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sporkmonger

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About sporkmonger

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/sporkmonger; my proof: https://keybase.io/sporkmonger/sigs/zz-ud5CeOxxHJoTgnuSoKTNgWzIJEQUEYz8dSFN1ZWo ]

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    Comment #43500939

    Quite a few years ago, I led a migration off from a legacy logging provider that offered little more than full text search over unstructured text. Logging at the time was somewhere…

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    Comment #13840300

    Give Pruitt a few weeks. :-P

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    Comment #10949015

    So basically don't use this if you care enough about security to pin your certificates.

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    Comment #9699853

    There's also the committee factor. Google doesn't hire/no-hire based just on one person's opinion. If half your committee says, "90% of our engineers use his thing!" and the other …

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    Comment #8606576

    Also the non-Chrome version of Android Gingerbread's browser lacks SNI support.

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    Comment #7240570

    I used 0.0005 BTC (~5kb), but you're absolutely right that a simple transaction is substantially cheaper. My assumption here is that as the economy grows, due to the underlying tec…

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    Comment #7240445

    Fair enough. That said, I know of small businesses that are charged vastly larger %s going through a merchant account, etc (like nearly double what Square/Stripe charge) so I don't…

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    Comment #7240407

    Completely agree that my post is ignoring those things. The post is an extremely forward looking one. Bitcoin could crash and burn before anyone gets a chance to implement somethin…

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    Comment #7240350

    I used credit card transactions rates published by Stripe for the table. Square's pricing is pretty similar, though they don't have a '+ X cents' for non-manually entered transacti…

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    Comment #4057489

    FWIW, Chris Dibona's record response time to a request I've made to open source a project was somewhere on the order of seconds. Maybe 10 seconds I think. It was like he had his fi…