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by bboreham 11y ago
The goal of a QA person should be "shipping great software".
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by bboreham 11y ago
I started Edinburgh University in 1983, and there were about 10% women on the CS course. There were more, I think, on the AI course, but that was in a completely different department.
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by bboreham 11y ago
> Current LTO-4 and LTO-5 tapes [...] go for $22-23, uncompressed capacities are 800 and 1.5 GB respectively. I think you meant 1.5TB. However, why not just use hard disk drives at just over twice that price? You'd get quite a lot o
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by bboreham 11y ago
Eliza?
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by bboreham 11y ago
The sender maintains cwnd as a completely separate parameter that does not go in any packets. It doesn't "know" anything; the value of this parameter is arrived at by some set of heuristics. See for instance https:/&#x
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by bboreham 11y ago
Why wouldn't an http client library turn off Nagle's algorithm by default?
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by bboreham 11y ago
There's a further 52 weeks available, to be shared between the parents.
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by bboreham 11y ago
> if the receiver has buffer space available nitpick: if the sender believes the entire path between sender and receiver has buffer space available. I.e. it will send up to the minimum of the receive window and the congestion window. Re
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by bboreham 11y ago
CloudFlare is a CDN, so needs to be hosted in data centres all over the place, often collocated with ISPs.
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by bboreham 11y ago
AOL email is free (well, ad-supported) now, so people "stuck" with it may have moved to a different ISP.
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by bboreham 11y ago
> If so, that's probably the simplest overlay solution of all the aforementioned (I work on Weave) Weave Net also lets you create a Docker overlay network using VXLAN, without insisting that you configure a distributed KV store (etc
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by bboreham 11y ago
On my first visit to India I was confused to find that big numbers were expressed in 'lakh', which is 100,000. So a million could be "ten lakh". This unit would be useful for discussing house prices where I live, but do
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by bboreham 11y ago
Nitpick: first you need to increase the "Screen Buffer Size" width, then you can change the Window Size width too.
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by bboreham 11y ago
1993 (Windows NT 3.1)
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by bboreham 11y ago
> resizable cmd window A couple of people have referred to this, but I've been resizing CMD windows for over a decade. Maybe you mean you couldn't increase the width by dragging, only via a dialog?
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by bboreham 11y ago
Kind of odd that "What is a container?" comes near the bottom of the page. But 100 bonus points for never mentioning Docker.
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by bboreham 11y ago
And it's sent as part of the host, hence plaintext.
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by bboreham 11y ago
Why would you want to do that? (Btw, most current solutions allow some containers to talk to some containers but not others. E.g. using IP subnets)
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by bboreham 11y ago
> We did not have detailed enough monitoring for this dimension (membership size) It is often the case that you aren't monitoring the metric that would have told you the world was about to end. However, > their processing time wa
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by bboreham 11y ago
Easier-to-digest commentary: http://news.mit.edu/2015/first-new-cache-coherence-mechanism...
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Tardis: Time Traveling Coherence Algorithm for Distributed Shared Memory [pdf](people.csail.mit.edu)
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by bboreham 11y ago
Some governments want more lending: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-40-million-investment... http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-adminis...
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by bboreham 11y ago
> Yes, you can start dropping into special transactions Transactions aren't "special" in SQL. You expect that reads and writes within a transaction are kept consistent, unless you have deliberately chosen a weaker seriali
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by bboreham 11y ago
> Unless you can list here the "checks and balances ... The key check on Libor was that it took a pretty big conspiracy to fix it. There were approx 16 banks submitting numbers, and the process was to rank those numbers, drop the to
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by bboreham 11y ago
The special thing that banks do is take deposits. This is tightly regulated in most countries. Anyone can lend money, as you say.
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by bboreham 11y ago
Judith Kerr, author of The Tiger Who Came To Tea, endlessly has to defend critics who assert that the tiger is an allegory for the Gestapo. "It's just a tiger", she says. BTW, her life story is pretty amazing - http:/&
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by bboreham 11y ago
NuevaSync has supported this for years, via ActiveSync. https://www.nuevasync.com/nuevasync-pemail.html Disclosure: have family connection to owners.
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by bboreham 11y ago
The capital that can fly, has flown.
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by bboreham 11y ago
Schematic: http://cube-drone.com/comics/c/alien-geometries
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by bboreham 11y ago
A major point of weave is that you don't have to change your code, so it has to work with the kernel network APIs.

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