ChrisDutrow

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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
I am saddened by his response. I have noticed that over time, it is becoming a much more negative environment - for beginners especially. I don't understand why the people in charge have chosen that direction. Up until now I did not kn
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Isn't the problem the cost of the land? 100k for a house that's up to code financed over 30 years should be reasonably affordable?
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Why do these get rejected? Is it just people being lazy? Or people not understanding how to handle the request? Seems like a lot of work for them to go to court?
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
> Most high calibre devs haven't stumbled into doing a lot of date/time work. That wasn't some clever decision on my part This is good evidence that humility is correlated with mastery.
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
This is just a guess: A lot of those are old questions. They might have been tagged as inappropriate a long time after they were posted as policies evolved. That being said, if you ask a lot of questions on Stack Overflow, people aren'
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
It would be a more powerful tool if it was multi-threaded. I'm not an expert, but my impression that it was able to be more powerful in other ways (stability, features) because of the choice to make it mostly single threaded (given lab
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Perhaps this is obvious, but after you feel like you've recovered and are again providing good service. You might consider finding all the customers who you might have provided bad service too and send them a nice coupon with an explan
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Redis is mostly single thread.
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
What really struck me about this is that for me, personally, it would be very difficult to use both of the skill sets demonstrated here at the same time: coding and writing prose.
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
This is a really good point. When I think of the people who I've worked with who are successful without structure are usually a little bit paranoid/neurotic. Even if no one has checked on them for months, in the back of their head
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
He was set up to fail in this scenario. Lack of oversight and prompt feedback when he started slipping caused this situation to snowball. Some personality types can handle this amount of autonomy, but most people cannot. Most people need mo
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
The primary objective might be to get them to pay the fine. But since they don't have an actual photograph of the license plate, they may have played malware at the license plate link as a secondary objective?
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
I believe that comment is being down voted because of its feel and tone. It's a quick one-line complaint with a negative "low-class" abbreviation at the end. It's a little disrespectful to both the ycombinator (who'
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
It does seem like in the long run, SSDs will probably be cheaper to manufacture than spinning disks?
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
I'm not sure spinning hard drives are more reliable outside of data centers - at least not for laptops because you are carrying them around (anecdotaly, I recently had en employee break a hard drive in a laptop after dropping it). It p
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
What caching plugin do you recommend?
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Its the only way I wake up these days. I used to take a whole caffeine pill (200mg equivalent to one cup of coffee, but it was too much - I would crash in the afternoon and when I stopped taking it, I got headaches. The 1/3 dose hasn&#
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Thanks for posting this! The idling at 3w is a huge deal I think. What do you use these for? Is there a way to add an extra NIC card? What models do you find work best for this? Edit: This might be a really dumb question, but might it be po
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
The no stress way: When alarm goes off, I take 1/3 of a caffeine pill (66mg - Im pretty sensitive to caffeine). Then I turn my alarm off and let myself drift back to sleep.... 15 minutes later I'm up and starting the day. On rare
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Why old laptops instead of old desktops? Because of the power consumption?
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
I think most server machines are probably pretty loud. They're designed to go in data centers where noise is not a factor. They put a lot of components in a somewhat small space, then they put passive heatsinks on the CPUs and blow air
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
The ones I got have their own power supplies, I don't have rails, so I was pretty careful about this. I'm not totally sure about this, but I think even ones with rails, you can often take the adapter card off the motherboard that
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Those are excellent, I think a way better deal than the price I got. The processors are 3/4 the power of the ones I configured (Xeon L5420 vs Xeon E5540) and have 24gb RAM per node for under $100 each. Its really shocking you can get m
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Haha, yeah, these are in their own room. I can hook a monitor up to them if I need to, but I mostly just SSH into them from my office. The room is very loud and somewhat hot. Another drawback of having a cluster this size (15 machines) is t
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
What made you come to that conclusion? Is there better performance vs. hardware cost vs electricity cost with the raspberry pi? I've often wondered if the cost/benefit ratios will tip in the favor of really cheap parts as people g
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe Intel doesn't want it's Atom brand "cheapened" or something? Or maybe those tablets are selling at a loss?
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
What's your use case?
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Haha, so general database stuff then? I think basically you can use it just like any other database, you just have to write some more code sometimes. We actually have binary search for it in our indexing engine so you can use it for non-equ
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Not sure if this is helpful, but you can get older, (but oddly still very powerful) xeon servers on Ebay for under $200. That's what I use for prototyping distributed systems. The advantage is the hardware architecture is the same you
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by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Shoot me an e-mail then, its in my profile :)

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