dedward

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by dedward 16y ago
You know what? Just because it's legal doesn't make it right. If too many people do this, then the policy will change, and ruin it for everyone else. You pay an annual membership so that costco can locate their businesses in cheap areas zon
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by dedward 16y ago
Does dropbox do global file de-duplication? How does that fit in with their policy of encrypting user data?
843.
by dedward 16y ago
Well, a few years ago having the bank lend you a house and then let you pay it back for the next 30 years, but not worrying about that burden because you knew real estate markets always went up was the way to be cool. Consider also that pe
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by dedward 16y ago
Design always matters - but good design does not necessarily equate to "pretty"
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by dedward 16y ago
It goes a bit deeper than that - a ticketing system by itself is just a tool, and isn't a process or a solution. If Sysadmin just threw up a ticketing system and said "put your stuff in there and we'll get to it" - then they can't expect th
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by dedward 16y ago
There's no technologically huge breakthrough, just a suggestion that, instead of higher level abstractions, this could be handled by a simple, compatible modification to the existing DNS protocol. This is something that administrators alrea
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by dedward 16y ago
As long as the root servers don't start using it, it remains a localized issue....
848.
by dedward 16y ago
Reading the spec - this is really a fairly elegant re-purposing/hack of the DNS mechanism to allow DNS administrators to have their servers configured to use their existing protocol stacks to "subscribe" to other administrator-configured p
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by dedward 16y ago
It sounds more like "My internet, my rules, but I'm also going to make those rules available to others in case they care to use them somehow." Some jackass who abuses that system will be systematically ignored.
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by dedward 16y ago
To be fair - as the administrator on the receiving end of corporate email infrastructure - I pick and choose which blacklists and methods I'm going to use based on the needs of my users. If a list causes us to lose legitimate email consist
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by dedward 16y ago
IF the client comes back and says "We're dissatisfied with your product" - that's one thing. But "I showed that code we paid you for to someone else and they said it sucked" is unprofessional and pointless. The only response I can think of
852.
by dedward 16y ago
Canada is much the same way. That said - that's not true of the entire world - many societies still accept cash as a regular form of payment, and electronic methods cost extra. (And darn it, we SHOULD be worried about the non-anonymity of e
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by dedward 16y ago
That, and in the current business climate, and the way the US patent system works, they pretty much have to do this - it's just good business strategy. If they don't patent it, someone else will, and will go after apple for buckets of cash
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by dedward 16y ago
If he said anything different, everyone would be chastizing him for flip-flopping - but when he stands his ground - we need to get him a parrot? At least he's consistent.
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by dedward 16y ago
It was entirely about ensuring that postgres worked properly on Solaris - nothing at all to do with build speed or anything like that.
856.
by dedward 16y ago
It's a spoof alrticle -a joke - and "private" and "protected" were never about the legality of letting other parties access things - they were just conveniences for the developers and the tools to make it clear what could be optimized how,
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by dedward 16y ago
IT's not so much that it's "wrong" - it's just ignored. What if you are designing for a system that won't ever have a swapfile/pagefile? What if your application is designed so your working set fits in ram? Then you can use other methods
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by dedward 16y ago
What if I've analyzed how much ram I need, and ensued that I have "enough" ram in my production system and don't have to worry about needing more. I'll know when I need more when my monitoring metrics tell me I'm getting low, or if I't mon
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by dedward 16y ago
Basically he's just saying that, hey, if you want to do a caching proxy server - doing it the way squid did it was all fine and good, but it actually doesn't take into account how VM paging will interact with things - so you end up with pot
860.
by dedward 16y ago
This is where you get DBs that use their own raw block devices, as well as keeping transaction logs on other regular filesystems for integrity.... Oracle does something similar no?
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by dedward 16y ago
Well, with the Squid example, it's that paging out to disk wasn't even really a consideration. What if your system simply has lots of ram and no swap? THat sort of takes care of things right there, doesn't it, and let the OS file caching
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by dedward 16y ago
Does anything actually use OpenCL yet?
863.
by dedward 16y ago
Excellent - but the "zzzzzz" part comes out like "zee zee zee zee zee zee zee".... at least on osx....
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by dedward 16y ago
But a request to twitter blocking everything else would be an issue, right? Aside: haproxy, configured cleverly, can deal with limiting the number of concurrent connections permitted to your app on a URL basis (or just about any other part
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by dedward 16y ago
Seems like kind of apples-to-oranges to me as well.... Threaded, done right (which isn't always easy) - can scale on a single machine to use up all the cores you can throw at it. This can be fairly optimal on the machine in question, depe
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by dedward 16y ago
I feel the same way. In the old-world way of things, the Architects of the system would take all of that into account - the sysadmins were just there to keep the systems up and running and install the software per the developers instruction
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by dedward 16y ago
Wait - so in a nutshell, we actually have observations that can reasonably be assumed to be dark matter causing lensing?
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by dedward 16y ago
gcc relies on the stack to handle function calls. In this case he's using in-line assembly to modify the stack pointer. That's bound to end in bad results.....
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by dedward 16y ago
Just because nobody's really done it before... it does seem weird - especially if you want to use a mouse. - It's cordless - you can put it on the left or right or anywhere else. - You don't strictly need a mouse. - I remember thinking the
870.
by dedward 16y ago
You can use your finger....

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