Andys

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by Andys 15y ago
Because the #1 priority is to make programming, not loading rails, enjoyable. And there can't be two #1 priorities.
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by Andys 15y ago
Except they aren't selling much, which is why the USD value keeps going up.
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by Andys 15y ago
So you're saying its like the housing market?
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by Andys 15y ago
Actually, in my experience, read-ahead into cache is what the OS does NOT handle for you. To get file-level read ahead in *nix you need to use normal IO syscalls. mmap is only suitable for completely random IO.
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by Andys 15y ago
Apparently Atom-based smartphones and tablets are still "coming soon any day now"
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Intel Announces 14nm, 22nm Atom Chips Officially(xbitlabs.com)
31 points by Andys 15y ago|14 comments
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by Andys 16y ago
This might work better where people have their own offices with doors that close. Where I work we are all in one room and so constantly sharing banter on and off all day.
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by Andys 16y ago
Some iPhoners have said consumers were preferring to buy iPhones because they are somehow superior. I think that the masses really just want to buy the new hotness. They want what the other guy has.
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by Andys 16y ago
Nice job. I went into Applications on my phone and did a "Clear Data" for the location service, and now the app crashes on startup. I assume this is because the file has been deleted.
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by Andys 16y ago
It appears that you can also delete it by doing a "Clear Data" for the location service in Settings application list.
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by Andys 16y ago
I've discovered through a bunch of similar lessons that buying really good hardware and hosting yourself sometimes requires the least amount of your time of any option. It provides a stable base on which to build additional redundancy such
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by Andys 16y ago
The seagate hybrid drive is a scam; it scores worse on some benchmarks than seagate's own normal laptop HDD. It also only uses the cache for reads, and not writes. Writes is where the magic happens! If I wanted more read cache I'd just get
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by Andys 16y ago
http://remote-jobs.com/
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by Andys 16y ago
Good point: the article's style reeks of artificial scarcity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity
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by Andys 16y ago
Isn't the idea that you can run it locally?
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by Andys 16y ago
Nothing wrong with it, but it isn't mediocrity. This is only the top small % of small businesses. The rest have an incessant daily struggle to pay the rent and staff wages.
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by Andys 16y ago
Amen. There's no way I ever do this in a real code base without checking that the result is what I intended.
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by Andys 16y ago
"It's still under a very early stage, so there is no way to test even a Beta."
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by Andys 16y ago
I hate it when this happens. ESXi is excellent, I think one of the best x86 kernels in existence. The management software is nowhere near on par with it; it is finicky Windows software that doesn't match the hypervisor's speed or reliabili
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by Andys 16y ago
> shared-hosting is so 1996 Shared hosting is now called "Multi-tenant", and that is how Heroku, Google Appengine, Windows Azure and other multi-tenant PaaS hosters work. Their thousands of users don't seem to mind.
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by Andys 16y ago
I'd use off the shelf consumer hardware. High density Supermicro chassis with SAS uplinks back to a single server. 2+TB consumer low-power disks. Software raid (eg. ZFS) to manage it all. And finally, host it a site office or low-grade
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by Andys 16y ago
Funny, thats the same argument ("feels like a ripoff") that stops me buying Apple hardware.
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by Andys 16y ago
The embedded Atom platform they've used has a total of four 1X pci-express channels. Despite this they've fitted two mPCI ports, two 1X PCIe slots, four 1G ethernet ports, and 2 SATA ports. So I doubt the ability of this platform to even b
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by Andys 16y ago
Hopefully this is not an April Fools joke: http://soekris.com/net6501.htm
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by Andys 16y ago
Pretty basic stuff, but unfortunately when these errors are made in real life, they are sometimes very hard-to-catch heisenbugs.
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by Andys 16y ago
The fact they provided two cars says a lot about what they thought might happen to just one car.
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by Andys 16y ago
Talk about taking the long view! While you're watching that I'll watch the rain making a new valley outside my window.
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by Andys 16y ago
Try Dolphin Mini
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by Andys 16y ago
As an aussie I can't say I'm surprised. The police hardly have time for a stolen car anymore, let alone a laptop.
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by Andys 16y ago
Perhaps a more pertinent question: Is it any better than LZJB or LZO?

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