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by veemjeem 13y ago
I'm guessing most of that money went to pay salaries, just like raising a $1M seed round in the Valley. Since Fisher invested their own money, it's hard to determine if the $1M was only used for the space pen. I would assume the
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by veemjeem 13y ago
It looks more like an Ive design than a Newson. Newson designed a Pentax camera last year, and it doesn't seem like any of those design elements made it into this Leica camera design.
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by veemjeem 13y ago
I think python & ruby are considered strongly typed, whereas javascript is weakly typed. strong/weak usually refers to implicit conversion or not.
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by veemjeem 13y ago
Unless it is a bank cheque, I don't think you can fit $65M in a briefcase. If we use breaking bad as reference, we'd need 6 of those 55 gallon barrels to transport $65M in cash, or a really really large cardboard box.
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by veemjeem 13y ago
I hope you mean kindle fire, because the base kindle would be too slow to anyone to quickly flip through the pages.
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by veemjeem 13y ago
My guess is that Digital Ocean is the first VPS you've ever used. I don't know of any provider that will wait 10 hours for you to respond while the server sends out 1Gbps traffic. If they let the server continue running, the ban
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by veemjeem 13y ago
If you're paying $5 a month, don't expect to have support turn around times under 1 day. If you're running Farmville, I would hope that you're paying more than $5 a month for your server.
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by veemjeem 13y ago
If you have a production app, it would make sense for you implement HA, then you wouldn't have to worry about a single server getting hacked. What proper reasoning do you need? If your server is hacked, it makes sense to shutdown the
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by veemjeem 13y ago
They responded to you 7 minutes after discovering the irregular behavior. It's up to you to figure out the cause. It's not their responsibility to tail log files. Had you chosen a VPS like amazon, you probably wouldn't even
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by veemjeem 13y ago
Even if they violated their SLA, the most DO could do is offer a $5 refund, which isn't that big a deal. It's probably too costly to hire a lawyer over a $5 server. Also, I don't think the SLA would include things like getti
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by veemjeem 13y ago
Most cheap VPS providers would not go do that much work to decipher the root cause of the problem. When you have a server sending 1Gbps traffic, it's easier to shut it down than tail log files to figure out the cause. Digital Ocean c
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by veemjeem 13y ago
I think it's a bit sad that you have to go to such great lengths to protect your company's image. This was a very obvious case of customer fault. He admitted that he doesn't know if his server was hacked. The customer prob
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by veemjeem 13y ago
I'm guessing that most people who run a server may not even realize when they get hacked. These people (you included) probably should not run their own servers and stick to PaaS solutions like Heroku or Google App Engine. It happens
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by veemjeem 13y ago
Not all VPS service providers are treated alike. Linode is probably a mid-tier VPS. Their cheapest plan is $20, which is 4x more expensive than Digital Ocean's cheapest plan of $5 a month. I would guess that most of the ultra cheap
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by veemjeem 13y ago
Most online services that are under $5 a month rarely come with support. I feel bad for startups that charge so little per month because usually the less you charge, the more demanding the customer is. Virtualized servers tend to require
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by veemjeem 13y ago
So did your server get owned? Or was the DDOS attack a result of a bug in your code? Also, why do you delete your posts on HN? Do you only keep posts that make your viewpoint look favorable?
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by veemjeem 13y ago
I think they have. The customer in question simply didn't put it in his blog post. I feel as though the customer may be presenting the facts in such a way to make DO look bad. I don't see anywhere in his blog post about his DDO
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by veemjeem 13y ago
How is it a slap in the face? I doubt his one hour keynote would offer much information anyway.
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by veemjeem 13y ago
I doubt it. People who go to JavaOne/OpenWorld are going for the BoF or technical sessions, not to hear some CEO speak about their strategy. Usually when I go, I skip those keynotes because they're mostly devoid of any useful in
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by veemjeem 13y ago
Everyone I know has also ordered gold. My guess is that it's the new color so everyone wants the new stuff. Gold may become the most popular color yet.
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by veemjeem 13y ago
You don't even need that. The attiny85 is sufficient. See https://github.com/Bluebie/micronucleus-t85 It's a bootloader that detects usb in the boot process. If usb is hooked up, you can upload programs, th
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by veemjeem 13y ago
But you don't even need that. If you glance at the V-USB wiring examples, all you need is a few diodes & crystal depending on the freq you want. For my projects, I do use the attiny85 and use the built-in oscillator. I use 16mhz
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by veemjeem 13y ago
I'd take the femtoduino over the digistump in this case. The atmega328p is vastly superior to it's low pin cousin, attiny85. I'm sure you could engineer the atmega328p to also talk directly to usb as well as it's merel
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by veemjeem 13y ago
Maybe it's just your hospital then. I know that even the receptionist at my hospital has to go through HIPAA training. If you know your hospital staff lacks HIPAA training, it's probably time to find a new doctor at a different h
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by veemjeem 13y ago
To be fair, Costco is definitely not the cheapest place to buy clothing. Plus the author lives in NYC which probably doesn't have that many large Costco facilities near subway.
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by veemjeem 13y ago
Though speed bumps aren't exactly as crazy as the old days. I remember my next upgrade from a 50Mhz 486 ended up being a 266Mhz Pentium 2. This was over a span of about 3 years.
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by veemjeem 13y ago
I've always thought TEDx were entrepreneurs/inventors hawking their own stuff anyway, so I never bother watching any of their videos. This example just made it more obvious that TEDx is mostly a waste of time.
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by veemjeem 13y ago
What's the price difference between a Canada vs US island?
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by veemjeem 13y ago
My Nexus 4 lasts about 4 hours of usage, about 10 hours of standby time. I really wish it had a replaceable battery. Phones these days just don't last very long.
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by veemjeem 13y ago
Even Facebook has a better model as their P/E ratio is only 200 or so.

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