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Benferhaton SSL + CNAME + static files hosting on GAE: almost free

> Does anyone know of a cheap service

AppEngine would do this for free.

Benferhaton SSL + CNAME + static files hosting on GAE: almost free

You'd want to store them in the blobstore (5GB free storage) [0]. Note that you are not allowed to create multiple GAE apps to stack free quotas (n apps = n * 5GB free blobstore storage) [1].

[0] https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas#Blobstor...

[1] "4.3 Restrictions. Customer will not, and will not allow third parties under its control to: " ... "(e) create multiple Applications or Accounts to simulate or act as a single Application or Account (respectively) or otherwise access the Service in a manner intended to avoid incurring Fees;" https://developers.google.com/appengine/terms scroll down to 4.3(e)

Benferhaton Expected arrival times for Apple products

It's called eBay.

Benferhaton Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?

Sadly, it's the only clue I have as to why my form's submit button isn't working.

Benferhaton Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?

It would be great if it was easier to debug errors like this:

    [12:11:02.525] Empty string passed to getElementById(). @ https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js:3

Especially when Firefox throws the error and Chromium doesn't.

Benferhaton Issue 8788 - Every day around 9 AM Brussels time, huge drop in GAE performance

The Master/Slave datastore has been deprecated for almost a year. [0] Beyond the latency issues, it simply wasn't reliable; both reads and writes were failing way too often. I'm glad GAE is focusing its resources on the HRD.

[0] http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/04/masterslave-data...

Benferhaton Ask HN: What's Your Personal Website Stack?

I'd just host it on Google AppEngine for free and forget about it. You won't see enough traffic to go over the free quota.

Benferhaton Extend Falcon Pro's Token limit

> Economics 101: If you know that there is a limit to the number of customers you can support, why not scale the price the price up as demand for your product increases to curb that demand?

So you can get press like this. Duh.

Benferhaton Textmate and Sublime Text online theme editor

Excellent work, and gorgeous implementation!

Benferhaton BBC demands DRM for HTML5

> The fact is, if it's trivial to clone data to the point that regular users can do it (Napster, etc)

It's already trivial for regular users to download pirated data, even if only experts can get around the DRM to copy and release it[0] in the first place.

Case in point: House of Cards. Fully, freely and easily available to Joe The Pirate Next Door Schmoe, now that some nerd (TRIC? BTN? ASAP? Immerse?) has gotten around Netflix's DRM.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene#Release_procedure

Benferhaton Stupid, Stupid xBox

I hate the Xbox 360 because they make it so hard to stream video to it. What the hell, Microsoft? The PS3 is a great DLNA renderer right out of the box.

Benferhaton The State of LTE

Thanks for the tutorial rec, a client wants me to implement visual statistical analyses of what's going on in his business, and I could use these. All his data is in a proprietary dental office database (Patterson EagleSoft), and I was just thinking that D3 would be perfect for this project once I get it out of there.

P.S., Some of the scripts on the OpenSignal page could be moved from <head> to the end of <body>; other than that, it looks good!

Benferhaton J.J. Abrams, Valve in talks for game and Half-Life or Portal film

If it's anything like Portal: No Escape (Live Action Short Film by Dan Trachtenberg)[0], I think the Portal movie could be quite successful.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drucg1A6Xk

Benferhaton Host webpages on Google Drive

Same goes for cdnjs, jsdelivr, bootstrapcdn, etc.

Benferhaton Netflix releases House of Cards

Leaked on usenet after six hours.

Benferhaton Show HN: Markdown + LaTeX math in the browser

Same here with Chromium (23.0.1271.97-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)

Benferhaton Super Bowl to handle 30,000 Wi-Fi users, sniff out “rogue devices”

One person with WifiKill[0] is going to spoil it for everyone.

[0] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282900

Benferhaton Netflix releases House of Cards

Over/under on how long Netflix's DRM [0] will keep it from showing up on usenet or torrents?

I'm watching the British version, it's a pretty entertaining political drama. Something like Dallas set in the British government. Sadly, it's not widescreen.

[0] http://www.defectivebydesign.org/topic/netflix

Benferhaton It is ridiculously easy to refactor Go

Off-topic: I had to use Readability[0] to make your blog readable.

[0] http://www.readability.com/shorten

Benferhaton Triumphant motel owner slams Carmen Ortiz

Thanks for the info; respect.

Benferhaton New Bootstrap switches

I like them, but the animations make no sense. The words shouldn't move.

Benferhaton Triumphant motel owner slams Carmen Ortiz

Branding it "isolationism" is a Fox News trick, which allowed people to quickly and easily dismiss Ron Paul as nonsensical.

Benferhaton Securing Ubuntu

> If, however, your goal was introducing securing an Ubuntu box to relative newbies, by which I mean people who are quite familiar on the Linux command line (like me) but lack specific knowledge about networking, iptables and the tools of the trade (again, like me), your article should have been way way longer than it is :) Or maybe not longer necessarily, but way more in-depth. Maybe a series, even (that would be awesome, but perhaps a lot of work, I'm not saying you should put in a lot of time that you maybe don't have, just that what you do write ought to be optimal for the effort put in ;) ).

Recommend any good articles?

Benferhaton Ask HN: Which developer laptop should I buy?

Wait for the upcoming WQHD Samsung Series 9. [0]

[0] http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/31/samsung-series%209-wqhd-u...

Benferhaton Google Quietly Explains AppEngine's Downtime Last Week

Google App Engine is Down (code.google.com) 74 points by gagan2020 5 days ago

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5061506

Benferhaton Go concurrency patterns

Nice find! Although, he doesn't really answer the question, which had to be asked more than once in that video. I'd love to see a talk going in-depth on this topic alone.

Benferhaton My Top Sublime Text 2 Plugins

I'd love to see that, too! Jon's been putting out updates way too fast [0] to be able to keep that up forever, though. The API[1] is good enough that generations of plugins could be considered future versions. I'm glad it's successful enough that he can afford a vacation.

[0] https://www.sublimetext.com/dev

[1] http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/api_reference.html

Benferhaton Google App Engine is Down

Valid points, all affected by the fact that GAE is open source. [0] [1]

[0] https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/source/browse/#svn...

[1] https://code.google.com/p/appengine-go/source/browse/

Benferhaton How Apple sets its prices

My last ASUS laptop fell apart on me. The Zenbook Prime is sexy, though.

Benferhaton Google App Engine is Down

Bazinga! But below the belt, given the circumstances. I'd like to encourage engineers like Zafir to make themselves available to us (outside of google groups) more often.