billsmithaustin

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   by billsmithaustin 10y ago

   Try The Economist. There is a $12 for $12 week introductory rate.
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   by billsmithaustin 10y ago

   I understand that Canonical proposes Snaps as a standard, but can you be specific about how they are trying to force it on everyone else?
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   by billsmithaustin 10y ago

   His site is a great information source. I used some of his work to diagnose a JVM performance problem (discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12505517 ).
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   by billsmithaustin 10y ago

   There was a similar story two years ago about how a farmer was legally prohibited from altering the software in a John Deere tractor owned by the farmer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9414211
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   by billsmithaustin 10y ago

   The VAX was not a mainframe.
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   by billsmithaustin 10y ago

   I guess that excludes enterprise software companies.
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   by billsmithaustin 10y ago

   I'm not sure name-calling is the best way to make your case. Couldn't someone who defends Apple against their shortcomings be written off as an Apple fanboy too?
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   by billsmithaustin 10y ago

   Alabama is in the midst of a drought.
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   by billsmithaustin 10y ago

   The Apollo 1 cabin caught on fire on the launch pad. All three astronauts died.
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    by billsmithaustin 10y ago

    True, but running at 7754 tps over an hour with a database of 28M users is easier than with a database of 1B users.
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    by billsmithaustin 10y ago

    It is nonsensical to credit Trump's win to the Electoral College. How a candidate runs a campaign is dependent on the rules that govern the election. If you were to change the rules, the campaign would be run differently. None of us
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    by billsmithaustin 10y ago

    The article makes a good case for why you might not have a good idea for what it means for my friend on the other side of the country to wake up an 9. In the United States, for example, there are states that opt out of Daylight Savings Tim
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    by billsmithaustin 10y ago

    I believe TieredCompilation was disabled by default on Java 7u55: $ java -server -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal -version|grep TieredCompilation bool TieredCompilation = false
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    by billsmithaustin 10y ago

    Thanks, I'll see what I can do to clarify that point.
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    by billsmithaustin 10y ago

    I think you meant the machine code. The Java compiler produces bytecode from Java source. The C1 and C2 bytecode compilers in the JVM convert bytecode to machine code. Yes, I agree if C2 recompiles something C1 already compiled, the C1-co
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    by billsmithaustin 10y ago

    Yes, I think that approach would avoid propagating inappropriate or unnecessary settings.
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    by billsmithaustin 10y ago

    To be clear, the Java 8 default is much higher than Java 7's. If you stick with the default, you will probably be fine.
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    by billsmithaustin 10y ago

    We knew to adjust other JVM settings (e.g. PermGen replaced by Metaspace) but we overlooked that (1) we used a non-default max codecache size and (2) the default for that setting was 3x higher for Java 8. An unfortunate thing about using no
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    by billsmithaustin 10y ago

    Author here. We know 128MB codecache was not enough and 256MB was sufficient. I think we could have gotten by with less, e.g. 200MB, but we stopped experimenting once we found a value that worked. We don't have a complete understandi
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    by billsmithaustin 12y ago

    One shortcoming of the OP's approach is the out-of-band process for updating dnsmasq's hosts file. If you want to use something like fig to start a cluster of containers, you still have to wrap a script around the fig command to