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by xmodem 12y ago
"We have lots of EC2 instances and a slow function called in a tight inner loop, so we saved a bunch of cash by making it slightly quicker" - summed up blog post in one sentence. Some details about what tools you used to find the
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by xmodem 12y ago
> Each week, the network will identify the winners. The winners are the 50 top voted for accounts that also received at last 1.5% of the vote. If no account has over 1.5% of the vote, then the top 50 accounts voted for are considered the
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by xmodem 12y ago
> there are but it is very rare and comes with drastically limited eye sight anyways. As one of those very rare individuals you allude to (see everything in greyscale), you should be aware that my eyesight (and many people with a similar
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by xmodem 12y ago
Hi arbesfeld, This looks like a fun little game but could you please consider adding a colourblind mode. Your game is completely inaccessible to people such as myself with rod monochromatism - The second level features three different marb
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by xmodem 12y ago
This would appear to me to be the simplest way to allow this sort of attack to be blocked. Whether or not it opens up other avenues for attack is another question.
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by xmodem 12y ago
Have you considered that correlation may not equal causation? Specifically, that funding model and performance may not necessarily be causally linked?
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by xmodem 12y ago
If that would happen as you say, wouldn't it create a self-perpetuating cycle where you couldn't make repayments once you lost a job, because you couldn't get another one?
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by xmodem 12y ago
The Australian system is like an interest-free loan that you don't have to make repayments on until you earn above a certain threshold. The government gets the same return from a student making $60k as one making $1m through the sche
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by xmodem 12y ago
In terms of individual taxi drivers who took out massive loans this is a valid argument. In terms of the rent-seeking institutional investors who lobbied the government to create an asset class which diverts most of the profits away from t
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by xmodem 12y ago
Australia has a system whereby "bill the farmer" (and miners) can claim a tax credit for fuel excise taxes, whereas inner city drivers can't. The UK has a system where inner city drivers have to pay congestion taxes. Both of
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by xmodem 12y ago
I'd go as far as to say it applies to most english speaking countries
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by xmodem 12y ago
Apologising for everything you do doesn't look good. Stop it. Don't apologise unless you've genuinely fucked up.
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by xmodem 12y ago
> I don't know of any dialects of English for example that switch the assignment of roles (A speech delivered Bill, eg) This is a complete guess, but perhaps this exists to identify english-as-a-second-language speakers from languag
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by xmodem 13y ago
Given that we've failed to educate doctors and nurses about the effects I don't like the odds of being able to educate everyone.
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by xmodem 13y ago
> A single core 1.5GHz Pentium 4, with 512MB of RAM, running XP delivers all of the same features that Windows 7 delivers with a quad-core 3GHz iCore7 and 8GB or RAM. A Pentium 2 running at 300MHZ, with 64MB of RAM, running Windows NT 4,
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by xmodem 13y ago
This. changes. everything.
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by xmodem 13y ago
I was with you right up until i looked at the screenshot. It looks like it has been very carefully laid out and A/B tested to optimize for the maximum number of signups, not for making sure users know what they're signing up for.
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by xmodem 13y ago
I know this sort of thing is unpopular in the United States, but how about a pay-according-to-your-means model? So individual inventors working for themselves could file quite cheaply, but a publicly held corporation with a >$1b market
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by xmodem 13y ago
As much as I object to Prism, the headline is a bit sensationalist - it implies (and as a customer of Telstra, this was my first reaction and immediate concern) that Telstra is handing over data from Australian retail customers. The articl
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by xmodem 13y ago
> I wonder how much javascript code uses setTimeout(x,0) to push code to the end of the run loop. Probably heaps, but why would that cause the system-wide timer to run more frequently? Even if it does need to it should only be temporary
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by xmodem 13y ago
def sanity @sanity end def sanity=(val) @sanity = val end how are those six lines not boilerplate?
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by xmodem 13y ago
USA you are a police state, and as long as this state of affairs continues I will never come near your country.
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by xmodem 13y ago
Given that at any big company, every change (even a critical security fix!) has to go through review and QA, most startups are probably better equipped to fix this sort of thing than most big companies.
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by xmodem 13y ago
There's only so much QA you can do - are they going to extensively test with every wifi router and firmware configuration ever made? At some point you have to ship and look at the logs you get back.
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by xmodem 13y ago
Why does HN care about every brief outage of every tech company? It's not like it's not coming back up.
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by xmodem 13y ago
Just switch to postgres. Don't take any chances.
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by xmodem 13y ago
There's still time and friction involved in getting an instance up or adding a database to an existing instance.
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by xmodem 13y ago
The URLs look like HTTPS to me? curl -O " https://az412801.vo.msecnd.net/vhd/IEKitV1_Final/VMWare_Fusi...
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by xmodem 13y ago
> Microsoft OSes don't have any restrictions on what software to run. They didn't until windows 8. The 'classic' desktop hasn't changed, but you can't run Modern UI apps other than from the app store, and o
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by xmodem 14y ago
Anyone who has ever set up a Cisco router to do anything even slightly complex should be able to pick up Mikrotik in a snap. The windows based GUI configuration tool (winbox) is simply incredible. (Runs fine in wine on OSX as well)

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