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by dmpk2k 12y ago
"The Dead Hand" combined with "Command and Control" ( http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illu... ) makes for very sobering reading. Put the two together, and it's a genuine miracl
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
That's a false dichotomy. Obviously finance can help. Vitamin A in small amounts is healthy too. I think most people realise this. A more interesting question is whether finance the past 15 years has become a net loss for society, not
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Is there a book you can recommend so we can get a reasonably current overview?
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
This is about bicycle helmets, not motorbike.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
pay is meh until you get tenure. More like if you get tenure, which is increasingly rare nowadays. I think it's a poor gamble.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
If your database has specialised compression, or keeps most data in main memory compressed (I can think of at least one that does), then this approach won't work. For almost everything else though, putting compression in the filesystem
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Somewhat unrelated: some filesystems also provide online compression (e.g. ZFS). I think that's a more appropriate layer to apply general compression.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Unrelated, but maybe he did enter, under a different pseudonym; it's what I'd do in his shoes.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
In fact, I'm not sure I've heard of anyone who wrote any significant amount of lisp code and came away talking about parentheses. Whelp, now you have. Hi! :) Although I sometimes miss the goodies homoiconicity brings, I much pre
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Isn't To The Moon also made in RPG Maker? That's a fairly high-profile indie game.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
There's nothing wrong with OCaml specifically. The problem is the overall argument, which seems to fundamentally misunderstand why machine virtualisation is used.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
It's not a logical fallacy, but the F117A is a poor argument for stealth. Military weapon systems are a war unto themselves: each side learning about the other's and creating new systems to remove those advantages. Basically, once
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
I assume the public launch will be announced here too?
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
> ZFS is a categorically different concept than said examples, in that it's distributed. What? No, ZFS is not a distributed filesystem. It never has been, it almost certainly never will be, and it has little in common with distrib
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
And a whole lot more gotchas when things go wrong. Networks cause all sorts of fun byzantine failures; local is a simpler problem to reason about.
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
> Valve's cut was never smaller compared to competitors. Compared to the traditional brick & mortar channels which came before it? Yes, it sure was!
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Just a few years ago Valve was being lauded for giving developers a viable new channel that took a very small slice of the pie (~30%) compared to what had come before (>90%). Plus the indies that have managed to get on have consistentl
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by dmpk2k 12y ago
Companies that have any technical workers must have at least two promotion tracks: management and technical. It's downright stupid "promoting" someone into a position where their skills and affinity cannot be fully utilised.
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
They actually do restore the site. Russian authorities have blackholed my site a couple times because some trolls posted illegal material there, and then turned around and reported that site to the authorities. Once the files were brought t
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
That's unfortunate. I happen to run a site somewhat popular with some Russians (on a lark, since I don't understand anything), and it has attracted its share of DDoS attempts. CloudFlare has been a boon here. I don't pay them
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
More importantly, OVH doesn't offer anything with ECC RAM until you're near the $100 range. Do not run anything beyond a throwaway personal blog on a server without ECC RAM.
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
I'm referring to the open Hotspot which almost everyone uses, not some specialized JVM products which are closed-source. You do bring up an interesting point though. As for the type of hypervisors you're referring to, those things
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
That's mostly true, but just like managed languages can leverage JVM, native languages can leverage LLVM. The advantage of going the native route is that it gives you improved observability and post-mortem. The JVM is a VM (Java's
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
but being able to drop down to Java for performance (when you need it) is a lot easier than writing native V8 modules. There's a node-ffi package, although it has some overhead from the call itself. https://github.com&#x2F
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
but to consistently beat it on all of them is a _lot_ of work. As long as you aren't native, that is. Although that's unrelated to the discussion at large.
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
Almost nobody will use that.
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
strace shows syscalls -- it's effectively truss. That's useful and all, but what if you want to instrument arbitrary parts of a program, not just the syscall interface? By function or instruction? Either in userspace or in kernel?
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
Only if stupid drama is your thing. There are some things best left alone.
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
I'd be delighted for a version of Clojure that both drops the JVM and can bind easily with C. One of Clojure's big advantages is that it uses the JVM. One of Clojure's big disadvantages is... that it uses the JVM.
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by dmpk2k 13y ago
I'm a bit leery of that argument, because in my experience the most important component of a language is its ecosystem. By far. I've played with many really nice languages, but never used them seriously because they had no librari

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