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by xb95 14y ago
I can't speak for every introvert, but I will say that, for me, introversion does not preclude me from maintaining a blog, Twitter, etc. Yeah, I don't broadcast my life -- but I talk about things that are interesting to me, and the Internet
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by xb95 14y ago
Yeah, I was going to say, I know of at least one web site with lots of people on it where people do most of this. There is no explicit rating of people though, but there is certainly implicit: you see how many "likes" they get, how many fol
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by xb95 14y ago
This doesn't stop ServerBeach, FWIW. http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/d/drmwidth.pdf My business, Dreamwidth Studios, has a duly registered agent and has since 2008. We pay roughly $8,000/month to ServerBeach, and we've had bad ex
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by xb95 14y ago
As another data point -- I run Dreamwidth Studios ( http://dreamwidth.org ) and we host on ServerBeach. We received a DMCA notice a few weeks back that had the same notice, almost, ours said: Dear Mark Smith: We have received a v
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by xb95 14y ago
I don't consider this creative, personally. People have been littering my car with leaflets for many years. Every single time, I get annoyed and throw them away.
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by xb95 14y ago
Not really. Someone launches a hot-new-startup-you-just-have-to-see every 20 minutes. The time I have spare to devote to looking at new things is super limited, so, much like with that old adage that "first impressions count", I start to fi
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by xb95 14y ago
Yup, I came here to note the "its" problem. I won't try the app or look any further, because anybody who can't be bothered to use proper grammar on a publicity stunt sure as hell isn't going to release a quality product.
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by xb95 14y ago
Sort of. (And caveat: I'm a software guy, I just happen to love airplanes.) Airplanes generate only forward thrust (unless you're in a VTOL craft which we won't talk about). This forward force is what ends up generating lift due mainly to t
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by xb95 14y ago
The company I work for, Bump ( http://bu.mp/company/ ), pays for Riak Enterprise. I am not going to disclose our particular pricing, though, except to say that this isn't a commodity. Every deal is going to be different, cover different thi
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Microsoft's ill-chosen magic constants(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
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by xb95 14y ago
I have confirmed that there is no longer any data in the database I can connect to. Thank you for taking care of this.
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by xb95 14y ago
As of right now, 3:16 PM PDT, I can still connect to (one of) your Postgres databases. # psql --host=ec2-23-21-85-231.compute-1.amazonaws.com --port=5432 -U ruwdncbzdkulsh dc6jnvg2ce8qim Password for user ruwdncbzdkulsh: psql
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by xb95 14y ago
Actually, your Postgres credentials still work. I am currently able to connect to the database and I can still view people in the role I grabbed. I'm not sure how to validate that this is still timely, though... oh, I created a table: publi
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by xb95 14y ago
Hi -- I suggest you not use this app right now. It is currently throwing up debug pages that include information that allows someone to connect to Postgres and dump the database containing information about your documents. App developers --
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by xb95 14y ago
EVE Online has always had what we call the "in-game browser". It used to be this rather terrible system that was a custom built environment that had maybe 15 HTML tags supported. It was not a very good system. Eventually, CCP made a deal wi
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by xb95 14y ago
I've played off and on since 2003. The corporation I'm part of now has built an ERP and manages a trillion ISK (which at the legal rate is $35,000 USD in assets). We have production facilities -- several of them. We have distribution facili
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by xb95 14y ago
I worked at CCP when they hired Eyjólfur. He came in without really knowing a lot about the game world and made it his first job to learn as much as he could about how the world actually worked. Given that I was a foreigner who was working
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by xb95 14y ago
This reminds me of one of the pages that Google has internally that, very roughly, breaks down the cost of various things so you can calculate equivalencies. As an example of what I mean (i.e., these numbers and equivalencies are completely
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by xb95 14y ago
I've been playing it on and off since 2003. It's the best online game I have ever played, bar none. It fills a niche in the world of games that nobody else does, and for that alone, is worth playing to see what it's like. The real problem w
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by xb95 14y ago
Yes, Riak gives you certain flexibilities that make certain things easier. If a node dies, you generally don't have to worry about anything. Stuff Just Works. (Well, in the Riak case, this is true until you realize that you have to do some