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by 146 16y ago
It's been completely reliable when there were actual problems. The web interface was pretty intuitive to us as well. I really like the login flow. Our PagerDuty is integrated right now with Scout, Pingdom, and our own custom alerting system
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by 146 16y ago
I don't have the current numbers, but: - On Twitter's profitability (this is before Sponsored Tweets launched): http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2009/tc200... - Ev's other startup, Pyra Labs (Blogger), had a successful ex
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by 146 16y ago
You need your existing (real) password to change your password; e-mail is still possible to change. Probable attack vector is to do "lost password" link and then change it, but the same is applicable to anyone with a smartphone too (it just
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by 146 16y ago
That's interesting. Could you post a screenshot and the URL that you are accessing?
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by 146 16y ago
For the most part, schema changes can be done without breaking the existing code base (add columns, add tables, etc.) These schema changes can just be run on the databases before the code depending on it is pushed. Much more rarely though,
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by 146 16y ago
The Russians were barely able to slow down Facebook back in 2009. Unless someone on 4chan has a bigger botnet and just decided for lulz to DDoS Facebook, 4chan would not even come close to generating enough traffic to register on the #2 web
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by 146 16y ago
Calacanis has already publicly denied being at the meeting: http://twitter.com/#!/Jason/status/25165977135 > No, I was not at the "super angel summit," and I would never be pro collusion. Sounds like @arrington is stirring the pot to
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by 146 16y ago
I think that's a rather unfair assumption to make. Do you have evidence that he's being disingenuous?
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by 146 16y ago
Come now, we can be more mature than this. The OP may be an oversimplification of the issue, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't earnestly see and want to fix a problem.
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by 146 16y ago
One thing is that it took a long, long time for women to break into medicine and start being taken seriously as doctors. Tech is still relatively young, so I'm hoping that we can start making movements towards that level of parity faster th
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by 146 16y ago
Twitter does not do any outright advertising but they put an incredible amount of time into their PR management, as well as making sure that their coverage in the news was kept high and positive all through 2009. Their early claim to fame
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by 146 16y ago
Nah. You can usually (but not always) tell who asks the question by checking the first person who's following the question, or by checking the question history by clicking on the timestamp.
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by 146 16y ago
That's really interesting to know, actually. I've only been with companies that had MySQL installations (Facebook and Twitter) and so jumping in was really easy, but on the other hand I do like to do things right. A few questions, though: 0
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by 146 16y ago
Argh, that is really annoying though, and our servers really should be able to figure out that the two links, apostrophe or not, should lead to the same question. I'm a bit late to the game; was the original link up top unchanged? Edit: sho
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by 146 16y ago
You're right; I didn't know about the -w setting. I guess that just leaves PHP.
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by 146 16y ago
> That's only useful for dumb languages The compilers/interpreters I know that don't do this are PHP and Perl (C/C++ will do it if you use -Wall, which you should be using anyway). So yeah, you're pretty much right. /snark
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by 146 16y ago
A better programmer uses -Wall and lets the compiler check for him.
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by 146 16y ago
My favorite part about GameFAQs is that it's hardly about actual FAQs anymore. It's mostly walkthroughs, guides, maps, other content that doesn't really match a Q&A format. The forums are another popular location, but I wouldn't call th
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by 146 16y ago
I think the thing is that Facebook is learning from this. If there was actually a viable competitor at the time, the whole hype surrounding the incident might be enough to push and bootstrap enough users onto its competitor. We saw this to
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by 146 16y ago
I have to be honest, that doesn't sound like all that fun of a party.
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by 146 16y ago
True, I honestly don't think C# or Java were even in the race. I think the only real alternatives I would've been happy with would've been either Scala or some flavor of ML or Haskell, all of which definitely satisfy the speed and type-chec
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by 146 16y ago
True, but remember that most startup founders are not just graduating college.
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by 146 16y ago
> And lets get honest here - Pittsburgh is great but if you're finally making it to the big time, why would you want to stay in a declining rustbelt city? Luis (the reCAPTCHA founder) wrote a blog post about this recently. Basically to
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by 146 16y ago
How have your experiences with web.py been? The disadvantages I saw with it are that it just doesn't have a really large community, plus there are features I just don't want to build myself. Django's built-in admin/ app, for example, or Pyl
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by 146 16y ago
> Spare yourself this yammering rant. They chose Python because that's what everyone else at the company was cool with. End of story. I don't think it's a bad idea to evaluate the alternatives, even if you are very comfortable with a sp
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by 146 16y ago
TCP's congestion control algorithm is mostly reactive, while UTP aims to be predictive. What this basically means is that all the TCP connections that Bittorrent opens up are all pushing the network to failure before backing off, and given
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by 146 16y ago
> They aren't able to keep a lot of logs due to the volume. That's pretty much untrue. Anyway, I don't imagine it's too hard to grep the logs for the last day's worth of POST and 'accept .*' and undo all the follows constructed from tha
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by 146 17y ago
Didn't go well for Kiko.
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by 146 17y ago
I've worked at Facebook, and have a pretty strong relationship with the people at Palantir. I can outline some of the differences. 1. The food is much better at Facebook, but there's a much wider variety of non-perishable foods and drinks a
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by 146 17y ago
I'm taking this comment into account when calculating your final grades, jc, dude.

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