliated with Time Warner Cable, they're a separate entity owned by Advance Newhouse.
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by smw 13y ago
I think there were two major technical issues stopping the overwhelming adoption of mobile XMPP/Jabber: 1) Apple push notifications were the only method of reliably delivering on demand messages to iOS devices, so to provide expected (
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by smw 13y ago
Why not? By virtue of my profession, I spend many hours in front of a computer during the day. Every time I receive a text -- which is pretty often, I'm wishing I could read respond on the device I'm currently using, instead of
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by smw 13y ago
The desktop client/multiple platform thing is so huge, I don't understand why WhatsApp, for instance, avoids this. My group of friends uses a lot of iMessage, and I really hate the fact that I can neither use an iMessage app sitti
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by smw 13y ago
As much as I agree that the software should be open source, that's not nearly enough. There are large numbers of rootkits and vulnerabilities for Linux, for instance. There would be a huge incentive to modify the software of these ma
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by smw 14y ago
I think it's likely that you're missing a layer. The book is really just marketing for the DHH/37signals/RoR brand. Developing that brand makes people more loyal to their products and ecosystem, which probably makes them a lot more money o
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by smw 15y ago
Does anyone offer a similar product / price point in the US? I haven't found anything remotely close. Why not?
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by smw 16y ago
Off the top of my head, you probably didn't include the intermediate certificate. Read #31 on the faq: "Why does Firefox present a warning when connecting to my website?" http://www.startssl.com/?app=25