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blog.digitalocean.com 6y ago

DigitalOcean closes $300M bank debt financing

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stripe.com 7y ago

Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10

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blog.linode.com 7y ago

Linode GPU Instances

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blog.usejournal.com 7y ago

When Your Startup Fails

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blog.usejournal.com 7y ago

When Your Startup Fails

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blog.heroku.com 8y ago

Scaling Ipify to 30B+ requests/month (Node, Go, Heroku)

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mruby.sh 9y ago

Shopify's $500,000 in mruby bug bounties

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medium.com 9y ago

How a designer learned to code and released a Mac app in 4 months

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medium.com 9y ago

Instapaper outage post-mortem

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medium.com 9y ago

How I burned $10M so you don't have to

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medium.com 9y ago

Why we raised our SaaS prices

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www.macworld.com 9y ago

Disable third-party cookies as a hedge against a new browser-based attack

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medium.com 10y ago

Mobile ads and trackers on NYPost.com

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www.macworld.com 11y ago

New 12“ MacBook review

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www.polygon.com 11y ago

The $10M story of Crossy Road

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www.theverge.com 11y ago

Anatomy of a hack

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arstechnica.com 11y ago

Superfish CEO: “Superfish software does not present a security risk”

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twitter.com 11y ago

Lenovo “uninstall” instructions leave behind Superfish root certificate

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medium.com 11y ago

How to ask users for iOS permissions

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chocolatapp.com 11y ago

Chocolat text editor for OS X hits v3

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www.theverge.com 11y ago

When 911 calls fail

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www.wired.com 11y ago

Want to Go Viral? It’ll Take a Lot More Work Than You Think

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www.cnn.com 12y ago

More context on the SWAT team and the 2-year old

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www1.skysports.com 12y ago

How Mercedes' turbo gives them an edge in F1

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www.theverge.com 12y ago

White house petitioned to deport the Biebs

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www.postgresql.org 12y ago

Postgresql maintenance release fixes replication issue

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www.evernote.com 13y ago

Heroku about to raise their pricing?

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www.rassoc.com 13y ago

Zero to PostgreSQL streaming replication in 10 mins

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www.barefeats.com 13y ago

13" retina MacBook Pro performance (vs 15" rMBP and 13" MBA)

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nick.typepad.com 14y ago

Screw the power users

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Is there any sort of dynamic range compression available with Apple Podcasts? I've looked around, but can't seem to find anything. I find it especially necessary when listening in the car, so I've been using Overcast...

This is the point - Apple doesn't have that information either. From the article, in the "How Private Relay works" section:

when you browse the web in Safari, no single party — not even Apple — can see both who you are and what sites you're visiting.

Somewhat OT - but from their FAQ they say they're targeting a price of $200M for the Overture. I'm certainly no expert, but this feels to some extent a bargain given the capability. Capacity 55-75 passengers. A few data points for comparison (all of these approximate of course, with multiple variants available of each):

Airbus A220 - $90M

Airbus A320neo - $110M

Boeing 787 - $140M

Boeing 777 - $320M

Airbus A350 - $325M

Gulfstream G700 - $75M

All of these can of course carry more passengers (except the Gulfstream), but assuming it's somewhat efficient from a fuel perspective, and assuming an airline could sell ~60 business class seats on each leg, I'm optimistic for them - cutting your trip time in half is certainly something to brag about.

For reference, as an example, a British Airways 787-9 used for transatlantic routes seats 8 first, 42 business, 39 premium economy, and 127 economy.

FYI, 1Password doesn’t force you to use their cloud service. Even if you subscribe (as opposed to standalone), you still don’t have to actually use it. I switched from an older standalone version to the current subscription version, but I’m not using their cloud service to sync my vault.

Stripe Capital 7 years ago

Purely out of curiosity - and you may not be able to, or may not want to answer - but how does a company like Stripe structure this sort of business? Are you making loans right out of your working capital, or do you have separate debt obligations of your own to cover these, or something else? I would imagine this sort of thing is regulated somehow, but I don’t really know... would love to hear whatever you can share!

Not sure why you’re being downvoted so hard - while I think your list of requirements perhaps aren’t the right ones, I like the idea in general. Have a process where I can make assurances of some form that we’re good guys, and treat me accordingly.

Have they said how traffic will be routed? If I'm in, say, the US, and I'm connecting to a web site in Australia, would the satellite I'm connected to send my traffic to a terrestrial router near me, and let it traverse from there via regular ground links to Australia? Or would my traffic travel via satellite to a terrestrial router near the destination?

From Electrek [1]: A Tesla spokesperson has reportedly commented on Nikkei’s report:

“We will of course continue to make new investments in Gigafactory 1, as needed,”

Update: In a comment to Electrek, Tesla exapnded:

“We will of course continue to make new investments in Gigafactory 1, as needed. However, we think there is far more output to be gained from improving existing production equipment than was previously estimated.”

[1] https://electrek.co/2019/04/11/tesla-panasonic-suspend-inves...

Well, while I appreciate you coming here to clarify, and waiving charges for 2019 sounds nice, there’s nothing in that post that says those charges won’t come into effect for the long term.

I guess I personally would want more color on that whole post-2019 egress situation before committing to using the service. That’s just me, though!

Love this new offering. What I don’t love is they are charging for egress bandwidth ($0.01/GB), even in the same data center [1]. I can understand it for outbound to internet or other data centers, but this is hard to swallow for the same facility.

Hopefully DO will reconsider this!

It also makes me wonder if all access to these databases is via the public network. I’m guessing so.

[1] https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/1096087824066101248

Don't understand this comment - seems to me Apple spends a _lot_. From their Q1 financial statement, cost of sales ("buying stuff and services") is $52.3B, and R&D and admin expenses are $8.7B. I think it's fair to say $61B is a "significant" amount they're spending during the quarter...

The only problem I ran into with the old Radar was a situation where a card was declined, and the customer contacted his bank to clear it up. The bank said they had no idea, they didn't decline the charge. When I followed up with Stripe, turns out Stripe declined the charge, and it never got to the bank.

Is there a way to tell when this happens in the Dashboard? There wasn't at the time, but I'm hoping this is maybe now visible somehow? It's obviously helpful to know when trying to help a customer resolve the situation.

SpaceX BFR [video] 9 years ago

I think you're off by about a factor of 5. For example, United Airlines unrestricted full fare (Y class), NYC-SHA one way, is a bit over $3800.

Not exactly a balanced source there - there is definitely some bias from the author showing through. But the comments on that post - yikes! So much anti-EV FUD in certain communities.

When I see people with these crazy flights of fancy throwing away perfectly good opportunities to work and build incrementally to their dream lives, it makes me a little sad.

I think you're making an assumption here that your "dream life" is a destination. Which is a perfectly rational way of thinking.

But, alternatively, your dream life could instead be the journey. So, perhaps, rather than working at a job today to make your dreams come true later, maybe your dream instead is to do what you love today, and let the future take care of itself.

Not saying either is right or wrong - I know many people in each camp. Just saying there's two ways of thinking about it.

Pistol sights 9 years ago

I would presume the tradeoff here is slower acquisition - if you're not on target, it likely requires more brainpower to _get_ on target. With goalpost sights, it's far easier to be misaligned, but you can't "lose" the target. (disclaimer - I've never used a peephole sight, so this is all speculation on my part!)

Cloud Firewalls 9 years ago

Sometimes software like Docker (in certain network configurations) will use iptables for its own purposes, clobbering some of your own iptables rules. Having an external firewall for access control is super advantageous in cases like this.