timf

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   AWS By The Numbers(elastician.com)

   2 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
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   by timf 16y ago

   Saying ideas are "worthless" is a hyperbolic way to put things. Why can't people say "an idea's relative importance is not as big as many people think." I think Derek Sivers puts it nicely, it is a multiplier (but yes you need to execute
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   by timf 16y ago

   It's not legal. A lot of people use Wordpress and OpenDNS which are made available under creative commons, see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385181 See the comments there about OpenDNS, the privacy policy is also reusable as long
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   by timf 16y ago

   The "do both business and technical work" option doesn't seem to capture the essence of what many are up to here, the "full time technical work but learning about starting small businesses and actively building something on the side" option
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   by timf 16y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_%28programming_language%29
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   by timf 16y ago

   http://top.searchyc.com/users_by_average_points_per_comment http://searchyc.com/pg (you will notice the numbers are different on the HN leaders page for people, I think perhaps searchyc is an all-time average?)
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   by timf 16y ago

   Well, quoting from: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp.html " Used in the Internet of today with computers ranging from personal workstations to supercomputers, NTP provides accuracies generally in the range of a millisecond in LANs and
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   by timf 16y ago

   It would be an interesting problem to really try and get the timestamps around 10's of ms for the time sorting bound. With multiple datacenters you might get up to ~10ms drift with NTPv4 so you're starting point is already pretty crippled.
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   by timf 16y ago

   Ah, thanks for explaining more.
10. 640.▲
    by timf 16y ago

    > Using an ID column for a time-based sort when you are storing the time anyway is silly. Your solution violates the listed requirements that the ID is 64 bits and the IDs need to be roughly sortable.
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    by timf 16y ago

    > little of the software I'm using handled the exceptions raised while this was happening Are saying there is a library you are using that failed to treat a timeout as an issue at all? (if this is for SQS, may I ask what that library
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    by timf 16y ago

    My thoughts are revolving around server log analysis. Google Storage (where the data needs to be) could be where I choose to warehouse every server event for my projects because of the BigQuery feature.
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    Ask HN: what would you build if you could analyze trillions of rows?

    1 points by timf 16y ago|1 comments
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    by timf 16y ago

    Is that a bug? The Eris in the middle is showing 8:10-:8:30am as the answer to waking up by 2:39pm?
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    by timf 16y ago

    Would be awesome to see a high score list.
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    by timf 16y ago

    Apparently this happened at Johnson Space Center in a vacuum, so the temperature would be high enough to make that happen with the reduced atmospheric pressure (see the chart at [1]). The temperature in space is far, far colder, I don't se
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    by timf 16y ago

    Confusing.. why would I use this instead of S3 which costs less, has proven itself over the last four years (OK, not 100% but damn close), and has countless client programs and libraries?
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    Google Partners with VMware for Apps, Clouds, and Widgets(readwriteweb.com)

    3 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
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    Soft vs Hard Bounces: A Closer Look at Bounce Rate(blogs.omniture.com)

    1 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
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    by timf 16y ago

    Thanks. So it didn't cross my mind that this was some huge security flaw, I would have reported something like that privately. I hope starting this discussion does not cause any unecessary confusion. GitHub rocks , it has really changed
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    by timf 16y ago

    This was just me verifying what I saw, that if you push commits to GitHub, it correlates the email address of authors introducing commits elsewhere. You can make it look like anyone you want is contributing patches, the avatar shows up, et
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    GitHub's email correlation for authorship(github.com)

    43 points by timf 16y ago|23 comments
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    by timf 16y ago

    More familiar example: mailto:
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    Potential Consistency(theryanking.com)

    1 points by timf 16y ago|1 comments
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    by timf 16y ago

    Are there any surprising legal ramifications for running servers in Singapore?
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    by timf 16y ago

    Same idea in Cassandra: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#reads_slower_writes
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    by timf 16y ago

    If you want to get into architecture in its own right, Hennessy/Patterson. But I think a far better book on the subject for programmers is "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective." This is a textbook out of Carnegie Mellon that I was
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    CSS3 Generator(css3generator.com)

    4 points by timf 17y ago|1 comments
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    by timf 17y ago

    Mel seems to come up every few months :-) http://searchyc.com/story+of+mel
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    by timf 17y ago

    Thanks for pointing that out, I embellished too much by saying it _is_ e-ink