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by aristus 16y ago
Some datacenters (eg the Miami IPX/NAP) use flywheels the size of large trucks to provide failover until the generators kick in. They are seriously scary machines up close.
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by aristus 16y ago
That is a very good point, but what alternative do you suggest? Keep in mind that hiring can consume a lot of existing employee time.
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by aristus 16y ago
That is what happened to me at a couple of previous jobs. At one I blacked out some clauses. At another they forgot to get me some contract or another, and I wasn't going to remind them. In both cases someone noticed a long time later durin
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by aristus 16y ago
Shares in the company. One hopes, near an integer percentage.
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by aristus 16y ago
There are governments that get most of their revenue from taxing the extraction of natural resources, eg Venezuela or Alberta. But like Venezuela vs Alberta, the outcome is not guaranteed to be good. IMO the danger of a government that does
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by aristus 16y ago
Azingo, 280 North, 4Home, now ZumoDrive. I wonder what Motorola thinks they are up to?
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by aristus 16y ago
A cool thing about this design is that it also allows for redundant, independent internet archives. But some of those pieces look like they are interlocking instead of stacked. I also don't quite get how you can assume the existence of a no
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by aristus 16y ago
Well, there are nuances here. HFT may not be a net win for humanity, but it's a long leap from there to "no arms race benefits humanity". The last large "arms race" was a decades-long contest between the US and the USSR. It resulted in mill
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by aristus 16y ago
Authenticity is key. Once you figure out how to fake that, you're golden.
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by aristus 16y ago
Not to stir the pot, Paul, but was google the only place where your criticisms were welcomed? What about Facebook?
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by aristus 16y ago
On the plus side, the urge to troll attenuates with age as well.
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by aristus 16y ago
yeah -- it's been rotting. :( Here is a "public" list: https://www.archivd.com/public/detail/dEuLp5fXxS772U It also has fulltext search, etc. You can sign up for free.
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by aristus 16y ago
I wish you luck! Check out archivd.com and dowser.sf.net; there are lots of good ideas to steal. (I wrote them both, but they are not under active development.)
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by aristus 16y ago
I'm pretty sure "session-based memory management" should be "memory-based session management", ie they kept user session state in memory.
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by aristus 16y ago
It happens. PHP turned into a decent language when I wasn't looking.
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by aristus 16y ago
Ah yes, the "visa discount". The legal part of our immigration regime is exploitative, humiliating, and such a great deal for employers that I don't see it changing any time soon.
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by aristus 16y ago
Corrected, though I'm not completely happy with it: http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/11/full-stack.html
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by aristus 16y ago
I dunno then, check Wikipedia. But I'd say there are far more who pass the test than are famous enough to rate a wikipage. The problem of finding polymaths is that non-allied fields are, well, non-allied. Often no one knows about the other
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by aristus 16y ago
Depends on what you mean. To me it's not just someone who is very good at one thing and then writes a decent book about it. I know a few people who are more than merely competent in several fields, eg music, chemistry, and emergency medicin
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by aristus 16y ago
JSMin (and other compressors) often cause terrible, hard-to-understand bugs in sloppy code. Passing JSLint helps avoid a lot of those problems.
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by aristus 16y ago
I also looked into it recently, and Damon from the Gnome project attempted it in 2002 or so. Also Adobe+Google are trying to get it into WebKit. The problem (as far as I can tell) is that people have tried to do it all at once, and pushing
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by aristus 16y ago
I worry a lot about this. I don't think it's distrust so much as thoughtlessness. From what I can tell, Google (and other companies) started using these kinds of questions as a way to cheaply filter sudden floods of applicants, not becaus
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by aristus 16y ago
I think you're right. I'll try to come up with a simpler example and update the piece. Thanks!
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by aristus 16y ago
The drive themselves might be an extra 10 or 20% of the cost of the machine. They come with other factors as well. 5x the disks means more power draw and cooling. It probably also means you need a 2U chassis instead of pizza-box 1U, which m
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by aristus 16y ago
This sounds reasonable. AFAIK the default readahead on Linux is 128KB, so you'll probably need to test and tune quite a bit to get it right. I had a paragraph roughly along those lines in an early draft, but decided it was too much detail.
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The Full Stack, Part I(calendar.perfplanet.com)
3 points by aristus 16y ago|0 comments
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The State of Web Performance Optimization – 2010(calendar.perfplanet.com)
3 points by aristus 16y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 16y ago
I think you are missing the point. What's remarkable is that this person is combining basic hacking skills with a completely different career, not the cleverness of the design. Not everyone has to be a poet but amazing societal changes happ
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by aristus 16y ago
I think it's a bit more deep, especially given our prior history with Afghanistan and General Zia, and the complicated role of AQ Khan in nuclear proliferation. stratfor is a good place to dig into those kinds of questions.
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by aristus 16y ago
I would guess that the OP means realpolitik. Where there is power, there is corruption. Smuggling currency is a very (very) common hobby. Horse-trading (influence for money, trade deals for extradition, taking in inconvenient "no longer ene

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