Andys

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US lawmakers bring in worldwide censorship laws(techeye.net)
2 points by Andys 16y ago|0 comments
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by Andys 16y ago
Agreed! I think this is one of the worst things a company can do. They shouldn't be able to do it without harming their reputation.
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by Andys 16y ago
I believe btrfs comes with Ubuntu 10.10
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by Andys 16y ago
I was using it, but stopped. It mostly worked as advertised: a proxy to a true multi-master postgresql setup. If one of the masters went down, the application wouldn't even notice, and pgPool correctly handled rolling back a transaction
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by Andys 16y ago
Its never happened to me before, but I've seen it happen. It isn't about loyalty, its about trust. Once you've quit and then flip-flopped once, the boss can't really trust you not to do it again and again. The boss wants stability.
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by Andys 16y ago
Phase III Boss: You're fired. We just offered you more $$ temporarily so we could have time to find a replacement because we no longer trust you after you quit the first time.
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by Andys 16y ago
Rails has always been very MySQL-centric, probably because 37S & DHH use it for Basecamp. Perhaps now that PostgreSQL v9.0 has built in master/slave replication they will finally make the switch.
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by Andys 16y ago
Is this not the same argument people used to keep using PHP?
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by Andys 16y ago
My back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that a hardware-based key value store (custom chips driving DRAM plus ethernet interfaces in a 1RU chassis), would use so much less power than an average x86 server that you could charge a great p
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by Andys 16y ago
For sure... Atom is one of Intel's most backward products, which has received the smallest investment out of nearly all of their CPU lines. They have the capability to scale it much much higher, if there's a market for it.
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by Andys 16y ago
Hardware key/value store appliances is a great startup idea.
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by Andys 16y ago
Those sorts of phone services are already available...
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by Andys 16y ago
For what its worth, Server 10.04 boots dramatically faster than 8.04. I've been able to reboot a VM in under 10 seconds (timed from typing "reboot" to getting a login prompt again) The main reason to upgrade Server, though, is to get acces
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by Andys 16y ago
PHK has a history of smash hits; he is responsible for much of the work on FreeBSD's container-based virtualisation (jails), modular disk device framework (Geom), & disk encryption (gbde).
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by Andys 16y ago
It was too bloated, among other things
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by Andys 16y ago
> The no cell data while in a call is a CDMA issue, not a phone issue. Yes, I have successfully browsed the web in the middle of a call, using 3G(HSPA) on my G1.
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by Andys 16y ago
1. You can kill a consumer-grade SSD surprisingly quickly if its being hammered with writes all day in a server. (Or at least, you can exceed the manufacturer's recommendations, and do you really want to do that in a server?) 2. SSD should
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by Andys 16y ago
The manufacturer's claim probably only applies to a fresh unused SSD.
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by Andys 16y ago
ps. I should add that I really don't use BSD much anymore. The reason is that ease of administration and wider driver support is more important to me than purity of development, and neatness of the user-land. For that reason I'm using Ubun
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by Andys 16y ago
They have a different development model which is not as Linus-centric. The user-land and kernel ship together as a more tightly integrated package. In terms of performance, I found that the linux kernel is often optimised for bandwidth at t
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by Andys 16y ago
How long would it take, exactly, to increment a uint128 until it overflows?
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by Andys 16y ago
Another piano player here. My take is that you don't need scales to enjoy music. But you will also never be at the level of the greats.
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by Andys 16y ago
ZFS boot support didn't really have a bearing on scaling up large FreeBSD storage servers. It is standard practice for various reasons to have a seperate RAID (or SSD) for booting large fileservers. OpenSolaris had so many restrictions on
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by Andys 16y ago
I read that spec differently: 96MB of L4 per board (6 sockets/24 cores per board), and up to 16 boards in one machine. So the amount of cache, is vast, but not exactly shared equally between all sockets.
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by Andys 16y ago
Its quite common where I work (Australia) for people to carry two phones: a work-supplied phone (often a Blackberry or cheap Nokia) and a personal phone (often an iPhone).
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by Andys 16y ago
Not really: for example, if/else statements are not expressions whose results can be assigned to a variable like in Ruby.
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by Andys 16y ago
In terms of raw FLOPs, the current top ATI card (the $2k FireStream) is 4x the double precision FLOPs of the current top Intel 6-core ($1k).
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by Andys 16y ago
Yes!
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by Andys 16y ago
You've just hit on one of the probable reasons for the failure of Kin :-)
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by Andys 16y ago
I have a question for you. I'm comfortable answering those coding questions, but not on a whiteboard. Would you be OK if instead of writing on the white board, I whipped out my laptop and coded the answer there in front of you? If the ans

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