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by comice 14y ago
Was there any single person with enough of a contribution that if they'd said no, you'd have abandoned the idea of a license change?
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by comice 14y ago
So every contributor essentially gets to vote on the license change, and their vote is proportional to the contribution they made (because if they vote no, their contributed code has to be rewritten). I think I quite like it, but only becau
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by comice 14y ago
After some time using (and customizing) it, I now quite like Gnome Shell but its sudden major change from Gnome 2 left me pretty shell shocked (arf) at first. And to be at all comfortable with it I'm using about 15 extensions. So now I see
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by comice 14y ago
Imagine if everyone got this angry whenever they noticed a CCTV camera. Imagine putting up CCTV in your store and all your customers started ranting about privacy and left, or called the police. It'd be amazing. There would be no CCTV. Wond
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by comice 14y ago
Probably important to note here that Shuttleworth is extremely wealthy and he funded the Ubuntu foundation with ten million dollars as an emergency fund if Canonical ever had to stop supporting it. He's always said he wanted to make Canonic
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by comice 14y ago
I think you misunderstood. Anyone who sells advertising space sells their audience to the advertiser. Simple as that.
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by comice 14y ago
If this is gloating about the EC2 outage, then ugh. I can't find out if it is because the whole of joyent.com is actually down for me (net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT)
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Visualising the Ruby Global VM Lock(johnleach.co.uk)
50 points by comice 14y ago|1 comments
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by comice 14y ago
We called for this when they announced they'd be putting affiliate links in search results, so I'm happy to see it. I just want to see the affiliate links go away now :)
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Releasing Ruby's Global VM Lock from a C extension(spacevatican.org)
2 points by comice 14y ago|0 comments
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by comice 14y ago
"These are not ads because they are not paid placement, they are straightforward Amazon search results for your search." both ads and affiliate links make money when you click on them and buy something (nobody would buy ads if they didn't r
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by comice 14y ago
I'd like to see the real thinking (and data if there is any) behind this decision. Did they do some tests where they asked new users to find and buy a book, and did those users try searching in unity for it? Or did someone say "How can we g
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by comice 14y ago
That's great, but pretty sure he didn't donate 10 million quid to the Debian foundation. We're talking financial support here.
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by comice 14y ago
Privacy is dead. Except where it is still enshrined in law.
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by comice 14y ago
donate to both, though give Debian more because they don't have a Mark Shuttleworth :)
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by comice 14y ago
In fact, I just realised that I really like Ubuntu and would happily make a monthly donation to support it (and can afford to) but I've never seen anything that suggested I do so. I can't find any hints on ubuntu.com on how to donate (thoug
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by comice 14y ago
Whether you like the ad-supported model or not, this is just bad UI! Who searches their programs and wants to see matching books and music? I could understand listing other software for sale, but this is daft. I doubt they'll get anything
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by comice 14y ago
If the m2.4xlarge goes only on X5550 cores, then that does work out to be about 26 compute units (as they claim). So I would expect a m2.4xlarge to perform the same as a Brightbox large (which is about 26 compute units too). The pricing (an
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by comice 14y ago
We found comparing Xen to KVM on the same hardware showed similar results to this too (things doing lots of ram allocations, like redis, do very well with KVM).
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by comice 14y ago
I ran these benchmarks myself. The pgbench score just failed to run - I tried a few times but it wouldn't even start. I put it down to a bug in the benchmark. Should have explained. But yeah, no diskio tests here really (other than the pgbe
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by comice 14y ago
hehe, sure, but the phoronix test suite is open source. Trivially easy to reproduce the results. (like literally a couple of commands and a few tens of pennies of server time).
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by comice 14y ago
"If you don't look carefully, it may appear that the NSS plugin doesn't do any validation of the SSL certificates, but that isn't the case; the validation is done, just not by the SSL_AuthCertificateHook hook."
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Server configuration at a push of a git(brightbox.com)
5 points by comice 14y ago|0 comments
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by comice 14y ago
Reimplemented in ~30 lines of ruby as a powerdns pipe backend. https://gist.github.com/2897076 powerdns is a solid dns server and very extensible! $ host whatever.192.0.43.10.ip.ipq.co whatever.192.0.43.10.ip.ipq.co is an alias for 1h9u9z
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by comice 14y ago
I run a kinda related service that does instant dns records: http://ipq.co/ And I wrote a Ruby DSL to easily integrate with a real dns server (powerdns). Makes it trivially easy to write things like xip.io https://github.com/johnl/powerd
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Rate limiting with Apache and mod-security(johnleach.co.uk)
1 points by comice 14y ago|0 comments
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Full text syslog indexing with Riak(johnleach.co.uk)
6 points by comice 14y ago|1 comments
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by comice 14y ago
I'm imagining an in-browser game where people have to zap the incoming spam emails in real time.
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by comice 14y ago
they already released a fix for it, yesterday.
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by comice 14y ago
GIMP is some high quality software. I love it. An amazing achievement.

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