mindhacker
Re:*.apache.org is currently offline.
on Friday August 28, 2009 @07:28AM (#791164)
10:53am UTC: We have restored services on our european mirror machine which was
not compromised. DNS should be shifting you over right about ... now..
Hacking a Google Interview - MIT's guide to Google interviews
Re:Rate my Startup: Uzvy.com (grouping reloaded)
on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @05:46AM (#772410)
Clickable - http://www.uzvy.com/
Re:Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @07:59AM (#770238)
White noise is a common synthetic noise source used for sound masking by a Tinnitus masker.
White noise machines are sold as privacy enhancers and sleep aids and to mask tinnitus. White noise CDs, when used with headphones, can aid concentration by blocking out irritating or distracting noises in a person's environment. In open plan offices, large corporations such as ExxonMobil apply white noise to reduce the reach of speech, thus, by preventing office staff from being distracted by conversations in the background, safeguarding productivity.
Re:Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @02:14AM (#769873)
Tldr - Application for navigating through large-scale online discussions
Re:Cheapest MBA Program for CS Students Costs $99: It's Called the App...
on Thursday August 13, 2009 @04:57AM (#760329)
Well, you can do the same thing for lot less by developing a facebook/opensocial application.
Re:Sliceapp.com - Bootstrap Slicehost Servers Automatically
on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @01:31PM (#758641)
Thanks for the excellent follow up! It sure helps.
Re:Sliceapp.com - Bootstrap Slicehost Servers Automatically
on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @10:56PM (#757156)
It'd be great if you can share it.
Re:Ask HN: moving to US
on Monday August 10, 2009 @05:15AM (#752273)
This is excellent advice. But would it give an edge if you are starting a product on the lines of http://basecamphq.com/ ?
37 signals does have customers outside the US but I suppose its a small figure.
Re:Ask HN: How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number?
on Sunday August 09, 2009 @10:24PM (#751753)
http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/david-heinemeier-hans...
I agree with David that no amount will ever keep programmers from programming. So instead of sweating out 14+ hours a day in hope that you can retire in 5 years, why not live your life as you go.
Re:Ask HN: Which tools do you use to optimize your webapps?
on Thursday August 06, 2009 @10:22PM (#746879)
http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/ is a useful tool too.
Re:Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions
on Thursday August 06, 2009 @10:18PM (#746875)
http://domainsite.com/ works really well. Simple UI and full domain control is what I look for. It also has a simple 1 click integration with google apps.
XML flaws threaten 'enormous' array of apps
Re:Set Up Your Server Right, Part 1
on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @11:36PM (#744751)
We could automate all these steps using scripts. A very good example is the scripts by RightScale - http://github.com/rightscale/right_link/tree/master
Re:Google Buys Video Company On2 for $106.5M
on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @12:18PM (#743669)
Google's press release: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/ir_20090805.htm...
Re:Nobody cares - a fundamental principle for startup socialites
on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @10:29AM (#741260)
You can always use http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Sony Imageworks releases 5 projects as open source. Includes pystring.
The Infinite Loop Mystery
Re:Very simple bot blocking utility in php and iptables
on Monday July 06, 2009 @11:13PM (#690830)
I use this script for similar purpose - http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/install.ddos
The advantage of this script is that it directly monitors the IPs using netstat so one could stop bots from hammering things other than your webserver, say socket connections.
It is customizable to use APF or iptables and worked quite well when one of my friend's site was hit.
Re:Ask HN: What happens to your consciousness/self-awareness as you age?
on Monday June 29, 2009 @03:20PM (#679501)
Perhaps it is difficult to define an attribute such as consciousness/self-awareness let alone measure it. How does one know he is self-aware? Perhaps one who says he is self-aware never is.
You may use your class notes and Feynman
Re:HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @11:40PM (#661336)
Not to mention the size. A HTML + CSS + JS (jQuery) implementation of a simple component such as a menu would end up being ~50KB. In flash it turns out to be less than 1KB.
Re:Opera Unite
on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @12:32PM (#660448)
Interesting discussion about this over on reddit with comments from one of the developers - http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8svh8/opera_uni...
Re:Facebook | Username
on Saturday June 13, 2009 @10:36AM (#656157)
Looks like all the names with the string "php" in them are disallowed.
New version of swfobject released after an year of development
Physicists turn relics into modern technology
Re:Bing sets New Record in Horizontal Scaling
on Thursday June 04, 2009 @08:20AM (#641263)
What a misnomer! I thought the article was about horizontally scaled servers.
Re:Obfuscate Your Company
on Saturday May 30, 2009 @01:39AM (#633295)
Please correct me if I am wrong but doesn't using a global sequence mean all the threads wanting to insert a record have to queue up and wait for the db to provide the auto increment id? I am not sure what time this takes but may be it creates a bottleneck for really large, write heavy applications.