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by bkeroack 9y ago
500k sustained random IOPS from a single device is remarkable. To put that in perspective, 500k PIOPS in AWS would cost you $32,500/month ( https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/ ). This drive looks like it would
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by bkeroack 9y ago
"And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to e
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Coming Apart by Charles Murray is an incredibly important book that goes into detail about this including immense amounts of statistical data. The core of American civilization is based on Judeo-Christian values and the fact that faith in
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Oh I'm not defending him. Some of his points were interesting but he seemed determined to piss everybody off to the point of no return. However that stuff happened after he got himself fired from Google. My point is that Google is not
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Counter-example: Michael Church (who was also aggressively banned from HN, not coincidentally)
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Exactly. Instead of colluding to artificially depress wages, flood the market with trainees to naturally and legally accomplish the same end.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
...which will depress the wages of everyone on HN reading these words. Especially entry level engineers or those without CS degrees. "Coding bootcamps" are the new DeVry IT program of the 2010s.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
> Adds the voice of a civic minded, non-profit entity to the board. Wat. We are talking about the PRC here. A totalitarian communist regime. "Less brutal"?
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by bkeroack 9y ago
The first thing every attacker will do: replace security.txt
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by bkeroack 9y ago
The entire reason GCC exists is politics. The same can be said for the rest of the base GNU system.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Whenever someone says "X is one of the dumbest ideas" there are two possibilities: 1. The person who came up with the idea is actually very stupid. 2. The person speaking doesn't fully understand the idea, or all applications
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Insane for whom? Regardless of rate of depreciation it's still an asset. The relentless drive to push everything to rental transfers value from individuals (as equity) to industry/corporations in the form of operating profit. Ther
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by bkeroack 9y ago
"when the software is ready" - every failed project ever.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Secure software isn't useful? Insecure software isn't eventually value-destroying? Really what this sub-thread is arguing is that security Isn't My Job(TM) as application developer. I disagree. Furthermore telling app devs no
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by bkeroack 9y ago
I would argue that all is part of security-aware software engineering. If you aren't thinking of these things you have no business writing publicly-exposed HTTP applications.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
It's worth noting that it's rarely necessary or desirable to put an app server like nginx in front of Go HTTP server applications. The Go standard library http and TLS stack are production quality and rock solid. Putting something
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by bkeroack 9y ago
CQL is the best and worst thing about Cassandra. The pro is that obviously it is very similar to SQL so it's easy to understand, the con is that C* is nothing like a RDBMS so you can be easily fooled into doing dumb/inefficient th
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by bkeroack 9y ago
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by bkeroack 9y ago
I can't prove it but I suspect Postmates was hacked last week. One morning I got a login alert from Postmates (I haven't used them in at least a year, don't even have the app installed anymore). I promptly reset the password.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
I upvoted. :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_I...
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Human rights aren't "provided" to you. You are born with them and they can never be taken away, only violated by thugs and tyrants.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
If every material thing that the developed world has is a "basic human right", then effectively nothing is a basic human right. Furthermore it conflates material comfort with the inherent inalienable rights that human beings are b
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by bkeroack 9y ago
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y... Coroutines with "color" are problematic.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
This is pretty sickening. I'd say the same thing if the other party were victimized. The sole intent of this is to allow terrorism and harassment of individuals. As a society we all need to disavow political violence, regardless of ide
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by bkeroack 9y ago
My sympathies for your condition, but I regret to inform you that the rest of the world does not revolve around you and your symptoms. Speech is not violence harming you, however much you might want to claim it as such.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
This is a false argument. Speech is not "harming someone". This is a tactic that seems to be more common recently: trying to equate expression of ideas with violence, and then claiming that violence is acceptable to suppress this
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Would they have done the same for a right-wing website? Just as importantly, would HN be just as pro free speech if they had? Free speech as a value and ideal must be content-neutral.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
A big part of this is that the 405 acts as a giant nearly impenetrable wall separating the west side from everywhere else. The few underpasses that exist (Ohio, etc) become horrific logjams every day. I've spent 45 min going 1/4 m
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Be careful, you might be blacklisted! Remember, thoughtcrime is still crime.
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by bkeroack 9y ago
Hacker culture used to trend towards libertarian ideals: free speech absolutism, cyberpunk freedom, etc. Now we have a huge mass of people at Google forming a rage mob to punish someone for expressing an unpopular idea. Should people lose t

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