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www.telegraph.co.uk 12y ago

Happy 30th Birthday Tetris – the World's most successful game

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: someone relocating to SF, logistics problem (SFO to Saratoga)

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

A Datacenter Mockup made out of Lego

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN/PG: Y Combinator Program Questions

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask PG: Y Combinator Program Questions

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blog.postrank.com 14y ago

PostRank Sunsetting May 1, 2012

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kly.no 14y ago

Spew, an HTTP request server for benchmarking

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mixergy.com 14y ago

Stormpulse: What Happens After A Site Goes From Free to Fee?

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blog.tomrodman.com 14y ago

A pretty good comparison of Dropbox to Google Drive

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googledevelopers.blogspot.com 14y ago

Google Drive also launches with an API

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www.datacenterknowledge.com 14y ago

Google's $300M Expansion of Iowa Center, satellite dishes for TV distribution?

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angularjs.org 14y ago

AngularJS - Javascript MVC framework from Google

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www.wired.com 14y ago

Going With the Flow: Google’s Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking

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techspot.zzzeek.org 14y ago

Using Beaker for Caching? Why You'll Want to Switch to dogpile.cache

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kly.no 14y ago

Testing Varnish, but, good overall benchmarking info

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

Live the Zombie Experience at a mall in Manchester England

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ripe64.ripe.net 14y ago

Tore Anderson's talk on IPv6-only data centre deployments at RIPE64 (video)

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fud.no 14y ago

Tore Anderson's talk on IPv6-only data centre deployments at RIPE64

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movu.ca 14y ago

Social CMS built on web2py and Bootstrap and is Open Source

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qconlondon.com 14y ago

Damian Katz's slideshow on Erlang in the Real World

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ti.arc.nasa.gov 14y ago

NASA sent two Nexus S phones to the ISS for SPHERES to test sensors in orbit

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vimeo.com 14y ago

Zenit 2SB Rocket Stage tumbles, .32 second period, caught on 10" Reflector

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ralfvandebergh.startje.be 14y ago

ISS/Space Shuttle/Spaceflight images taken from Earthbound 10 inch telescope

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blog.hackingthought.com 14y ago

Part 2 Dart vs Go vs Python (and PyPy) Performance

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plus.google.com 14y ago

Google Ripples from Vic Gundotra's announcement of Google+ redesign

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vimeo.com 14y ago

Caine's Arcade - 9 year old boy builds arcade out of cardboard, runs a business

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vimeo.com 14y ago

Twitter - Murder Bittorrent Deploy System for a datacenter

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tech.ipstenu.org 14y ago

WordPress Multisite 101 ebook - Free, Author does accept donations

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github.com 14y ago

Yet another Blob Cache library

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www.datacenterknowledge.com 14y ago

Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming

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Companies that speak about certainty and their server being the fastest, need to take the time to make sure it is.

http://simonhf.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/g-wan-versus-sxe-hel... is a benchmark showing sxe, using gwan's benchmark code, as outperforming gwan 1.8x.

Years ago, there were two very fast servers - Zeus and Tux. Tux was a kernel mode accelerator that avoided context switches and Zeus was the de-facto standard of 'fastest userspace webserver'.

Chromium X-15 came along but skipped a few compatibility features, and was labelled 'faster than tux, but in userspace'. Tornado did something similar, very narrow purpose, but, as they started to bolt on all of the pesky RFC stuff, became a top-midline application server.

While GWAN is certainly fast, but not fastest at running its own benchmark, their boasts will ultimately affect public opinion. Language is a barrier - perhaps some of their boastful attitude is merely rough translation.

GWAN's use case basically works around almost every webserver's dream - more cores = odd setups to take advantage of those cores through cpu/irq affinity, etc. GWAN handles that out of the box which is a definite advantage.

If you needed an app to do some calculations and hand back results with the least hardware possible, GWAN would be a top contender. Hardware is still fairly inexpensive that it would take a rather large company that would be able to take true advantage of the cost savings of reducing their hardware outlay based on GWAN's scaling.

Depending on your requirements, each has its benefits and drawbacks. Depending on your architecture, there are versions that are faster than the libc version.

None of the functions you have listed are true equivalents, so, your situation will dictate which you need to use.

  M = 1000 in Roman Numerals
  MM = 1000 1000s, or, 1 million
Years ago, I think it was G. Gordon Liddy that used to refer to billions in a similar manner. i.e. 10 billion dollars was spoken as 10 thousand million so people grasped the enormity of the number.

I submitted a patch for that about 16 months ago, I assume the behavior is intentional or desirable.

Depending on the day, I can get through 2-3 pages of /newest before getting that. I probably miss quite a few decent posts that were entered overnight.

More annoying is typing a response to a comment, only to have it lose the session, you hit back and sometimes the browser tells you to refresh, losing your post. I've gotten burned on that on a few longer replies so, I figure the site prefers more concise answers.

You have a story - you got yourself and your kids well using alternative methods. I'm sure there are sites for home treatment/remedies that would be interested in the story, methods, etc.

Getting in contact means finding those sites that report on related subjects and then contacting the webmasters/editors involved through email, twitter, contact forms, and general networking.

Email is difficult, even when people subscribe, once they get bored with it, rather than unsubscribe they just hit the Report Spam button which makes it difficult to run legitimate lists.

