dcaylor

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by dcaylor 14y ago
The title of the article is misleading. The issue here isn't about putting cameras on private property. As I understand it, the judge was saying that in a place that the police could have searched or could have themselves hidden and watch
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by dcaylor 15y ago
This is an area that it is worth paying someone who knows and has done it several times before. There are brokers who do this for a living, and are good at it. The commission they charge is worth getting it right.
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by dcaylor 15y ago
I have no idea about anything having to do with the Megaupload case, but private business influences the actions of government agencies all the time. It isn't as simple as a number you can call, or paying a bribe (which I think is rare in
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by dcaylor 15y ago
There is a gap between IM/chat and email and documents, specifically in regard to remote team collaboration. That was one of the strengths of Google Wave, except that Wave had a learning and familiarity threshold people weren't willing to
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by dcaylor 15y ago
Different people communicate well in different ways. There's a tendency to think there's a right way to do these things. There isn't. You have to have a way for people to chat with each other informally that works for the real people on
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by dcaylor 15y ago
There are times when a company needs a "rock star," and there are times when that's the last person you want to hire. It takes all kinds, and there is work that is enjoyable for all kinds. If you aren't inclined to stuff that is currently
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by dcaylor 15y ago
It is true that things are rarely as simple as we'd like to draw them. It is also true that the current system we have for political contributions breeds corruption, not just in one party or the other, but in our political system in genera
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by dcaylor 15y ago
Thanks for taking the time to give that input. It's a valid point about how well we're communicating on the site. My blog post completely aside, I am still genuinely interested in the question I asked in the HN post.
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What creative things can you do with monitoring services?
5 points by dcaylor 15y ago|2 comments
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by dcaylor 15y ago
Thanks! That's a very good question, and the honest answer is because we're geeks and design is much harder work for us than building functionality. I guess that's another argument in favor of something like iubenda.com is doing.
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by dcaylor 15y ago
As long as we have a sue-happy society, companies will use privacy policies to limit liability. That means they will continue to be documents with more text than most of us are likely to read. Icons and diagrams won't work without the tex
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Monitoring Services Are Poised for a Shake Up(blog.nodeping.com)
2 points by dcaylor 15y ago|0 comments
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by dcaylor 15y ago
I'd agree that a balancing proxy is more appropriate for HA. The post mentions that this is specifically not intended as a high availability solution. It's a fairly narrow use.
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by dcaylor 15y ago
I don't think that "it was never designed to" and what you should do with a technology necessarily go together. A lot of innovation comes from doing things with technology that it was not originally designed to do. You should be aware tha
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by dcaylor 15y ago
I think the issues are the same as they always have been. No matter what your platform, you can't trust user input. Your OS has to be as secure as it is reasonable to make it. Obscurity is not security. Security is an onion. Don't stor
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by dcaylor 15y ago
I laughed at both your initial response and IsaacSchlueter's comment. Valid points from both. It would have been a little odd for me to say "Nice use case for Python" considering the original post was about Node, and specifically said they
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by dcaylor 15y ago
I think you've hit on the key point when talking about writing. You have to do what works for your style, and for the way your own brain works. Everybody else's statements about what they do are interesting, but in the end the only way to
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by dcaylor 15y ago
Great use case for Node.js.
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by dcaylor 15y ago
Yes, thank you. Just after I posted my question here I realized that much of what I was wondering about was also answered in another post on the Cloudant blog: http://blog.cloudant.com/technical-look-at-cloudant-search/
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by dcaylor 15y ago
How does this compare to the various existing Lucene based search options for CouchDB? The post says the new Cloudant Search "is a way that would not require you to set up a third-party, financially or operationally expensive solution." Ad
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by dcaylor 15y ago
I've learned to pay people to do the things they know well and I don't, and use the time gained to have people pay me for the things I like doing and am good at. Use an accountant, and be happy about paying them to do their job. Find an a