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See above. Also, please don't scan sites that aren't your own - you won't be able to see results anyway.
Why bother scanning before ownership is verified then?
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I'll answer in reverse order: > Also need to consider how long it will take me to download back those pic once they decide to shutdown the "free" service. This is an incredibly good point, both in terms of bandwidth considerations (particularly their ratelimiting) and in terms of products randomly disappearing with limited takeout windows. FWIW, https://get.google.com/albumarchive/ UID> will net you takeout archives…
22 PB = total Youtube data need for last two year. 1/2 TB per user (like me) 22PB = 44,000 users. Google need 1000 times that space in their data centers to handle 44 million users. Also, I might think those 1/2 TB of data are very valuable, But only a few of them are interesting to a few of my friends, family members. They are probably very hard to monetize. Even for myself, I only browse them may a few times every…
As for BackBlaze, also a medium-large business, they're now storing... https://www.backblaze.com/blog/200-petabytes-of-customer-dat...
Both IA and BackBlaze are private/nontraded, which means have they have lower operating capital. Diskspace is simply not that expensive now.
There's a guy on a DC++ filesharing server (find a server list - it's one of the biggest ones) who has been sharing 400TB of data for some time. Speaking of DC++, most newer clients show the total shared data for all users connected to the server you're on, and that number on some of those larger servers is usually 1-2PB.
I also saw a guy on reddit a while back who was in exactly the right place at the right time when his workplace was upgrading, and he now has a nice $200/mo electricity bill in the form of, you guessed it, 400TB of diskspace. I'm not sure if he got it all for free, but I think he may have.
So it's not a money problem; it's a space problem and a power problem. This is why flash storage is so interesting, it generates less heat and can be packed somewhat more densely, and it uses less power too. Once Flash-vs-platter hits the 49%/51% in terms of relative cost things are going to get interesting.
At the moment the major retailers are just doing simple things like firmware customizations to run their disks at lower speeds (for nearline storage) or start up with the disk off and stuff like that. Facebook's cold storage datacenters also use Reed-Solomon encoding instead of RAID/ZFS for redundancy at less used space.
I actually do think Google have actually done the kinds of allocations you speak of, using thin provisioning; after all, literally every new Google account gets 15GB of diskspace! And then there's sync profile data, whatever internal metadata is associated with the account (such as your search history), etc, that needs to be stored too.
I fully believe Google have multiple exabyte-scale datacenters. If they don't I'll be genuinely surprised.
Using thin provisioning (which is ultimately just "how much are they really using, and how can we encourage them not to use more than X") is how they manage it.
So you're right - actually provisioning enough free storage for these users would definitely be an unpleasant task. But they carefully balance what everyone uses with what they have available.
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Tried this and it looked really interesting, but I didn't keep it because there was no Android support. Do you have an android version yet? I remember it styled links as well as body text which I found pretty annoying.
We do! Our Firefox/Fennec plugin is now available [1] and is free. It's not quite as polished as iOS, since it's our first version. There's also an epub reader that has integrated BeeLine into their app. It's called ReadMe! [2] and it works with any DRM-free epubs. It's available on Android/iOS. We do color all body text, including links. To make it clear what is a link, we always underline them. If we reverted links…
I can't remember why it bugged me that links were being styled too, just that I was. So I'll drop something in the forum or whatever after I've had another go! :)
I did a Show HN for Roll20 right after launching: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4532754 We now have almost 2 million users and a small team working on it full-time. I definitely originally thought it would only be a side project...
I did not put "Show HN" in the title when I posted Redis here, but an HN post was the first announcement I did.
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We do! Our Firefox/Fennec plugin is now available [1] and is free. It's not quite as polished as iOS, since it's our first version. There's also an epub reader that has integrated BeeLine into their app. It's called ReadMe! [2] and it works with any DRM-free epubs. It's available on Android/iOS. We do color all body text, including links. To make it clear what is a link, we always underline them. If we reverted links…
Neat, I'll give them a go and take another look. It'll take a miracle to get me off MoonReaderPro though! I can't remember why it bugged me that links were being styled too, just that I was. So I'll drop something in the forum or whatever after I've had another go! :)
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Google photos is better for that.
But one has to make sure they subscribe to the paid plan, because Google offers free unlimited storage only if you let them resize/compress the photos. Which is something I refuse. Anyway, Dropbox wins on the OS-level integration, which also doubles as a bullshit- and hassle-free way to transfer files between your devices. But well, at this point I'm a paying customer of both Dropbox and Google because I run out of f…
- Dropbox aggressively suggests to create a new account to recipients,
- She's unknowledgable, so when a popup appears, she assumes it's mandatory. Hence she installed Dropbox without wanting it on her phone and PC and couldn't understand why so many steps are required to download a few photos. Also, "why does it try to upload all my folders ?!?" hence the spammy/virus impression.
- Dropbox sends an Android notification for every upload, which is both annoying and worrying to her, because she doesn't want her private life to go online.
I always assumed the mass went with Dropbox. Turns out the first example I see from that audience thinks it's a virus. Big lesson of user experience here.
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But one has to make sure they subscribe to the paid plan, because Google offers free unlimited storage only if you let them resize/compress the photos. Which is something I refuse. Anyway, Dropbox wins on the OS-level integration, which also doubles as a bullshit- and hassle-free way to transfer files between your devices. But well, at this point I'm a paying customer of both Dropbox and Google because I run out of f…
My sister refuses to receives photos by Dropbox because, she says, it's less usable than WeTransfer and it looks like a virus to her. When sitting with her, I noticed: - Dropbox aggressively suggests to create a new account to recipients, - She's unknowledgable, so when a popup appears, she assumes it's mandatory. Hence she installed Dropbox without wanting it on her phone and PC and couldn't understand why so many s…
It seems that any good business, in its quest to grow, will eventually start making annoying and user-hostile things. Dropbox definitely was cleaner and better in the past than it is now. It's a story I repeated by company after company - they reach peak quality, and instead of leaving things as they are, they have to "innovate" in more and more crap.
I'm one of the earlier users of Dropbox, so I still have a "Public" folder with an ability to create direct links to uploaded files. They've turned this feature off for new accounts some time ago - I guess because people started using Dropbox as a CDN. Still, it's one of its most useful features for me. I use the "Public" folder almost every time I want to transfer some files people - it lets the recipient avoid all that popups and captive forms bullshit.
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I'm not associated with redis, but I do use it daily. It's basically just a really good in memory db. You can use it for almost anything, from job queues, to message brokering, to session storage. Check out the different language clients, find you language of choice and read about how to fire it up and try it out https://redis.io/clients .
I love redis but I would recommend message brokering be done by something built specifically for the task, like rabbit-mq.
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Neat, I'll give them a go and take another look. It'll take a miracle to get me off MoonReaderPro though! I can't remember why it bugged me that links were being styled too, just that I was. So I'll drop something in the forum or whatever after I've had another go! :)
we'd love to work with MoonReader also!
He's at moondownload.com if you want to start talking - it gets an amazing amount of updates for an app I thought feature complete about 4 years ago!