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by Rantenki 16y ago
Why is it not true; the bug reporter never claims to be the author, just notes that the book isn't owned by the repo owner (those names don't match) and that the ebook is most likely pirated. If it is not pirated, and wright.edu has access
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by Rantenki 16y ago
Sure; XMPP's actual standard calls for a bunch of extraneous XML to get a basic message sent, no argument there. Also, a basic SMTP message calls for very little additional info (ie: to, from, subject, body), however, the reality is that an
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by Rantenki 16y ago
XMPP is positively streamlined compared to the bloat in a protocol like say SMTP; have you every looked at all those headers? IRC is simpler, but it has some pretty severe limitations. There are some worse protocols that could catch on (AMQ
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by Rantenki 16y ago
At Defcon every year, we have ~10k attendees, with literally thousands of DHCP leases active, using a combination of Aruba wireless gear, and Cisco switches. We don't generally have a problem. Good planning is key; we have heatmaps (signal
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by Rantenki 16y ago
This has been explained in great detail here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo
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by Rantenki 16y ago
SciFi in 1920: |==now==|=======================future=====================| SciFi today: |=====================now===================|====future====| See? The problem is that we are out of land! We have so much science now that would have b
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by Rantenki 16y ago
1) That may be your definition, but it is not the dictionary one. Not that I don't wish that there were more people with leading edge expertise in independent fields, but the definition of polymath is merely great learning in diverse fields
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by Rantenki 16y ago
Initiative is orthogonal to academia?
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by Rantenki 16y ago
While false positives are a fact of life with any filtering system, they have no incentive to FIX the problem, as those false positives lead to their being able to hold funds indefinitely, earning interest at least, and potentially absorbin
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by Rantenki 16y ago
I would speculate that the reason that the polymath seems less common is that: 1. Counter-intuitively, polymaths are now ubiquitous. The WWW as well as better information access in general has made it much easier to BECOME a polymath. Becau
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by Rantenki 16y ago
How do you define millions of users? Daily visits, daily hits, monthly hits, hits ever, db user entries, active sessions.... If you have millions of active users, and can share some information about how active they actually are, the users
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by Rantenki 16y ago
I wonder when they will sue skype (which also has these indicators)... Funny how RIM wrote an open letter (strangely removed from their site now) about how patents were a problem, and needed to be reformed. They got sued for similarly obvio
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by Rantenki 16y ago
Has anybody launched this in a VM under Xen and/or EC2 to see if AWS is vulnerable? If this can mangle the Dom0 over a paravirt DomU, this would be awfully interesting. /me off to test... update: Would be nastier if it forked cpux2 times or
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by Rantenki 16y ago
Waterloo is a hub of software engineering education in one of the most populous areas of Canada. A LOT of Canadian computer geeks went to school there. By extension, lots of them have interned at RIM, as it is so close: http://www.rim.com/
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by Rantenki 16y ago
The just queued the restart at some very low value of a unix timestamp, which translates to 36 years ago. Strangely, not the unix epoch at midnight Jan 1 1970.
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by Rantenki 16y ago
http://www.citynetwork.se/city_cloud in Sweden, presumably safer against DMCA etc.
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by Rantenki 16y ago
First of all, only the initial release day, and the EC2 GPU killer app has been discovered. Second, store passwords as a salted hmac, not just a shaXsum. It is still usually a singel command, and WAY more secure than simple shaX or mdX, as
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by Rantenki 16y ago
You can always make the argument that you could delay the release of the distro to get "the next version of critical library/tool X", however, then you never release. The most important feature is _SHIPPING_.
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by Rantenki 16y ago
This is fantastic news for virtualization: 1. Memory deduplication on kvm machines: matching memory pages are COWed. Hopefully there is a re-spin of the virtio drivers too (which rock, btw). 2. Way newer kvm/libvirt (the old ones sucked) 3.
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by Rantenki 16y ago
Go java, write your stuff in Clojure, document the jars well :) Of course, as CTO, you probably won't have a lot of time to write code, so JAVA is still the right choice, and you have to write less (developer) docs.
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by Rantenki 16y ago
Obviously not for their ability to build scalable blogging services (dropio blog site currently down) ;)
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by Rantenki 16y ago
So. Torn. Lisp is awesome, kudos for realizing this and falling in love with it. A bit weird to write a story about the awesome new language you learned, and focus on how hard you can slam the doors on ever learning again.
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by Rantenki 16y ago
There are some people that enjoy being tied up and whipped too, and those who wear "hair-shirts" to show that they are noble for all their suffering. More than enjoying C as a language, you should find people who can identify when it is, or
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by Rantenki 16y ago
This is a really good intro on tuning a high bandwidth site; thx!
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by Rantenki 16y ago
+1 Too many founders are focusing on the big exit. Survivor bias really feeds this too, as we hear all these great "I got rich" stories from successful exits, and never hear the "I failed hard" stories from failed startups. Tuning your comp
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by Rantenki 16y ago
Generally when I get bored, it is a sign that I am burned out. Consider this, you are a hacker, and you have a computer, and (since are reading this), the internet. If you cannot think of a way to entertain yourself, then your creativity is
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by Rantenki 16y ago
This dude does a pretty good job: http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html
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by Rantenki 16y ago
Because a low TTL means that a reasonable % of page requests are going to see not only the latency of your DNS server, but also that of the shitty ISP's fetch store return cycle, which can result in a couple hundred extra ms on top of your
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by Rantenki 16y ago
In general, Paypal isn't geared to do a good job of supporting larger clients, which $500k/mo definitely qualifies as (in the Paypal world). Their turning you down was doing you a huge favor. Better a little annoyance now than a lot of pain
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by Rantenki 16y ago
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