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by bboreham 11y ago
Well, that's weird: I got into an argument with my Uber driver at SFO last week because the app said his car was gray and I didn't notice it waiting there because to me it looked black. Maybe it's supported for different grad
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by bboreham 11y ago
> “It is easier to get forgiveness than permission” appears earlier in Arthur Bloch, Murphy’s Law Book Two (1980) http://freakonomics.com/2010/06/24/quotes-uncovered-forgiven...
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by bboreham 11y ago
Wouldn't Docker for Windows (in preview for many months now) count as the first step?
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by bboreham 11y ago
But those "32", "64", etc., numbers are times 1,000,000,000 bytes.
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by bboreham 11y ago
Longer treatment of similar material by same author: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/946076.Why_Does_Software_...
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by bboreham 11y ago
Flash drives are sold in base-10 units. Nobody gets to see the base-2 nature of the internals.
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by bboreham 11y ago
.Net is compiled to native code, either jit or at deployment time.
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by bboreham 11y ago
The networking features introduced in Docker are one "standard"; CNI is another "standard" [1]. Weave Net as a product ships with support for the former; the blog post describes work towards support for the latter. No th
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by bboreham 11y ago
I think you were running with encryption turned on. This is a unique feature of Weave Net, but has some costs. Without encryption, Weave Net uses the same VXLAN technology as Docker Overlay; goes at close to native speed. (note I am a frie
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by bboreham 11y ago
I thought this was going to be some kind of programming analogy, like pets and cattle.
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by bboreham 11y ago
Weaveworker here: I'd love to know what you mean by "over-complicate". It can be as simple as `docker run --net=weave ...`. We have a PR open that would let you connect Docker's bridge to Weave Net - https://
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by bboreham 11y ago
What are you talking about? .Net is compiled to native code on load. (Or earlier)
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by bboreham 11y ago
> docker was created to enable easy scaling of web applications Citation? From my perspective, most of the features you'd need to do that appeared around 2 years into Docker's life.
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by bboreham 11y ago
I learned Objective-C in 1988 (yes, really), as a serious competitor to C++ for the project we were embarking on. But, prior to AutoRelease its memory management made it basically unusable. I became something of a C++ expert for the next 20
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by bboreham 11y ago
"Meh"
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by bboreham 11y ago
There are machines at every station that will accept your cash or credit card and give you a paper ticket in return. Or give you an Oyster Card, for that matter.
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by bboreham 11y ago
The banks using the system pay money into their BoE accounts if their transactions add up to a net outflow.
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by bboreham 11y ago
The financial equivalent is more like selling an unhedged option than borrowing - the cost of paying back will increase unpredictably based on what other people do, not at a steady rate like interest.
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by bboreham 11y ago
He picked objects in the British Museum . Wars have their own museum in London - the Imperial War Museum - and the computer revolution is somewhat represented in the Science Museum.
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by bboreham 11y ago
Many people find it valuable to be able to buy a home right away, rather than saving up for 20 years. Much of the modern world is impossible without financial instruments that let corporations borrow hundreds of millions of dollars. Airline
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by bboreham 11y ago
> All debts and obligations were honored British depositors with banks such as Icesave were bailed out by the UK government. Apparently 85% has since been repaid from Iceland, but you maintain "All"? http://www.te
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by bboreham 11y ago
> Transfers with TransferWise aren't instant, they wait Do note that if the market moves a long way while they are waiting they will cancel the entire transaction. This is a very different product to the one offered by your bank. Y
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by bboreham 11y ago
Many countries used Enigma and its derivatives after the war; the UK and US did not want those countries to know they could read their messages.
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by bboreham 11y ago
The odour is similar to well-used running shoes.
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by bboreham 11y ago
> The idea that the English dominated Scotland [...] is nuts. What is your alternative explanation for, say, Fort George? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_George,_Highland
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by bboreham 11y ago
I don't think it's haphazard; much of TFA's point is that people don't make the distinction correctly. So, here, it's saying that few Scots/Welsh/etc were involved in fighting the slave trade, politically.
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by bboreham 11y ago
Queueing theory shows that one queue with multiple servers is better than one queue per server.
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by bboreham 11y ago
The reason given here appears to be bullshit. Nothing stops banks from reducing settlement period with existing technology, except change is complicated. It's already been done for foreign exchange - look up Continuous Linked Settlemen
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by bboreham 11y ago
> if the price of Maya goes up in a year, he pockets the difference. No: he sold an option, so the buyer can opt to do nothing; he benefits by just the price of the option. As time went on he bought options in other things, trying to app
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Docker Networking with No External Cluster Store from Weaveworks(blog.weave.works)
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