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by btmorex 16y ago
I'd say VPSs are great if you're CPU bound, okay if you're memory bound, and terrible if you're disk IO bound. Basically, CPU time is an abundant resource that's easily partitioned, but can be shared. So, you're guaranteed your share, but y
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by btmorex 16y ago
Well, one real story is a whole lot more compelling than hearsay.
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by btmorex 16y ago
but I have to admit that the linux users are the most tight-fisted demographic I've ever seen. This seems to suggest the exact opposite of what you just said: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/28471/Humble_Indie_Bundle...
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by btmorex 16y ago
Is that really Google's problem? I mean I realize there aren't a lot of great engineers, but it seems to me that their primary problem is that they are no longer the "hot" company to work for. I think all companies reach this point as they
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by btmorex 16y ago
64bit only is a significant disadvantage for lower memory VPS's. I'm not sure what problem you're trying to solve wrt including a kernel or whatever, but running 32bit gives you substantially more memory for applications.
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by btmorex 16y ago
Wow. He screwed over his cofounder(s).
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by btmorex 16y ago
TL;DR: happiness is in your head. If you have money and still aren't happy, the next step is not "kill yourself" it is examine your head to work out how to be happy. If you dedicated years of your life to making money in order to be happy
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by btmorex 16y ago
You should actually be rooting for telco competition. Look at areas where Verizon FIOS and Comcast compete head-to-head. Not only is the broadband excellent quality, it's price competitive with almost any other European/East Asian nation. T
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by btmorex 16y ago
Because everything about C++ is bad. Didn't you get the memo?
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by btmorex 16y ago
These would have been far more interesting if they focused on newer, less established companies and products. Everyone already knows exactly what Twitter, Facebook, and the iPad are and no one cares if they win awards.
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by btmorex 16y ago
"To me, it's more about no longer needing to think about memory as a scarce resource, something you allocate carefully and manage with great care." Once your data set doesn't fit in memory, it is indeed a scarce resource. And 24 GB is reall
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by btmorex 16y ago
Not sure what your point is. The worst of effects of nuclear weapons weren't known at the time (yes, killing all those civilians was terrible too, but worse things happened in WW2). Here's a few questions for you: who has a leader that biza
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by btmorex 16y ago
You think it's inevitable that Israel gets nuked? I find that very unlikely, especially since the attacking nation would definitely be destroyed as well. Iran doesn't want nukes so that they can destroy Israel. They wants nukes, because obt
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by btmorex 16y ago
It's because no one familiar with the technology would make that mistake (in other words, the author doesn't know what he's talking about). There are other H.26X codecs and they're quite different. It'd be like someone writing a review of W
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Mixpanel (YC S09) Gets A UI Makeover; Monthly Data Volume Growing By 40 Percent(techcrunch.com)
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by btmorex 16y ago
I didn't make the original claim, so I don't see why it would be my job to prove or disprove it. That's sort of beside the point though. I'm just tired of the ridiculous amount of misinformation in the diet, nutrition, and exercise fields.
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by btmorex 16y ago
I do. Unless you're starving, your brain pretty much only runs only on glucose. That means that whatever you eat, good/bad fresh/packaged, whatever, just gets converted to glucose. Assuming you're getting basic levels of required vitamins,
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by btmorex 16y ago
Not sure why that would matter that much. Our ancestors experienced tooth decay too. Of course their adult teeth only had to last 20-25 years or so.
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by btmorex 16y ago
Are you clicking through the "All x versions" link? There are often pdf versions that are mistakenly out in the open (i.e. on some random university web server).
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by btmorex 16y ago
What specifically separates Glenn Greenwald from all the other talking heads except for your own personal political view? I mean, he's pretty much the definition of a pundit.
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by btmorex 16y ago
If your point isn't that "Wired has committed journalistic errors", you probably shouldn't name your piece "The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired". But really, that's exactly what Greenwald was saying and I think this response pretty
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by btmorex 16y ago
Religious charity also doesn't really explain it. Even if you removed 100% of the U.S. charitable giving to religious organizations, they would still easily rank #1. My guess is that it's mostly cultural. For example, a lot of large employe
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by btmorex 16y ago
To be honest, right now, it's a pretty bare bones wrapper around the actual canvas API. Maybe there's more to come? What can it do that you can't currently do with one or two lines of normal JS?
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by btmorex 16y ago
I don't want to get into a language debate here, but... if you put random people's anecdotes above objective measures than you can pretty much make any point you want to make. Alioth may be flawed, but it's not necessarily synthetic in the
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by btmorex 16y ago
Let's be realistic here: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all... I would characterize the differences vs. C++: 1.) substantially slower in all but one case 2.) almost always uses more memory, sometimes drastically
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by btmorex 16y ago
You're right. It is a boring argument. Every time I get into it, I realize that most people don't even know what saving money is. Saving money != spending like an average person so I don't know why you would quote the median apartment price
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by btmorex 16y ago
50k is easily survivable in SV as long as you don't have a spouse and kids to support. I'm really having trouble understanding how you need more. Are you doing all your shopping at Whole Foods or something? Eating out 2 times a day? Where d
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by btmorex 16y ago
Hold left shift with left pinky. Type n-a-s-a with both hands. I honestly have no idea how else you would do it. Hitting caps lock seems like such a waste of time.
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by btmorex 16y ago
The problem with security researchers when they rail against "security by obscurity" is that they assume everyone is reasonably competent.... or that the main actors in any situation are nations with huge resources at their disposal. Neithe
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by btmorex 16y ago
Well, there's huge differences in the scale of eminent domain projects. A new rail line is likely to affect a huge area with a whole lot of people, many of whom vote. You have to get politicians on board representing many different areas of

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