defcon84's comments

On: 🌉

[defcon84]

Win7/Chrome doesn't render it.. Outlook 2010 (rss reader) does :)

On: Why are butterflies colored? (Interference)

[defcon84]

tl;dr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4I9mmd-2Rc

On: Google was down for 15 minutes (+/- from 09:35 UTC)

[defcon84]

Down in .nl too

On: Google acknowledges XKCD #1361

[defcon84]

http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=txt%3agoogle-publ...

very cool :)

On: We did a Show HN and it landed on the front page of Hacker News

[defcon84]

Maybe it has something to do with the 15 second delay between the click on the play button and the actual start of the video.. unacceptable these days imho. Nice read thou :)

On: Circuit Breaker

[defcon84]

I like the Circuit Breaker as a stability pattern. It is also explained very good in "Release It!" by Michael T. Nygard ( http://pragprog.com/book/mnee/release-it )

[tigeba → defcon84]

"Release It!" is a great book. Netflix has also written a bit on this subject. http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/12/making-netflix-api-more-...

[dalke → defcon84]

Which Martin Fowler points out at the end of the first paragraph. ;)

On: Mt.Gox put announce for mtgox acq here

[defcon84]

Dear MtGox Customers,

In the event of recent news reports and the potential repercussions on MtGox's operations and the market, a decision was taken to close all transactions for the time being in order to protect the site and our users. We will be closely monitoring the situation and will react accordingly.

Best regards, MtGox Team

On: 4 million songs on Spotify have never been played. Let’s change that

[defcon84]

i only get Indian music :p

[jessevanhouten → defcon84]

Getting mainly german schlagers here

[nyrina → jessevanhouten]

Mexican music here.

[hoektoe → nyrina]

Service Unavailable music here

[honestcoyote → hoektoe]

I love that stuff.

The 404's playing their 808's, buzzing happily into oblivion.

[retrogradeorbit → hoektoe]

"Download Spotify" music here.

[struct → defcon84]

Seem to be getting lots of obscure 70s Chinese funk [1]

[1] https://play.spotify.com/album/3JZwG20VxZxNr5mgjYMlw0

[hrkristian → defcon84]

I actually hit gold first time around, Dorothy Shay - Blah Blah Blah

On: Revive the Postal Service by making it a bank

[defcon84]

The Belgian Postal Bank is like that too: http://www.bpost.be/en/index.html

On: How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username

[defcon84]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7141532