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by zorked 13y ago
In case someone does not recognize the reference, this is a parody of the Spam Solutions Checklist that used to be circulated when e-mail spam was a new issue: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
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by zorked 13y ago
There is a limit, actually. From my non-American point of view, people who want to understand the context and direction of the US in the early 21st century will study Bush as he is the US president that defined this era.
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by zorked 13y ago
Quite the unnecessary rule I believe. 100 Mbps = 3.2TB in a month.
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by zorked 13y ago
At least where I work the definition of slow does not cross complexity boundaries. A O(n) algorithm that takes 100 seconds to run is "slow" compared to a O(n) algorithm that takes 50 seconds to run. But if it crosses a complexity boundary a
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by zorked 14y ago
If they did they could just stay in churches. If people are moving away from churches, maybe there is no such need.
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Firefox will block third-party cookies(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
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by zorked 14y ago
Which is why I have been telling people it's a "better Python".
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by zorked 14y ago
I find it telling that proponents of TDD so often resort to name-calling and sarcasm to promote their views instead of, like, just writing great software.
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by zorked 14y ago
Actually, even in the classical Unix security model, setuid'ing to nobody is considered a bad idea. Because so many services do it, giving an attacker an opportunity to become nobody will likely grant him access to those other services as w
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by zorked 14y ago
I agree. Anyway, if you sign up you can play with sample data. It looks completely amazing.
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by zorked 14y ago
They still suck even if you set a large initialCapacity.
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by zorked 14y ago
I think part of the problem is that EBS issues also cause ELB problems, from that I read here on HN. I wouldn't know because we only use us-east for Hadoop. On the other hand, our Cassandra cluster runs on ephemeral drives and it's way bett
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by zorked 14y ago
As bad as Netscape 4 was, what killed the company was their decision to charge for the browser while their monopolitic competidor was giving it away for free.
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by zorked 14y ago
If you need to relate you process the data offline with something like Pig, Hive or one of many other data analysis tools built on top of Hadoop.
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by zorked 14y ago
I don't know about him but we do 1 billion/month using at peak some 12 servers (c1.xlarges and m1.xlarges), including our DB. These are all dynamic requests. Moovweb creates mobile versions of standard websites on the fly. That sounds prett
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by zorked 14y ago
I agree completely. By the time you need something like Cassandra you have typically had so many problems with your previous database that you just assume that anything you move to will be ultra-complex, but Cassandra is so simple to keep r
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by zorked 14y ago
So Linus Torvalds has created two billion-dollar industries in his spare time?
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by zorked 14y ago
Is there any way that a small ad buyer (a few hundred thousand dollars a month) can participate in the auctions directly, bidding in real time rather than going through a middleman that does the work for him (which is what LeanMarket seems
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by zorked 14y ago
Frankly, this article scores low on the list of things ESR should be ashamed of writing.
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by zorked 14y ago
You can safely ignore that "audience" since they comprise 0.01% of a niche. They are vocal in sites like HN and Reddit and so on but the numbers are safely ignorable from a market standpoint. If you want to spend your development effort in
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by zorked 15y ago
> A lot of the newer IPO's represent companies that have significant assets in new areas that we haven't necessarily found the most efficient monetization scheme for yet. In other words, their inflated valuations are somehow justified
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by zorked 15y ago
It's great design I think. It attracts exactly the kind of people they want as customers.
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by zorked 15y ago
There is no such thing as "raw performance". It's all very, very application-specific.
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by zorked 15y ago
My bet is that this is supported by Google as a "here's a neat hack" feature, not as a "this is a vital feature in our ongoing to-the-death competition with Wolfram Alpha".
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by zorked 15y ago
I read somewhere that suicide is correlated with post-traumatic stress disorder. People who live in a constant state of trauma are unlikely to suicide, which is also why suicide rates are believed to go down during wars. That doesn't mean t
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by zorked 15y ago
Hacker News is all about Python/Ruby/Clojure/Scala/Haskell most of the time, but then we find that there is this huge group of very happy Windows/C# developers that are passionate about their environments. Where are you the rest of the time
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by zorked 15y ago
Moving from MySQL on EBS to a Cassandra cluster on locally-attached ephemeral storage was the first time I was happy with a database on EC2. EBS is convenient as a permanent root for instances, but for anything that actually uses the disk,
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by zorked 15y ago
SSL Client certificates can be easily and completely stolen by worms and botnets. So they can't be used by serious applications like online banking. For everything else, there are much simpler solutions.
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by zorked 15y ago
"that group of recent and fashionable databases which are primarily key/value stores with some traditional database features added in to varying degrees" is exactly what the term means. So I guess it works.
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by zorked 15y ago
I don't know if $13 is conservative. $9/mo is the most expensive plan available to me. Presumably in places like China people pay by the hour and therefore way less than that.

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