Hacker News: AJ72

Amazon: Data-Driven Management Can Also Be Compassionate

AJ72 — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:41:42 +0000

Article URL: https://hbr.org/2015/08/data-driven-management-can-also-be-compassionate?utm_campaign=Socialflow&utm_source=Socialflow&utm_medium=Tweet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10121797

Points: 1

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US Senate Passes Freedom Act

AJ72 — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 08:08:30 +0000

Article URL: https://news.vice.com/article/senate-approves-major-changes-to-surveillance-laws-in-passing-usa-freedom-act?utm_source=vicenewstwitter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9651198

Points: 2

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Net is 'less free and more unequal' says Tim Berners-Lee

AJ72 — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 22:47:38 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30432487

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8737489

Points: 3

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Cutting the High Cost of Prison Phone Calls

AJ72 — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 06:07:06 +0000

Article URL: https://news.vice.com/article/cutting-the-high-cost-of-prison-phone-calls-could-also-reduce-reoffender-rates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425521

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Uber banned in Germany

AJ72 — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 07:34:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.citymetric.com/uber-banned-germany

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261888

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Getting Started with Spree, Wombat and Ninefold

AJ72 — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:32:12 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.benmorgan.io/post/95144946546/getting-started-with-spree-wombat-and-ninefold

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8210392

Points: 7

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New comment by AJ72 in "The New Heroku Postgres Database Experience"

AJ72 — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 18:45:53 +0000

Heroku needs to open source the testing (UPDATE: and data) it has used to claim 3X performance.

Adding a single graph for a $2000/mo DB, only performing read only transactions at 30% of its connection limit doesn't sound like putting the DB through its paces, and not real world.

New comment by AJ72 in "Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto – Ruby.Next Live Stream (7:30pm PDT)"

AJ72 — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 02:02:21 +0000

It's great to see Matz investing time with the community whenever he is in town. And a nice bonus to have it streamed

V for Vibe: A weekly roundup of cool stuff by Toby Hede

AJ72 — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:40:48 +0000

Article URL: https://ninefold.com/blog/2014/07/11/vibe-is-go/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8021083

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Magento Go is Shutting Down on February 1, 2015

AJ72 — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:11:01 +0000

Article URL: http://go.magento.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7980658

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by AJ72 in "Low Cost EC2 Instances With Burstable Performance"

AJ72 — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 19:57:34 +0000

I would replace 'super interesting' with 'Super complex'. It's an example of how you can make the price of a $10-40/mo server complex to the extent that you need to read the blog post numerous times before you understand the construct.

And even then, one still needs to factor in the 'other' costs like I/O or IOPs, disk (persistent/EBS), IPs, internet and inter-region data transfer… before you understand the real cost.

And then you need to compare to other instance types (which soon will cover the full alphabet -- c, cg, cr, g, h, i, m, r, t… ) and then other providers.

You still have several unresolved issue -

1. Are your assumption on usage (cpu, I/O, internet etc) correct? Will they change? 2. How do I compare performance across providers for a given VM specification. 3. Can I get support when I need it?

And I am sure there are others

It certainly means there is room for other players who just make it simple, whether they are infrastructure folk (like DO/Linode etc) or platform plays that make the pricing understandable by the audience they are trying to target (like Heroku/Ninefold)

New comment by AJ72 in "Goodbye Heroku"

AJ72 — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:22:37 +0000

Depends on your use case. Advantage is around performance, and that you don't have to focus on the devops part of deployments that Capistrano requires. You get full access to servers & free SSL for rails apps. Strong engineering support.

New comment by AJ72 in "Goodbye Heroku"

AJ72 — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:23:16 +0000

If you have a Rails App, you should consider Ninefold.com. You deploy direct from Github (or your Git Repo) and can have a VPS in the same security group if you need a utility box.

Clari Scoops $20m – It's all about mobile

AJ72 — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 22:30:54 +0000

Article URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/06/17/clari-scoops-20m-because-mobile-delivers-all-the-things/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7907434

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by AJ72 in "Do you one of startup lovers and don't know how to become successful?"

AJ72 — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:17:43 +0000

The embedded image in the article crystallizes everything. I wish I could repost it in the comments.

New comment by AJ72 in "The Game of Startups: Are You Playing to Win?: Multifaceted"

AJ72 — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:13:14 +0000

What Sean has done with Spree reinforces how powerful the Ruby-on-rails open source community is in developing complex code. The challenge is to keep on top of the changing e-commerce landscape and demands of end users. Ultimately a e-commerce site/platform is only as good as its ability to close out a shopping cart transaction.

New comment by AJ72 in "Docker comes preloaded on Ninefold"

AJ72 — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:47:32 +0000

Its interesting that Docker was not discussed at RailsConf (Chicago April 2014). While its easy to conclude that Docker is more DevOps than Dev, it may also reflect how quickly Docker has moved from being non-production grade to being 1.0 this week

What Programmers Say vs. What They Mean

AJ72 — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 21:53:26 +0000

Article URL: http://imgur.com/M5wl14r

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7836709

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

KPN: Global Mobile Roaming Hub Accessible from the Internet

AJ72 — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:02:06 +0000

Article URL: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCMQqQIoADAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.networkworld.com%2Fnews%2F2014%2F053014-global-mobile-roaming-hub-accessible-282094.html&ei=X7uMU9bHFcLaoATOj4KIDQ&usg=AFQjCNEnvah9rdmg7V1l6ozrYveK2whktA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7834837

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Google bows to EU privacy ruling

AJ72 — Fri, 30 May 2014 06:29:25 +0000

Article URL: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/b827b658-e708-11e3-88be-00144feabdc0.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7820542

Points: 39

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