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by ansgri 14y ago
And the real problem is the non-uniformity of the load. If your 10M/mo request start concentrating around weekends, you've got a problem... Except you haven't, as your infrastructure is elastic, and this is the real bonus. Also, I'd be very
722.
by ansgri 14y ago
It isn't fair to compare server products with gaming ones, because server products are bought by people with big money, and the lock-in potential is much bigger. You need much more popular product, and you must be consistently good across v
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by ansgri 14y ago
I presume so, because the VM manager is a critical and very stable component. Even google://'virtual memory "changelog" site:kernel.org' doesn't seem to uncover any significant changes.
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Understanding Virtual Memory(redhat.com)
29 points by ansgri 14y ago|5 comments
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by ansgri 14y ago
Thanks for clarification! It must be that the internet coverage of the issue is heavily skewed towards disappointed people, as always.
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by ansgri 14y ago
I always wonder, how can you U.S. guys tolerate this stupid carrier lock-in with year-long contracts? When in other parts of the world they are planning or already have laws obliging carriers to provide call forwarding to your new number af
727.
by ansgri 14y ago
Thanks! Found it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5060631 Still surprised that this is not an officially supported workflow, though...
728.
by ansgri 14y ago
By upvoting. Upvoted links are listed under 'saved stories' link on your profile page. Hence the name.
729.
Ask HN: how do you export/share all your saved stories?
3 points by ansgri 14y ago|5 comments
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by ansgri 14y ago
I'm not talking about 'traditional' strict hierarchies, but rather about ~3-storey organically evolved scheme where leadership is quite informal and firing is really not an option: our company is quite young and people are the most valuable
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by ansgri 14y ago
I think this is the most important point (I remember coming to a similar conclusion some years ago), but now I think there are a couple of ways around this caveat (mostly applicable to business, but also of some use in personal relationship
732.
by ansgri 14y ago
Today we've had an interesting discussion at our startup about subordination, and stumbled into a question where do good technical leaders come from. Our CTO's thesis was that no sane technical person wants to be a boss; rather, he'd be doi
733.
by ansgri 14y ago
Almost all image sensors see near IR very well. Most consumer lens block IR very well, to make image similar to that perceived by human. Not so for CCTV lens: they don't block IR to allow human-invisible lighting via LEDs just like in these
734.
by ansgri 14y ago
> The idea of freedom in (fundamental) research seems long dead Is it so in the US? Or where? Here in Russia it is far from true, at least in the top institutes. As long as you produce publishable results, you may do virtually whatever
735.
by ansgri 14y ago
SQLite is so obvious, and in many cases it's just enough. Or, hsqldb if you're into Java.
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by ansgri 14y ago
How complicated was the bureocracy that you couldn't push the change into production yourself after verifying that it is a strict speed-up and doesn't break anything? I think such barriers are incompatible with the word 'research', where th
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by ansgri 14y ago
Indeed, mega-monsters like C++ and Python are old enough that Google sends people away from SO to more traditional old books and blog posts which already have most questions answered.
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by ansgri 14y ago
You don’t want to cloud your learning And you probably shouldn't start learning with 'the cloud'. Better start with a shared host and learn the foundations than to get spoiled by Heroku's 'easy deployment' and then get hit by Leaky Abstra
739.
by ansgri 14y ago
The problem here is that there's almost no paid alternative: Gmail still has the best web UI, and do you know any search company with a subscription fee? That is, there's no alternative payment method: you pay with personal details, dollar
740.
by ansgri 14y ago
The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving gives you a straightforward way to write a decent tech report of any complexity (Ph.D thesis level included) in a reasonable time.
741.
by ansgri 14y ago
And a competitor that supports real backup, not just sync. Like SpiderOak. Client-side encryption as a bonus.
742.
by ansgri 14y ago
Autocad has a very interesting GUI concept, not in that it's programmable (VBA existed in CorelDraw for years), in its dialogue mode: you click a circle, and it asks you of a center; you either click or type coordinates. Sadly, this mode is
743.
by ansgri 14y ago
As kylebrown noted the distinction between 'free from' and 'free to', your interpretation suggests that the free market is the freedom to screw everyone you could manage to. I like this description, but the question is: is it net negative f
744.
by ansgri 14y ago
It might be a bit dangerous with some kind of people: when I'm telling I'm doing something the answer would always be a mixture of 'Of course not, the results are nowhere as good as they should be' and 'Of course yes, or I wouldn't do it'.
745.
by ansgri 14y ago
They all are but the different formulations of ARBEIT MACHT FREI.
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by ansgri 14y ago
Having somewhat biological background, I've wondered if it is about bees. The page and slide title are correct though (APIs).
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by ansgri 14y ago
This is one of those ideas that you wish someone executed but don't want to dedicate whole 2--5 years to it yourself.
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by ansgri 14y ago
Also the increasing popularity of computer vision on those mobile platforms. You can't realistically do 'serious' CV in anything but C or C++. Maybe in Python, since it has NumPy and bindings to OpenCV and Leptonica. Though I've found it di
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by ansgri 14y ago
It's an interesting approach! I want to try it in combination with some custom 1-or 2-letter command that would display all this 'prompt-porn' in a single line on demand. Maybe a 1 or 2-letter indicator on what host I am (e.g. nothing for l
750.
by ansgri 14y ago
Yea, CapsLock must die and reborn as third Ctrl. Not only because of all caps, but some folks tend to map it to keyboard layout switching only because it gives them LED indication of the language being used. It also makes your keyboard habi

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