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by Loic 15y ago
If you are running on top of your dedicated servers, the providers are now all providing a dedicated VLAN for your servers. This allows you to deploy your own VM management software on top of your dedicated servers. If you can, I recommend
902.
by Loic 15y ago
If you are looking at Thrift, you should take a look at ZeroMQ too: http://www.zeromq.org ZeroMQ provides only ways to send/receive messages over several transport mechanisms (sockets on steroids) and address them to specific clients. It
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by Loic 15y ago
Iceland crashed but they also declared default for all the foreign debt at the same time. As Iceland is very small, the effects were negligible for the foreigners. The effect was also a devaluation of the ISK because of the lost of trust in
904.
by Loic 15y ago
Here you have: http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/10/airplane-boneyard-in...
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by Loic 15y ago
For the cut, you can take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Esquema_de_la_V-2.jpg and the corresponding Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2 Technologically impressive, but a weapon...
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by Loic 15y ago
A French biologist Alain Bombard as proved with a 65 day trip across the Atlantic that one can drink sea water up to one liter per day if one can drink raining water and water extracted from fishes too. So, yes, you can drink sea water, but
907.
by Loic 15y ago
Yes, you have been using R to do the stats, but please, take a look at the results, not a single significant parameter! This is a bit sad, because it looks like you are doing something great at Opani, but this post is not really showing it.
908.
by Loic 15y ago
This article should have the following title: "How Ruby is Beating Python in the Battle for my Soul as System Administration". The summary shows that the person has not been working in a team to manage many components: > Ruby's greatest
909.
by Loic 15y ago
What you need is not less cul-de-sacs, it is more pedestrian ways meshing your neighbourhood and small parks to connect people together. Do not focus on the roads, focus on the people.
910.
by Loic 15y ago
And this is why the EU Amazon datacenter is there too. Irish is good for royalty based stuff (software etc.) and they invoice everything hardware (the retailer side of Amazon) from Luxembourg where you can negotiate your taxes with the auth
911.
by Loic 15y ago
You cannot get all your logins, session time, IP address, etc. This is what you have a right to get out of a EU based company. Yes, this means that as a business, it is pretty hard to comply with the law.
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by Loic 15y ago
If you are a US company operating a US website, you are not bound to the EU law in that regard. But if you launch trackwhatever.[EU top level domain] to better target these markets, you may need a EU address to get the domain. In that case,
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by Loic 15y ago
I am a single founder and running Indefero http://www.indefero.net (code hosting, project managemnt) I consider it a success. Maybe not a million user success, but at my level a success as together with my consulting business, I pay mysel
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Amazon deliver too fast making the Kindle edition too expensive(ceondo.com)
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by Loic 15y ago
Do not underestimate the police like that. They know very well what they are doing. They control most of the time outside pick up time to not bother you and just some times to times at pick up time. The goal is mostly to condition you to th
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by Loic 15y ago
Germany is not a good example, the highways are saturated, always under construction, speed limits are not respected and when you do not have speed limits, you have crazy people driving 190km/h+ thinking they can control their car and are d
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by Loic 15y ago
If the Internet is your resume, you do not own your resume and you are going to be doomed. You need to own your identity and your resume[0]. This can be as simple as having your own homepage with links to your GitHub, SF.net, Google+, whate
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by Loic 15y ago
If you are lazy, you can get the functions coded in PHP here: http://abtester.com/calculator/
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by Loic 15y ago
Look at the BMW, Porsche, Mercedes from the first one to the current one. Germans are incredibly good at refining and improving on top of a good idea. They do that with extremely rigorous scientific approach. So, the copycat is often better
920.
by Loic 15y ago
Sadly a cancer.
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by Loic 15y ago
The terrible point in the complete article is that basically, you need first to assume that the authorities will screw you and not help you. For me, the "todos in this case" are just a cure for a dead man, because if you cannot trust the au
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by Loic 15y ago
or you need the thousands of one task app to mitigate the lack of composability.
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by Loic 15y ago
OVH. http://www.ovh.co.uk or http://www.ovh.com It is a crazy team, they are fan of optimization, they build their own datacenters with a PUE below 1.15. The good news, next year they open datacenters in the US/CA.
924.
by Loic 15y ago
In my case it is more like 5x24GB RAM servers supporting 20 to 50 VMs depending on the load coupled with a very reliable managed NAS for backup. I can start/stop some instances using my provider's "cloud" if needed, but found that in practi
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by Loic 15y ago
For the EC2/CloudX,Y,Z users here. Have you compared your cost with the cost of running your own cloud on top of dedicated servers from a traditional provider? I know that with EC2 you can "follow" your requirements and start/stop instances
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by Loic 15y ago
If you need a bit more, that is, todo lists, planning, etc. while keeping a way to easily edit text documents, you also have Org-Mode http://orgmode.org/ Do not try to setup Org-Mode if you are new to Emacs, you will feel a bit overwhelme
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by Loic 15y ago
I heavily recommend to watch the talk, 15 minutes packed with insights for the sysops. Thank you for posting the link!
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by Loic 15y ago
Sorry, maybe you haven't spotted it, I am using Barclays Wealth, that is, the small part of Barclays where you have a relationship manager you can talk on the phone (mobile) at nearly any time and meet in person when you need. This is not t
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by Loic 15y ago
Use your ears. When you are based in Western Europe and call a UK number rerouted to India you have a nice lag and dumping of the voice plus the VoIP noise. This is physics, you cannot escape it, it takes time for the signal to go there and
930.
by Loic 15y ago
This system is working very well. We have had that in France and Germany for the past couple of years, they call that Packstation in Germany: http://www.dhl.de/de/paket/privatkunden/packstation.html

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