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by dreish 18y ago
The suspected culprit was the chief IT person at the company, and I think we're being led to believe he was both clever and motivated. USB disks would likely contain garbage data N days before the culmination of the sabotage, where N is wh
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by dreish 18y ago
That should say "dramatically reduce downtime". A small number times a small number is still not zero, and it is possible, though highly unlikely, to suffer a second drive failure while operating in degraded mode. My understanding is that
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by dreish 18y ago
The warning about RAID is well-founded, but I'm finding it hard to imagine what sort of backup plan could defeat deliberate sabotage by a former insider. I keep coming up with ideas, and immediately thinking of problems with them. Short o
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by dreish 18y ago
Be offended all you want. I do most of my programming in Perl. I could be wrong, but I'm just sharing my observations.
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by dreish 18y ago
I've been trying to hire a perl programmer for about a year now. It's just not where the smart people want to go with their careers, but we have a huge codebase built up in it, so we're stuck.
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by dreish 18y ago
I think people are happy to see a project dump Perforce for git. Perl may be on the decline, but it is still a pretty significant free-software project.
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by dreish 18y ago
In summary: They're a bad idea because they're extremely hard to get right. You'll almost certainly create a program that works at most 99% of the time, and you'll never figure out what happened to the other 1% (my words, not Ousterhout's)
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by dreish 18y ago
Ask a dinosaur, appropriately enough: http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000693.html
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by dreish 18y ago
That's remarkable. If a doctor told you your arteries were dangerously clogged and you urgently needed a bypass, you would trust your common sense, even though the doctor is telling you you could have a heart attack at any moment? But if
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by dreish 18y ago
I don't think this is correct. My impression is that most people who bought houses with problematic mortgages either didn't understand the terms, or got mortgages with low introductory rates and thought they could exit before the rates star
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by dreish 18y ago
For the confused who just got up, it looks like the title originally referred to her as a "girl hacker". Right? Or are you suggesting "female hacker" is a shameful label and that something like "she-hacker" or "hackeress" would be preferab
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by dreish 18y ago
I would expect that they're under pressure to avoid offering apps that might cut into AT&T's business, such as Skype or an IRC client. An ssh client would be about as good as an IRC client.
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by dreish 18y ago
"Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet." -- Bruce Schneier
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by dreish 18y ago
You might lose yourself some middle-American soccer moms that way, while gaining a memorable name that does well with some part of your market. Is there some way you could present the same backend product with more than one brand to get aro
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by dreish 18y ago
And what about Bill, down the hall from those three, who only offers his best price when he charges his customers for every computer they sell whether it comes with Bill's product or his competitor's? (I.e., RTFA.) You do understand how th
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by dreish 18y ago
Why do I have to download anything to participate in this? Haven't we moved past that yet?
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by dreish 18y ago
I discovered TED talks on the day of the iPhone keynote, searching for more info about multi-touch. So I would guess that video got a lot of its hits from other people doing that.
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by dreish 18y ago
But by increasing the number of pointers by log n, you reduce your cache hit ratio, do you not? It would seem that the only time this doesn't matter is when you've long since blown past the CPU cache and your RAM cache hit ratio is going t
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by dreish 18y ago
That's a great case-in-point. He spent nearly his whole adult life running Apple, and he knows that company's business inside and out. He hired a Pepsi guy to take over as CEO, and things went poorly.
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by dreish 18y ago
Not to veer off into politics, but the Bush administration would seem to be an existence proof that at least some part of your statement is incorrect. (Yes, I realize Bush has an MBA.) I've run into this attitude fairly often, and not jus
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by dreish 18y ago
Yes, but it has one great takeaway quote that isn't self-serving: > Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on
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by dreish 18y ago
> Am I the only one who is sick and tired of all this "honoring" one of the biggest bandits in history? I'm a lot less interested in MS-bashing or Gates-bashing than I was ten years ago. I once thought it was critical that Linux fulfil
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by dreish 18y ago
http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/wrists.html Step one is to see a doctor about it. Or as jwz puts it, "Do not fuck around. If you are experiencing any kind of pain, get to a doctor and get it diagnosed." Your hands are your livelihood and you
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by dreish 18y ago
They still don't want to be governed by people with different cultures -- I think that's what it boils down to, and it's mainly a phenomenon of the lower classes who aren't really as hip to the Internet, or whose interests aren't broad enou
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by dreish 18y ago
Hmm. He was just here a minute ago.
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by dreish 18y ago
No. But if you haven't learned anything new about programming since two days after you started, you're doing it wrong.
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by dreish 18y ago
2. ^ Robbery caught on JTV (justin.tv) should be all you need to know to avoid this, if it troubles you so much. There's nothing technologically interesting about this, but I thought it was an interesting window into what sort of c
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by dreish 18y ago
Ditto. I get about 100,000 spams a month, and on average one spam gets through every other month. Roughly six to eight spams per day go to a borderline folder that I glance at to re-convince myself I'm not missing any false positives. I
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by dreish 18y ago
Well, I would argue that much of what has emerged on the Internet in the last 15 years has been novel. And a biochemist can learn the basics of Python about as easily as a programmer can learn how to operate basic lab equipment. A biochemi
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by dreish 18y ago
I'm picturing a lot of cardboard boxes and stacks of Jolt.

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