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by dap 13y ago
What's the actual problem here? How many fatal crashes of commercial airliners with black boxes have ultimately not been root-caused? I don't think it's very many. Is the problem that it doesn't happen quickly enough?
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by dap 13y ago
> A considerable amount has been written by the european experience of america and an almost ubquitious theme in the accounts is "the feeling of unlimited possibility", an ostentatiousness and pre-occupation with wealth, etc. Y
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by dap 13y ago
I'm not sure which features you're thinking of. Some are no-brainers: snprintf() is a clear win, and in my experience, it's widely used. I also really like the ability to define structured objects inline using named members
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by dap 13y ago
Hypervisor bugs affect all VMs. Switch failures affect all connected systems. Thinking about fault domains is important, but it's only part of the picture.
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by dap 13y ago
> If you take a group X, a certain percentage Y hang out in newsgroups and blog. He himself was part of that Y for Forth. Why would the percentage Y be significantly different for any given language? There are lots of reasons I can imagi
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by dap 13y ago
Why is it "on Linux?" Isn't it the same interface on other Unix systems (OS X, BSD, illumos)?
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by dap 13y ago
The corporate buses often stop at public bus stops, sometimes blocking MUNI buses from the stop.
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by dap 13y ago
At least on a single system, it's not that hard. You have to get over the fact that you can't compute accurate intervals by recording two human-datetime timestamps. Even aside from the myriad edge cases around date arithmetic, a
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by dap 13y ago
ZFS uses an ARC.
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by dap 13y ago
> Complaining about git's standard porcelain is a popular sport, but so often the people who play it don't give proposals that make more sense than the status quo. This is a classic case where the git behavior seems not just un
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by dap 13y ago
This is really a matter of personal style. The point of this approach is that if you want to break out Python or whatever, it integrates with the rest of it just like any of the "built-in" programs. It's usually quicker for
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by dap 13y ago
Presumably, Amazon gets enormous volume discounts for the disk drives that would be a main cost of running S3, and they run their business with notoriously tiny margins. It would seem nearly impossible to undercut them for the same product
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by dap 13y ago
What's the long-term plan for competing with Amazon on price?
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by dap 13y ago
You write your own controller and disk drive firmware? (That's not a facetious question. That was the single biggest source of pain on the storage product I worked on at Sun, and that pain was usually extremely difficult to work arou
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by dap 13y ago
I found this article confusing because the introduction -- the title, the SunOS history, the Longfellow quote, and Morton's quote -- all suggest a self-righteous position around technical integrity and engineering choices. (Such a pos
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by dap 13y ago
Thanks for offering to update the post. Disclaimer: I work for Joyent, but I think it's both cheap and easy to get access to zone-based hosting. :) And I'm looking forward to Docker support for zones!
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by dap 13y ago
Good post, except that it's extremely misleading to use Solaris as the canonical example of non-Linux containers and then say that non-Linux containers "haven't had as much exposure" and "the source code isn't
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by dap 13y ago
I think you're right, but TFA appears inconsistent: it says "no errors of any sort...All standard blocking calls." As you point out, it later says that the failed case optimistically sends data after the first SYN, before t
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by dap 13y ago
I still don't get how this can happen as described. If the client is using a blocking connect and checking for errors (as the author says it is), I don't see how that can succeed without the remote side at least seeing the connec
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by dap 13y ago
I was confused about the memcached problem after moving to the cloud. I understand why network latency may have gone from submillisecond to milliseconds, but how could you improve latency by batching requests? Shouldn't that improve
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by dap 13y ago
"Callbacks seem simpler to you not because they are simpler (try explaining them to someone just learning the language, and you'll see what I mean), but because you got used to them." No, they're simpler in the literal s
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by dap 13y ago
The sarcasm in my post was unnecessary, so I've replaced it with a better explanation.
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by dap 13y ago
"I have just delegated the bookkeeping to the compiler." That's not obviously a good thing. Debugging the compiler (or just figuring out why it did something, even if correct) is far more difficult than debugging application
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by dap 13y ago
Oh, hi! I came across your site while I was working on this. I enjoyed the video of dropping a fake question block in Time Trial :)
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by dap 13y ago
Author here. That's an approach we considered as well, but we didn't want to have to use an emulator to play the game. Still, you could potentially get much richer information with that approach, and I'd love to see a demo
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by dap 13y ago
Absolutely! GoldenEye is a favorite here too. I haven't thought about it too much, but I bet it would be easy to adapt kartlytics to that, since it also uses a pretty straightforward on-screen display.
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by dap 13y ago
An asset is currently the way to do that.
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by dap 13y ago
Most teams eventually need to on board new people, though. Besides that, building teams of generalists is far easier if it's easy to dive into new code bases. Even with small teams highly specialized on individual projects, there are
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Fault tolerance in Manta(dtrace.org)
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by dap 13y ago
Thanks for the praise! As far as pricing goes, you're charged for the wall clock time spent running inside the zone, so if your task queues up because the system is jammed, you're not paying for that. Task runtime can be affected

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