sowhata

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by sowhata 14y ago
Details please. Maybe you cannot name names but give us a clue. There's no way AirBnB is going to try to IPO after the Facebook debacle. They must entice someone to acquire them. The higher the valuation the more enticing. Pump it up!
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by sowhata 14y ago
"recruiting is a balancing of fears" "the other" Pretty much spot on. There is no shortage of people who can do the jobs. That is certainly not the fear being balanced (=Joe Candidate can't do the job). Rather, the fear is that Joe Candi
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by sowhata 14y ago
If this is just about load balancing, then they could probably get better performance from haproxy, right? Anyone should be able to exceed 200 req/s with haproxy. In fact, you should be able to get around double that or more. The point is
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by sowhata 14y ago
And how many requests/sec per CPU? They have like 300 servers and who knows how many cores. What kind title is this? The target High Scalability reader must be presumed to be a complete fool.
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by sowhata 14y ago
.csv can be imported into Excel to make .xls. .txt can be imported into Word to make .doc. .html can be imported into either Excel or Word. .ppt? No comment. .csv, .txt and .html are much easier to work with across different operating syst
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by sowhata 14y ago
Life would be soooooo much easier without Microsoft's closed formats. As nice as they are, they are a royal PITA when you are not using Windows. Sometimes you just need the text and images/other embedded media, not the fonts and other win
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by sowhata 14y ago
"Pre-Order on Kickstarter" While this may not be within the stated KS rules, as an idea this sounds useful. The main obstacle with many overseas factory-made cheap electronics projects is indeed "how big should we make the first run?" Is th