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by Oculus 12y ago
In later blog posts they discuss moving over to ext4 despite the 16TB size limit.
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by Oculus 12y ago
I've seen their hard drive reliability blog posts, but I never knew they were so open about their storage server designs. I think it's really cool how open they are about something that is definitely a competitive advantage.
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Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage (2010)(backblaze.com)
142 points by Oculus 12y ago|124 comments
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by Oculus 12y ago
Can someone explain to me why no one has scraped all the Twitpic photos and stored them?
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by Oculus 12y ago
I don't think they mean move to a place more affordable out side of SF, but move away from SF to another part of the country.
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by Oculus 12y ago
From a sideline viewers perspective, persistence in production for Docker containers is a big problem that I've yet to see a good solution for. You end up having to keep DB servers and such outside of your container pool.
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by Oculus 12y ago
My bad, I misspoke.
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by Oculus 12y ago
Probably the biggest feature over Confd is the ability to run arbitrary commands when a template update completes.
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Ask HN: What is the technology behind S3 and EBS?
1 points by Oculus 12y ago|1 comments
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by Oculus 12y ago
This all depends on the goals of your side project. If the goal is something other then learning how to set up infrastructure, then deploy your app on Heroku. You get most of the difficult problems dealt with and only have to focus on a cou
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by Oculus 12y ago
Twitter probably runs the largest Redis cluster in the world[1]. It's certainly doable, but depends how much engineering resources you're willing to throw at the problem. 1 - http://youtu.be/rP9EKvWt0zo Edit: I sh
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by Oculus 12y ago
You have to love the game theory behind this. In order to get through the later levels you have to be a bit selfish and take the oppurtunity of going for the green square at other people's expense. The most interesting part is once you
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by Oculus 12y ago
Dr. Paul Farmer discusses Ebola: http://youtu.be/lb11QbP3tOg After listening to the talk, I'm not as worried as this article makes me. I certainly trust the source in the video better.
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by Oculus 12y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7435220
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by Oculus 12y ago
I'm not a big follower of Middle Eastern politics, but my understanding is there's attempts by Iran's current government to put it's darker, more aggressive past behind it. A "friendly Iran" is a hard pill to s
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by Oculus 12y ago
By trading away C (Consistency), we’ve made a conscious decision to design our applications with eventual consistency in mind How does one go about writing a user-facing application with eventual consistency?
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by Oculus 12y ago
I would second Private Internet Access. They have a shitty billing system (need to cancel your current account if you want to switch to a yearly plan), but it I've found it Just Works(TM). Really happy with their service.
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by Oculus 12y ago
Thank you, I came here to express the same disappointment with the article. People who attempt to discredit the 10,000 hour rule need to realize it describes a mindset more then anything else.
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by Oculus 12y ago
Most corporations in the US are incorporated in Delaware. Whenever the question of incorporation arises, the answers is always in Delaware as a C-corp. PG's comment was a nod to that. http://blakemasters.com/post/2
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by Oculus 12y ago
Misread the title to be "Create a Custom App on Bitcoin Blockchain". I've been dreaming up a framework which allows developers to create applications that use a single point of truth that's not centralized. With my limit
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by Oculus 12y ago
Love how open Baremetrics is with all their information. Really awesome to see this become more common place in the community.
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by Oculus 12y ago
As sad as it may be, with the use of schema-enforcing ORMs and the popularity of MongoDB, this will be a viable business in the near future.
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by Oculus 12y ago
Have big security vulnerabilities been cropping up more often recently or does it seem that way because I've started to pay attention?
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by Oculus 12y ago
There's an incredibly interesting talk by Yao Yu (from Twitter's caching team) which discusses their use Redis of for caching: http://youtu.be/rP9EKvWt0zo
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by Oculus 12y ago
The scariest part about these cases is with Trans-Pacific Partnership[1] they set a precedent for not only the United States, but a whole slew of other countries[2]. 1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partne
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by Oculus 12y ago
A Soviet/Russian classic! I grew up in Canada, but was exposed to it by my parents.
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Knocking down the HACIENDA(gnunet.org)
2 points by Oculus 12y ago|0 comments
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by Oculus 12y ago
Is this just copying the local temp files? That's what it looks like from a quick glance of the code.
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by Oculus 12y ago
Haven't looked at the code throughly, but from a quick glance looks like a grid I'd considering using in a personal project vs. the all the other crappy grids out there.
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by Oculus 12y ago
Really interesting article until it gets into the Bitcoin talk. I feel like his passion towards Bitcoins seeped a little too much into the article towards the end.

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