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by agentgt 10y ago
It must be because I have TV through them because I literally begged them and offered other pricing to not use their router and they said it was not possible. I also confirmed this a while back on some forums but perhaps they have changed t
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by agentgt 10y ago
> But I have learned the hard truth over last two years: API catalogs aren't scalable solutions for API discovery. That's why I'm pushing this. Minor critique but the word "discovery" particularly in terms of ser
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by agentgt 10y ago
For Verizon Fios you have no choice. I mean sure you can disable the wifi of the router and use an access point like I do but you have to use their router at some point in the chain. There are have been some guides to try to bypass the rout
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by agentgt 10y ago
I too came from a cyberpunk reading habit and a friend recommended the Culture series as a change. I didn't like the first book I read which I believe is the first in the series. I guess I just am a Tech Noir / Hardboiled kind of
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by agentgt 10y ago
I had similar thoughts but was too embarrassed to ask as I am not a mathematician. Basically is randomness a human idea/concept or does it really exist? This is sort of along the lines of whether or not Math really exists (mathematical
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by agentgt 10y ago
Clearly there is a disconnect on this thread that I approve of theranos and that I don't accept companies failing as a possible good thing. Of course theranos did bad things and of course I companies failing can be good for the market
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by agentgt 10y ago
The OP didn't say theranos specifically. The op said > I'm actually pleased to hear that a tech company is going to perish. How is this constructive? This isn't some joy in evolution or plot/crop burning: > Too man
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by agentgt 10y ago
Failure can be extremely volatile and potentially dangerous (it is one of the reasons we had a bailout). Incremental change can be often better. I'm not saying I want the status quo but saying you want pretty much all tech companies to
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by agentgt 10y ago
That is not what the OP said: > I'm actually pleased to hear that a tech company is going to perish. Too many of them think they are invincible (airbnb) The OP said a tech and not theranos. Wishing failure on really any company
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by agentgt 10y ago
IMO You really shouldn't want benign things such a med tech company to fail unless they were doing something really egregious. I normally never down vote but this comment is pretty negative. (Wishing others to fail) I repeat for the do
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by agentgt 10y ago
A long time ago Hollywood studios used to literally own actors. The studios would have long term contracts with the actors. This lowered the cost of making movies while also increasing the speed. [1] I wonder if we will see something simila
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by agentgt 10y ago
> Net downmodding = groupthink, but net upmodding = diverse and factual? I didn't make those explicit equations nor is it that black and white. It is far more complicated. If you want more of a "net" it is we have a HN cul
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by agentgt 10y ago
It is called groupthink. Screw diversity of opinion or facts. Down voting is an awful mechanism. I don't mind upvotes or flags but downvoting should go IMO. The fascination/love of nostalgia is so rampant these days. Apparently s
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by agentgt 10y ago
> If I'm lucky I'll use that RAM for something interesting like a VM. But most of the time I use it so that the Java runtime doesn't bog my machine down. Java is a VM. I presume you mean vmware/docker/vbox which
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by agentgt 10y ago
I'm not sure why people downvoted you but I +1 because it is important to understand when this article was written (btw I can't stand articles or other content that isn't dated). I assume this article was written around 2000
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by agentgt 10y ago
I said I'm comparing with what I know and experienced (and this is for a JVM shop). I'm sure we could have gotten Docker to probably to be faster especially given your passionate comments (and it appears after googling there have
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by agentgt 10y ago
Well I can't speak for all IaaS but both gcloud, digital ocean and even Rackspace can make a VM in less than 5 minutes which is how long it was taking to make docker images on a good day for us. Besides we don't always blow away a
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by agentgt 10y ago
To be honest I haven't tried the docker run stuff yet and still use VMs. It does take time to provision (for me like 30 seconds). I also don't do much serverless stuff (as mentioned in other comments) so my opinion is pretty crapp
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by agentgt 10y ago
I admit I'm a little behind on Docker but I thought google provided that with Kubernetes [1]? I work with JVM and servlerless is just not worth it for the JVM (not yet but maybe someday with better AOT). Thus I know very little on inst
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by agentgt 10y ago
Google Cloud is not far from this. Basically instead of "hyper" you are typing "gcloud". Google Cloud is far more complicated but its tools so far are pretty good. I couldn't find how you do custom networks with Hyp
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by agentgt 10y ago
Perhaps to help others extract info: for me most of this I know or is sort of common sense at this point with the one exception of page 39: "do the encryption in your app". I'm not saying I have ever used pgcrypto but it is i
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by agentgt 10y ago
I vaguely remember on a beer tour of Sam Adams that its lager is one of the few beers in America that is compliant (I guess allowed to be sold in Germany? Not sure). I really don't mind all the experimenting with American craft beers w
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by agentgt 10y ago
I while back I wrote a crappy SQL mapper that has an interesting SQL template language that uses SQL comments to make Jdbc place holders: https://github.com/agentgt/jirm/blob/master/jirm-core/README.
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by agentgt 10y ago
I had a couple of theories at the time who was doing it: * The sales team was predominately young college guys. I often saw these guys IMing links back and forth. * The consulting team often VPN tunneled in. I remember distinctly that IT co
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by agentgt 10y ago
Some what relevant story... Many years back I worked for a software company where we had traditional IT guys. One of the IT guys was really nice moral guy. One of the things he did to keep our WAN connection speedy was monitor the firewalls
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by agentgt 10y ago
I would probably pay ~$10 for some combined services of blogging, link saving, todo list management, ad removal, photo storage, maybe even email etc. (posthaven, pinboard, asana, etc). I'm not saying they have to be integrated just tha
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by agentgt 10y ago
Yes the comment was probably too harsh (I'm on the phone so it is harder to be tactful). Crap is also not very descriptive.
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by agentgt 10y ago
I thought about doing this approach but it looked like too much work (I was going to use the listen notify event support in Postgres). Instead we just write directly to durable queues on RabbitMQ (there are some exceptions where extreme con
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by agentgt 10y ago
Last year I finally switched to mac for work (I had family mac air). Before that I always used thinkpads. I still think the 15" T60 was one of the best computers I have owned. I would have stayed with it if I could upgrade 16gb (ahh Ja
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by agentgt 10y ago
An easy way to fix many of the "production" concerns is to run SQL explorer only on syndicated read only slave servers. Most databases support slave servers. Probably should be added to the readme.

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