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Admin and User Account Systems in Node.js(engineering.gosquared.com)
2 points by simontabor 13y ago|0 comments
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by simontabor 13y ago
What does this do that calm.com doesn't do better?
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How we completely changed our internal comms in one morning (Campfire – Slack)(engineering.gosquared.com)
4 points by simontabor 13y ago|3 comments
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by simontabor 13y ago
it really, really isn't
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by simontabor 13y ago
Apologies for the lack of support on the chart, SVG rendering is terrible in Firefox. If you click on the 'Day' view and then 'Show only Mavericks' you can clearly see a rise from 0.20% at 7pm yesterday up to almost 10%
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Adoption of OSX Mavericks graphed in real-time(gosquared.com)
2 points by simontabor 13y ago|0 comments
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by simontabor 13y ago
I still don't think you get the idea. Using 'the old lemon man jumped high as a pokemon' across multiple services may be secure from someone trying to hack just you, but it's much more likely that one of those services w
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by simontabor 13y ago
I may do, it's not too difficult for people who care about it to just take it out - I'd actually rather people take the code, remove tracking if they'd like, edit colours/whatever and make it their own. It's more th
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by simontabor 13y ago
That's a decent idea, appending/prepending the service name to the hash would probably help.
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by simontabor 13y ago
Yes, but it's by far the lesser of two evils. You can easily take a substring of the generated password. How would you randomise the length of the password in a repeatable + secure manner?
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by simontabor 13y ago
Sounds like you've misunderstood the purpose of this. I usually just use a single password across most services, so they all know your password, even if you trust them not to store it in plain text. It's infinitely more secure t
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by simontabor 13y ago
It's a repeatable SHA1 hash, what more do you want?
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by simontabor 13y ago
Probably didn't make it clear enough, it's repeatable so you'd use Twitter as the service and whatever password you usually use (master password), it'd come back with a hash and you use that as your Twitter password. Whe
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Show HN: PW - Simple, secure & cross-platform password generator(simontabor.com)
1 points by simontabor 13y ago|15 comments
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Google's downtime caused a 40% drop in global traffic(engineering.gosquared.com)
24 points by simontabor 13y ago|5 comments
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by simontabor 13y ago
Basically, it's for efficiency reasons. Some of our sites have well over 40 pageviews per second and updating the numbers that frequently would put a huge amount of load on our servers and also crash the browser or make it go incredibl
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by simontabor 13y ago
We monitor if the page is focused or blurred, so you can get both metrics in real-time.
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by simontabor 13y ago
We get a lot of questions at GoSquared ( https://gosquared.com ) as to why their engagement metrics (and visitor counts) are so different between GA and GoSquared. Pinging all visitors to check their still online is our solution, rather tha
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by simontabor 14y ago
There's no server side code at all for this - we're planning on open sourcing our labs section as well soon (and doing more labs projects, of course)
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by simontabor 14y ago
It's way more accurate than necessary... like seriously crazy
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WebGL 3D Globe to visualize real-time site traffic(gosquared.com)
86 points by simontabor 14y ago|18 comments
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Show HN: Display a tweet stream using Impress.js(simontabor.com)
3 points by simontabor 14y ago|0 comments
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by simontabor 14y ago
nginx doesn't support websockets quite yet, so no, but will do soon - http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/roadmap
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by simontabor 14y ago
Very unfair to be using a t1.micro instance, they're only meant to give very short bursts of power and don't give any dedicated hardware (so giving the hardware specs is pointless). Do a new benchmark comparison vs a m1.small and it'd be in
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by simontabor 14y ago
Looks like it (also http://bgp.he.net/ip/128.30.52.200 ). Collateral from Anonymous apparently taking down MIT, I guess
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by simontabor 14y ago
The question mark was unnecessary, yeah - of course I checked to make sure before posting
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by simontabor 14y ago
Does anyone have any news on W3.org and mit.edu? I'm currently left assuming it's an attack after Aaron Swartz's death, which is pretty saddening.
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by simontabor 14y ago
W3.org still appears to be down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5052503
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W3.org down?(w3.org)
30 points by simontabor 14y ago|14 comments
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by simontabor 14y ago
As said in the post, Capistrano is a good option but we found we much preferred deliver, it was easier to setup and meant we didn't need ruby dependencies on node.js apps. We also used to SSH into our servers and do everything manually. Cra

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