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by toddh 12y ago
I'm selling complete ads, that certainly contain links, just like Google does. They are contained in posts clearly marked as sponsored posts. These are not link farms, spam, or payed links. Advertising should not be a crime.
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by toddh 12y ago
This has happened to me too. A client who bought ads on my site wanted the links pulled so as not to make Google mad. That Google would think me a spammer is very very broken.
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by toddh 12y ago
Such feelings are ages old. Friedrich Nietzsche thought of these feelings as a long sickness that he was eventually cured of. He suggested laughter to be a reaction to the sense of existential loneliness and mortality that only humans feel.
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by toddh 12y ago
While I do certainly make mistakes I take great pains to be as accurate as I can. And I do have a lot of original interviews on the site, though some problems have kept me from doing them lately. I give the sources directly in the article a
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How Disqus Went Realtime With 165K Messages Per Second(highscalability.com)
8 points by toddh 12y ago|0 comments
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by toddh 13y ago
Exactly. Whistleblowing is a meta statement about a law. A law by definition can't address whisteblowing no more than a law can bring the idea of a governement of laws to life. They both flow from the same place, the human conscience.
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by toddh 13y ago
But it's just these kinds of qualitative discussions that people crave to make major decisions on project directions. Without a quality discussion of pros and cons for different scenarios how are you to make a reasoned decision? Thousa
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by toddh 13y ago
Value is never created, it is a human construct assigned by humans to something for a variety of reasons. It isn't tied to work or any type of currency. So "commenting on HN, tweeting, reading about other companies" can indee
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by toddh 13y ago
I guess build time is a bit of a misnomer. Any time changes occur, perhaps they aggregated for an hour, the files are rebuilt and redistributed. Since the API doesn't change it doesn't require changes in the process code, just the
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by toddh 13y ago
You can dynamically load/unload shared libraries so the data is only shared once between all processes. A win is you can also optimize the memory layout of the translation tables (can be in C), for which a hash is probably not optimal.
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by toddh 13y ago
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is similar. It's not true in an absolute sense, but it is a convenient scaffolding for understandable explanations at a knowledge appropriate level, and that has a value beyond simple truth.
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by toddh 13y ago
They were of course found the first time the study ran but the time travelers just kept going back in time and cleaning up traces of themselves until the tests stopped finding the evidence.
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by toddh 13y ago
Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos by Peter M. Hoffmann Just an amazing book giving what seems like the secret details how of the world works at a physical level. "Thus, the nanoscale is truly special.
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by toddh 13y ago
I think people want a quicken like tool that will track all their finances...budgeting, tracking and stocks. mint never did that and users were spammed with too many ads. It's a hard thing to do. Intuit should had never bought mint and
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by toddh 13y ago
They hate us for our freedoms.
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by toddh 13y ago
When I detect this attitude in myself it's often because I'm thinking of these things as a means to an end instead of a thing in itself. So I get impatient because I WANT TO GET STUFF DONE RIGHT NOW and pick your framework is in m
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by toddh 13y ago
"If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place"
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What Can The Amazing Race To The South Pole Teach Us About Startups?(highscalability.com)
2 points by toddh 13y ago|0 comments
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by toddh 13y ago
Ladar was kind enough to answer the questions in an architecture template I have for High Scalability ( http://highscalability.com/architecture-template-advice-need... ). I guess they also used it for their about page, which
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by toddh 13y ago
An interesting comparison is if Google makes 35 cents a click ( http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2220372/How-Google-Rake... ) then they would make $350K from the same million "impressions."
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by toddh 13y ago
A large house in a suburban neighborhood in Pakistan has proven to be an excellent place to hide.
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by toddh 13y ago
Thanks for pointing out the error Scott. It should be fixed now.
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by toddh 13y ago
> First of all, what a disorganized article. Who the hell edited this? I have to agree. It didn't really turn out as well as I wanted. The talk is really good, but I could never make this read smoothly. Fortunately I think the content i
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by toddh 14y ago
> Okay, I'll cut the crap. This is paranoid, fear-mongering drivel. Give me facts, not opinions and emotion. This does not belong on HN. Excellent example of irony. Thank you.
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by toddh 14y ago
> It doesn't seem easy to me to steal a ring from someone's finger There are alternatives: 1. Point gun and say give me the ring with your entire identity on it. 2. Chop finger off and take the ring. Becoming the bearer bond of my ident
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by toddh 14y ago
>func ServeHTTP(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) I'd always wondered about that too. Thanks for one less mystery in the world.
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by toddh 14y ago
There are a few bumps and warts. The server close issue was one that made wonder if they ever tested, but I eventually discovered you can close down a server: lis, err := net.Listen("tcp","127.0.0.1:80") go http.Serve(lis, router) lis.Close
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by toddh 14y ago
The guides are good, but I'm missing the whole put it all together to make a real app tutorial type level of documentation. Can you point me to something like that?
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by toddh 14y ago
Text processing with interpolation, the dynamic type system, and regular expressions is insanely easy as they are integrated directly into the language. You don't have a lot match, compile, and match group type scaffolding in your code.
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by toddh 14y ago
Marginally for who and it what scenarios? Features like Provisioned IOPS and Multi-AZ deployment with failover and read replicas make it quite attractive for a project without a lot of dedicated staff. So it's great strategy depending on wh

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