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Re:Facebook JavaScript SDK is often illegal under GDPR on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:58PM (#17383116)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...

The property is used to ensure the CDN is serving legit content that has not been tampered with.

Re:Gitlab 500 error on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:47PM (#17295833)
still seeing it
Re:Avoid FIFA World Cup CDN Issues on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:44PM (#17295791)
yes please
Re:Tech workers who are engineering a mid-30s retirement on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:13PM (#16905926)
That money gets you a good life anywhere, except for US and some big capitals/tech cities.
Re:Link Deployment with AWS LambdaEdge on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @12:30PM (#16431164)
Why the viewer request latency? 50ms kind of defeats its purpose
Re:Serverless Databases: The Future of Event-Driven Architecture on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:31PM (#16386328)
How about performance? How much time to read from the database?
Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:02PM (#15981752)
Apple did that and people would start cracking iphones open to replace batteries. Not in line with Apple's philosphy.
Re:Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' on Sunday December 10, 2017 @06:49AM (#15891031)
All rich countries do it.

There are industries that are inherently pollutant or energy intensive.

Rich countries tax and regulate it. China welcomes it with open arms, allowing them to operate under very lax regulation.

China put itself in this situation.

Re:The Cost Savings Of Netflix's Internal Spot Market on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @02:17PM (#15854794)
The article says they have a lot of reserved instances which at some point is not fully used.

So if you have 50 cpu hours reserved capacity per hour and during parts of the day you're using only 10h, they can allocate the remaining 40h which they reserved and paid upfront for encoding.

Re:Against a Tax Increase on Berkeley Students on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @01:03PM (#15655029)
The 2nd comment in the article reveals some interesting things.

Basically tuition is usually not charged for Phd students but is used for accounting purposes to get money from Federal agencies.

The "tax increase" would stop incentivizing universities to do these accounting tricks and declare tuiton as 0.

This is a good step in that tax code is simplified and accounting tricks / loopholes are closed for corporations and universities (and other public/private entities).

This is what I read, can anyone clarify this?

" But from an outside perspective, the current rules look like a money laundering scheme. Universities use an accounting gimmick of setting an arbitrary dollar amount for PhD student tuition, and then waive it. At least in STEM fields, essentially no PhD student actually pays tuition. Why not just set tuition to 0? The reason is because “tuition” can be charged to funding agencies, and so this accounting trick of setting and then waiving tuition allows universities to extract more overhead from the NSF, NIH, etc.

Of course, this accounting trick represents a non-trivial fraction of government support for academic research. It seems natural to simplify the tax code by disallowing this trick, but unless the goal is to de-fund academia (maybe it is), it should be countered with an increase in direct funding to universities from funding bodies. "

Re:An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @06:04PM (#15461669)
there's also a pretty nice Knights and Merchants remake http://www.kamremake.com/ https://github.com/Kromster80/kam_remake
Re:Tell HN: We'll pay for you to sue Equifax on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:18PM (#15250882)
If the class law suit wins, they get their share. And it already seems certain to win by now, I imagine.
Re:Ask HN: How much do developers earn in Europe? on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:20AM (#15088895)
Indeed, please edit the survey so the data becomes more readable.
Re:Any server search engines? on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:36AM (#14742737)
Nothing that does both things together, AFAIK.

This might be interesting to compare providers by reliability http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/Hosters

Also curious, for the average european developer how easy could it be to move to the US?

Also without a degree

There was an update in 2015 for defined term contracts.

It requires the non competes clause to define duration, geographical scope and explanation why the interests of the employee require it.

Not sure it was altogether thrown away.

Same thing, I had one VM restarted by them three times within a year.

Recently they had downtime in Amsterdam for at least an hour.

I like them, but if reliability is important they're not my first option.

Vultr: Amsterdam DC offline for over an hour

There's has been no information made public yet.Logging in to your own account you should see an alert for each AMS droplet, all 3 of my AMS droplets were down.It seems to have recovered a few minutes ago, for a total downtime of around about 1h30.And this is on top of the somewhat frequent restarts they announce after the fact.

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Work in a bar.

Make some extra change, develop your social skills.

Re:Making the Switch from Node.js to Golang on Saturday November 19, 2016 @08:50AM (#12993471)
S3 is based on regions.

200ms of latency is quite normal for S3, not designed with that in mind.

Re:Image hoster pushes 1.8 PB per month through Cloudflare CDN on Saturday October 29, 2016 @05:11PM (#12826403)
Building your own CDN is not an option? Something small only to reign in the costs
Samething as DigitalOcean without the hype.

5$ SSD VPS, 768M of Ram instead of 512 at DO, the reason I moved in at first.

The popularity clearly helps DO keeping up with more 1 click apps and other features than Vultr, but they recently made available reserved IPs and Object Storage, so they continue to be a good alternative to DO.

Isn't that what the Chicago School of Economics does?
Re:Ask HN: Should I be a plumber? on Friday August 01, 2014 @01:01PM (#8121453)
Interested as well! [email protected]

I'll use my personal email for further communications ;)

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2014) on Monday June 02, 2014 @10:36AM (#7833692)
Porto, Portugal. Both remote and relocation would be considered, depending on the required engagement.

HTML5, CSS3, PHP, MySQL, JS, some responsive design Some experience deploying web server

Interested in anything not involving sit & listening zombie-mode like most classes.

http://pt.linkedin.com/in/pedrosgomes/en