dnsworks

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by dnsworks 16y ago
Our community is filled with sexists, that's just how it is. The reason there are no women in tech is because we're all misogynistic assholes. Devops community, point in case. Every time I see a programmer or a sysadmin refer to women or th
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by dnsworks 16y ago
"* If you're legitimately using lots of resources, we'll move you around if you start getting near the limits on the hardware you're on, but we won't install new hardware just for you." Could you define an "illegitimate use of resources"?
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Anonymous punished some bad corporate citizens for doing the wrong thing, and bullied some of them into doing the right thing. This is in direct response to the bullying Assange has gotten. Legal or not, it's sort of awesome to see bullies
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by dnsworks 16y ago
20 new servers at Softlayer: $4k/month to month, provisioned in 2 hours 20 almost equivalent servers at Rackspace: $10k/month on a 1-2 year contract, provisioned a week after two weeks of quotes and contract negotiations. That's what I was
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by dnsworks 16y ago
They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. .. It's OK to ignore abuse when by doing so you are enabled to maintain your financial status.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Not everybody is meant to be a consultant, and consulting (or running any business, or performing any job) is a lot more work than "just writing code".
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by dnsworks 16y ago
It seems to me that Amazon has set a dangerous legal precedence for the hosting industry in general. Except for DMCA takedown notices, ISPs have been able to uphold that they do not own their customers' content (the earliest big case I can
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by dnsworks 16y ago
My main interest in a decentralized DNS system is to make it easier to do business with countries when the US decides it wants to steal their oil, and creates sanctions You couldn't purchase .ly domains until we stopped bullying Libya in 20
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Why do some corporates hate small business?
1 points by dnsworks 16y ago|0 comments
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Right, Apple's shareholders are out there saying "I'm so glad we're making great stuff". Apple wants to make money, no matter how much fandom we bestow upon Apple for having a great design aesthetic, Apple is a corporation whose aim is to m
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by dnsworks 16y ago
What's really interesting is that most of these reviews happened yesterday, and it appears mots of the reviewers have never actually engaged in business with the scammy vendor, or attempted to engage in business, or well ever heard of the b
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Quick summation: Cargo cults don't work.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Geeks are so incredibly negative it's why I end up trying to convince friends to find a better career filled with happier people whenever they ask how to get into the tech field. There's nothing more pathetic then that guy who is the born s
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Only in te music industry could somebody do enough coke to simultaneously attempt to sue your company out of existence while investing $100m into it. If there's one thing I agree with PG on it's don't do a music start-up.
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Ask HN: Why don't we optimize for stability?
2 points by dnsworks 16y ago|6 comments
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by dnsworks 16y ago
I'm reminded of Japanese intelligence gathering methods in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor. This would be a hell of an intelligence gathering tool, the best part of it is that you could gather data in such a fractioned and distributed
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by dnsworks 16y ago
If you've read, "Catch Me If You Can", by Frank Abagnale Jr., then your opinion of Swedish prisons might be that they're country clubs where you get to sew parachutes and go to school for free, in comparison to those in the US. This doesn'
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Does this mean that vegans are more likely to be Vitamin D deficient (and vegetarians to a certain degree)?
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Living in Seattle was brutal for me, it left me incredibly depressed and I ultimate fled back to San Francisco for my sanity. Even SF is pretty rough, so I only live in the corporate apartment complexes in SOMA where I can lay in the sun an
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by dnsworks 16y ago
On that note, you might think about talking to troyd (a HN user) who is working on a similar app at http://cloverapp.com/ ..
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Ask HN: Embedding Hacker News comments in your blog?
3 points by dnsworks 16y ago|0 comments
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Remember the Oompa Loompas? Same concept.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Probably, but with a good pricing model and an easy to use system (maybe a ssl-wrapped caching proxy or an ssl vpn) to send the logs over the wire for processing and storage would attract the attention of the devops world (which is worth ab
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Never heard about EPIC, but the EFF is part of the engineering community. Our community solves the problems that the rest of the world creates. The EFF should be involved .. maybe somebody can get arrested for planning flash-mobs at the ai
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by dnsworks 16y ago
If you're open to suggestions, right now I feel that there's a huge market opportunity for a SaaS Splunk killer with more reasonable pricing. Having a great analytics UI is 1/4 of the problem there.
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Ask HN: Virtual Administrative Assistant Referrals?
2 points by dnsworks 16y ago|2 comments
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by dnsworks 16y ago
I'm curious if any lawyers from the EFF have put themselves through this so that they have good grounds to sue the federal government for violation of constitutional rights?
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by dnsworks 16y ago
Have you considered arcosanti? It's where most of the ravers I know went when they realized their lives were empty without drugs.
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by dnsworks 16y ago
At some point you open your eyes, accept that everything we've been told about democracy and representative republics and freedom is bullshit. Then you either decide to fight a futile fight, or try to enjoy this life that's way too short. T
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by dnsworks 16y ago
I've been reading Phrack so long web browsers didn't exist. This makes me feel very old.

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