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ekiara

30 karma · joined August 17, 2010

Software developer. I build things on the web with Python, Javascript and Go.
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ekiara··on AppFog Changes Pricing Plan
I assume you mean 'VPS' right? Anyway I'm curious as to what you use, I've heard good things about RamNode and Digital Ocean, but I've not yet tested, the only VPS provider I have experience with is Linode (two 512MB Linodes for a few years now)
ekiara··on Watch what you store on SkyDrive–you may lose your Microsoft life
Since SkyDrive no longer has a restricted list of filetypes allowed for upload. How hard would it be to only upload encrypted files?

A neat solution would be a client side utility that encrypts local files (or entire folders/tarballs) with gpg, generates checksums, splits them into 2048KB or 1024KB chunks and uploads those to SkyDrive. The downside is that there would have to be some sort of management/database locally (and on every machine you wanted to download the files to) that would keep track of which chunks make up which file and rebuilds everything when you download them.

ekiara··on A better way to search YouTube for music
A nice feature to add would be a highlighted or bold title for the official music video. Youtube video titles are often misleading, sometimes titles even include "Official" when they are actually dubstep remixes or cover versions.

I honestly can't think of how this could be automated though. Maybe integrate some sort of crowd-curation with Official videos being verified by users of the site.

ekiara··on Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
OFF TOPIC: But I'm glad they've opened up their "eligible-country" list to include many more countries (including my own). Finally I can test-run Azure without having to use any dubious means like setting up a free US phone number to receive an SMS on.
ekiara··on Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Sounds like a great idea, though the naming is a bit unfortunate, there might be some confusion between the Git hosting and collaboration application: beanstalkapp.com.
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