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by cmccabe 13y ago
Well, we're going to have to agree to disagree. I do think security has improved since the 1990s. I think that this kind of "we're all doomed, it doesn't matter what you know" attitude that you are displaying is exactly the problem. It d
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by cmccabe 13y ago
A thoughtful programmer can avoid these problems by using proper process separation. For example, openSSH works this way. In this setup, compromising the untrusted part of the application does not give you full control. If you can keep t
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Ugh, every discussion about soylent follows the same pattern. person #1: But he hasn't proven it's safe! person #2: But you haven't proven that it isn't! person #1: But he doesn't have a PhD or any qualifications in food science! person #2:
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by cmccabe 13y ago
So what. Did you think that food was carefully grown in a sterile lab and delivered to you in a vacuum-packed container? It's grown in the dirt, harvested by day laborers, and stored and transported in big heaps out in the open. Word of a
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Wow, the depths of ignorance in this post are truly shocking. Even holocaust deniers or creationists have more of a leg to stand on than you do. Grow up a little, read some history, and learn what people used to put in food back when they
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by cmccabe 13y ago
I'm not sure about stack frames, but I do remember a lot of discussion about golang using a single contiguous area of virtual memory for its heap. Since C wouldn't be using that same address range, there would be no potential issues where
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by cmccabe 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that the existing conservative GC in cgo doesn't even scan the C part of the heap, so if you try to use unanchored pointers to Go objects, you will crash. More details here, in the comments: https://code.google.com/p/go/so
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by cmccabe 13y ago
You're missing the point, which is that the current limitations of the system may not be the limitations in the future.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Hive still has really high query latency, since it starts MR jobs. So it's not really a replacement for what Drawn to Scale was trying to build. Impala certainly is, though. Impala has the additional advantage that your data does not nee
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Hadoop can do realtime. One example is Cloudera Impala, which can do small SQL queries in seconds or less. Another, non-SQL example is using the Lambda Architecture ( http://jameskinley.tumblr.com/post/37398560534/the-lambda-ar... ) with
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Drawn to Scale was trying to sell a SQL-over-HBase solution. But there's already a better open source SQL-over-HBase solution out there, Salesforce's Phoenix.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
I think a better question is why are you so resistant to making a sacrifice to Zeus, god of lightning, on the off chance it __might__ be helpful? There's a lot more evidence for Zeus than there is for iPods bringing down airplanes. (Light
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by cmccabe 13y ago
This article is the equivalent of "horse drawn carriages are perfectly adequate for most journeys, and much more pleasant and commodious to boot." Good luck with that, buddy. You're not going to know what correlations are important and whi
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by cmccabe 13y ago
It's worth installing Xfce in general. It really ought to be the default desktop environment for Linux.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Um, when a general says "we've been fighting for 5,000 years," he's referring to organized conflict, i.e. WAR. It's pretty hard for war to exist without civilization, so, yeah, around 5000 years, give or take, is the accepted number. Part
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Actually, the correct expression is "cohort of pedants."
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Having a single return point is a pretty good idea in C. In other programming languages, probably not.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
You're missing the point again. The time spent IS work. The question is whether you want to effectively take an informal side job that pays you poorly, called the "saving money job."
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by cmccabe 13y ago
If everyone was as stingy with their money as this guy is, the economy would crash. We need spending to drive growth and provide employment. If everyone hoards cash and refuses to spend it, you get the crash of 1929 and the Great Depressi
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Well, first of all, your assertion that "if an early employee didn't get paid at all they would leave almost immediately" is just false. I mean if you read the post that started this thread, it's about a guy who went without any salary for
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Have you actually been an early employee, or are you just speculating? I can tell you that in a lot of cases the paperwork you love so much often simply doesn't exist. Even if it did, it might not be worth the paper it was written on. The
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Some interesting thoughts on this subject: http://landley.livejournal.com/57348.html
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Sorry to hear that you didn't get the stock. I've been in a similar scenario where promises of stock were made and later not kept by a very small startup. In my case, the company didn't end up going anywhere, so there was not much regret
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by cmccabe 13y ago
It's for the same reason they use MySQL instead of Postgres. Hey, as Scott Adams would say, "at least there's a reason"! http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2000-02-13/
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by cmccabe 13y ago
systemd is the way to go. Don't waste time debugging someone's half-baked pile of {shell,Perl,Python} scripts
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by cmccabe 13y ago
I have to agree with the grandparent. AMD's graphics drivers for Linux are a complete disaster. NVidia's are only a partial disaster. And sometimes that's the best you get.
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by cmccabe 13y ago
It's a stupid system. Technically only the social security administration itself is allowed to require an SSN. But most banks, companies, etc. do require an SSN from you, or else they put you through a ton of hassle. In practice almost e
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by cmccabe 13y ago
I don't understand any of your criticisms. What else would you expect to use to compile Go besides "a special build system"? A not-special build system? It's a compiled language. You can, however, use gccgo to link Go code with C/C++ co
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by cmccabe 13y ago
Thread overhead in Linux is 8k Those are weasel words. I assume your 8k figure is 4k kernel stack, and 4k userspace stack. First of all, your kernel may not even be compiled with 4k stacks. 8k kernel stacks are very common. But even if
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by cmccabe 13y ago
I think the biggest concern with the Moffet Field area is trichloroethylene vapors. Trichloroethylene causes cancer. They claim to be filtering it out of the air at the affected complexes. I don't think there's anything more you as an ind

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