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stoked··on Ask HN: what do you use for instant/asynchronous communication?
Which xmpp client do you use?
stoked··on Scaling out Postgres, Part 1: Partitioning
Thanks for the summary.
stoked··on Scaling out Postgres, Part 1: Partitioning
What were the reasons for moving away from MongoDB?
stoked··on Watch the Olympics from anywhere: this actually works
I did something similar to watch hulu from Canada awhile back but I had split tunnelling disabled where all traffic goes through the vpn so no messing around with static routes and ips. Also setup a local DNS cache on the VPS and configured openvpn to use the VPS DNS cache when connected. CDN's generally use the ip of the DNS request to determine where to direct your browser to download the media, static host entries would avoid the DNS request though. I no longer have it setup, but I do have my config backed up somewhere. If someone's interested I'll look for it.
stoked··on Why Android isn't gaining on Apple in the Enterprise
The fragmentation mentioned in the article to me highlights one of the main reasons why enterprises shy away from Android. On iOS, there is ONE email/calendar client with a known set of features/limitations. On android, almost every manufacturer has their own email client and their varying feature sets and bugs are not documented anywhere. For example: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4760 How many posts in there are from google employees stating that it's not their problem because the email client the person is complaining about isn't written by google?
stoked··on Largest Email Marketing Firm, Epsilon Hacked. Big Name Customers Exposed.
Anyone find details as to how Epsilon was compromised?
stoked··on Cloud Ping
The locations are based on airport codes.
stoked··on $45M in VC funding later, Goodmail Systems shuts down
I had some discussions with Goodmail late last year about potentially using their service. We send a decent amount of mail via custom qmail servers. For us, it was a chicken and egg problem, Goodmail obviously required a maximum complaint rate but on the flip side higher complaint clients would be the ones most interested in the service. Our low complaint clients were already hitting the inbox and Goodmail didn't seem to justify the extra effort and cost to drive better engagement.
stoked··on 120hz Television "Smoothing" Must Die
That was the original push, but lots of manufacturers botched the implementation. For example, some would apply 3:2 pulldown to 60hz and then double it instead of 5:5 pulldown. Nowadays 240hz are all the rage making movies look like a cheap karaoke video.
stoked··on Rate my startup - Slowcop - measure your website's speed
I've been using http://www.webpagetest.org which is pretty well known in WPO circles. It's not as "pretty" as your site, but offers more features like recording video, Dynatrace recordings, firstview vs 2ndview, etc.
stoked··on Dispelling the New SSL Myth
IE/XP browser support is what held me back when I was looking at SNI. SNI would have definitely made a migration to Amazon AWS more compelling. Without SNI, every unique SSL certificate = unique external ip = unique EC2 instance.
stoked··on Dispelling the New SSL Myth
Does anyone actually use SNI? Looked into it but browser support would exclude ANY IE version on Windows XP which is pretty significant. Android and BB browsers also don't support it.