spydez

10 ms·

91.
by spydez 17y ago
Well, to be fair, Backblaze is using consumer-grade hardware here. No redundant PSUs. No mirrored OS drives. Cheaper components. Etc. They're going Google's route, which is fine, it's just... a whole different direction than a Sun Thumper.
92.
by spydez 17y ago
Newegg has an autopricing algorithm that ramps the price up into the stratosphere if a lot of people are buying something. It takes a while for the price to settle back down to 'reasonable'. Either find it elsewhere, or wait it out... Amazo
93.
by spydez 17y ago
Essentially all of Apple's products are single disk. There is virtually no win there. Well, if you're data-paranoid, like me, you can set your ZFS filesystem to keep 2 copies of every file on different parts of the disk. Then if your sing
94.
by spydez 17y ago
What OTC drugs are there for depression?
95.
by spydez 17y ago
I've been consolidating email accounts for the past few months; transferring thousands of emails from one account to another, sorting, labeling, archiving, etc. I keep one gmail account open in Firefox, and another in Chrome. There is no di
96.
by spydez 17y ago
What's the difference between a corporation ("the term denotes a body corporate formed to conduct business " - Wikipedia) and a (large or small) business?
97.
by spydez 17y ago
You think you jest... I have to have 2 alarm clocks on normal ok-if-I'm-late days, and 3 if I absolutely have to wake up by x:00 AM. Each a progressively further zombie walk away from the bedside. I have 3 for the important days because wal
98.
by spydez 17y ago
Yes, the difference is that big. Average cable offering is 7 Mbit today where I live. You can upgrade to a whole 15 for an arm and a leg. A few lucky big cities have Verizon FiOS (fiber to the home), which can go up to 50 Mbit. US broadband
99.
by spydez 17y ago
Personally, CDs are infinitely better than iTunes, et al. I get my music absolutely DRM-free. I can rip a CD to as high a quality mp3 as I want. I can rip to lossless FLAC for backup/future lossy format reencoding. And I get a physical back
100.
by spydez 17y ago
Ah. Apparently my HN Toolkit is old... Thanks for the update.
101.
by spydez 17y ago
Sadly, it nukes the "show 5 new items at bottom of main page" that the HN Toolkit gives me... http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
102.
by spydez 17y ago
The png: http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/refresh/robozombies7.png Or, one of them, anyways. There's 2 to 6 as well.
103.
by spydez 17y ago
If you want some socially acceptable looking shoes that aren't padded, I have some Vivo Barefoot shoes and they are expensive and lovely. All they have is a few millimeters of puncture-resistant rubber between your foot and the ground. All
104.
by spydez 17y ago
Sadly, not for the free version of Google Apps for Your Domain.
105.
by spydez 17y ago
"Dying Diver Accidentally Hacks Beluga's Instincts" Whales and dolphins are known to assist sick pod-mates to the surface to breathe. In this case, it was a sick human.
106.
by spydez 17y ago
I personally go with Tree Style Tabs, since it lets you group related tabs. Otherwise I agree with you totally; I don't think I could stand going back to across-the-top tabs. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890
107.
by spydez 17y ago
Because the majority of the percentage of the price goes to the publisher, not the author. Since the publisher is incurring less cost for producing an electronic copy, they should charge less.
108.
DHH interviewed by FLOSS Weekly (podcast)(twit.tv)
5 points by spydez 17y ago|0 comments
109.
by spydez 17y ago
The all-on-one-page version: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/printthis/202666.html
110.
by spydez 17y ago
"No guy who is actually interested in a woman will pick option 2. In fact, it's a non-option." I'm a guy. I'm interested in women. I pick option 2 all the time. Some of us happen to be shy and/or introverted...
111.
On the Skillfulness of Developers(lbrandy.com)
2 points by spydez 17y ago|0 comments
112.
Content Editable(armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com)
3 points by spydez 17y ago|0 comments
113.
by spydez 17y ago
That's an infinite loop. Or, that's what it feels like to me, anyways. :/
114.
by spydez 17y ago
Hacker News Toolkit puts a search box on every HN page, among other things. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
115.
Code reviews are overrated(lbrandy.com)
5 points by spydez 17y ago|3 comments
116.
by spydez 17y ago
As an introvert, I really, really (really) hate being on the receiving end of this endless follow-on questions type of 'conversation' (can it be a conversation if your only participation is to crowbar more words out of me? (I digress...)).
117.
by spydez 17y ago
Creationism doesn't, in my opinion, make any predictions. You have to go to Intelligent Design proponents like biochemist Michael Behe before you get predictions. He has the "irreducibly complex" theory, and a few examples of biochemical re
118.
by spydez 17y ago
United Nuclear has it cheaper. http://www.unitednuclear.com/chem.htm Just, yeah. Don't kill yourself. :P Lethal dose is somewhere between 10 and 20 grams. Rough, spydez-levels of caffeination call for ~1/2 teaspoon of pure caffeine powder
119.
by spydez 17y ago
Download color-theme. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ColorTheme Choose one of the included themes that you like the most, and start customizing. Personally, I like zenburn. http://www.brockman.se/software/zenburn/zenburn.el But t
120.
by spydez 17y ago
Thanks for the links... You've made my day with that ACL rule. I had the new file permissions issue but hadn't had time to hunt down the solution.

More ›