efalcao

Hi, I work on this team at Cloudflare. We've been sending email for years via our free email routing product and email sending is built on top of the same infrastructure, code and knowledge.

Hit a million dollar ticket! BRB going to buy lottery tickets!

I do think that the degree of coordination needed is reduced with increased frequency of deployment.

Mentally, I imagine an airport and there's a number of planes that need to be landed in a week. What requires more coordination: an airport that is open 24/7 and planes land when they arrive (continuous deployment) or an airport that is only open 1 hour a week?

Congestion drives the need for coordination. Or, put another way, when there is low or no congestion, sequencing through time is a sufficient form of coordination.

There was a great talk on this at Google I/O 2013. Recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsbLEtS0uls

mind. blown.

can anyone help me understand why the chain of signed/hashed values is important? Is it all about tampering?

No Godwin

I think the author is making the point that the simple act of buying the bonds is accomplishing their goal.

They don't care what the return is, they just want to offload dollars. If you don't care about the return, then something is not an investment - the quality of the borrower (based on their ability/history of repayment) is moot.

CNN iReport. Not verified at all.

Best hair ever

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Meh. Safari's only utility on OS X is to install Chrome. IE fills that role on the Windows systems.

Even as an American, border patrol officers scare the crap out of me. I'm totally worried about stumbling on some dumb question and getting detained.

I'll never forget my return from Mexico on the day before 9/11 where I was greeted by a border patrol agent with piercing blue eyes, leather gloves with cut-off tips and a big nasty snot bubble protruding from his right nostril.

I don't understand why the methodology is flawed: the objective isn't to price N servers. The objective is to serve all the load at the best price. If you need 131 during peak and 20 during off-peak and can not pay for the delta- yay!

My company works in the media space and I love EC2- during the week our loads are low but when it's Superbowl Sunday or the GRAMMYs, the ability to spin up capacity is huge. But the fact that I'm _not_ paying for that capacity 24/7 is even bigger.

His claims barely put him in the upper quartile. Being debt free is not a 1% thing....sorry pal.

In 2005, making 250k a year doesn't even put you in the top 1% of household incomes in the US.

RIMM down about 20% today: http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:RIMM

"co-CEO" ....makes me lul everytime

looks like the "X-Phx:true" header is required. Phx must be "Phoenix" which is the code name for the new twitter.com interface

It's very interesting to think about cases where digital darlings have "killed jobs."

Before: Thousands of jobs all over the country working for the classified section of a newspaper. Marginally profitable business.

After: Craigslist destroys that whole market. Tons of jobs lost and the revenues shift to one company. Hugely profitable business, but probably a smaller total market than used to exist with just newspapers.

Should we feel bad about it? Hell no. Are we marginally worse off? Maybe?

Yeah, I like the premise of the article and feel that technological innovation does kill jobs (and it's not a bad thing).

That being said, I feel like I got a big build up to a solution and it's like "share and make things and distribute online" uhhhh ok? Etsy is the solution?

Provocative thinking though...

Thanks so much!

FWIW, this was an intense project to pull off. 1000's of tweets per minute from Twitter, 8000 requests per second on http://askobama.twitter.com (where the same tweet was also delivered by us and rendered correctly).

We're not lazy or sloppy... It basically boiled down to one server sent down the right header...the production one didn't.

Unicode issues are sorta in the class of "gotcha" issue. They happen, you go "oh shit" and fix them right away. Our "oh shit" moment just happened to come at the most intense possible moment....in front of the president, with so many watching.

Wanted to reiterate once again: We're Hiring! @efalcao on twitter. Early stage startup looking for exceptional talent.

Hey I work for the company responsible for the visualization behind the president and the content on http://askobama.twitter.com

Let me take this very excellent opportunity to say that we are looking to hire a full time "front end" developer. You'll get to work on badass projects like the Obama Town Hall. Ideally, you'd be located in Austin. Find me on Twitter @efalcao to learn more.

I think the actual mortality rate is closer to 2%. I don't know if that changes your opinion at all. Frankly, I feel that even at 2% mortality, it's a pretty selfish act if anybody else depends on you.

As entrepreneurs, our big "risky" returns come from investing in our businesses. In order to counterbalance that, my opinion is to be very conservative with your cash.

Keep it liquid and safe- earning 4% safely seems fine to me these days. FOREX and Gold are scary.

+1 for Chalchiuhtotoliq - Precious Night Turkey

I've got twin babies of 15 months, a full time job and bootstrapping a business. There is only one rule for me: keep your priorities straight. Here are my priorities

#1: Family / Relationship #2: Work #3: Business #4: Personal Time / Relaxation #5: Side Work / Consulting

Am I the only one detecting a "frowning on education" theme on hacker news lately?

I don't necessarily disagree, but it seems like there has been an article a day about "should i go to college", "the diminishing value of a degree", etc.

Is something that the country is focusing on right now or is it hacker news specific?

I recommend http://www.gooeytemplates.com/

They are simple and cheap. A good starting point. They even have a free one I think.

I've long wondered how ITA got their raw data, especially when they were just starting. Does anyone have any insight?

what do you mean by "high traffic classifieds?" Are you referring to some kind of technological superiority over the alternatives? Does high traffic mean anything to your users? Just wondering.