dnsworks
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Our community is filled with sexists, that's just how it is. The reason there are no women in tech is because we're all misogynistic assholes. Devops community, point in case. Every time I see a programmer or a sysadmin refer to women or their employees as "bitches", I put a note, "Never hire this lawsuit waiting to happen" into my addressbook entry for them.
"* If you're legitimately using lots of resources, we'll move you around if you start getting near the limits on the hardware you're on, but we won't install new hardware just for you."
Could you define an "illegitimate use of resources"?
Anonymous punished some bad corporate citizens for doing the wrong thing, and bullied some of them into doing the right thing. This is in direct response to the bullying Assange has gotten. Legal or not, it's sort of awesome to see bullies get bullied back.
20 new servers at Softlayer: $4k/month to month, provisioned in 2 hours
20 almost equivalent servers at Rackspace: $10k/month on a 1-2 year contract, provisioned a week after two weeks of quotes and contract negotiations.
That's what I was expecting you to give as the reason to the title of your post.
They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
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It's OK to ignore abuse when by doing so you are enabled to maintain your financial status.
Not everybody is meant to be a consultant, and consulting (or running any business, or performing any job) is a lot more work than "just writing code".
It seems to me that Amazon has set a dangerous legal precedence for the hosting industry in general. Except for DMCA takedown notices, ISPs have been able to uphold that they do not own their customers' content (the earliest big case I can think about was when the Scientologists sued Netcom, and everybody else in the world).
My main interest in a decentralized DNS system is to make it easier to do business with countries when the US decides it wants to steal their oil, and creates sanctions You couldn't purchase .ly domains until we stopped bullying Libya in 2004. If we build decentralized systems outside of the reach of the government, maybe we can even build a world free of petty politics and corrupt governments (like our own). It's a pipe dream, but it's the best dream I've got.
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dnsworks on Friday December 03, 2010 @05:39PM
from the self-post dept.
Yesterday I lost a few hours trying to figure out how to use my google apps email address as my openid account, because I don't use my gmail.com account. I give up, forget about openid and any website that requires me to use it.Today I spent an hour and a half on the phone with AT&T Small business, for the 6th time in 2 years attempting to get access to my AT&T small business portal. I...
Right, Apple's shareholders are out there saying "I'm so glad we're making great stuff". Apple wants to make money, no matter how much fandom we bestow upon Apple for having a great design aesthetic, Apple is a corporation whose aim is to make money. Apple is a golden boy because they aren't Microsoft, and if we keep comparing the two, we never give Apple an honest shake.
What's really interesting is that most of these reviews happened yesterday, and it appears mots of the reviewers have never actually engaged in business with the scammy vendor, or attempted to engage in business, or well ever heard of the business before this. Being the voice of reason, isn't that a violation of Yelp's terms of services? Yelp itself is known to be somewhat of a bully.
Quick summation: Cargo cults don't work.
Geeks are so incredibly negative it's why I end up trying to convince friends to find a better career filled with happier people whenever they ask how to get into the tech field.
There's nothing more pathetic then that guy who is the born skeptic and can't see beyond his own inability to find success, constantly putting down every idea his friends give him. I'm told that's what it's like trying to do a start-up in England.
Only in te music industry could somebody do enough coke to simultaneously attempt to sue your company out of existence while investing $100m into it. If there's one thing I agree with PG on it's don't do a music start-up.
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dnsworks on Sunday November 28, 2010 @07:21PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Have you ever noticed how much time you spend quitting Safari or Firefox? Just exiting the program. Sometimes it's immediately, sometimes it's 20 minutes, at least 50% of the time it's `kill -9 motherfucker.app`Why? Let me throw down the gauntlet, I'll pay $10k tomorrow for an Apple web browser that will never fucking crash on me.There must be a market of people, just like me, who are fed up...
I'm reminded of Japanese intelligence gathering methods in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor. This would be a hell of an intelligence gathering tool, the best part of it is that you could gather data in such a fractioned and distributed way that individual people wouldn't be able to guess what it is they're doing.
If you've read, "Catch Me If You Can", by Frank Abagnale Jr., then your opinion of Swedish prisons might be that they're country clubs where you get to sew parachutes and go to school for free, in comparison to those in the US. This doesn't sound so terrible, considering that this is a large scale criminal organization (whether you think what they did is a crime or not, the Swedish legal system has officially deemed it one).
The owners would have far more personal protection from legal in the US, though.
Does this mean that vegans are more likely to be Vitamin D deficient (and vegetarians to a certain degree)?
Living in Seattle was brutal for me, it left me incredibly depressed and I ultimate fled back to San Francisco for my sanity. Even SF is pretty rough, so I only live in the corporate apartment complexes in SOMA where I can lay in the sun an hour a day after swimming, it keeps me quite happy (and tan!)
On that note, you might think about talking to troyd (a HN user) who is working on a similar app at
http://cloverapp.com/ ..
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dnsworks on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @05:59PM
from the ask-hn dept.
After reading the article, "I Quit Hacker News" yesterday, I'm curious, has anybody written a webapp to embed comments about a blog posting into your own blog's comment system?
Remember the Oompa Loompas?
Same concept.
Probably, but with a good pricing model and an easy to use system (maybe a ssl-wrapped caching proxy or an ssl vpn) to send the logs over the wire for processing and storage would attract the attention of the devops world (which is worth about $3.50) Then you could just tell everybody, "it's like splunk, but in the cloud, and affordable". Fame, fortune, and the critical logs of hundreds of new startups would quickly be yours.
Never heard about EPIC, but the EFF is part of the engineering community. Our community solves the problems that the rest of the world creates. The EFF should be involved .. maybe somebody can get arrested for planning flash-mobs at the airports Tuesday and Wednesday to decimate holiday travel plans and put the issue into the national spotlight. That's something a bunch of hackers could put together.
If you're open to suggestions, right now I feel that there's a huge market opportunity for a SaaS Splunk killer with more reasonable pricing. Having a great analytics UI is 1/4 of the problem there.
Posted by
dnsworks on Monday November 22, 2010 @09:45PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Can anybody refer a good Virtual Admin that they've worked with?
I'm curious if any lawyers from the EFF have put themselves through this so that they have good grounds to sue the federal government for violation of constitutional rights?
Have you considered arcosanti? It's where most of the ravers I know went when they realized their lives were empty without drugs.
At some point you open your eyes, accept that everything we've been told about democracy and representative republics and freedom is bullshit. Then you either decide to fight a futile fight, or try to enjoy this life that's way too short.
The system is too big to fix. It's run by a small number of wealthy people, and any notion of freedom is an illusion.
I've been reading Phrack so long web browsers didn't exist. This makes me feel very old.