steveh73

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by steveh73 14y ago
PHP is a terrible language in which you can easily write code that will run basically anywhere. There are many cases (i.e. open source web apps) where the value of the latter vastly outweighs the former, but it's not going to be true for ev
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by steveh73 14y ago
Assuming you can find somewhere that sells the parts.
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by steveh73 14y ago
I thought not having a TV at all was the new status symbol. Mine isn't plugged into an aerial (just an HTPC) so I guess I'm half-hipster.
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by steveh73 14y ago
I went to a high school of >2500 in New Zealand and I found that with so many other people it was easy to find others that were like-minded. I'm sure some people were bullied but to me it barely registered - nothing at all like it's dep
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by steveh73 14y ago
She set up a meeting at 2am? And you were awake and checking your work email at the time? You should have quit a long time before then.
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by steveh73 15y ago
Huh?
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by steveh73 15y ago
Please make it more obvious that this only works for US phone numbers
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by steveh73 15y ago
I don't get it. Do people give you shit for not drinking when you go to events? I've never had any problem when I decide I don't feel like drinking that day. You say you don't want to tell people what to do, but you want them to stop drinki
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by steveh73 15y ago
"Ever" is a very long time. I'm sure you're also familiar with the Bill Gates quote
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by steveh73 15y ago
I believe OP was meaning that the storage requirements for compressed video are already increasing at a huge rate, and it's exacerbated if you are working with uncompressed video
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by steveh73 15y ago
I'm a web developer, so while security is obviously a huge concern, it's not my main area of expertise. I don't have the knowledge to evaluate the pros and cons of each cipher, and the situations in which it's appropriate to use each one. I
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by steveh73 15y ago
There's only 2 connections to the USA at the moment, and SCC charges monopoly prices. There is another AU<>NZ<>USA connection being built in 2014 and another AU<>NZ connection built in 2013 (the 2 grey lines). Southe
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by steveh73 15y ago
A similar thing happened in New Zealand (and likely elsewhere) in the late 90's, before broadband became prevalent. There were a number of ISP's who provided free dial-up internet, because they made money from termination fees when the majo
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by steveh73 15y ago
Wait, what? Pay Cloudflare $20 a month to avoid a $100/year SSL certificate?
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by steveh73 15y ago
I quite like DDG but from my region (NZ) it's just too slow compared to Google. I look forward to when you're big enough to have datacentres in Auckland or even Sydney.
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by steveh73 15y ago
I've found it works about half the time. Still good enough for me to bother checking. They have a bookmarklet.
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by steveh73 15y ago
So after all that, what encoder are you using?
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by steveh73 15y ago
I think buying a car on credit may be an American thing - at least I don't know of anyone who has bought a car on credit. It seems like an absurd waste of money to do so - why not just buy a secondhand car you can afford outright?
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by steveh73 15y ago
And here's information on how increasing speed increases conversion: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/velocity-making-your-site-f... So potentially, the money you save by hosting overseas is lost in lower conversion.
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by steveh73 15y ago
Here's a post by someone in AU demonstrating the effects of latency on web traffic - 10x slowdown. http://mike.bailey.net.au/2010/07/latency-is-a-killer/
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by steveh73 15y ago
I'm actually in NZ, it might be different in AU, but generally when you buy colocation here you only pay for international bandwidth; national bandwidth is free.
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by steveh73 15y ago
It may just be that hosting overseas is inappropriate for a local audience - a connection to the USA is far slower than a connection in the same city. For example, from my work on a fibre connection, pinging a local website takes about 2ms,
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by steveh73 15y ago
"Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S." Not available to all.
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by steveh73 15y ago
You did not completely censor the last screenshot.
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by steveh73 16y ago
It means you know where the plane is going to be before it gets there, if you didn't already know. As in, you're planning ahead, rather than reacting to what's happening. Which I would imagine takes a lot of experience at 1900 knots.
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by steveh73 16y ago
NZ has expensive (and not particularly fast) internet, which is probably why. On the other hand, setting up a limited-liability company took me an hour (including registering for GST) and cost $40 when I did it (it's a little more now), and