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by batou 11y ago
Pretty much everything I've built that is standalone uses exactly this model. It's a wonderful bit of tech!
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by batou 11y ago
You can indeed. Are they the ones that shipped with the original Go as well?
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by batou 11y ago
This. I really wish I could get paid to use it but everyone wants Linux and Microsoft shufflers. I can live in hope.
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by batou 11y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the detailed reply.
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by batou 11y ago
I completely agree but my point is more that the compiler shouldn't be that large even whilst linking and doing whole program optimisation. Proportionately to the size of the output binary the overhead is unreasonably large. Firefox an
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by batou 11y ago
Didn't they look at PCC as well? No idea what happened to that.
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by batou 11y ago
I think something that requires 8Gb memory to run the linker has a bug.
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by batou 11y ago
That's very true which is why we wrangled the architecture off the database folk :)
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by batou 11y ago
Indeed. This is good motivation for you: http://i.imgur.com/Q8NtKTk.png Cache hits versus misses. The latter may result in multiple SQL queries whereas the former are returned from the cache. Imagine the cluster we'd n
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by batou 11y ago
When you sign a volume license contract with them it grants them the right to do it. The immediate cost savings is all the business sees.
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by batou 11y ago
Yes. We stick with memcached. Every node in our cluster has an uptime of over 3 years handling up to 5000 requests a second so we're quite happy to leave it. In fact it's the most reliable thing I've ever seen I think. Redis
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by batou 11y ago
Indeed. Works out at £12 a year for me including domain. I tried loads of shared hosting before and it was all expensive and unreliable. You get 5 free boxes per domain as well which is enough. If they did some static hosting included that&
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by batou 11y ago
Rather than write another reply, I'll link you to my thoughts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9928688
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by batou 11y ago
Yeah I did this when I had a T61 so I could enable SATA2. Thanks for the heads up with CoreBoot
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by batou 11y ago
Yep. I read the actual agreement first, don't worry :)
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by batou 11y ago
I agree with respect to traditional architectures but most of our stuff runs from our cache layer (97% of queries are cache hits) so we're moving to lots of smaller and cheaper instances with a cache front end (memcached). We literally
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by batou 11y ago
I'm using http://gandi.net/ who incidentally handle my domain registration. I ran my own mail server (postfix, dovecot) for a few years so I agree with you entirely there!
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by batou 11y ago
I've got a Nokia 106 for voice/SMS floating around already and intend to use just my laptop with a tether or 4G card. i.e. no smartphone at all.
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by batou 11y ago
Thank you. Much appreciated. I've got a ThinkPad X201 with a built in Gobi 3G card already. Just used to 4g speeds :)
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by batou 11y ago
We're only keeping it around due to a pile of stored procedures and coupling (see an earlier thread on this I was whinging about). PostgreSQL is the next step. We'll pay for support via EnterpriseDB still. Our main SQL cluster is
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by batou 11y ago
Thanks - much appreciated. That's a good solution I hadn't thought of. Annoyingly my ThinkPad has a Gobi 3G card in it but I've got used to 4G speeds now.
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by batou 11y ago
Yes I agree entirely; you're 100% right. The only 3rd party service I now rely on personally is my domain registrar and an IMAP box which is unavoidable to participate in the world now. I've closed most of my online accounts with
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by batou 11y ago
Indeed. Wait until you have to deal with an audit. Apparently, even on microsoft's advice on licensing, we still owed them about £50,000 of missing licenses after an audit... Most of this was down to a SQL Server upgrade where core and
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by batou 11y ago
That's not terrible. We have a couple of high end HP machines that are 4U and cost more than that each.
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by batou 11y ago
Not happening. Sorry this has gone on long enough. Closed both Microsoft accounts and cancelled my MSDN and AP subscription renewals. I do a big chunk of my work on a CentOS desktop machine already. There's not much of a push to chuck
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by batou 11y ago
Still appears on mine if you remove that and block it. Lots of people have reported that.
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by batou 11y ago
It's still there and running though. That's like you know there's a hissing cockroach living under the sink but you just close the door and stick your fingers in your ears.
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by batou 11y ago
It's only a notification until you can't turn it off. It's incredibly difficult to get rid of it on a non-domain attached windows 8.1 machine.
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by batou 11y ago
I got the upgrade from 8.1 Pro last night: 1. The OOBE experience ran twice. It rebooted half way through the first one to apply updates and then I had to do it all again. 2. It lost the product key and won't activate even though this
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by batou 11y ago
Ansible, systemd and go is stealing my heart at the moment. Basically pick the tech that doesn't cause the problems to start with. I still reckon that the main reason VMware ESX is as successful as it is comes down to the lack of isola

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