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by ballard 13y ago
That could hire 18 staff w/ solid chops in Silicon Valley and still have plenty for gear, software and vendors.
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by ballard 13y ago
Hurricane Electric transit FTW.
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by ballard 13y ago
Reserves instances long-term don't make much p&l sense, it makes more sense to rent dedicated hw where most of the other costs are cheaper.
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. Folks like Netflix and Zynga are showing off how much money they are willing to spend for more potential agility. They could save a ton for predictable capacity by deploying dedicated boxes + openstack. That's where the savings
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by ballard 13y ago
AWS is best for PoC, bursting capacity, batch jobs and getting around corporate policies.
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by ballard 13y ago
(I was part of a preferred AWS solution provider shop that demonstrated AWS' enterpriseness.) Pair (US), ByteMark (UK) and Linode (global) are top choices for budget stuff. ByteMark has setup VMware boxes with freenas storage for us i
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by ballard 13y ago
dtrace is cool, and it benefits from source instrumentation (probes). strace / dtruss just spit out kernel syscalls of any user land program wo modifications. Also dtrace, as seen on smartos
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by ballard 13y ago
Ported care of Debian patches and apple open source: https://github.com/steakknife/openssh/tree/apple-osx-openssh... Update: it doesn't build yet, minor patch issue will fix tomrw. Update 2: Fixed buildi
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by ballard 13y ago
Brew formula for mac https://gist.github.com/8266138
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by ballard 13y ago
If the business is risky (which is probably is), use safer tech choices. If the business seems boring, use a few extra bleeding edge solutions to engage us technical folks.
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by ballard 13y ago
Exactly. It should be the nuclear option of last resort.
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by ballard 13y ago
kill -0 <pid> to test if a process is alive. kill -9 -1 to send a KILL to every process.
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by ballard 13y ago
It might not be that simple as ops folks often have to support specific versions of stuff on apps that use db-specific features. In that case, it might be worth a prof services contract with a db shop. (I've supported clustered Oracle
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by ballard 13y ago
Best to wait sufficiently if possible, because what's happening might just be important to somebody. If nothing else works, kill -9 -<master pid> to kill the whole process group, otherwise detached processes owned by init could g
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by ballard 13y ago
To be consistent with this logic, most of California should be returned to Mexico. And if there were a serious effort for it, it's a safe bet that some other contrary excuse would be trotted out. (When bullshit arguments are used, use
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by ballard 13y ago
Have you seen what happens when holiday food drive barrels are brought front-and-center to techie venues? Basically empty. Go to any Midwestern state whether an office or a supermarket, and these same barrels are most often overflowing.
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by ballard 13y ago
It depends on how much $upport Vinod gives to reelection campaign$ vs. public vocality. If there's enough sustained outrage, it could force their hand or at least slap it in the direction of honesty.
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by ballard 13y ago
Malibu has similar problems, except residents put up fake signs and blocked/obscured access. A nice lady even made an iPhone app to document this knowledge: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/our-malibu-beaches&
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by ballard 13y ago
UC Davis and other labs will do adulteration testing including genetic testing. http://anlab.ucdavis.edu/olives http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-basics/usda-new-tests...
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by ballard 13y ago
TL;DR -> DMMT (don't make me think ;)
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by ballard 13y ago
Exactly. Moreover it is weak and dishonest to agree to with others when you don't or know the opposite to be true. Honesty > politeness > fools. Feedback is how we can improve our situation, false approval is how others furthe
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by ballard 13y ago
0. Is there a way to disable FireWire and Thunderbolt ports on OSX? 1. Is there yet any I/O firewall like Little Snitch or Hands Off! are for files and network? 2. Linux and Windows also desperately need I/O firewalls.
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by ballard 13y ago
This reminds me of Radiuz, but the problem was that it was a double-ended userbase that needed far more press and capital to survive. http://wifinetnews.com/archives/2004/06/radiuz_combines_wpa-... Perhaps th
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by ballard 13y ago
Yeah. Free mesh networks like Mt View Google WiFi perform badly because they're constantly reforwarding to a tiny, low-bandwidth pipe. It's tragedy of the commons also, it only takes one jerk on a poorly QoSed network to hog up
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by ballard 13y ago
Foreign Policy should be buzzing about how to first defend against quadrocopters strapped with an IED. The moment the first one happens, there will be dozens more. And that's just getting warmed up for emergent "asymmetric"
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by ballard 13y ago
The theory of evolution should encompass techniques, politics and non-organic tools as part of more a capable existence that is bigger than anthropocentrism and organicentrism. That the rifle and the soldier are a machine together, just as
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by ballard 13y ago
Don't get caught and you won't be arrested. Further, you can probably spot weaknesses in a machine that can't construct new strategies outside its programming or has to be controlled remotely.
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by ballard 13y ago
Policy, war and business are different arenas for the same game: who gets comfortable and who gets dead.
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by ballard 13y ago
Nukes were a concern. Having an army of terminators controlled by a handful of people gives them the power to hold a lasting monopoly of violence: power. It also removes potential for disobedience and whistleblowers of organic soldiers.
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by ballard 13y ago
Since when has the military been concerned about safety? They kill for a living and have demonstrated they don't give a shit about the aftermath (depleted uranium, unexploded cluster bomblets, land mines and indiscriminate, lengthy ki

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