RyanGWU82

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by RyanGWU82 15y ago
And "apt-get install puppet" if you're on Debian or Ubuntu.
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by RyanGWU82 15y ago
At PBworks, when we had about 10 people, we added the position "Head of Operations & IT." 97% of that job is handling operations for our production cluster, keeping it up and running 24/7. The other 3% is typical internal office IT stuf
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by RyanGWU82 15y ago
By that logic, doesn't a hacker lack the skills that designers and only designers possess? The whole dichotomy is silly. A tech business needs to figure out what to build, to build it, and to sell it. (Not strictly in that order.) Every on
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
You can get free standard SSL certificates from StartSSL - https://www.startssl.com They also offer extended validation and other paid options. I use them for wildcard certificates, which are normally at least $200 each. I've created nine
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
If you sit at a desk all day, a good chair is absolutely worth the money. Desk workers are prone to get back problems from sitting all day long. Programmers more so, because we try to get "in the zone" -- and once we're there, we don't get
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
Stanford doesn't even have those "registrar-imposed limits." Classes almost never fill up; they just get larger rooms or add TAs. Students don't usually register for classes until after the term has started! I was an undergrad at a more tra
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
I think you've got the math backwards -- the native capacity is 38.4 TB per unit. If your data is compressable, you can store roughly 2X the amount of data in the same physical space, which is how they come up with the 76.8 TB figure.
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How to post an effective job listing
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
There are certainly VCs that would take on large entrenched companies. VCs invested $33 million in Cuil, for example, even though Google had cornered the search engine market long before. And VCs fund companies that require huge capital inv
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
There's a much greater "propensity for entrepreneurship" at Stanford. It's right in the middle of Silicon Valley, which influences the students a lot (and the curriculum a little). Berkeley is much more on the periphery, and feels much more
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
Hi Nathan! You back in the US? I hope you had your phone off when you were abroad, because I set off the pager about 600 times last week... (Nathan and I work together at PBworks. If Stanford is what made him so smart, then DROP EVERYTHING
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
I got a CS degree from Stanford in 2008, and I had the same worrys that you do. I didn't think I would be "smart enough" to keep up with the courses and the competition. It turns out that Stanford's CS courses aren't that hard -- I was ab
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
Yes, but smart phone buyers are going to enter a contract regardless. The iPhone contract is no more expensive than competing smart phones' contracts. When carriers compete on price, they're almost always competing on the price of the dev
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
A bigger issue is that Blackboard keeps buying competitors. Without competition, there's not a lot of incentive to keep your product cutting-edge. Blackboard bought my startup in 2001, and I worked there for about a year after. After they
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
My experience matches yours: the bug occurs in i686 but not x86_64. I have a variety of boxes with different Linux distributions, and tried it on each. Ubuntu 10.04, i686, "PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-Patch" has the bug. Ubuntu 10.10
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WordPress 3.0.4: critical security update(wordpress.org)
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
If you are building almost any type of company today, it makes no sense to build your own datacenter. Except for when it _does_ make sense. I'm starting a project at my company to add a single server in-house, and move some data storage a
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
I'd never seen that, but wow, what a fascinating article.
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
It's a lot more favorable when you have few domains and many queries. We have many tens-of-millions of queries per month, on only two domains. This would cut 75% off our DNS hosting.
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
Very interesting. We currently use DNS Made Easy but I see two huge advantages to Route 53: 1. It's API-driven, so we can modify our DNS entries programmatically. You can't do that with DNS Made Easy. (They've been "planning to implement an
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
Errr... we use public-key encryption. :) I haven't used Duplicity myself so I can't really compare it to Backup Manager. I've been super pleased with Backup Manager.
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
I handle operations for a relatively large online collaboration service. We have nearly 200GB of relational data in MySQL databases, and about 20TB of user-generated content. We own our own server hardware, so we have a few file storage se
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
Go to https://www.linode.com instead. They've got a wildcard SSL certificate for *.linode.com, which will not work (and has never worked) without a subdomain like "www".
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
How is this different than before? MySQL was always a dual-license product. You can use the product if you comply with the terms of the GPL, or purchase a commercial license to get priority features, priority support, and get around the GP
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
Just to be clear, "Classic Edition" is not the free open-source MySQL that we all know and love. It's a separate product for inclusion in other proprietary products. MySQL has always been a dual-license product, and this is similar to pre
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
Yes! Glad to see I wasn't the only one who felt this way. I moved to Seattle in 2008 and only stayed for about 7 months before I had to leave. The people were friendly and polite, but it was impossible to get to know people on more than
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
I used to live in Washington and I thought it was a great place for a semi-foodie like myself. There are certainly some great "uber-expensive" restaurants there, but there are a lot that don't break the bank. Matchbox, Heritage India, Jal
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
PBworks (San Mateo, CA) has 3 openings. We're an online collaboration tool for education and business, used by 4 million people a month. We're looking for: * A talented Front-End Web Engineer who can lead the development of new features a
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
We have a cluster of about 60 servers, and use Monit and Ganglia to manage it. Monit will alert you when certain problems occur -- for example, if the server load is too high, if a service stopped running, or if can't reach the database.
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by RyanGWU82 16y ago
On a related note, the "Where are the gays at?" thread was killed sometime in the last 24 hours. I'm at a loss for any good explanation why. There have been many other discussions about minorities, especially female CS students/women foun

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