levinet

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by levinet 11y ago
Definitely could, but they'd need to lay their own international cables -- PIPE Networks (owned by TPG) is the closest we've got to a market disruptor and they can only compete because they have their own undersea cables. Given th
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by levinet 11y ago
Local bandwidth in Australia is generally more expensive than Europe or USA because we have a huge area to cover and a relatively low population. Also because of this the infrastructure that does exist is held by a handful of companies who
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by levinet 11y ago
Few simple answers off the top of my head: Electricity is generally more expensive in Australia than US/Europe Internet (consumer and business) is more expensive, huge area to cover with low population density Most DCs are located in S
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by levinet 14y ago
DeployButton was definitely my favourite too!
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by levinet 14y ago
Also the collage has an even mix of TV and movies. :)
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by levinet 14y ago
I think the prizes are actually pretty good considering the zero cost of entry. A local startup weekend I participated in had prizes that were far less than what was on offer for Rails Rumble 2012.
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by levinet 14y ago
Just CSS3 3d transforms. Should be hardware accelerated on most browsers / platforms.
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by levinet 14y ago
Ah I didn't have a chance to test the site on Linux -- once the Rails Rumble comp is over I'll be sure to see what I can do to fix it. :)
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by levinet 14y ago
No framework. As Sutto said, we used SASS and Compass to make cross browser attributes faster to write, but that's about it.