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Not sure if it quite fits the bill, but if your end user video uploads are stored on S3 or similar then zencoder does most of what you are looking for.

I came across this product recently: https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-1 which is seeking crowd funding at the moment. Personally I think they've made a mistake by …

There is no god.

This particular setup can/will leak cookies set on foo.tld to ads.foo.tld which leads to security concerns - only in your specific example though. If you were to use www.foo.tld an…

capitalism just isn't ready for prime time

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Tech Crunch is a news source? When did that happen?

For anyone familiar with the principles of personal finance and investing, my trick was unimpressive and easily reproducible: Just spend much less than you earn and pour the differ…

Could you elaborate on the "network by default" point? I've been programming for 18 years and my professional network is pathetic. Any problems I have I research online - my networ…

Is there any other (realistic) way of doing it though? EDIT: I added realistic, as not just anybody can get venture capital or have rich friends/family willing to invest a little.

i just like quiet and solitude. people are so noisy and they are always talking and asking so many questions. and some of them despise quiet so much that they will fill any silent …

Or ReGrub - which has the awesome advantage(?) of being "burger" backwards ...

"If you're using a bootstrap as your front-end framework, then why the element isn't customized in my just as the standard bootstrap dropdowns !?!" You're not using a element in yo…

The main sentiment behind MMM has always seemed to be "get a really high paying job and work your ass off for a few years". It doesn't really work if you are stuck in an average wa…

Possibly a stupid question, but ... Can anybody explain to me the use case for Bower/Yeoman? Whenever I am adding javascript to a website I just use a cdn such as http://cdnjs.com/…

I keep getting "[fail] Proof of work not calculated" as my Public Key

Phage Therapy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

Meh. Posting because this type of story irks me every time. I know I am a decent programmer. I also know I am not a good sales person (why? because I'm not good with people, or lyi…

Indeed. Miley Cyrus was robbed.

Levarage -> Leverage

'Lets put qr codes on "welcome to $town" signs than when someone scans them with their phone, its loads a website advertising various things you can do/buy/participate in around to…

I have approx 6 months salary saved. I used to have more, but some home emergencies meant I had to eat into some of my savings recently. The government here decided that pursuing a…

The potential gap in my mortgage payments is what keep me working in a job I hate.

I've been in a similar position for the last 3 years (of a 9 year stint at current company), and your story does resonate with me. I am bored at what I do all day long and have los…