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Re:FCC releases report on America's broadband providers on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @01:06PM (#2837836)
I was hoping to see some measurement of dropped connections - something that I used to see sometimes when I was still using DSL.
Re:Maloder: OSX binary loader for Linux. on Saturday April 02, 2011 @10:10PM (#2401549)
This is very cool. Forgive me if I'm missing something but this only runs very specific command line programs right? (ie no iTunes)
Re:Ask HN: What non CompSci courses to take in college? on Thursday January 20, 2011 @10:24AM (#2123891)
I'd recommend you take an intro to macroeconomics course. You'll learn about how monetary policy works (interest rates) and that will help you your whole life. Understanding economics helps you understand business trends, investing, and it gives you more perspective on current events.
Re:Amazon EC2 freezes Moore's law on Friday June 25, 2010 @10:09AM (#1460759)
At least Linode recently gave everyone a 42% RAM increase. Good point though, most of the hardware progress has been pure margin for the cloud vendors.
Re:Ask HN: Review my web app, CraigUpdate.com on Friday July 17, 2009 @04:04PM (#710668)
Hi I've done the same thing, http://www.craigdiddy.com and I also have a list of all the other sites that do this and why mine is the best. Besides email you can currently get free sms to find out even faster (via Twitter) and I plan on releasing the non-interface code on github.