stevefink

That's really interesting if it's true. I had never heard this before. Thanks for the tip.

Both my MySQL master (I'm not using RDS) and Redis Master servers are affected and are located in zone us-east-1a.

Cpu0 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 99.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st <-- EBS subsystem is completely unreachable. I/O wait times are tanked across the board for me (I'm in US-EAST-1).

stevefink

14년 전discuss

Are you sure? I have a graph of one of my Resque boxes taking 30Gbit/s of inbound traffic. Looks like a DDoS attack to me.

stevefink

15년 전discuss

The showstopper for us when it came down to whether we will use VPC or not ended up being a no due to lack of support on elastic load balancing:

http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/faqs/#E13

I will certainly revisit this topic when ELB is inevitably available for VPC based customers.

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15년 전discuss

Not really. Like MongoDB, the first four bytes of an ObjectId are a timestamp. That the timestamp is synced with other instances isn't paramount because the actual value of the timestamp does not matter. What does matter is that the timestamp is new and increasing every second. This is to retain sorting capabilities. With the 13 bits that represent the logical shard ID from this article, Instagram will guarantee uniqueness of an ID within the granularity of a second.

stevefink

15년 전discuss

Would be incredible if a PyGame type community can be built, for the Rubyists out there, around this tool. Kudos to this initiative!

stevefink

15년 전discuss

Like StackExchange, I think it would make sense to take this idea and bring a more abstract platform together. Niche communities (such as Ruby on Rails and Founders) can be created based on community involvement and volunteer willingness to help. A premium model can surely follow for certain communities.

stevefink

15년 전discuss

I'm assuming they're getting overwhelmed with traffic after being linked here and other high traffic properties. With only two volunteers on staff, there's only so much you can do. I am sure they are rapidly going to look into adding volunteers if the volume stays persistent (and/or hopefully grows even larger).

stevefink

15년 전discuss

The major distinction here is voice is much more personal and one on one than IRC. IRC can be intimidating for a novice, and let's be quite frank, many times people's IRC persona does not reflect who they are in real life. As someone who's been contributing to major networks such as EFnet for many years now - I've learned IRC can be a great tool for learning, but it can also be downright aggressive and humiliating, particularly to the majority of users who this service would be targeting.

A voice on the other hand is more personal, synchronous and on-demand. I think there's value there and that it's possible to charge for that additional value.

stevefink

15년 전discuss

chap, as I've mentioned before, I think this is yet another great way to contribute to open source. It's not always about writing code - projects like this are just as valuable as someone who works full time on documenting open source projects, writes code or creating user interfaces. thanks for a fresh idea!

stevefink

15년 전discuss

I don't know Fred personally, but from following him on Twitter to being an avid reader of his blog, he comes off far from grumpy. Fred's successful/unsuccessful investments aside - he's been nothing but a class act in all of his talks, tweets, blog postings etc. I think there is a lot to learn from him on a myriad of topics including technology, business, venture capital and more. Pardon my ignorance, but this article is absurd and AdWeek should be ashamed of themselves for posting it.

stevefink

16년 전discuss

Going to trial it now and from the looks of it, I'll also probably be throwing cash at you very shortly. One pain point I find with Finder is that by default when you search, it doesn't search the local folder. Kills usability for me on multiple levels when I have to resort to Terminal.app + find(1).

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16년 전discuss

You will be assigned a new number from AT&T. You will then point your ported (existing) number from Google Voice to the new number AT&T assigns you. Note, if you're currently in contract, you are subject to early termination fees. This is not any different than porting from AT&T to another carrier such as VZW in as far as they are concerned - even if you are simply getting a new number from the same carrier.

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16년 전discuss

While the idea sounds fantastic - the one major hesitation I have is how difficult will it be to get customer support from Google? I've been waiting for this feature for quite sometime, but now I'm seriously reconsidering. Despite the gripes anyone might have with their existing wireless carrier's customer service.. you can get someone on the other end of phone 100% of the time to help you resolve problems. Let's face it, your mobile number these days is probably significantly more involved in your day to day life than your landline (if you even still have one of those). I think twice before placing my mobile number on any provider.

stevefink

16년 전discuss

Kudos to any company working on information overflow. I promise to use your product religiously (and pay for it) if you can solve the problem.

stevefink

16년 전discuss

I wonder how much of that traffic is from folks who ditched Digg?

stevefink

16년 전discuss

Great idea - would just require some sort of moderation in that format though. I'd much rather manage my own list of domains to blacklist. A crowd sourced one I fear could be exploited and prevent me from seeing content I'd otherwise like to be able to find.

