wuputah

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by wuputah 16y ago
Agreed; after using their product for many months, I learned how it is little better than running your own instances. There are some cool things it does, but you end up doing plenty of sysadmin work yourself, writing Chef recipes for anythi
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by wuputah 16y ago
Per the IRS: > The federal government does not recognize an LLC as a classification for federal tax purposes. An LLC business entity must file as a corporation, partnership or sole proprietorship tax return. As for your suggestion that
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by wuputah 16y ago
I disagree unless the payment you are making to yourself as distributions is fair compensation for services provided to the company. A company's purpose is to make a profit, and if you are distributing profit to yourself, then there is no
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by wuputah 16y ago
While we're here talking about physics: another big reason why buses are safe are because of their high mass. I was in one accident while on a school bus - another car hit the bus head-on while the bus was stopped. The kinetic energy of the
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by wuputah 16y ago
The 'made out of meat' is definitely a reference to a short story ( http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html ) which was also made into a short film ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE ). Great stuff. (Of course, SPAM® is al
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by wuputah 16y ago
I hate to support Microsoft on this one - I was actually checking the rules to see if they forbid you from dual-licensing it - but you pulled this out of context. The license only allows them to use your code to evaluate who won the contest
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by wuputah 16y ago
Expecting to be paid what you bring in - or even remotely close (like enough to cover overhead) - is a frequent misconception of how capitalism works. Good companies have revenue of $1M/year per employee. Great companies have _profits_ of $
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by wuputah 16y ago
The gold standard of availability is generally "four nines" - 99.99%. To me: 99.5% (or less) = unacceptable 99.9% = average 99.99% = exceptional 0.5% downtime = 216 mins/month (almost an hour a week!) 0.1% downtime = 43.2 mins/month 0.01% =
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by wuputah 16y ago
I do like the idea, but a cursory look at their 'receipt' and where the numbers come from showed a pretty large flaw: half of social security and medicare is paid for by employers. Unless you consider your salary to be an extra 8.65% than i
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by wuputah 16y ago
Great example. I delivered newspapers for a summer, and I realized that the cost of the newspaper was about the same as what I made for delivering it, as I got paid per subscriber. This doesn't factor in the fact that I was working for a th
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by wuputah 16y ago
First: completely, totally awesome. Stubhub was the only interface that came close to this, and this is way more powerful than that. One suggestion: I wanted to check out the 'price forecast' feature, but had to create a site-specific accou
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by wuputah 16y ago
The 99% figure is obviously a generalization, but it's well known that most startups fail. Amongst the ones that don't, only a few are bought out by someone like Google, or go on to succeed in bigger ways. Additionally, only those with subs
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by wuputah 16y ago
That was fixed some time ago. It is very marginally slower to use Symbol#to_proc now (a constant time difference to actually create the Proc), but not enough to warrant a change in practical use.
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by wuputah 16y ago
Background workers only cost you money (5¢/hour) when they're running. It's prorated to the second. You can avoid running one constantly by using pedro's "autoscaling" branch, meaning you can run a few hours of background processing--which
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by wuputah 16y ago
They don't. They both cost 5¢/hr per process. The only difference is, you get 1 'foreground' worker for free (per application), but not any 'background' workers.
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by wuputah 16y ago
In my opinion, Bundler deprecates the need--or at least the need in most cases--to use gemsets. They are still a great feature to give you great control over exactly which gems are installed for testing purposes, but once you switch your ap
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by wuputah 16y ago
Presumably, yes. Although there are formulae to convert water use to an amount of energy consumption (which takes into account processing, pumps, etc), they are probably referring to the energy to heat water. 1 watt for 1 year is (1W * 24h
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by wuputah 16y ago
While the article makes a point that I'm inclined to agree with after two years of running my own business, I stopped reading when they mentioned that World of Warcraft is a game of "swords and hobgoblins." World of Warcraft does not have h
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by wuputah 16y ago
Gotcha, that works, and was mentioned in passing. Mongo still makes me nervous, but otherwise looks very promising.
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by wuputah 16y ago
Actually, from Rails, to ASP.NET MVC, to ASP.NET MVC again ("because it was getting too complicated"), then to Rails. I'd also be very hesitant to use MongoDB as a main datastore as it has no durability model - the 'D' in ACID. I hope they'
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by wuputah 16y ago
Where is the downrate button? Sigh.