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811.
by cheald 12y ago
No, I don't really think I would. Search is a great place to capture consumer intent, but it's hardly the only one. Advertising dollars are finite, and Google absolutely competes against non-search advertising publishers for its p
812.
by cheald 12y ago
But there are certainly plenty of non-Google places and means to advertise. Google could raise prices on AdWords across the board and advertisers would have plenty of alternative means through which to hawk their wares.
813.
by cheald 12y ago
Same, except with Salt. Puppet is a large, unwieldy beast by comparison. Salt is like puppet, except not horribly frustrating to use.
814.
by cheald 12y ago
I use Redis as an IPC lock for our applications, too - it's quite good at it, especially since you can have atomicity guarantees with a Lua script.
815.
by cheald 12y ago
TokuMX still provides a lot of features that TokuMXse (vanilla with the tokumx storage engine) doesn't, like multi-document ACID and clustering keys. I would happily use it over vanilla if I was confident it was going to be well suppor
816.
by cheald 12y ago
TokuMX was really "MongoDB done right", at least up until MongoDB's integration of the WiredTiger engine. They also did some stuff with things like election protocols and stuff to improve on vanilla MongoDB, as well. It was r
817.
by cheald 12y ago
IIRC Tokutek (well, now Percona) holds patents on the FT indexing technology.
818.
by cheald 12y ago
Are you making an argument for the labor theory of value?
819.
by cheald 12y ago
Congrats to the Tokutek team. I'm nervous about what this means for TokuMX. We've used and loved it for a few years now, but Percona is a MySQL company, not a MongoDB company. Support on TokuMX has rather flagged over the last few
820.
by cheald 12y ago
You shouldn't, and that isn't my argument. If Gravity was paying some people $40k and some people $75k for the same work and result, they were being economically irrational. I'm saying that the $75k worker, up until today, wa
821.
by cheald 12y ago
That's a ridiculous statement without an evaluation of the economic contributions of each employee and the availability of employee alternatives for each position.
822.
by cheald 12y ago
The two aren't mutually exclusive. A skilled employee can both be happy for their coworker who is now living comfortably, and upset that they draw the same wage with twice the experience and domain-specific skills that their colleague
823.
by cheald 12y ago
I recently set up a self-signed cert for a development site, and Chrome remembered it until I told it to forget it (so I could install a CA-signed cert).
824.
by cheald 12y ago
There certainly is, but rooting a box lets you ensure that you stuff says in place. Once a box is rooted, its owner can never really be sure they have it clean without wiping and rebuilding it.
825.
by cheald 12y ago
It rather sounds like your preference for brew is that brew is a user-level tool that can't update system packages. There's certainly a case to be made user-scoped package managers are valuable, but "my package manager is cap
826.
by cheald 12y ago
Honest question, in what way is brew faster, more flexible, or more reliable than apt-get or yum? I've had far more problems with it than I have its Linux brethren.
827.
by cheald 12y ago
Can you provide more info? FTA: "OS X 10.9.x and older remain vulnerable, since Apple decided not to patch these versions."
828.
by cheald 12y ago
Local privilege escalation is always bad because it means you're one malware payload or RCE away from being rooted and conscripted into someone's botnet (or worse). This isn't just a physical access concern.
829.
by cheald 12y ago
I suspect the discrepancy is that the article is likely including the crops (such as alfalfa) grown to feed the cow in the water usage footprint, as well, which I don't think your first link does.
830.
by cheald 12y ago
Writing a garbage collector and binary wire protocol client, even if they're just toys, show an understanding of how things work that is important. A depressing number of professional developers are basically just stacking code legos t
831.
by cheald 12y ago
Swattings still happen on a regular basis despite pervasive metadata collection. Is your argument that we're not collecting enough to stop them?
832.
by cheald 12y ago
I'd certainly consider you for an interview (you show actual development ability and an understanding of some important concepts in your work, which is much more than many interviewees), but speaking frankly, the profile is a little we
833.
by cheald 12y ago
> if I handed you a résumé, without a bachelor's degree, but instead included my github profile and a list of books I've read cover to cover and some open source contributions, am I going to get the salary I am worth? Speaking
834.
by cheald 12y ago
I am rather amused that the author provides precompiled binaries without hash checksums. Heh.
835.
by cheald 12y ago
Comment collapsing and new comment highlighting are both excellent reasons to use the extension.
836.
by cheald 12y ago
Well, I just checked, and my last comment critical of Apple (and not even charitably so) is currently at +97 karma, so I'm not quite sure the argument holds much weight.
837.
by cheald 12y ago
My unpopular opinions frequently get early downvotes, but it seems that it'll swing back into the black given enough time/eyeballs, if I've made a good argument.
838.
by cheald 12y ago
My experience tends to be that if you can hold a dissenting opinion respectfully, and back up your assertions, HN treats it favorably in the long run. Holding a dissenting opinion without being willing to defend it with awareness of your au
839.
by cheald 12y ago
Memory leaks are technically when you allocate memory, then lose the reference to it without freeing it, thus leaving the memory permanently allocated without a way to free it. Outside of a serious VM bug, you won't leak memory in a GC
840.
by cheald 12y ago
That's the same reason I use JRuby so heavily - I can use the entire Java ecosystem, while claiming the productivity benefits of Ruby.

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