terryjsmith

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by terryjsmith 16y ago
Make enough money from web services (and minimal consulting) to live off of.
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
Facebook has a decent explanation for why they do not use P3P in the headers for their Like buttons: P3P CP="Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http://fb.me/p3p (URL redirects to http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=p3p
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
Sure, so there were a lot of them that we compiled, here are the ones and topics I remember. Protocol: we used a custom psuedo-TCP protocol built on UDP based on libjingle from Google (used in Google Talk): http://code.google.com/apis/talk
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
Correct, it will stop serving requests (ignore the rest), but the end result is no different (in fact I imagine this is exactly what's happening). That system is dead to the world. According to Wikipedia in Q3 2009 [1] Skype has over 500
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
Absolutely. We designed a P2P file system a few years ago and actually gleaned a good number of tricks from Skype for dealing with NATs and constructing your network in general. Dropbox (and many others I'm sure) have all said the same thin
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
I'm just relaying my experience with P2P network design and with system-wide failures. I agree with you that gradual discovery is possible, but I doubt that's the best case scenario for them depending on how long it takes. They have the w
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
This article is a little old now but I imagine the basic technique is still the same: http://www.h-online.com/security/features/How-Skype-Co-get-r... As I understand it, for corporate firewalls or routers/firewalls configured to not allow
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
It handling 1% of connections would assume that the network was the bottleneck. You are much more likely to use up the CPU, RAM, or other resources before hitting the maximum number of available sockets. In which case things are swapping
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
That's a lot easier when it's your network. Skype is obviously designed to be used in "hostile" environments; super nodes are likely expected to go away and come back on a regular basis. Likewise, I don't think it's an unreasonable expect
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
That's fair, but even if it is dynamic, I doubt it's checked on a regular basis; I doubt it's a scenario they've even considered before now. This would be on par with the DNS root servers changing and somehow letting everyone know about it
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
Yea, see the above comments. Bringing up individual nodes isn't an option as they would likely be overwhelmed and rate limiting traffic from all of the running instances in a P2P network would be near impossible. Bringing up an entirely n
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
Since it seems a good chunk of the super nodes went down, I imagine every running unconnected Skype instance is checking all of the super nodes it can find (or actively searching for them). Changing the logic at this point isn't really an
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
When this happens to our websites (when all servers go down), we need to rate limit and/or shut down traffic at the load balancer level as we bring things back online, otherwise everything just continues to get swamped and goes right back d
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
This seems like a nightmare situation for P2P company. Your super nodes get knocked offline and there's no way to force update them until they come back online, which is sporadic at best (based on my own experience today), which means eith
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Fake It Till You Make It: How to Sound Like a Fashionista When You're Not(thegloss.com)
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
This thread was started/answered at the beginning of the month: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1957364
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
While I agree with the consensus that this is evil (essentially cutting a start-up off at it's knees), RIM has a legal obligation to enforce that patent if they know someone is infringing or they risk losing it. The Kik founder should have
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
I agree, with the disclaimer (as you pointed out) that it also has some good discussion. I'm all for making sure the question is answered, but asking a question in and of itself doesn't contribute much if the answer is simple.
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
It seems counter intuitive at first, but it's the same way in Canada and the US. Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, San Francisco, New York, etc.; they're all the best places to grow companies. Rent is a fraction of what start-ups pay in salar
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
^^ This. Also, while you're presenting, try to remember that you're the expert. Practicing in front of people will give you an idea of what kind of questions you might get so be prepared with a coupe extra slides to answer any frequency o
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
I saw that, but it's not enough. Someone needs to send some of these pictures (even better, pictures of congress members) to Wikileaks or a similar organization to really push this forward.
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
I can't get behind this, especially when it comes to kids. I really hope that someone finds proof they do store images and sues the US government/TSA for child pornography or something similar. While I doubt this opt-out day will gain ser
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
Who's paying $500,000 for rock stars??
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
I'm beginning to miss Marissa Mayer's axe on things on the main search page. I think Google's primary advantage for a while now has been cleanliness of results (as the difference in relevance between search engines has slimmed); they're op
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
First, this looks like a huge project; congrats on getting it done and out there! I think you should stick with your title here as the main hook at the top: "Open, democratic project management." The rest seems like too many buzzwords and
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
The application is actually just revamped as I understand it (based on the above review by Startup North); maybe in a major way but still based on a previous product. As Ted from Kik has responded below, they e-mailed nearly all of their 5
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
This story is completely mis-leading. They certainly had users before 15 days ago [1]. The product was developed in an incubator in the Winter 2009 class [2]. They have relaunched and revamped it, but to start from a clean slate and say
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
Yup, no flame here. That's the problem I'm finding here in Toronto (or any major city I would imagine). I lived in a much smaller city a few months ago and was fortunate enough to have a really great instructor and an even better master.
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
Have you tried other martial arts like karate or taekwondo? How does it compare? I recently moved to Toronto and have yet to find a great (ie. non belt promotion based) school downtown. I've found a number of potential BJJ schools though
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by terryjsmith 16y ago
Taekwondo. I highly recommend it (and any martial art really) that have a good/regular schedule that will help you to be motivated. The most important thing is to do it for the fitness, for weight loss, or for something else goal oriented

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