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Ask HN: why don't larger cloud hosts use container virtualization?
1 points by api 14y ago|1 comments
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by api 14y ago
This is diplomatic and charitable. When I see a repeat pattern of GroupOn and Zynga type companies I see someone who knows how to pump and dump. It's not quite fraud but it's getting close, given how loose these sorts of people typically pl
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by api 14y ago
Those who oppose an open Internet always drag up things like pedophilia, abuse porn, stalking, libel, and bullying. These are forms of abuse and harassment, not free speech. Very, very badly handled... so badly in fact that the dirt seems t
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Reddit wants free speech, as long as it agrees with the speaker(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by api 14y ago|1 comments
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by api 14y ago
US-EAST-1 seems to have more issues than their other data centers... anyone know if this is really true?
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by api 14y ago
It's also very advantageous for favoring politically well connected players in an economy and engaging in economic warfare. As far as conspiracy theories go, it depends on who you're talking about. It also depends on the conspiracy theory.
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by api 14y ago
I don't necessarily buy into "Austrian" economics, but this guy is really engaging in a bit of a straw man here. "When someone pays me, I receive the purchasing power of that money at that time, why shouldn’t I be entitled to that purchasin
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by api 14y ago
"Ad industry privacy initiative" is like "defense department pacifism initiative."
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Best Practices for Scientific Computing(arxiv.org)
4 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
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Code Density Concerns for New Architectures [pdf](csl.cornell.edu)
1 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
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by api 14y ago
So you're saying they just don't understand the software industry? I can believe that. I do see a lot of cynical money grabs though, so it's an easy thing to believe.
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by api 14y ago
Sure they do. This Pandora's Box contains cash, for lawyers.
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by api 14y ago
Yet another wonderful legacy of Ronald Reagan.
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by api 14y ago
There are some interesting folks in Detroit, lured by the same attitude: http://omnicorpdetroit.com/blog/
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by api 14y ago
Interesting that you bring up Detroit. Detroit once had the highest salaries in the US from the auto industry, and priced out everyone not involved in the auto industry. Then the auto industry crashed. That's not the only reason Detroit cra
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by api 14y ago
There's a sort of ugly urban cycle. First, you get an interesting place. Then interesting people move in. These interesting people do interesting things. Wages go up. Money moves in. Then you have real-estate hyperinflation, and the place b
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by api 14y ago
OSX demonstrates the power of design. Apple is a fashion company. Freedom is all good, but not if it looks like shit, and pretty much everything but Apple (at least as of the mid-2000s) looked like shit. I am pleased with the overall design
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by api 14y ago
Most GAs are not a very faithful adaptation of actual biological evolution, either. The real evolutionary process is a bit different. Most notably, the "agent" actually implements the algorithm in the sense that it performs its own self-rep
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by api 14y ago
Yeah. Maps is one of the most important smartphone apps. They might have just handed the market to Droid.
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by api 14y ago
Yes. Congress is made up mostly of lawyers, who get rich off such nonsense. It's also largely controlled by old money and Eastern money, not nuevo riche California tech money.
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by api 14y ago
It would appear, based on many incidents underway at the moment, that the software patent apocalypse is beginning. All software infringes something, so it should get interesting. Hopefully the absurdity will stink so badly that even the U.S
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by api 14y ago
IMHO the only acceptable use of a goto statement is to break from a multiply-nested loop in C-like languages. Even there, it is likely that a refactor can eliminate this. It's usually a sign that there is a simpler or more elegant way of do
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by api 14y ago
Not only that, but LD_PRELOAD and the ability to override symbols is a very valuable debugging tool. It also has value in other areas. For example, it is possible to make any binary -- even an entire virtual machine -- send all network traf
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by api 14y ago
An act of God will not help MS in the mobile or tablet market.
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by api 14y ago
There is a difference between financial fraud and doping. The latter can actually increase performance, while the former only appears to on the surface. Lance Armstrong actually is faster. WorldCom was not, in fact, doing any better tha
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by api 14y ago
I think we need conscious consumerism in the electronics industry just like we have now in food, clothing, etc. I think a lot of people would consider electronics made with first-world labor practices and livable wages. It would be a bit mo
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by api 14y ago
There's an alternative interpretation here: that the heights of human achievement are not available "cleanly." Truth be told, there's a lot of doping in other fields. I've hung around startuppers, scientists, and med students who heavily us
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by api 14y ago
You can't compare comic book superheroes to normal people. :)
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by api 14y ago
Reminds me of why I got out of startups.
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by api 14y ago
Gnome 3 gets a ton of hate, but I'm using it now and it's quite nice.

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