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cd34 | 12 years ago | on: New Nasa Website

nasa.gov has never resolved.

only www.nasa.gov which redirects to notice.usa.gov

cd34 | 14 years ago | on: What makes something secure?

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.

cd34 | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Preferred string copy function in C?

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.

cd34 | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why does MM denote millions of dollars? 

  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.

cd34 | 14 years ago | on: A link back to the HN front page on the dead link page?

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.

cd34 | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: What would you do to monetize this?

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.

cd34 | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: What would you do to monetize this?

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?

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