EwanToo

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by EwanToo 14y ago
You can run SQL on TB's of data if you throw fast enough nodes at it, it's not purely a data size issue, but more of a scale-out issue. Things like joins and foreign key constraints can be very slow on widely distributed relational database
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Star Wars Episode 1 and 2 contain exact characters and other creative designs from Episode 4/5/6. Not "like" them, not derivative of them, but actually them (e.g. Yoda). So yeah, that would be a direct copy.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
But 70% for 1 year is an amazing price break when you think about it. Run your project for a month, analyse the usage, and reserve that same capacity for a whole year, for the price of only 3 more months usage! If your project has fairly co
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I'm glad to hear you're a real person then :)
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Is it just me, or is it weird that this brand new blog (really just an advert for a writing company) has had 3 blog posts, all 3 have been submitted to HN (2 by the same person), and all 3 have gotten pretty high scores? The other 2 stories
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Not sure what your lab's trying to be backwards compatible with (NFS has had those mount options since at least 1989), but whatever works for you :) It's a mount option on the client, not the server, so maybe you can change it yourself. ht
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by EwanToo 14y ago
You're right, if we took this attitude in civil engineering or medical science then it'd be a problem, but hey, it's not those things, so why waste the time, money and effort that it would need? You say "obviously not every web project is a
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by EwanToo 14y ago
NFS has 2 mount types, soft and hard. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/client.html Soft mounts report errors immediately, hard mounts hang. And for permissions, NFS provides everything under the sun that you could possibly need via ACLs. N
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I doubt they're annoyed by their "lack of knowledge" being exposed, it seems more likely to me that they're annoyed because they're trying to do something more important (to themselves/their boss/whoever) than answer your persistent questio
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by EwanToo 14y ago
In the end it's a matter of taste, I find the second version much clearer
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Depending on the case, the judge can order that the loser pays more if they feel the case was fraudulent, misleading, etc. See Samsung vs Apple, initially Apple didn't have to pay Samsung's fees, but after Apple annoyed the judge with their
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by EwanToo 14y ago
There's a couple of patently untrue statements inside the press release, like "As the first organization in the world to leverage ARM servers for commercial use...", but the move is another sign of the growth of ARM servers. To me, the real
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Thanks, will write up what I've found after a bit more testing. One quick extra, you don't have the outgoing port allowed in the firewall settings for Ubuntu's apt-key to add new trusted keys, using the hkp service (port 11371), it would be
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by EwanToo 14y ago
My initial thought after signing up, is that it's a shame that I can only deploy a trial server with 512MB of RAM, that pretty much rules out testing any non-trivial application?
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I think it was hidden behind the very last line: "Penelope Trunk founded Brazen Careerist and two other startups. Her career advice runs in 200 newspapers. She lives on a farm in Wisconsin and homeschools her sons."
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Marissa Mayer is killing telecommuting, and that’s a good thing(venturebeat.com)
2 points by EwanToo 14y ago|1 comments
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Thanks - I meant to update my comment after I went and looked up xz, I've used 7zip and LZMA before, but I've never directly come across a .xz file, odd!
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by EwanToo 14y ago
The significant problem with long-lived domain registrations is not the price, but the potential that people tend to forget about the renewal date, move email address and credit card number over that 10 year period, and lose the domain when
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by EwanToo 14y ago
What stops you inserting your own choice of extra payouts into the game history? This would make people believe you were paying out at a higher rate than you actually are. I'm not suggesting you're doing that, just wondering what stops it,
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by EwanToo 14y ago
On initial glance, and I may be a million miles off here, it feels like the history section which shows payouts is rather redundant. It seems like there's nothing to stop the casino inserting their own played games (either real but fixed, o
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted there, I think your mostly right, or at least have a valid opinion. Maybe it's the word "delusional" :)
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by EwanToo 14y ago
and bzip2 gets it down to 65195 bytes. I've not used xz, I'm sure it's good, but the point isn't really about which compression algorithm is the best in the world, but which works best in the (depressingly limited) real world conditions.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
You want a CEO's interests to be aligned with the company's, which is why most CEOs are given share options that will be worth something in 3 - 5 years, large bonuses based on success, and so on. Steve Jobs cashed out when Apple fired him,
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Oh that's a nice trick, I might give that a go - thanks!
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Personally I think it's exactly the reason why you don't want your CEO to have a cushion - he doesn't really care, it doesn't really matter to him that his former company is going down the toilet as he's cashed out long ago.
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Kickstarter: Muppet graveyard part 2 (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
2 points by EwanToo 14y ago|0 comments
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Yes you can wipe the SSD and replace it with Ubuntu (or with some fiddling, Debian). It's what Chrubuntu does, you can even choose to install to an SD card leaving the existing OS in place. http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.co.uk/
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I don't believe there's any legally Scottish or Welsh ISPs that are large enough to fall into the ban's scope (over 500k residential customers?). The six ISPs that are currently forced to block these sites are BT, Sky, Virgin Media, O2, EE
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Nominet put on hold plans to launch .uk domains(ewanleith.com)
1 points by EwanToo 14y ago|0 comments
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by EwanToo 14y ago
There's a comment in the post: "As of right now, it ends up that about 75% of our code is C++ and 17% is Python (link) since it turns out that a lot of BIND 10 is performance-critical." Which could easily be taken the wrong way. I believe t

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