jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Preventing Unsubscribes in Forwarded Emails
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jspaur | 13 years ago | on: ForgeJS launches first full stack JavaScript development school in Seattle
If you're from the area I could see that. I'm pretty confident the Hub Seattle is part of a larger network: http://www.the-hub.net/
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: ForgeJS launches first full stack JavaScript development school in Seattle
Good to see this sort of thing picking up in Seattle. The Hub is a great space (of which we're members). To anyone going to these, ping me (contact info in profile), and your first beer is on TryPaper (we have nothing to do with this event but love meeting fellow hackers!)
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Stackify Launches Free CertAlert.me Service to Monitor SSL Certificates
hah, i did the same thing this weekend :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5281794
care to merge these?
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: I built a SSL expiration notifier
shoot me a message (info in my profile) and I'll double check for you.
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: I built a SSL expiration notifier
Right now I check every two weeks, with checking every day inside of 90 days. I'm thinking about increasing this to be every 3-4 days though. Thoughts?
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Windows Azure Storage certificate expired?
Ouch, we saw a similar thing in the South when things went sideways late last year. We've taken a similar approach to Sql Azure, use DataSync to replicate to offsite warm instances.
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Windows Azure Storage certificate expired?
We do have a failure plan (and ironically enough were actively working on improving storage resiliency, this just hit us before we were able to deploy it)
That being said, there unfortunately is always a level 'sitting on hands' in events like this. If you're in dev you rely on your operations people (and vicea versa). You put your best people on it and continue to go on the best you can.
All that being said, a fired rill just for the sake of doing something may cause more harm than good. If a rollover plan takes 2 hours (switch DNS, migrate data, test, stabilize, etc.) a) often times that'll take longer than the original issue requires to be resolved and b) you'll run into new issues in your new location (maybe environmental, maybe not)
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Windows Azure Storage certificate expired?
We use Azure pretty seriously and overall, we really like it. We went with the MSFT stack due to some of our low level code to deal with printing. That being said, it's had it's share of outages, but honestly no less than if we were racking and stacking our own machines. The most frustrating thing though (with any cloud provider really) is that if it goes down all you can do is sit and wait...atleast if its our fault we feel like we're in control.
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Windows Azure Storage certificate expired?
Any info on Sql Azure being down a whole day? We didn't see anything. This issue on the other hand, a real bummer.
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Amazon Responds To Outage, Confirms Offline For 49 Mins
But less than 4k in profit....wow those are some thin margins overall.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28Amazon+profit%2F+%28...
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: One Billion Heartbeats
This would be a fun one to work through. If 100 hours of working out reduced your heart rate by 1bpm (I have no idea if this is true, just sounds plausible), but during workouts you increased your BPM by 20%, where is the equilibrium?
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Don’t believe everything you read
MSFT has stated multiple times that their goal is over the lifespan of the hardware to break even on it. (So 1mil units at -200 and 10mil units with at +20)
How this works with devices such as Kinect though I'm not sure. It's about attachment rates (extra controllers, batteries, etc.) on the hardware side
Then the software side has fairly obvious goals.
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Windows Phone Error Message Tells Users To Insert CD And Restart Computer
The guy was flashing his phone and ran into issues. Kinda cool to see it using that much of the Windows code base (kernel and bootmanager atleast)
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Top 50 U.S. Patent Assignees of 2012
More suprising to me is Canon @ #3 and MSFT @ #6. Is there really that much going on in the optics space right now?
And MSFT with 2600+ patents, I'd have to imagine a lot of it is software (with some hardware maybe around Kinect and out of MSR)
edit: quick link to source - http://ificlaims.com/index.php?page=misc_top_50_2012
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Proposition HN: I will build your MVP if you pay me $8000 + 50% equity
Can you imagine the poor accountant who has to figure out the taxes?
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Proposition HN: I will build your MVP if you pay me $8000 + 50% equity
I give you 50% of my company which only owns 50% of the parent? ;) (just incase it isn't obvious....i'm not actually planning on taking this up just joking around a little)
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Proposition HN: I will build your MVP if you pay me $8000 + 50% equity
So I pitch the idea to the original offer (5037694) and get buy in. Then give you the 5k. I give you 50% of my 50% and I get 25% of the resulting company for acting as the idea broker. Hmmm ;)
(just attempting to 'hack' this trend)
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Mapping the Census: A Dot for Every Person
I imagine these correspond to highways. I did a similar thing a while back with postal codes and their density. I don't know why I was so blown away, but I was. Take the West Coast for example: http://i.imgur.com/WBzWG.png
jspaur | 13 years ago | on: Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.
I'd second this. I've found that VM's (especially Windows) run even more reliably than what I had on EC2 (sometimes the machines just got soooo slow on EC2 for no apparent reason)
Appears to work with Outlook.com/Hotmail, and Gmail. Not sure about Yahoo, but those two alone cover a pretty big group.