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by piggity 11y ago
A large part of the issue with pricing on Google App Engine (which is the one that still stings for many people) - was that they were building on a relatively proprietary platform. The advantage of Docker based compute engines is that your
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by piggity 12y ago
There are small things - e.g. you can't do weekly / fortnightly billing. Once I discovered that I stopped investigating BT for our primary subscription engine. We just hold the card tokens and use BT to charge the card. It's
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by piggity 12y ago
Shouldn't it be the service's responsibility to determine what you are rating as a median score and then recalibrate your scores to their drivers? i.e. If I always rate 3, but sometimes rate 1; then that might be similar to someon
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by piggity 12y ago
Except if your target customer isn't a chemist.
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Multiple critical Atlassian product vulnerabilities
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by piggity 13y ago
I recently went on holidays and was merrily tethered away on 4G to Telstra. Hit the cap limit on my plan - 3GB - called Telstra to get a datapack add-on - "I'm sorry, but you are on the highest plan, we can't add on any more
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by piggity 13y ago
Amazon (the mothership) runs at a loss [1] It is predicted that Amazon AWS runs at a huge margin [2] Of course it's possible that these number are skewed by some Irish Whiskey Double Dutch Vegemite Sandwich tax avoidance system. [1] h
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by piggity 13y ago
The old Polar series of sports monitoring watches (HRM/speed/cadence etc) used to transmit data using a "Sonic Link". e.g. client library - https://code.google.com/p/sonicread/
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by piggity 13y ago
Double opt-in is optional at Mailchimp. Customers can add emails directly and check a box saying "yes this customer gave me permission". Aweber uses double opt-in and there is no way around it. But that is a double edged sword whe
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by piggity 13y ago
I guess the main issue is that the timeline of events has gone like this: Snowden/Guardian: NSA is doing X Govt/NSA: We are not doing X Snowden/Guardian: Here are some slide/proof Govt/NSA: Ok we are doing X, but it
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by piggity 13y ago
I wonder if the developers get a real handle on the platform and squeezing the most out of it by the time it gets to EOL.
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by piggity 13y ago
Could be that the active user base of mixpanel has dropped slightly while people are offline to upgrade. Would depend on exactly how their metrics are being gathered. None-the-less I find it amazing that ~20% of their sample base is already
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by piggity 13y ago
I was using LaTeX => PDF generation, but because I don't do it all the time I found it cumbersome and confusing at times. Prawn seems to have come a long way since I used it last - and has addressed all the limitations that pushed m
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by piggity 13y ago
SQL Server Standard is $2K per core - with > 4 cores per socket, things flip around a bit. I'm not a SQL licensing guru; so perhaps I'm confused as well...
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by piggity 13y ago
Interesting idea, it looks like you scan the Gemfile.lock (or equivalent) at "deploy" time. My preference would be to upload that Gemfile.lock to a location, and then it could be scanned as and when new vulnerabilities were detected.
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by piggity 13y ago
The only question I'm really interested in... And Linode isn't saying anything new
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by piggity 13y ago
Monocultures are "bad" (plenty of other issues too!)
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by piggity 13y ago
Could be that the passwords were hashed, but something logged a password, or there was leakage somewhere during the login process. All it takes is one debug log statement to leak through from development and you can be logging plain-text pa
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by piggity 13y ago
Agreed, I don't know if I'd be able to sleep if my status was displayed on anything with less than a 20000:1 contrast ratio
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by piggity 13y ago
Sales Tax Clearing House as a Service!
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by piggity 14y ago
Only lawyers think it's a good idea to deploy lawyers into the routing mesh.
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by piggity 14y ago
Because your sample is so small, the results are easily skewed by a few people. As the sample size increases you'll get a more representative picture of what is happening. It doesn't invalidate what you've found, but does mean you should n
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by piggity 14y ago
I could believe this - once you have load balancers, multiple proxies and different servers all over the place - getting the IP address of a request can become difficult. If there's no business driver in making that happen, then it quickly
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by piggity 14y ago
My motto is - "Where there's confusion, there's contracts"
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by piggity 14y ago
Nothing wrong with using the cloud as long as you really understand what you're getting yourself into. * Use a vendor specific extension - e.g. EBS + snapshots to mount customer data volumes - make sure you can work around it easily if yo
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by piggity 14y ago
The other issue is that you can have redundant services, but when the control plane goes down - you are screwed. Every day I have to build basic redundancy into my applications I wish that we could just go with a service provider (like Rack
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by piggity 14y ago
Nice try, LaunchPad marketing team trying to deflect users from Bitbucket!
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by piggity 14y ago
I thought that recycling animal waste into the food chain was one of the suspected causes of CJD. e.g. http://rense.com/general10/MDSS.HTM It seems like a bad idea to me... (primarily from the unknowns, not the knowns)
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by piggity 14y ago
Having physical access to the network shouldn't (in a better world) result in such an utter compromise. With the ability to plug in devices like the Pwn Plug; your network needs to be moderately resilient to attacks from inside.
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by piggity 14y ago
I don't want different socks every month, I want the same socks all the time. That way I only ever have 1 mismatched pair (I will concede that I may have several types of socks - boot socks, running socks, cycling socks, business-time socks

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