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by splitrocket 15y ago
10 kinds of awesome.
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by splitrocket 15y ago
Pervasive encryption/compression of electromagnetic communication across an extremely wide spectrum and truly badass video games can explain why we haven't been visited and why we can't watch their TV channels.
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by splitrocket 15y ago
As a total nerd and a bit of an extrovert, I also generally like live typing, however, I don't like it enough to consider it a feature when for several members of my team it was a complete blocker. One person actually yelled across the room
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by splitrocket 15y ago
Kill the live typing. No one wants anyone else to see their edits in real time. Except perhaps in pair programming. Maybe. Its an antipattern for social communication. It is also the number two reason my team never used wave. The number one
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by splitrocket 15y ago
Raystream was a publicly traded company called InterDom Corp, which was purchased for 200k by Unlimited Trade Incorporated, operated by Ramon Rumpf renamed it Raystream. http://reversemerger.dealflow.com/wires/article.cfm?id=xhtjs...
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by splitrocket 15y ago
Here it is: http://alchemi.st/nginx-wordpress-network-and-fastcgi-cache-... You can change the caching ttl to meet your needs.
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by splitrocket 15y ago
That's how I've done it in the past. Depending on how many personalized requests you are doing, compared to the resource utilization savings you'll get from caching the rest of your content, you'll probably come out ahead.
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by splitrocket 15y ago
My experience doing something very similar is that the original config would not handle 500 concurrent requests. It's a fair comparison insofar as the uncached app probably couldn't serve that many concurrent requests in a reasonable amount
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by splitrocket 15y ago
I've been doing essentially the same thing with my wordpress install. Went from a few hundred reqs/second on a cheap linode to over 4k reqs/second. (I think the limit was the benchmarking tool, not nginx) I've got the nginx config if anyone
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by splitrocket 15y ago
Facebook's API has become increasingly unstable. They recently dropped millions of oauth tokens for no apparent reason. See here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661850
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The Great Facebook Oauth Purge(bugs.developers.facebook.net)
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by splitrocket 15y ago
well, several business have popped up around things that I would consider non-core: recurring payments, business analytics, etc. Generally, If I can't find some other business that will solve a problem that isn't core to my business, that p
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by splitrocket 15y ago
This sounds like it's right up my alley. Thanks!
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by splitrocket 15y ago
This. Video chat fails at providing an emotional connection because of this. It leaves you feeling like you are talking past someone. It's a fundamental problem with the technology that can't really be solved unless we literally put a camer
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by splitrocket 15y ago
Most impressive.
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by splitrocket 15y ago
Nine drawings by an artist while on LSD: http://www.cowboybooks.com.au/html/acidtrip1.html There is a distinct diregression, regression, and then a peak of intense beauty.
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by splitrocket 15y ago
Bravo to the whole team. Nginx is the AK-47 of webservers: when you absolutely positively have to serve every single request, accept no alternative. Beyond that, I've found both the built in modules and the addons to be excellent quality. I
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by splitrocket 15y ago
Sure, send me an email, it's in my bio.
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by splitrocket 15y ago
Now that <a href=" http://devstructure.com>blueprint</a&#62 ; exists, it's radically simple to turn your current environment into chef/puppet deploy script. That said, distributed shell tools like this are still tremendously use
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by splitrocket 16y ago
http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-ener... Energy Source Death Rate (deaths per TWh) Coal – world average 161 (26% of world energy, 50% of electricity) Coal – China
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by splitrocket 16y ago
nothing really is a drop in solution for traffic spikes, however, there are a plethora of articles about how to make Varnish play nicely with moveable type: http://www.coldhardcode.com/2009/04/varnish-and-movabletype-... The same is true
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by splitrocket 16y ago
Poor ROI might be better expressed by examining the defense budget itself, particularly when one remembers that the US defense budget is 46% of the military expenditures of the ENTIRE WORLD. http://static.globalissues.org/i/military/10/cou
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by splitrocket 16y ago
Many of the things mentioned above were in fact produced without government intervention by private enterprise before the widespread adoption of the government funded projects. They were not, however widely adopted, nor resulted in the tech
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by splitrocket 16y ago
Whenever I encounter someone arguing about federal government spending, I do a quick search for the word "military" and "defense", as it is the second largest line item in the budget at $663 Billion, below social security, and is the larges
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by splitrocket 17y ago
If cutting a cable is a huge problem for their datacenter, they aren't going anywhere near my datacenter.
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by splitrocket 17y ago
While interesting, I think that as a product, I'd personally be more interested in Ubiquiti's routerstation pro, which has 4 GigE ports, POE, slower processor, more ram, 3 mini pci slots, and depending on what you do with the mini pci slots