Andys

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by Andys 16y ago
Thats my point - its very useful with SSDs, because you don't need all the RAM, because SSD is so fast at random seek.
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by Andys 16y ago
Its data dedupe feature is only really fast enough to use on SSDs
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by Andys 16y ago
The AWS business model is to sell shared hosting on commodity hardware. Cloud is a cool buzzword but it is still sharing hardware. Cheap, commodity hardware is the magic that lets you scale up so big and so fast for a highly accessible pr
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by Andys 16y ago
In other words, they're a commodity, and pretty much all the same no matter who makes it.
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by Andys 16y ago
You have to care to be embarrassed. Imagine if this much effort had gone into 1.9.2 instead?
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by Andys 16y ago
The good: the announced chips support 64-bit, visualization, and ECC, 8MB cache, and plenty of PCIe lanes. Decent clock speeds topping out at almost 4GHz. The bad: Maximum 32GB ram. Only a single CPU socket supported per system. Next yea
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Intel's Ultra Low-Voltage Chips for Micro-Servers(xbitlabs.com)
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by Andys 16y ago
Side note: you are supposed to regularly clean your solar panel glass to keep it at peak efficiency.
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by Andys 16y ago
Real disruption won't come until ARM create (edit: design) a real general purpose, mainstream 64-bit processor.
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by Andys 16y ago
There's a danger that Intel will continue to chase high profit sectors and stagnate technically due to lack of competition there. The gap between what is technically achievable and what we get today in x86 processors has been widening for
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by Andys 16y ago
I tried Netbook edition on my original Acer Aspire One and found it be slow and clunky - worse than plain Ubuntu. Not a good thing for something supposed to be for netbooks. Have now settled on plain Ubuntu 10.10 with the top task bar move
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by Andys 16y ago
No idea, but it'd be nice for the onus to be on the patent holder to prove something was copied.
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by Andys 16y ago
Not quite. Hammer lets you look up the state of a file at any given timestamp. ZFS makes you take snapshots regularly and then lets you look at the state of the file at a given snapshot.
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by Andys 16y ago
Only if it supports "rm -R"
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by Andys 16y ago
I think he meant user interface complexity, not code base.
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by Andys 16y ago
All its telling me is that I want a whole OS based on the Github model. I like the feel of working on github, I'd like to take the RVM/rubygems/github theme and extend it past Ruby, to the whole OS and its package manager.
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by Andys 16y ago
the snapshot idea has been implemented in DragonflyBSD's HammerFS
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by Andys 16y ago
except they have "tablet" somewhere in their name
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by Andys 16y ago
Is there any reason this Craiglist app couldn't be a web app?
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by Andys 16y ago
In FreeBSD, it is extent-based, so a 300MB process might actually only have a couple dozen maps - heap, stack, program binary, and whatever dynamically loaded libraries. I'd be shocked if it wasn't the same in linux.
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by Andys 16y ago
This is the dark side of startups that require no capital expenditure. Easy come, easy go.
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by Andys 16y ago
You can thank ongoing long-term enterprise and government contracts for that, to the tune of over a billion a year.
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by Andys 16y ago
"Battery life is about 18-20 hours on one charge"
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by Andys 16y ago
Ability to play stream of audio computed on the fly in JS, is the only thing stopping the demo scene from starting all over again in the browser.
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by Andys 16y ago
This same argument is why I still have it in for Apple, despite their current success in consumer electronics. The Apple I know is the one from the 1990s who had things locked down so tightly, hardware and software, bit loyal developers who
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by Andys 16y ago
Nokia has been trying "innovation and overwhelmingly superior products" for years? could have fooled me..
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by Andys 16y ago
Alternatively, check out the many excellent alternatives to Sennheiser's high-end cans, eg. from AKG, Denon, Beyerdynamic and Grado, where your dollar also pays for better build quality than Sennheiser.
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by Andys 16y ago
Good spot to observe how OpenID doesn't make people any less likely to bother logging in
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by Andys 16y ago
Manufacturing cost is ALL about the volume. You can make a device cost half as much if you buy 10x the volume, and half as much again for 100x
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by Andys 16y ago
I think software industry is slowly headed this way: that there will come a point when you cannot let a member of the public use something based on your code without you being a licensed SE.

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