BufordTJustice

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by BufordTJustice 10y ago
Trucks are very hard on the roadbed, especially given that road damage scales proportionally to the fourth power of the axle weight. For the same reason we don't ship all of our goods in tons of little cars, but use trucks with GVWR po
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by BufordTJustice 10y ago
I think it's to the fourth power with axle weight.
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
Armin is right; further more, I suspect a lot of technology like MegaSquirt will continue to improve, and we'll have (thank god) aftermarket ECMs to put into these cars to give the user more control over the vehicle. We can only hope t
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
The problem with all of these, with the exception of Rust and Ada, is that it's hard to do things like, get at pointers directly, for example. For all of the abstractions OCaml and Java bring, there is an often large performance penalt
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
At least in the storage space (which gets essentially no press on HN), I have come to the finding that the vast majority of core product codebases are C/C++. For the niche they fill, it seems really unlikely that even the still experim
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NetApp purchases startup Solidfire for $870M(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by BufordTJustice 11y ago|0 comments
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
Under some circumstances, if you're running periodic jobs, APScheduler works well in a pinch.
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
So, is this supposed to compete with the offerings from Pure Storage and Solidfire?
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In the case I go broke and homeless while building product(reddit.com)
4 points by BufordTJustice 11y ago|0 comments
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
Still, it kind of seems like a blog for Kenworth demoing someone using a giant truck to race around a track, I mean I guess you can do it, but it doesn't seem like the intended application.
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
I guess I'd like to understand why people don't agree. Just to be clear, it's really important that we shore up tractor trailer safety (I've been hit by a class 8 rig twice now, once where the driver was asleep at wheel)
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
I feel like using RethinkDB, instead of something like SQLite (or if you absolutely insist on NoSQL, maybe LevelDB or BerkeleyDB) kind of seems like using a supertanker for a tugboat's job. Especially if you're going to write your
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
I second this. The working hours and toll sitting in a tractor like that all day are bad, but if you do things like cut hours for drivers, especially the drivers that aren't owner-operators, and continue them at the same pay, you unfor
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
It's amazing, I'm not really in tune with the state of the art with drones (but fly a little Cherokee Arrow, to give some perspective, and have friends that have been RC enthusiasts going back significantly). I looked on Youtube f
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Google Brings Interactive Watch Faces and Translation Support to Android Wear(techcrunch.com)
1 points by BufordTJustice 11y ago|0 comments
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Go, D, Erlang and C in real life: MQTT broker implementation shootout (2013)(atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com)
115 points by BufordTJustice 11y ago|49 comments
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
> Yeah, but by giving more data you let software to personalize better. So by reducing your data exposure you are acting as techno-Luddite stiffing progress. Is this sarcasm? I guess I fail to understand how Google now knowing all the de
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
Just as a note, if range is really one of the selling points, I have found Mikrotik's RB951 class routers to be relatively affordable and have excellent range and features, for significantly less than OnHub ($20-80 for a good home rout
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
I would be very interested in helping write some code or contributing money towards making improvements to lock down phone home and other unwanted behavior. I think an excellent starting point is to see if you couldn't take a Mikrotik
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by BufordTJustice 11y ago
I agree, I think if you're going to deploy an application that's facing the internet, it makes sense to take the time to roll the deployment scripts (Salt, Ansible, etc.) and understand at some level what is getting installed, as