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by pcarmichael 2mo ago
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status "Operational issue - AWS Billing Console (Global) Service - AWS Billing Console Severity Impacted - Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data"
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by pcarmichael 10mo ago
Ok that should be in - if you view the price trend pages now there are different currency grouping options (with EUR being one of them). Hope this helps!
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by pcarmichael 11mo ago
I can add Spain price trends to PCPartPicker. Quick question though - do you want the price trends to cover just Spanish retailers, or should it trend the prices across all of the EU?
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by pcarmichael 11mo ago
They are US-specific, yes. Thanks for asking that - I'll look into updating those graphs to show for the appropriate region/country depending on what country you've selected (on the top right of the page).
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by pcarmichael 6y ago
Lots of VPNs route through hosting providers. Some hosting providers are more prevalent with spammers than others. But in the end you can only really use it as a scoring measure. It's not nearly binary enough to straight filter usin
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by pcarmichael 6y ago
The names changed out from under us. It’s hard because some people expect to see 3.0, while others expect to see 3.1gen1. Whichever one we pick we end up confusing the other side. In the end we went with the current industry naming becau
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by pcarmichael 6y ago
There somewhat is - many retailers offer data feeds. The formats and quality vary widely though. Google shopping has a feed format that many retailers implement.
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by pcarmichael 7y ago
Absolutely loved that book and the sequel. He has another book out now titled _Energy: A Human History_.
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by pcarmichael 7y ago
Mine was replaced under warranty last week (after waiting several months) - 2017 Model S, AP 2.0.
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by pcarmichael 7y ago
> Instead, they maintained altitude and speed, using their advantage in a dive to execute "slashing" attacks. Fun trivia that I read a while back: After getting hold of a zero, they discovered that the carburetor design would c
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by pcarmichael 8y ago
Back around 2001 I took my desktop build (Celerin 300A oveeclocked to 450MHz), installed a giant passive heat sink on the CPU and PSU, put in an 8MB IDE flash drive, and network booted off a server in my laundry room. I thought I was final
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by pcarmichael 8y ago
Aye. We've got some things in the works to improve that.
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by pcarmichael 10y ago
I did the same for new account registrations on my site. The humorous side effect was actually LinkedIn. That whole thing where you can auto invite everyone on your contact list... led to me getting several connection invites a day from u
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by pcarmichael 10y ago
Glad you like it! We make money through affiliate deals with the retailers we list.
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by pcarmichael 10y ago
I posted an Ask HN to review my side project PCPartPicker about six years ago. Got great feedback and things grew from there. I went full-time, had to hire employees, etc. Not big like Dropbox, but we made it over the hump self-funded an
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by pcarmichael 10y ago
Amazon smile actually still generates affiliate revenue. (Amazon doesn't take the charity cut out of the affiliate side.)
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by pcarmichael 10y ago
Our revenue is primarily through affiliate deals with retailers that we partner with. (We don't run any ads.)
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by pcarmichael 10y ago
We don't run any ads.
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by pcarmichael 10y ago
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
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by pcarmichael 10y ago
A bit over five years ago I posted an 'Ask HN' ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883123 ) for my side project PCPartPicker ( http://pcpartpicker.com ). I received great advice and many feature reque
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by pcarmichael 10y ago
They weld a metal shoe over each landing leg.
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by pcarmichael 10y ago
It's in the section (n) just before that, regarding not storing API content longer than 24 hours.
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by pcarmichael 11y ago
That got me intrigued too. Found a bit more info on it in the comments of a reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3xtu76/comet_lander_...
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by pcarmichael 11y ago
Fourth one since Christmas. Two were on Christmas - that was fun.
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by pcarmichael 11y ago
North Austin here - we routinely get packages from USPS intended for other houses. Once they mixed up mailbox keys so we got someone else's packages, and then had to track down whose key they got, then followed the chain to get to our
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by pcarmichael 11y ago
I was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. Using a CPAP was life changing for me. I won't sleep without it now if I can help it, though it did take me a bit of iterating through different mask arrangements. The first few weeks w
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by pcarmichael 11y ago
Here are a couple videos of MIRV re-entry tests - basically what it'd look like before having a really bad day. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1dDTnszCQC0 http://theaviationist.com/2013/12/27&
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by pcarmichael 12y ago
It's a place called Alamo Drafthouse. They made news a while back by posting one of their disgruntled customer voicemails on the internet: http://youtu.be/1L3eeC2lJZs
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by pcarmichael 12y ago
There's a theater that I like to go to that has a policy of no talking and no cell phone use. First offense is a warning, and second offense they are removed from the showing. Those rules are made really clear at the beginning of eve
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by pcarmichael 12y ago
Any word on if/when Linode may schedule reboots?

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