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16년 전discuss

Not necessarily a resolution - but I've made myself a promise to watch at least one Khan video a day and work out the problems in the related categories. What an excellent refresher, particularly in mathematics.

I really wish this site was around when I was in high school and college. I'm glad it will be there for my children and I'm certain it will have even more great content than it already has now when they approach the subject matter on this site in their studies.

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16년 전discuss

Haven't had a chance to read the article yet - but I already see where this is going. I essentially lost a chunk of my life from 21 to 23yo playing EverQuest with a guild that was rated one of the best to ever play the game. With that came the caveat of constantly being the first at conquering new expansions, leveling as fast as possible so you CAN conquer the new expansions, and end less other power play moves (questing for keys, blah blah).

Long story short - my life was rather pathetic during these times. I found myself so immersed in the MMORPG world that I'd pick raids and my friends in the game over family/friends for any circumstances. Birthday parties, engagement parties, night out with friends at the bars, hacking all night on something that can potentially change the lives of people one day -- all gone. Zero motivation, zero care in the world except to get that new robe for my necromancer.

I remember my friends would drive by the window and start screaming for me to come out with them for once. I would literally turn off the lights in my room so they couldn't tell if I was home or not. Sad.

We had raids that lasted from 6pm on a Friday night and wouldn't end until 12am on Saturday. Anyone remember Veeshan's Peak in Kunark for EQ? Not only was my social life directly impacted by way of never having a significant other, I wasn't picking up any new programming skills, my family was constantly on my case, and my close friends eventually just stopped calling, they gave up. What was more embarrassing is the once in a blue moon when I would show up some where, the comments were unbearable. "Oh look, Steve decided to join us instead of his MMORPG friends for a change."

I am not exactly sure where I am going with this - but one day when I woke up and saw five empty 2 liter bottles of coke with ten boxes of pizza collecting, lying next to my desk, I was disgusted with myself and my lifestyle. I was over weight. I probably didn't shower as much as I should have. I was disgusted with myself and my lifestyle. I was burning the most crucial years of my life away on something meaningless. These are the times to be learning and exercising your brain beyond its capabilities as learning only gets more difficult through out the ages. I bet most of you were writing bad ass code when you were 21,22,23 and learned a lot faster then than you do now if you're part of the older HN crew.

Given my competitive nature, I was never able to play an MMORPG casually. I had to be #1. Being #1 requires a lot of dedication (ie, time invested), and if you are not willing to put in the time, don't bother, you'll never be as good as the other guy or have the same inventory or capabilities as them. You'll be average at best. I have the sense that a large population of HN does not settle for average given the intelligence of the community.

Long story short, the only escape I had was to go cold turkey. Going cold turkey doesn't mean saying "Ok, I'm not going to login ever again" - that never works out. You always get sucked back in at some point. I had to go the drastic route. I had to sell all of my assets, which sold for $5,000 USD at the time. There was times when I was going through withdrawals and wanted to purchase my account back, but the original buyer refused. Thank god he did.

Saying that this was one of the smartest things I've ever done would be a huge understatement. I've achieved things I'm personally proud of since quitting playing any MMORPG including the following:

- I have a healthy balance of a social life and work life.

- I am respected among my peers for building new technologies/infrastructure out.

  - I got married to the love of my life and had a baby girl with her, which is now the most important person in my life.

  - I have worked at startups where I've learned priceless lessons.

  - I bought a house that I would never be able to afford if I stuck to MMORPGs as my skills were no where near as blossomed as they are now - I'm assuming I'd be working an entry level job somewhere filling in Excel spreadsheets if I kept it up. Even then, I'd be lucky.

Good riddance. Do I still think about the days I played and get a small itch? Sure. I even keep in touch via Facebook with a lot of the people who suffered a similar addiction to me. Will I ever touch another MMORPG? I can guarantee you on my daughter's name that I will never get involved in one again. Fortunately my addiction now includes a healthy balance of time with my family, building awesome technologies, eating right and working out.

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