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by taligent 14y ago
Everything. It is all in one place, very simple to use, has process monitoring like Monit and well supported. Nobody uses what Apple ships by default. Homebrew or MacPorts and I have exactly the same setup as I have on my Linux server. Plus
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by taligent 14y ago
Mac mini is hyper threaded so appears in the OS as 8-cores. The OSX Server edition starts at $999. Replace the two hard drives with two SSD ($200) and add 16GB RAM ($100). Now show me a Supermicro that will have two nodes in 1RU for equival
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by taligent 14y ago
I am currently using a cluster of Mac Minis as a server platform. Some benefits: * Launchd is a massive improvement over the equivalent mess on Linux. This can't be understated if you are managing your own hardware. * You can develop on th
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually it's far cheaper than even an equivalent Supermicro solution let alone HP/Dell etc. You are getting at minimum 2 Mac Minis in 1RU which as of today could be a 8 core Core i7 / Dual SSDs / 16GB RAM. Plus if you want to upgrade them
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by taligent 14y ago
There is nothing you can do to prevent scraping especially with tools like PhantomJS which use exactly the same engine as in your browser. The ONLY way is to as suggested throttle based on IP address and X-Forwarded For.
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by taligent 14y ago
You mean like Hulu or iTunes ?
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by taligent 14y ago
Yep. The future isn't in cable. It's in FTTH/FTTN like what is happening in Australia right now. Which means any opportunity for disruption are going to come from platforms like Netflix, BBC iPlayer, Vimeo, YouTube, CollegeHumor etc.
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by taligent 14y ago
Okay so three things. Firstly I don't think you understand the business you are trying to disrupt. YOU may not watch particular channels e.g. Fox but others do and they help to subsidise the unprofitable channels. So trying to break apart t
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by taligent 14y ago
Firstly, I HATE that UI. It's slow, clunky and cluttered. Secondly, you have deliberately some of the most popular people on Google+. In particular Guy Kawasaki. It's not representative of a typical user.
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by taligent 14y ago
Add me to the list of people who have indadvertedly engaged with Google+. Would be interesting to know how much people have accidentally done the same.
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by taligent 14y ago
No. But all new development isn't being done on it. My point is that stories like this are becoming the new norm especially with companies like 10gen and Datastax wining and dining CIO/GMs pretty hard. MongoDB in particular is getting a (mi
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by taligent 14y ago
NoSQL databases are becoming very common place now and there are a lot more companies and hosted providers than there used to be. So naturally you are going to see more stories of people switching away from traditional SQL databases. I work
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually you know what would be even better. I provide an IP address and you tell me the best, worst and median response times for a simple request.
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by taligent 14y ago
Seriously do. I spent a few minutes looking for the list of data centres. And when I couldn't find it I left with the assumption that it was going to be a slow, pricey mess. Nothing is more important than transparency when you are providing
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by taligent 14y ago
I would watch Steve's Stanford commencement speech if I were you. In it he talked about only being able to 'connecting the dots' in his life looking backwards not forwards. This idea that he planned his time at Apple is just revisionist del
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by taligent 14y ago
Excellent point. How about all those businesses that have their services hosted in the cloud e.g. Amazon EC2.
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by taligent 14y ago
Eclipse is simply better for many use cases. But thank you for your condescension.
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by taligent 14y ago
Why I use Eclipse ? It has much, much better plugin support e.g. AWS, Google CodePro. If you use the slightly older version then it is an order of magnitude faster than IntelliJ and generally works much nicer on OSX. It is also less clutter
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by taligent 14y ago
Well it would be a server side check. But even a rudimentary IP address check would be fine to ensure one connection at a time. It is all a bit odd I have to admit.
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by taligent 14y ago
Don't. You are much better off hiring people than having a cofounder. Because it's great when things are going well. But when they aren't you aren't going to be motivated AT ALL to work on YOUR idea. Cofounders work better when you both com
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by taligent 14y ago
Let's start with the most popular: "Bitcoin is to the USD (and all fiat) what Kryptonite is to Superman." People don't want a massive upheaval of the status quo. They don't want an anarchist, anything goes, regulation free environment. They
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by taligent 14y ago
Life: Getting into Programming.
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by taligent 14y ago
Supporters of Bitcoin really are their own worst enemy. You only have to look at the comments to see why most normal people aren't going to touch it with a forty foot pole.
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by taligent 14y ago
Quora has an official app. Not sure why about the others.
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually you get used to it pretty quick. I regularly use it in bed for coding, surfing websites etc. I think it just looks intimidating. The best bit though is that it doubles as a breakfast tray for those Sunday morning bacon, eggs and co
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by taligent 14y ago
Yeh no. I am actually deploying onto OSX Server and have had to install countless Python modules for Munin alone. It is just the same as on Linux especially with pip.
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by taligent 14y ago
Sorry but this is just crazy talk. Neither a Nexus 10 or iPad has an IDE which is mission critical for getting anything done e.g. refactor, debugging. Then you have the issue of having to be online to get anything done which with a laptop i
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by taligent 14y ago
https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/wiki/How-it-Works It's more than just aborting a request. It also handles caching with different fallback modes, collapsing multiple requests, monitoring and most importantly it provides a consistent mod
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by taligent 14y ago
Congratulations. I was a happy Linode customer too until I had to find out from Reddit that a major security hack had occurred and my VPS had potentially been rooted. I don't recall every receiving an email from Linode about it. And the fac
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by taligent 14y ago
Have they updated their security and disclosure policies ? If not they can remain in my "dodgy vendor who you can't trust" list. For those that don't remember hackers managed to get root access to several VPS via some Linode vulnerability.

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