mrcalzone

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by mrcalzone 13y ago
I attend a course at Coursera by Dan Ariely on Behavior Economics, and he talks about the effect of signing an honor code. Interestingly, his experiments showed that people stopped cheating when signing a honor-code, even if no such code re
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by mrcalzone 14y ago
I bought a new reserved instance yesterday, and got the email from Amazon about this today. Good thing that "New Reserved Instance prices will only apply to Reserved Instances purchases made on or after March 4th."
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Viewport affects css media queries(blog.tagdef.com)
1 points by mrcalzone 14y ago|0 comments
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by mrcalzone 14y ago
I see the same thing. Pingdom reports higher response-time, but no downtime (meaning no alert). Also no alerts from AWS Cloudwatch. I first became aware of the issue when internal api-tests started failing at 9:56am CET. I see users accessi
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A/B testing dynamic sites with Google Analytics and events(blog.tagdef.com)
2 points by mrcalzone 14y ago|0 comments
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by mrcalzone 14y ago
Not related to their design, but Varnish (the HTTP accelerator) was initially created by VG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software)#History
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by mrcalzone 14y ago
Riot on ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/ ) is not from Silicon Valley, but a fascinating story about the Finish dot-com company Riot-E. "The company was such a spectacular failure that it was the subject of the award winning documen
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by mrcalzone 14y ago
My multi-AZ RDS also failed over without a problem. The site was down for 5 minutes though, perhaps due to ELB problems.
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by mrcalzone 15y ago
This might be one of the best reasons to have native (mobile) clients. As a web-developer I like the model of writing one web-application to fit all clients, and being able to link to pages etc. But on a slow connection it certainly makes s
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by mrcalzone 15y ago
I use Pingdom, but wish they could monitor more frequently for exactly the reasons you mention. In theory my site can be unavailable for several seconds each minute, without showing downtime in the stats. I signed up for your service, but l
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The advantage of measuring(blog.tagdef.com)
1 points by mrcalzone 15y ago|0 comments
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Notes on how I made tagdef.com really snappy(blog.tagdef.com)
4 points by mrcalzone 15y ago|0 comments
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Tagdef.com cache and speed strategies(blog.tagdef.com)
3 points by mrcalzone 15y ago|0 comments
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Kodak, Bill Gates and efficient markets [2009](brontecapital.blogspot.com)
1 points by mrcalzone 15y ago|0 comments
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Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF until Jan 15th(gandi.net)
179 points by mrcalzone 15y ago|57 comments
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by mrcalzone 15y ago
I got this on one of my domains too, and it was because of the private whois information (Domains By Proxy). After I removed that, it worked just fine.
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by mrcalzone 15y ago
I've been thinking of moving away from GoDaddy for a long time, and this was the last drop. It is crazy how they design the webpages to make it as hard as possible to cancel anything. In the email I got, there were two (identical) links tel
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by mrcalzone 15y ago
11.900, Norwegian. Worked in a multi-nation company where I spoke/wrote English daily for several years, and read books in English regularly. I guess this explains why I have to use the dictionary in the Kindle a lot, and probably should us
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by mrcalzone 15y ago
I don't have the links now, but both Google and Amazon have concluded that faster page loads result in more sales/conversions. If you want to render the whole page in the browser in a couple of seconds (Google webmaster tools indicates the
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by mrcalzone 15y ago
This might not be a problem on Appstore, but in general I would think a lot of logging would impact the server performance?
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by mrcalzone 15y ago
When I posted this, the status history showed a big green OK-symbol for April 23... Now it's updated to show the red error-symbol, so this posting make no sense.
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by mrcalzone 15y ago
I have been wondering about the same thing. Sadly, the article says: > but returning multiple A records diminishes any possibility of deterministic site selection.
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No EC2 issues on April 23, according to Amazon Status History(status.aws.amazon.com)
2 points by mrcalzone 15y ago|1 comments
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by mrcalzone 15y ago
>If I speak to someone who doesn't really speak much Norwegian but tries hard to, I'll answer in Norwegian first – but usually switch to English when I see they're struggling. I'm Norwegian, and had a neighbor from England. He said that
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by mrcalzone 16y ago
If you are like me and use Google all the day (without giving much thought to the fact that you are logged in, e.g. via gmail), it can be pretty scary to take a look at https://www.google.com/history/ Total Google searches: 21717 None of
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by mrcalzone 16y ago
When Genius failed , a story related to (and mentioned in) Fooled by Randomness . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Genius_Failed
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by mrcalzone 16y ago
Google App Engine is not a language, but it is an environment where you can make a "hello world" web-page from scratch without much code... and it hosted and ready to show his/her grandparents out of the box.
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by mrcalzone 16y ago
I can't point out a specific reason, but for me the front-page has a bit of a "sedo-parking" look to it. Maybe it's the top-menu and the logo, I'm not sure. Sorry for being so vague, but this was my first thought when I clicked the link.
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by mrcalzone 16y ago
Not to be self-promoting, but I implemented this on tagdef.com a while back. Also using the Google translate api, it detects if a definition is non-English, and gives the user the possibility to translate. E.g one of the definitions for #lo