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Comment · 3 years ago
Congrats Philip on hitting #1 on Hacker News! Great piece of work!
Comment · 4 years ago
Kind of, but you'll have to take the scenic route (long distance trains IC/EC/ICE are not included).
Comment · 5 years ago
What's it with the perpetual reposting of meaningless rants like that? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=yager.io
Comment · 8 years ago
I doubt that this is a genuine hijacking attempt. All it takes is a Cisco router and some IT admin making up an address.
Comment · 11 years ago
That is just a different way of saying their (DSL) customers are their product, not their customers.
Comment · 11 years ago
Provided "who you want" wants to peer with you. Peering is a mutual relationship after all.
Comment · 11 years ago
While that is certainly true, that is not what I meant. For one, it's very cheap to reach such exchanges for companies like Hetzner, because they usually operate their data centers on the same campus, to safe exactly on that backhaul cost to the exchange. By implication all the ISPs are expected to extend their network into these facilities to pick up traffic. While it's true that some ISPs operate big POPs near exchanges, it's not where their customers are. And both users and data center operators rightfully expect a professionally built network with redundancy etc. In that respect it's not necessarily unfair that they charge for the traffic. (While it is certainly unfair that they don't upgrade their connections to extort outrageous prices from other market participants and what's much worse to contain internet growth on a large scale, which is why Germany is a fairly under-developed country in terms of internet connectivity).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_...
But also, people who work for exchange point operators are the only ones left flying business class in the telecom industry. At the same time public exchanges are a single point of failure in the network that one should(!) design around anyway. There are much cleaner solutions you can design into a network at a fraction of that cost.
Comment · 11 years ago
This reflects only the peering capacity available for public peering and only what has been documented by each ISP for that network. Private peerings (that are direct connections to another network) are much much more cost-effective and easier to scale for a large ISP. In any case you can safely assume that DTAGs peering capacity by far exceeds one or the other Tbit, but it's also far from being sufficient capacity after all. They may also be the largest ISP in Germany by user count, while other metrics may vary ;).
Comment · 11 years ago
The most important point the author is missing is code readability - being forced to write opinionated code is one thing. Having a chance to read somebody elses code (or your own code 3 months later) and avoiding eternal debate on code formatting is priceless. Programming is not about being able to outsmart others, in particular not in a large-scale project.
Comment · 12 years ago
Curious why someone who still uses CVS in 2014 would cheer about dropping sendmail support.
Comment · 12 years ago
At least with Chrome you can install the Daltonize! plugin. That plugin even has a "simulation" mode to help color-visible to see how your page looks like to (some of) the colorblind out there.