EwanToo

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by EwanToo 10y ago
Clicked one of the vote buttons while trying to hit reply, sorry if it was a down... Most DB vendors forbid benchmarks, Oracle, IBM DB2, etc, they claim they can remove your rights to run the software if you publish them
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Real AWS status page(github.com)
4 points by EwanToo 10y ago|0 comments
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by EwanToo 10y ago
If you want a more efficient version of pickle, take a look at feather [1] It's not a drop in replacement but it's very effective 1 - https://github.com/wesm/feather
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by EwanToo 10y ago
You can, though it's got a 6 year age limit [1]. They only finance up to $20,000 which rules out a large number of completely new cars anyway. Vehicles requirements for Xchange Leasing program: 2009 or newer 75,000 or less mi
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by EwanToo 10y ago
That's the model of a lot of financial firms, it appears to lead to very short-term, high-risk strategies, and financial engineering to boost the share price at certain points in time
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by EwanToo 10y ago
IBM spends billions of dollars in fairly fundamental technology R&D, they've built on of their strongest business models on licencing the patents they develop out to others, whether it's silicon improvements, disk density incr
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by EwanToo 10y ago
We use Spark essentially as a distributed programming framework for data processing - anything you can do on a small dataset on a single server, you can do the same thing on a huge dataset and 20 servers or 2000 servers with minimal extra d
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Boys think they’re breaking the man contract if they cry(theguardian.com)
2 points by EwanToo 10y ago|1 comments
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by EwanToo 10y ago
In a way it's a slightly disappointing end to the mystery!
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by EwanToo 10y ago
That's the same as GCHQ say here in the UK, it seems every goverment is much the same!
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by EwanToo 10y ago
Yeah I think it's largely the same functionality as OneDrive/SkyDrive has, it's really useful for businesses who've uploaded many TB to it.
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by EwanToo 10y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but I haven't see Canonical make the claim that Snap provides confinement on Ubuntu desktop, the blog post linked to by this post doesnt seem to?
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by EwanToo 10y ago
I think this assumption is true of every VPN provider: If the courts or intelligence services tell them to capture a username's data, or access to specific websites from all users, they will do it. If the choice is between keep quiet a
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by EwanToo 10y ago
I think it's simply wildcard SSL getting in the way, if you put a . in the bucket name, the DNS record becomes a.b.c.s3-xxxx.amazonaws.com The wildcard SSL certificate they use only matches the c.s3-xxxx.amazonaws.com part of the sub d
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by EwanToo 10y ago
Yes, cloudfront gives you far better control over things like headers, routing for different paths, error pages, etc, than vanilla s3 http access does, and is almost certainly lower latency compared to s3 (assuming your files aren't GB
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by EwanToo 11y ago
I use the android alarm clock and it goes off every day for me - I'm not sure you can say "Slept through alarm" means that the alarm didn't go off :)
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How we analysed 70M comments on the Guardian website(theguardian.com)
40 points by EwanToo 11y ago|23 comments
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Google reveals own security regime policy trusts no network, anywhere, ever(theregister.co.uk)
7 points by EwanToo 11y ago|1 comments
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by EwanToo 11y ago
The developer program agreement forbids you from using this for test or production installations [1]: "By participating in the Program and accepting these terms, you represent that you will be using the Red Hat Subscriptions(s) for dev
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by EwanToo 11y ago
CentOS still doesn't do really basic cloud things, like quickly provide official AWS AMI imagines when they do a major release.
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by EwanToo 11y ago
I'm pretty sure you are, that's serious bubble talk "But due to other costs" < aka paying for people, the website, the delivery, marketing, etc?
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Ask HN: Is Alpha-Go winning due to improvements in AI or raw computing power?
6 points by EwanToo 11y ago|2 comments
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700 SQL Queries per Second in Apache Spark with FiloDB(velvia.github.io)
2 points by EwanToo 11y ago|0 comments
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Announcing SQL Server on Linux(blogs.microsoft.com)
5 points by EwanToo 11y ago|0 comments
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by EwanToo 11y ago
No offence, but a link to your own tweet, not something in writing from BMW is hardly worth discussing?
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by EwanToo 11y ago
That sounds like a people problem, not a technical one..
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by EwanToo 11y ago
Apple's internal OS development team is called the core OS team, totally unrelated to coreos.com
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by EwanToo 11y ago
I'm struggling to think of a browser that supports SHA-2 TLS encryption, and doesn't support SNI, which one am I missing?
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by EwanToo 11y ago
I can't remember Google ever giving an open source project a kicking like it feels they've been giving Apache Spark recently, seems very unlike them.
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There's something terribly wrong with mailchimp(smoothspan.wordpress.com)
2 points by EwanToo 11y ago|0 comments

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