Andys

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by Andys 17y ago
Unfortunately the SATA backplanes are only aligned one way, so they could only rotate a set of 5 drives at once.
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by Andys 17y ago
FWIW, Your site didnt seem very professional until I got to the pricing page. Both the content of this page and the pricing level of the product sent a clear signal that this was a "serious", enterprise-aimed product. The rest of the site
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by Andys 17y ago
Here are some reasons why: 1. Poor availability of app store in many countries in the world compared to iPhone 2. Ability to purchase apps outside the appstore - I bought an app from an author's website directly, paying by Paypal. 3. Fewer
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by Andys 17y ago
Certainly, most operating systems can run in 32MB. It would be nice even if only so the BIOS can boot up and print to the screen, "Hey, RAM slot #3 isn't plugged in right!" instead of the usual black-screen-and-long-beep
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by Andys 17y ago
Yes, and this would have been the correct way to fix the situation. Gracefully reduce the available CPU for the offending VPS, and notify the customer. Breaking in is OK as a last resort.
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by Andys 17y ago
So they're just using it as a technique to get a discount? That's terrible :-(
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by Andys 17y ago
Speaking for myself, if I was hiring someone to do a website, or a CMS, I couldn't care less if they had a B.Sc. or not. I wouldn't check, and I certainly wouldn't let it change my mind about the price being charged.
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by Andys 17y ago
You missed my point: If they give you some more disk space then they have to decrease everyone else's space. What you're suggesting means buying a new "pie", because they've sliced up the existing pie and allocated all of it, completely.
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by Andys 17y ago
Like Ruby.
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by Andys 17y ago
I switched to 1.9 for several greenfields projects. The postgresql gem builds cleanly, as does thin, which can be used in place of mongrel. The biggest gotcha was having to modify my application to explicitly open text files in UTF8 mode.
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by Andys 17y ago
One outcome that is highly likely is that the processors will be highly integrated, with the whole system on a chip: CPU, GPU, memory controller, network/storage/pci/usb/etc controllers.
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Intel will have 22nm fabrication process in 2012 and 4nm technology in 2022(xbitlabs.com)
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by Andys 17y ago
I run a small VPS hosting company. You are right; the hardware cost is only a small part of the total outgoings for this type of business. In that regard, the pricing model tends towards how big a slice of the 'pie' each customer gets to bu
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by Andys 17y ago
Unearned revenue seems like a very dangerous thing for a most startups to have. It makes accounting more difficult, and unless you are careful not to spend it, you risk a 'run on the bank' if a large group of your customers demand refunds.
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by Andys 17y ago
Twitter, when you get down to it, is like IRC where everyone has their own channel. When you "follow" a friend, you are joining their channel. IRC is decentralised and is an open, free protocol. I would prefer to keep using IRC but I have
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by Andys 17y ago
"a cowboy on the electronic frontier typing silently the night away to a CRT monitor but the internals (of man and machine) is intense full of drama" Life in a startup company is similar to this sometimes :-) Conceiving and executing a succ
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by Andys 17y ago
This provides a valuable insight into Linux culture. There have been many cases where the micro-optimization obsession has displaced effort from the "big picture".
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by Andys 17y ago
VPS should, in theory, be higher reliability, since the virtualisation layer makes it easy for them to move your VPS between physical hosts in the event of hardware problems. It also makes it easier to scale up and down as needed. However,
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by Andys 17y ago
VPS should, in theory, be higher reliability, since the virtualisation layer makes it easy for them to move your VPS between physical hosts in the event of hardware problems. However, you could always do that yourself with physical boxes to
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by Andys 17y ago
Not to mention that suddenly going missing from the international geopolitical stage would be much worse than a slow graceful retreat.
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by Andys 17y ago
There are cheap things on ebay that let you connect both power and headphone at the same time. All the accessories for android are very, very cheap on Ebay: batteries, cables, dongles, cases, charging docks, etc. I personally use a Nokia s
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by Andys 17y ago
"Many of the issues can be solved" .. that is why I love Android and open platforms in general. You see a problem, you are free to go fix it. No need to wait for Apple.
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by Andys 17y ago
But I thought the GPL is less free?
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by Andys 17y ago
I just found a benchmark on Intel's site that shows the effect of enabling the text processing instructions in SSE4.2. They claim a 25% speedup for XML parsing and 37% for XML validating.
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by Andys 17y ago
When I compiled Ruby 1.8.6 with Intel C, it ran benchmarks 5-10% faster than when I compiled with GCC.
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by Andys 17y ago
Write, read, walk, explore.. sometimes with other people, if you can believe that!
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by Andys 17y ago
Its not hilarity - its business. The idea is to turn the complements of your product into a commodity. So - cheap hardware for Microsoft Windows, cheap software for Apple iPhones.
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by Andys 17y ago
Well he's just spelling out the steps to explain HTTP Digest. In the real world, any HTTP client library worth using already implements HTTP authentication transparently to you, the API consumer.
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by Andys 17y ago
> the company culture was very different 15 years ago, and earned it some (deserved) negative reputation Market-wise, I perceived Microsoft as kicking ass during the mid 90's with products that were crushing the competition, whereas now
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by Andys 17y ago
If freedom is what you want, the android has plenty of it. While Apple prevents any sort of app that provides a runtime or scripting language, Google developers have released something that lets you code Android apps on the phone itself in

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