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by cagenut 15y ago
Coincidentally, news out today of some impressive research results on using graphene in li-ion batteries: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/05/chang-20110521.html
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by cagenut 15y ago
Solve education. Use the results to solve food & energy.
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by cagenut 15y ago
agreed, someone needs to start a 'creditunionsimple' (and figure out a better name).
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by cagenut 15y ago
Yea thats what I meant by 'simple code update'. All the vendors have long since put out fixes.
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by cagenut 15y ago
Hah, when they say "only a handful of vendors" that includes load balancer vendors like F5 and A10, which truckloads of ecommerce sites rely on for ssl offload. Its a simple code update to fix, but I remember doing a 4am loadbalancer reboo
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by cagenut 15y ago
imho its because this simply isn't an actual problem worth spending time and resources on solving. It irks critics because it doesn't fit into the narrative of trying to discern the internal rational-actor brain of a anthropomorphized corp
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by cagenut 15y ago
Cool, best of luck. I've used two competitors services and spent far too many days pulling my hair out over unexplained slowdowns and api errors. It would be extra cool if you guys did an architecture blog post.
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by cagenut 15y ago
hosted/saas james? http://wiki.apache.org/james/
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by cagenut 15y ago
I'm gonna go ahead and agree with the the title and use it as my justification for not reading the post.
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by cagenut 16y ago
These only sound like problems if you need to keep it single process. If you break out the javascript interpreter via fastcgi workers just like people do with php on nginx it becomes mostly moot points right? At that point its limited to
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by cagenut 16y ago
Ironically the "wheel" construct is alive and well via sudo. The default /etc/sudoers for rhel/centos/fedora systems has a line that allows anyone in the wheel group the ability to run anything they want through sudo, its just commented ou
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by cagenut 16y ago
To pick a nit, thats not "As reported in the Huffington Post". Gary Chafetz is not an employee or reporter, he's one of those "unpaid bloggers" you hear about. What newspapers used to call "op-ed writers" or a "letter to the editor".
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by cagenut 16y ago
keyword: ephemeral
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by cagenut 16y ago
yea it was really bizzare to see soros himself goof up austrian/chicago at the top of page 1. maybe its just one of those cases where the popular definition has drifted in the decades since he first internalized them, but still, makes for
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by cagenut 16y ago
I think smugmug's cloud/colo hybrid is more likely to become the norm than the all-cloud dream of not having to deal with hardware anymore. When it comes to the "undifferentiated heavy lifting" aws wins. s3 for bulk storage, ec2 for asyn
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by cagenut 16y ago
Its really fascinating to watch amazon re-learn/re-implement the lessons IBM baked into mainframes decades ago. Once you get out of shared-nothing/web-scripting land you realize that I/O is much more important and difficult than cpu. Wha
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by cagenut 16y ago
Its actually very easy to beat the price/performance of ec2 using real hardware. The draw of ec2/aws is in the "everything is a monthly charge and an api call away" operational instant gratification. If you need to auto-scale by the hour
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by cagenut 16y ago
EBS isn't a shared filesystem, its a block device mountable by only one host (instance) at a time. Much more analogous to fibrechannel or iscsi than to nfs.
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by cagenut 16y ago
Anyone can check themselves, gawker's quantcast stats are publicly visible, in fact its the example url quantcast gives so you can just click it. Go here: http://www.quantcast.com/ click the gawker url click the 'gawker media network' par
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by cagenut 16y ago
Yes, this is how Move Network's streaming works, how Apple's streaming works, and Adobe just announced official support for streaming this way last week[1] (edit: oh and microsoft buit it into iis too). What they do is parallel-encode their
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by cagenut 16y ago
A $20 discount isn't enough for us, but as the woman quoted in the article said anytime they lower the price they get a surge. So they do $20 now, get some brands on board, get some user feedback, iron a few kinks out, then do a firmware u
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by cagenut 16y ago
In a perverse sort of way I want this job, but only for the moment of mind-bending when I get a page from pagerduty telling me pagerduty is down.
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by cagenut 16y ago
If you read carefully, this is almost a technology decision. They specifically mention the cms they had to use at aol as being very old, and that the cms in use at SB Nation has great support for live-events and ad-hoc tabular data.
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by cagenut 16y ago
I love the "garbage collection for your codebase" thing. Nice simple approach for moving things from the "should" pile to the "done" one.
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by cagenut 16y ago
This is more about Ellison and Hurd poking HP in the eye than technical merit. Itanium is a niche product for sure, but its selling, its sales are growing, and it provides a huge wealth of r&d "ip" (in the talented staff sense) when it
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by cagenut 16y ago
conde would very easily do this for you, they built an entire datacenter in deleware just for their child-companies to use like this.
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by cagenut 16y ago
This reads like a Ted Dziuba performance art project. I mean designing your setup as a ~15 server cluster on one box ? on a raid-1 of sata drives!?! then xfs on raid-0!!! This url is getting saved now as my canonical 'overengineering
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by cagenut 16y ago
you see a lot of this wailing and gnashing in the media blog echo chamber, but since this is HN I'd like to point out how blatantly off base it is. one, contributors to "the blog" (the left column on the homepage) are the internet equivalen
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by cagenut 16y ago
The opposite is true. The CentOS maintainers have been very explicit, the goal is as exact a reproduction as possible. "bug for bug". The only place they get creative is in the "centosplus" yum repo, which is disabled by default.
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by cagenut 16y ago
As much as I'm not so sure about the overall idea, it had never occurred to me to look at cli php from this angle before. Rather than homegrow the listener/invoker there I wonder how hard it would be to do this with xinetd. Then there's th

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