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You never had a 9600 baud modem - you probably had a 9600 bps modem. Which was 2400 baud :p
/pedantic
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Commented Aug 9, 2012 on I Was a Teenage Hacker at Coding Horror
I Was a Teenage Hacker
Twenty-four years ago today, I had a very bad day. On August 8, 1988, I was a senior in high school. I was working my after school and weekend job at Safeway as a cashier, when the store manager suddenly walked over and said I better stop ringing up customers and talk to my mother on the stor...
Using a CDN is incredibly easy - much more so than some of the other tips.
NetDNA have a very cheap and easy to use solution for smaller sites called MaxCDN. It's around $40 for a year or 1000GB whichever happens first (various discounts around).
This allows two types of CDN to be setup:
pull (i.e. you just give your site a new name (e.g. images-origin.damieng.com) and make MaxCDN the old name (images.damieng.com) and tell it what you named your origin and it does all the magic.
push - this basically acts as an FTP/SFTP server you upload files to directly. It's best used for larger downloads where the time it would take the CDN to get it from your site would be a negative impact.
[)amien
Commented Jun 21, 2011 on Performance is a Feature at Coding Horror
Performance is a Feature
We've always put a heavy emphasis on performance at Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange. Not just because we're performance wonks (guilty!), but because we think speed is a competitive advantage. There's plenty of experimental data proving that the slower your website loads and displays, the less...
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