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by xirium 18y ago
It includes all users who posted before Wed 7 May 2008. It doesn't have lurkers. Some profiles may be two weeks old. It is a more complete version of the previous version ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173045 ), which mostly exclud
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Cleaning Up A Symlink Mess(stonehenge.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=183499
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by xirium 18y ago
I know of a house of non-geek professionals in London who collectively download 10GB per day, excluding protocol overhead. That's easily 300MB per month. Collectively, they're saturating a 2Mb/s connection much of the time. That may be obsc
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by xirium 18y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=183436 for a more active discussion on this topic.
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by xirium 18y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=183436 for a more active discussion on this topic.
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Y Combinator Dataset Of Users Version 1.1
19 points by xirium 18y ago|8 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
There was a sentiment on the nnsquad [Network Neutrality Squad] mailing list that this could easily achieved using IP over ATM over optic fibre. You establish two ATM circuits: a public Internet connection that gets 1% of the bandwidth and
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Windows For Robots Touts Device Driver Support And Parallel Processing Libraries(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
Details of Toyota processes applied to chip fabrication was recently posted on this forum ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=180671 ).
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by xirium 18y ago
They'll have very angry customers if they want to charge US$15 per 10GB. When you take into account the cost of harddisks and bandwidth, legal purchased film downloads could be more expensive than buying physical media from a retailer. Th
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by xirium 18y ago
They're going have plenty of angry customers because many casual users with large harddisks and fast connections have no concept of file sizes. I previously mentioned this a while ago regarding similar plans from Time-Warner ( http://news.
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by xirium 18y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182322
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by xirium 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=183276 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=158939 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133074 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60598
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by xirium 18y ago
> usage patterns Session duration will greatly influence concurrent usage. If people use your service for less than five minutes per day then 100 daily users would mostly have the system to themselves. This means that you could have tho
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by xirium 18y ago
Don't override the default - even if it seems broken it may be required for compatibility. To paraphrase Tim Berners-Lee, fix your client, not the web.
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by xirium 18y ago
MM in Roman numerals is 2000. Perhaps the double M is to distinguish between mille (1,000) and million (1,000,000). Cue discussion about short and long form billions and use of dots and commas as numeric seperators.
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by xirium 18y ago
No, mm is the internationally recognised scientific unit for millimetres. A mega-million would be denoted by a single capital M. Of course, this raises the question of the use double capital M.
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by xirium 18y ago
Apologies for interruption. The file is restored and downloads can resume.
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by xirium 18y ago
This is an ongoing issue ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=172701 ) and I've had to hide the file on the borrowed server due to excessive use of bandwidth during business hours. Downloads can resume after 7PM BST. Regardless, some peo
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by xirium 18y ago
An ex-colleague from Sao Paulo had virtual hosting in his home city. Sao Paulo is very improverished and so the hosting facility had snipers on the roof to stop the locals stealing the servers.
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by xirium 18y ago
Bonus points if it involves downforeveryoneorjustme.com and validator.w3.org ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=153995 ), uggc.cgi ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177478 ) and y.soho.lt
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by xirium 18y ago
I see that you've rediscovered trails and incorporated it into URL shortening service which uses frames to navigate through the trail. As the author of uggc.cgi ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177441 ), I might be biased, but I like
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by xirium 18y ago
> I'd also love to hear what DB consultants are making as well. I used to be consulted out at 2000 Euros per day.
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Y Combinator Dataset Of Posts Version 1.1
13 points by xirium 18y ago|3 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
If its RedBus, part of TelecityGroup ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TelecityGroup ) in London Docklands then I already had them flagged as a provider to avoid. An ex-colleague quit without notice and another ex-colleague and I had to reco
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Iron Man Film Gets 10th Highest Opening Weekend Ever(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
A handful of people already control the majority of the information on this forum. ValleyWag posted a flurry of articles which were counter to YCombinator interests and now ValleyWag articles are automatically posted with the dead attribute
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by xirium 18y ago
> Writing a blog takes dedication and time. Yes. I've also discovered that blogging has to be done very frequently to obtain a significant audience. For example, Paul Kedrosky ( http://paul.kedrosky.com/ ) sometimes posts three times
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by xirium 18y ago
Spam.

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