Aqueous

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by Aqueous 12y ago
Translation: Zuckerberg and Nadella score points for pretending to give a shit about NSA surveillance and users' privacy, and all of us are callously manipulated into giving them props. Conveniently, especially for Zuckerberg, the narr
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Perhaps they should just keep the archive videos for a week or a couple of days after the broadcast. That gives a window for users to download archived copies and reduces the amount of storage they need on their end. It also means that user
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Well the first application didn't survive (if I read correctly) - so I guess you could call it a postmortem for the first application.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I think he was on assignment - that's why he consumed only Soylent for a week. It's just like the Forbes writer who forced herself to live only on BitCoin for a week. In her case, even though her first experience was uneven and a
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Right - Soylent will be successful based on how it defines its mission, not as a replacement for traditional food but as a better second choice. However, if I remember correctly some of the first publicity I saw about Soylent pitched it lik
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by Aqueous 12y ago
If someone has a gun to your head you're not really in a position to set terms. What do you get at the end? A life.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
It seems incapable of the lowest response times, which it seems like Google has. Forking a new process to handle a request incurs overhead. In my experience nginx, which keeps several worker processes open and processes requests asynchron
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Is it really just re-branded Apache? It seems like vanilla Apache isn't capable of the low response times that Google has. What Apache extensions/modifications does Google use?
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Rackspace should have invested more in PaaS. Its only offering that could it semi-accurately call PaaS, Cloud Sites, is lacking - it supports few runtimes, without things like git-based deployment that would enable it to fit into a CI Pipel
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I guess I really don't understand her mobile strategy. Yahoo is a constellation of tons of different services and they all belong in different apps. Are they going to have one big "Yahoo Mega-App?" That makes even less sense
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I recognize that the costs become less straightforward the larger you get, and that a number of larger companies have to develop their own bare metal infrastructure. But I was including companies exactly like Foursquare in that handful of t
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Facebook acquired Instagram not Foursquare.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Of course there is - pushing directly to the server. Which is hosted on a third party, the third party itself is hosted on another third party, and that third party probably relies on a couple of other third parties. And if my patch bring
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Works pretty well for me. The argument you just made could have - and has - been about any other piece of infrastructure that we now work with third parties for. DNS, EMail, managed hosting, VPS hosting, off-site backups, etc, etc etc. I r
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Alright...well, it looks like this whole programming thing was a bust. Was good while it lasted, but yeah, uh, I guess I'm gonna go home, er, something - so...see you guys later?
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by Aqueous 12y ago
If you're using a cloud running test service like Travis CI pushing to GitHub can trigger your whole deployment process starting with running the unit and integration tests.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I know he was exaggerating for effect but it seems a bit extreme - If everything is breaking all the time you're doing something wrong.
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by Aqueous 12y ago
"Web is rapidly losing users" - Data? Anyone have some data on the web 'losing users?' Most mobile apps communicate with their cloud backends using HTTP, so clearly the protocol itself isn't dying. What may be slowi
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I'd totally use this if it added features that didn't S3 didn't support - which shouldn't be aproblem since S3 isn't a standard anyway. Two major features that come to mind: Batch operations and querying objects by
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by Aqueous 12y ago
"I deactivated my account but it didn't have anything to do with trust."
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Greatly enjoyed the analysis but while I was reading it I felt a lot like this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKlDBi0cyIA
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Except it's more like if several hundred million other people and I drink " Blah Cola ." Even if Google Plus only has 10% of the active users of Facebook - fuck, even 5%, even 1% - that's still millions of people who are
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by Aqueous 12y ago
We're talking about something that was worth less than $200 a a year ago, and $0 5 years ago. So if you believe that BitCoin is following an uneven adoption cycle, where there is a boom period followed by a pullback, which is what has
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I'm choosing to believe the study, the abstract of which says: "The main finding is consistent across the three studies: when an organization is explicitly presented as meritocratic, individuals in managerial positions favor a mal
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I did misread the nepotism part - but he is mistaken about the pitfalls of a meritocratic society. While I do agree with his idea that the values of standardized, mass education that functions like a sieve are too narrow - and that being br
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I'm not trying to take a cheap shot. The fact that meritocracies are 'messy' doesn't mean you get rid of the central message - which is that people are awarded commensurately with their talent and effort. That seems com
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Yes, and I think that he's mistaken. The meritocrats - the 'beneficiaries of nepotism' in the article - aren't actually where they are (wholly) because of merit. It's because they were born into a social structure
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by Aqueous 12y ago
The problem wasn't the meritocracy it was the failing to live up to it. Meritocracy is absolutely something we should aspire to. In these examples the men who were paying other men more were simply not being meritocratic - if they were
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by Aqueous 12y ago
Then the rug is a declaration of values. The US has often failed to live up to its own founding values - should we shred the preamble and the declaration of independence? No - those two documents have shaped US history, mostly because we&#x
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by Aqueous 12y ago
I think this is an example of Wanstrath kow-towing to a small, outspoken subset of GitHub's employees to avoid bad PR. This has happened before. At some point a group of GitHub employees were offended by a rug that said something to th

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