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by squeed 14y ago
There are a few really baseless, attack-y comments on the original post. I wonder if they're some kind of Syrian social media reactionary force. CloudFlare, if you have access to their data, what's interesting about them?
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by squeed 14y ago
San Francisco is currently limited to 1494 taxi medallions. That means, legally, there can be a maximum of 1494 cars making street hails at any given moment. Car services are licensed by the state instead of the city, and are not subject to
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by squeed 14y ago
I wonder how much effort the Skittles factory puts in to ensuring each bag has a selection of all the colors. They certainly have some large high-volume plant to do so. It's funny to think of this carefully-crafted machine undoing the work
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by squeed 14y ago
Probably trying to reverse-engineer the Twitter geolocation database instead of buying one.
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Life Hackers' Anonymous(mcsweeneys.net)
2 points by squeed 14y ago|0 comments
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by squeed 14y ago
The solution simply isn't another database. The candidates simply don't exist. The only solution is to make more talented candidates. Go and invent http://hackerschool.com/ UK.
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by squeed 14y ago
I love the nipple mouse. I find it much less irritating on my wrists than a trackpad. Plus, it allows for a rapid transition between keyboard and mouse.
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8 hackers implanted with RFID tags at Toorcamp(forbes.com)
2 points by squeed 14y ago|0 comments
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by squeed 14y ago
Minneapolis was very lucky: they inherited a large number of extremely high quality freight rail right-of-ways as the industry moved out of the city center. These are perfect for conversion in to bike paths: few hills, and routed to minim
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by squeed 14y ago
According to http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=YHOO+Balance+Sheet&annua... , Yahoo has $1.5 billion in the bank. I think they can afford it. For all this talk, everyone forgets that Yahoo is (still) profitable! Unlike Nokia or Blackberry
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Advanced SQLAlchemy & Performance tricks(tracelytics.com)
2 points by squeed 14y ago|0 comments
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by squeed 14y ago
Ordinarily I'd agree, but a huge part of businesses like Skype is the network effect. In other words, Skype is useful because basically everyone has an account and knows how to use the software. So the attitude towards free users has to be
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Nixon was worse than we thought(washingtonpost.com)
8 points by squeed 14y ago|0 comments
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by squeed 14y ago
Fair enough. The last time I was privy to this, it was more than a year ago. I didn't expect things to change that much :-).
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by squeed 14y ago
Actually, no, Comcast's paid peering costs are significantly cheaper than all but the lowest quality transit. In other words, if you just have Cogent, you get what you pay for.
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by squeed 14y ago
Comcast does not operate their own video delivery infrastructure. They contract that out to Akamai. Furthermore, Comcast will happily sell non-transit, A.K.A. paid peering, to all who come. They don't (and never have) sell colocation (DC
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TCDS - an actual "thinking cap"(lastwordonnothing.com)
1 points by squeed 14y ago|0 comments
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by squeed 14y ago
You know what? Good. A stock that explodes after the IPO means it was priced too low, and the company didn't raise a fair amount of capital. Facebook is obviously smart enough to think for the long term. I don't trust the financial machiner
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by squeed 14y ago
Indeed. Inktomi also tried to position themselves as an arms supplier to the CDN business. It didn't help that the CDN business basically disappeared from 2001-2004, and that CDNs, to this day, rarely buy software.
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Understanding Common Factor Attacks: An RSA-Cracking Puzzle(loyalty.org)
2 points by squeed 15y ago|0 comments
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by squeed 15y ago
I'm surprised at how well connected Australia is. Why is their internet still so expensive?
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by squeed 15y ago
Check out the comments in that article. Am I the only one who stops listening when the Economist is accused of conspiracy? Sure, they have certain biases which are pretty easy to spot, but accusing them of being an American mouthpiece seems
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by squeed 15y ago
I'd just like to say: Thanks for running such an awesome site! I use FlightAware to hack airlines by trying to locate the incoming flight that is to be my outgoing plane. Any plane landing ~60 minutes before my departure whose make and mode
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by squeed 15y ago
Agreed, I've also used Burp to great effect. I'm glad this field is getting a lot of attention.
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by squeed 15y ago
I agree. I've lurked on StackOverflow for a long time now, and I watched the rise of 'meta' style questions as they polluted the question space. This lead to the establishment of the Meta-StackExchange site, which was not an obvious choice
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by squeed 15y ago
Some folks registered asdf.com, and had a similar experience. I wish they posted their inbox for all to see. ( http://asdf.com/asdfemail.html )
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by squeed 15y ago
Interestingly enough, the database is definitely copyrighted work in Europe. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right .
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by squeed 15y ago
You're both right. While it is true that for the hardware business, HP's stability is surely good enough. On the other hand, when it comes to enterprise contracts, stability matters a lot more. I have at least some first-hand evidence to th
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by squeed 15y ago
Delaware is a the most common place for incorporation mostly because they have by far the most legal precedent. This reduces legal uncertainties. This also means that, in general, corporate lawyers are familiar with Delaware codes w.r.t. in
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by squeed 15y ago
Chobani got an old factory that Kraft was letting go. Tesla got the GM NUMMI factory for pennies on the dollar, too. It would do these large companies well to hand old factories over to internal skunk-works teams to tinker first.

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