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by snorkel 16y ago
Using EBS has other features that are hard to overlook, such as snapshots and ability to quickly move your volumes to another instance when an instance failure happens, or if you needed to change the size of an instance (which you couldn't
692.
by snorkel 16y ago
Software job postings are full of cliches. Best to ignore the description and instead use the interview to ask how project requirements are decided, scheduled, and delivered. If their process doesn't mention any input from developers other
693.
by snorkel 16y ago
Having been at a startup that used hundreds of EC2 instances and EBS volumes I can assure you all that Amazon EBS performance is downright terrible and Amazon didn't inspire any confidence that they could solve it. Even worse than the EBS p
694.
by snorkel 16y ago
Mobile devices tend to operate in the 700 to 900 MHz range which translates to a wavelengths of several inches, so it's quite possible the geometry of the drinking glass is providing a bit of focus to the signal.
695.
by snorkel 16y ago
There's also millions of low-end mobile devices that can reach the web but don't support javascript.
696.
by snorkel 16y ago
Generally if your employer wants to take whatever you created, they probably can. So best not to draw their attention to your side project.
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by snorkel 16y ago
Pay structures are stupidly hierarchical but who enforces that? The managers enforce it by threatening to quit if they discover someone below them on the org chart is being paid more. Sure, some managers are replaceable so let them quit, bu
698.
by snorkel 16y ago
Wow. That system is locked down tight! You can't even cd into C:\
699.
by snorkel 16y ago
"... we embrace and extend them."
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by snorkel 16y ago
Here's my take: 0 customers asked for it: Don't abstract it. 1 customer asked for it: Corner-case it. 2 customers asked for it: Strategy pattern. 3 customers asked for variations: Config option.
701.
by snorkel 16y ago
WHAT ABOUT ALL CAPS? GOOD? BAD?
702.
by snorkel 16y ago
Agreed. A more sane patent system would require a working demonstration, and further require that the demonstration must be performed each time the patent holder claims infringement. Any idea that can not be readily demonstrated in a practi
703.
by snorkel 16y ago
Wall Street is a Ponzi scheme. Facebook is just overvalued.
704.
by snorkel 16y ago
The most stealth cracking countermeasure I ever witnessed was the application would XOR some of its UI messages with the hash sig of the application binary file, so if you edited the application binary file directly the crack seemed to work
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by snorkel 16y ago
"we still have value we can bring to a superior civilization. That value may be in providing services, cheap labor or producing reality television." ... or we may just have really delicious brain stems.
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by snorkel 16y ago
Purveyors of dead trees need to take a serious look at printing books on demand in the store at price that competes with online prices. Stock the shelves with a few full-price deluxe copies, and print discount copies on demand in store.
707.
by snorkel 16y ago
I like how the author rants that the existence of this bug as totally unacceptable then suggests instead using clang compiler "for those who [...] can tolerate a few bugs"
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by snorkel 16y ago
Don't even get us old timers started on how we used to mount CD drives. Editing AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS and making sure the sound card driver loaded after so it wouldn't steal the same interrupt, and sometimes D:\ would appear to be t
709.
by snorkel 16y ago
Ooh can I play too?! * Don't require 10 years experience with a language or technology that less than 10 years old * Don't list hundreds of unrelated skills required because you're hoping this position will do the work of 5 employees and 2
710.
by snorkel 16y ago
Or just pgrep -c apache
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by snorkel 16y ago
Good point. With thousands of dollars at stake one ought to be able to speak to a human and have a reconciliation process.
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by snorkel 16y ago
31, which is a Mersenne prime number, and Marin Mesenne lived to be 59 years old which is also a prime number and 59 is the bus route I take on Wednesdays because I like to sit in the 3rd row, aisle seat, right after I eat my sandwich, and
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by snorkel 16y ago
This is true, tasks that require thinking in the abstract are more likely to induce procrastination: http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1...
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by snorkel 16y ago
A rebuttal by Comic Sans: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/15comicsans.html
715.
by snorkel 16y ago
Rather than repopulating the same cache entries every 5 seconds you could instead actively purge the Varnish cache entry when the content actually changes.
716.
by snorkel 16y ago
On your outward-facing servers * turn down the TCP handshake timeouts * turn on TCP SYN cookies * watch incoming network connections and traffic logs and add firewall rules to block each suspected attacker subnet. In a real DDoS you have
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Ask HN: How do you dole out commission payments to many users?
5 points by snorkel 16y ago|3 comments
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by snorkel 16y ago
It's a visual product so you got to prime the pump with visual samples to entice the first customer.
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by snorkel 16y ago
I bounced out immediately due to lack of Latest Design samples. I get the concept, like it, but gotta have examples.
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by snorkel 16y ago
Use Apache's LimitRequest* directives http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#limitrequestb...

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