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mircea_popescu: "A key growth hack we developed was
the ability
to show different headlines for social and search so we didn’t impact our search
traffic."
mircea_popescu: but gotta appreciate
the "shared hosting for idiots
thinking
themselves corporate"
thing. myths never die! INFINITE BANDWIDTH!!1
mircea_popescu: you could have bought
that and driven it
to a ytmnd for all
the good
they do anyone.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile,
the
thing's just been buying
those spammy "related stories from across
the net" slots. which... whatever.
TRAFIC!
mircea_popescu: "The amazing
thing about
the platform is
that it is a flat fee.
This means
that although our
traffic has grown 350% year on year our costs have not changed.
The depth of
their out of
the box features plus ecosystem of plugins ensured
that we did’t have
to worry about commodity features such as SEO, site maps and editorial workflows as someone else had built and open sourced an approach."
mircea_popescu: "We also migrated
to
the hosted platform as a service provided by Automattic on vip.wordpress.com.
This enabled all of our costs and resources
to be focused on growth as
they didn’t have
to worry about caching, servers or anything
that didn’t improve experience for our readers or editorial users. "
assbot: Logged on 14-03-2015 04:11:17; mircea_popescu: you should prolly get in
the wot.
funkenstein_: you can
totally
trust me. i can
take a picture of myself licking a hammer.
funkenstein_: based on how long it's
taken me
to find my way over here I am going
to be a slow learner so
thanks in advance for your patience
funkenstein_: can i just say
this is
the first
time i've been on
television?
mircea_popescu: interesting : he
tries
to fight obscurity, going
to extreme lengths
to put a spotlight on himself
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ^ chgeck it out,
the internet breaks a little more.
mircea_popescu: the kicker, of course, being "She seems
to
think
that professional careers require flawless writing ability, which I don't feel is
the case."
mircea_popescu: leaving aside
the "reddit principally exists as source of pre-spun spam
text, because
the cult of bayesianism really does work", jesus christ check out
that life history.
assbot: My wife has a useless degree and a history of mall jobs. Any advice
to de-rutify her? : careerguidance ... (
http://bit.ly/1GDMbuD )
ben_vulpes: "solemnly promise
to not introduce personal expenses" etc etc
ben_vulpes: pretty much all req'd
to hedge against famine months
mircea_popescu: wait, i
thought her fucking
tupac was public knowledge.
ben_vulpes: i've been waiting for you
to come around
mircea_popescu: "Please use
the comments
to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure
to create straw men and argue against
things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer
the conversation into irrelevant, off
topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . .
mircea_popescu: lol i remember when she was
teaching leterman wardrobe
terms
mircea_popescu: "We don’t
think of bitcoin as being [...] an alternative currency [...]. We
think of it as a medium for exchange"
ben_vulpes: trinque was bitching earlier
today about getting a 418
TEAPOT from a production point of sale system
ben_vulpes: tbf i'm more likely
to get fucked into quiescence
than vice versa
ben_vulpes: lady v returns from
travels
tomorrow noon pst, so i'll likely be unavailable
though
the pm.
cazalla: i should be able
to let you know whether it is or not by
this
time
tmw
ben_vulpes: if you find
that
this is *not* a ram issue, i'll provide you ssh access
to a
thing on which you can run a bitcoind.
cazalla: as long as it doesn't blow it
to over say 100gb, i can help, i have some older machines here
too if of any use
ben_vulpes: that'll have
to come from my heirs legacy.
ben_vulpes: cazalla: you'll not be on
the hook for b/w.
ben_vulpes: unlike some people i'm willing
to
train male slaves.
cazalla: well, what would you need me
to do and is it bandwidth intensive?
cazalla: ben_vulpes, unfortunately, i need a lot of hand holding as i can only get so far myself so i would likely cause you more
trouble
than be of help
cazalla: i'll go buy a cheap stick of ram
tmw and
try again
cazalla: i'll fuck around with
the pogo and hopefully learn a
thing or
two,
that but
that aside, what are odds shitty ram is cause of my problems.. memtest86 cites errors and i actually did have a couple blackouts a month back
ben_vulpes: aws bill was insane for last
three months
cazalla: well
that's why i have a pogo otw
ben_vulpes: please don't make me build and
test more bitcoinds
mircea_popescu: this is what i meant : while
the
thing's not necessarily useful, at least it's
trying.
ben_vulpes: Are you going
to argue with Bruce Schneier? I didn't
think so. << amazing pedigree
cazalla: over
the past few days i've
tried a fresh install with 0.8.3, 0.8.6 and 0.10.0 and all have problems, and yes fresh as in fresh as i wiped hdd each
time
cazalla: it's about 8gb of blocks which i downloaded using 0.8.6
the other day
ben_vulpes: was
that a fresh sync or using an old blockchain?
cazalla: ben_vulpes, confident nothing in
there, but even if
there was, i have nothing more
than bitcents on machine connected
to internet
ben_vulpes: OMIT any potentially sensitive data
there.
ben_vulpes: and you're certain you know
the contents of
that logline?
ben_vulpes: twould be real funny if
there were privkeys in
that log statement.
cazalla: what's AddToWallet, should i snip
that from log before putting on dpaste?
ben_vulpes: cazalla:
this needs proving and reproduction.
cazalla: not
that i was
trying
to use 0.10.0,
that was just a last resort past few days
ben_vulpes: well codified,
thank you mircea_popescu.
cazalla: anyway, point i was
trying
to make last night was drunk, bad decision or not, i have done
this many
times over past year and it would always get a full chain after a day, but can't since 0.10.0 came out
mircea_popescu: just assign costs
to cpu/bw usage, and price
to information obtained, and
there you go
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ideally it'd have a performance based model, where it sorts
the connections according
to a "value", periodically kicking
the bottom one and
taking a new one in
cazalla: i actually have older chain here on external hdd so im copying
that over, it isn't a full one either
though, i believe it is from other day when
trying 0.8.6 so will
try soon
ben_vulpes: not
the hardcoded list, but
the list of candidates constructed at/during runtime from which a node may consider downloading blocks.
cazalla: ben_vulpes, can't at
this
time, chain and client i have half done here atm is 0.10.0 from when i got frustrated and decided
to see if
this work, it didn't get
to
that blockheight
mircea_popescu: dude, we went over
this.
the list is strictly made out of wot nodes. nothing else.
ben_vulpes: and
to
tag
this with
the 'block download'
thread: nodes
that misbehave like
this must be booted from
the dl candidate list.
ben_vulpes is not opening up cpp
tonight, will run from flawed meatram