Ross Duggan

What Hacker News says?

1. duggan · 2024-04-06

   One that springs to mind is one I "started" on Friday, but other people finished on Saturday[1]. Started in quotes because my contribution was combining an existing project that was about to fail due to capacity issues with the infinite botnet of AWS spot instances and the power of Hacker News. It's more than a decade ago now, but I think it's a good example of a project with a simple goal that enabled people to get…

   Comment linking /blog/code/archiveteam-yahoo-messages-followup-success/

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2. duggan · 2013-03-23

   Submitted ArchiveTeam + Yahoo Messages Shuttering + EC2 Spot Instances = MegaCrawl as a story · 74 points

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3. duggan · 2011-07-24

   I wrote a similar post last year ( http://rossduggan.ie/blog/codetry/extracting-information-fro... ); it's one of those things you can't believe you worked without before. Easily one of the best tools in a developer's arsenal.

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4. duggan · 2011-08-20

   Submitted Bots are crawling new domain registrations and namesquatting Twitter handles as a story · 66 points

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5. duggan · 2012-10-15

   Here is an incredibly lengthly argument which tries to be more balanced: http://rossduggan.ie/blog/infrastructure/cloud-vs-metal-infr... Jeff is glossing over a lot. If you're already massively invested in hardware, in terms of people, processes and hardware, then you could argue that cloud architecture is less valuable in the general case, otherwise, it's usually no contest.

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6. duggan · 2012-04-10

   Submitted Starting with Arduino (Musical Floppy Drives!) as a story · 13 points

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7. duggan · 2012-01-24

   I've no idea what your constraints are, but splitting the index into more manageable chunks, writing to multiple masters and reading from n slaves off each is an approach that has worked quite well for me (40 million plus records, big lumps of user generated content, total index about 100 GB iirc). You sacrifice on the accuracy of IDF+, but gain some robustness as result too. If the BitTorrent approach doesn't work…

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   on “Turbocharging Solr Index Replication with BitTorrent”
8. duggan · 2013-01-15

   Submitted Naming things as a story · 5 points

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9. duggan · 2013-03-04

   Submitted Naming things as a story · 4 points

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10. jeggers5 · 2011-06-24

    Submitted Get Windows 7 onto a USB stick w/ Ubuntu as a story · 4 points

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11. Kudos · 2013-05-11

    Submitted Pivoting Yourself as a story · 3 points

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12. duggan · 2013-03-26

    Submitted Shell blindness as a story · 3 points

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13. duggan · 2012-07-03

    Submitted Cloud vs Metal Infrastructure as a story · 3 points

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14. duggan · 2013-03-28

    Submitted ArchiveTeam Yahoo Messages Followup: Success as a story · 2 points

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15. duggan · 2012-10-24

    Submitted Using gems to package polyglot CLI tools as a story · 2 points

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16. EamonLeonard · 2014-07-22

    Submitted The (web) Skills of Leonardo da Vinci as a story · 1 points

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17. duggan · 2013-04-04

    Submitted Cloud vs Metal Infrastructure as a story · 1 points

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18. duggan · 2013-03-18

    Submitted Programming is not my idea of “fun” as a story · 1 points

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