dmourati

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   by dmourati 13y ago

   Outlook, that was worth a good chuckle.
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   by dmourati 13y ago

   Just find a sysadmin with > 5 years experience, ie, pre-cloud. We all know how it's done.
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   by dmourati 13y ago

   E.g.: http://diversitynet.zippykidcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/...
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   by dmourati 13y ago

   I don't think penultimate means what you think it means.
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   by dmourati 13y ago

   I misread your comment and thought I agreed with everything you said until I re-read it! Wouldn't release software without testing it on a real box? We run all our production software on EC2. Much like it does on Linux? Oh no. Oh no
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   by dmourati 13y ago

   Torch icon, didn't read.
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   by dmourati 13y ago

   It's easy to map a directory on a Windows host to a vagrant VM. By default, Vagrant will share your project directory (the directory with the Vagrantfile) to /vagrant.
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   by dmourati 13y ago

   With the current state of virtualization (vagrant/virtualbox for example), I have to wonder why anyone would choose cygwin. Honest question.
9. 429.▲
   by dmourati 13y ago

   For encryption, check out SpiderOak. I used to work with the CEO and know a few of their engineers. The privacy use case is looking stronger and stronger. https://spideroak.com
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    I took the mark as more of a: "look, I was there for the announcement!"
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    Dropbox for business(gigaom.com)

    49 points by dmourati 13y ago|36 comments
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    Asked what IT equipment Glacier uses, Amazon told ZDNet it does not run on tape. "Essentially you can see this as a replacement for tape," a company spokesman said via email. http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-launches-gl
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    Seriously doubt Amazon is using tape.
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    Thanks for the clarification. That the PODs were on rails was never made clear to me. Still, I count that as "physically removing a 4u rackmount storage pod." Those suckers cannot be light. 10 seconds sounds rather fast. I don
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    cap=capacitor. http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/MegaRAID%20SAS/MegaRAID%... Edited to add: They've optimized for hardware purchase price and given up reliability (HW RAID, battery, cap), performance,
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    Ugh. Backblaze is one of those companies with an extraordinarily poor design that they flout and "open source" as if anyone would follow their lead. Take a look at the physical design of their system and combine that with the pu
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    I always run Ganglia on my servers. You can see memory used, memory shared, memory cached, memory buffered, and memory swapped all over time as well as total in-core memory. This has saved me (and my team) from ever having to misinterpret
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    The thought that Etsy had good ops people was what lead to my surprise in relying on NFS for anything of the sort. Two mitigating facts: one, this article is from 2010, two, this may have been a one-time thing. Still, surprised and dismay
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    Lower scores are better since we are measuring latency?
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    I learned a new definition for jank today! 3.0/10 on MPBR early 2013 w 16GB and SSD. Authors should consider a way to collect and present the data.
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    Sure, I built a system for a company specializing in image processing and uploads/sharing called Eye-Fi. We used MogileFS for image storage. Resizing millions of images was a daily task. NFS is not the right tool but is frequently mist
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    NFS, seriously? Wow, weak sauce.
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    I was recently on a college recruiting trip for my startup and I said something similar to a candidate and I meant it. I've worked in four startups in the valley and while each team had a large number of really smart engineers, all but
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    I did this math at Eye-Fi, a competitor of sorts to Everpix. What I learned, is the answer to whether to build or buy is the classic: "it depends". The driving factor? Data retention policy. The one move Amazon made during my a
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    Freshman year at UofI I enrolled in a Philosophy course, 108 I think. Mostly liberal arts majors, another engineer and I were in the same study session. The philosophy graduate student TA gets us together for our first study session of th
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    Hint: no one cares about printing from online. This is a lesson we learned the hard way at Eye-Fi. Good luck.
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    I'm in the 5% that would never agree to this. Why not just hire them and then make the trial week their first week of actual employment. Nothing stops a company from terminating an employee after one week for no reason at all.
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    "Even when the user thinks they’ve scammed a free account out of us." ... ...is also always a nice feeling? What?
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    As an avid skier, I have SAD but in reverse. Once the snow starts falling (as it did in Lake Tahoe this weekend) I start perking up.
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    by dmourati 13y ago

    >I cannot tell you how many times I have heard sysadmins say a that a single private key is a "best practice". Are you talking about a host key, user key, what? Confused.