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Comment · 10 years ago
I don’t do alarms, just timers, but my site does it like this: http://5.minutestocountdown.com/

One nice benefit of doing the number first in the url is that the second time you set a timer you can just type a single number and url autocomplete will fill in the rest for you.

Comment · 10 years ago
Still no ipv6 for S3?
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Comment · 11 years ago
Back when I was running a disposable email service called dodgeit.com I settled on a similar approach. I would just have postfix drop the mail in Maildir style files, then had a perl script parse the messages one by one. I didn't even call it from cron--it would just finish traversing then start over again after sleeping for a second. This effectively scaled to thousands of messages an hour on a single dedicated host.

I played around with a number of approaches, like the author here. But the one that just trusted the mail daemon to do its thing and the Linux filesystem to do its thing worked best for me.

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Lots of companies already trust AWS and host various services there. Many of those companies might not trust your git servers to be up and running 24/7 with Amazon-like SLAs.
Comment · 11 years ago
That is very cool. Any chance a company could run that tool on premises? I think there is a market for that.
Comment · 11 years ago
"When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."
Comment · 11 years ago
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by Irvine. Pay attention and you will see this book come up time and time again on HN. I have reread multiple times.
Comment · 11 years ago
>More than 39M Americans Only Have Access to 1 Wired Broadband Provider

And those who have more than 1 are served by an oligopoly who overcharge for mediocre (at best) service.

Are the few cities with municipal broadband or Google Fiber seeing better service and prices?

Comment · 11 years ago
I love the http://nextdraft.com/ daily email. Short paragraph summaries of the day's news, funny, and with links if you want to read more.
Comment · 12 years ago
A stats service for new websites that notifies you when interesting things happen on your website.

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