I'm not really familiar with the subject, but, I think you're going to want to start talking with the homeopathic sites and getting links from them. Going direct to affiliate programs in addition to adsense is going to benefit you as well - connectcommerce, linkshare, cj.com, etc. It'll take time to find products that have affiliate links that you're mentioning. Make sure you read the adsense terms carefully. There are restrictions as to what you can run in conjunction.

Are there books you can refer to? bn.com and amazon.com have decent affiliate programs - amazon is a bit easier as you have a lot more than just books that you can promote. If you review books and provide recommendations from your 'library', you might be able to make that work.

However, none of these are short term fixes. And you're probably not in a position to do arbitrage. You might look at the terms that are related to CF and use those keywords to build your articles around.

I don't think you could start today and have a good chance of bringing in much more than $20-$50 in the next 30 days, but, most payouts don't occur until you reach $100, 30 days after the period, etc. which suggests 90-120 days before you would be likely to see a first check.

kickstarter, kiva, gofundme and a number of other sites might also be reasonable.

Kickstarter - perhaps ask for funding to create an alternative/homeopathic CF site. Kiva is a crowdsourced loan site, gofundme is more of a 'donate to this person in need'.

Alternatively, are there health sites that would hire you as an author, or, could you leverage one of those sites as a free contributor and push traffic back to your site?

They do build those for you after you pay the $99 developer fee.

XCode allows you to develop for the emulator for free, but, to deploy on any phone - including yours, it requires membership in their developer program.

You pay the $99 to Apple, then you can associate XCode with a local phone and develop/test your app. You can also get the UDID number from another person's phone, and distribute the app to them to beta test. I believe there is a limit of 25 beta testers + the developer's phone.

You can also use testflightapp.com which has its own SDK and will notify people on updates and has a pretty good customer experience manager built in, allowing you to get feedback from within the app. Apps can be deployed through them for beta or production and you can collect a number of metrics. I've not actually worked with it yet - I'm at roughly the same stage you are and am buying an IPhone today to test my app.

You pay Apple $99 for their developer program, build a package file and release it. With someones UDID, you can have them download the app for testing through the app store.

You can also use https://testflightapp.com/ which has some unique features and a different procedure, but, some very cool tools that go along with it for feedback.

The other day I was thinking, what ever happened to Mz. Glad to see you're still around.

WordPress.org/.com doesn't really allow 'editing' beyond creating a page and setting it as the homepage, selecting templates, etc. Almost all of that should be able to be done through a web/tablet browser. This would be similar to most of the other companies wrapping WPMU as a WordPress hosting option.

WebFTP can be a possible solution if you're on a tablet and don't have proper FTP. Some of the inexpensive paid hosts offer it through their control panel.

I'm not sure how large your existing sites are, but, dropbox and other such avenues exist for making a backup. If you can tar.gz it, some email accounts have somewhat liberal storage allotments and you could mail the sites to yourself as an attachment.

As far as Android friendly, I don't know what would be actually be anti-android. Are you running into Tablet/Browser issues with javascript heavy pages? If so, perhaps one of the alternate sites like posterious (unsure whether Twitter's involvement will kill this) or tumblr will suit your needs.

The problem is that free usually connotes simpler, less flexible services, so, if you're looking for more sophisticated products that are browser manageable, you're probably going to have to put a little cash behind it.

They launched Feb 28th at Superconf.net so, they haven't been open for very long. I do know they have multiple monetization systems for people, but, I think most of their early beta testers are doing the per minute/per half hour/block of time.

In the late 80s, VASCAR was heavily used on I-95 between Baltimore and DC - a route I used to travel a lot. Coming from Baltimore to DC, I was pulled over and given a citation for 67 in a 55 or something similar.

VASCAR is a method that is used with a stopwatch and a simple computer that divides distance travelled by the elapsed time. To avoid too much error, markings on the pavement are usually fixed and marked at a tenth of a mile or a quarter of a mile interval. In this case, they were using the time at which the car left the shadow of a bridge, to two traffic cones on the side of the road on an uphill stretch of I-95 - http://g.co/maps/x6az8

When I got the ticket, I asked two things - how did you know how fast I was going and when did you set up? He answered that they had started writing tickets around 9:45 that morning and the ticket was issued at 2:15 in the afternoon. Instantly, I formed my alibi.

Since we knew that the lines on the street weren't painted, we knew that the sun travelling across the sky would alter the point at which the car came out of the shadow, and, we were using two traffic cones on the side of the road that didn't cast much of a shadow to judge the position of the car. I forget the math based on the time that they measured it, but, it was something on the order of 12-18mph error based on the angle of the sun, time of the year and their setup time versus when I was stopped. I had pictures, a handout showing the math used referencing geometry books with footnotes explaining the sun's positional changes, the distance that the shadow would have moved over that time period, the increasing error throughout the day.

The officer stated that his VASCAR computer had been calibrated and he was a certified operator and all of my math was just mumbo-jumbo. They took a five minute recess - unheard of in traffic court - came back, and issued a not guilty on my case. The judge then asked if anyone else there had received tickets on that date from any of the six or seven officers that had issued tickets, and about 25 people raised their hands - all having their tickets dropped.

In point of fact, he probably was within 3mph of my actual speed as all of my measurements had been done based on a 1/10th of a mile rather than the quarter mile that they had used that day, but, there were a lot of happy people that day. It is a good thing I didn't realize that the cones were set at 1/4 mile, but, there still would have been some error.