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by easp 17y ago
Huh? So they have to store the inverted index for my files on disk, rather than in RAM and so it takes 1s to return a search result, rather than 0.2. With all the cold data they are storing, I imagine their servers have io ops to spare.
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by easp 17y ago
I don't know. I think that most trully disruptive technologies go through a phase where people who consider themselves "in the know," look for a thousand ways to dismiss it and its advocates. I'm not making any predictions about Wave. I kn
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by easp 17y ago
I agree that the app store ecosystem is fragile, but the poster seems to know how to make money there now. It also sounds like his current business model is small investments that generate quick returns. If he keeps to the same model, but
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by easp 17y ago
If they had a problem with that sort of thing, then they shouldn't have taken a job at Microsoft, or even a corporation of modest size. Division of labor, and all that. Besides, for a great many developers, dealing with a PM is better than
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by easp 17y ago
What are you talking about? "It" is hardly guaranteed to give you a degree. And honestly, efficiency is overrated. For one thing, it assumes that you know what to optimize for. For another, there are all sorts of fools on the Internet who
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by easp 17y ago
If we are executing enough people that capital punishment duty is actually a meaningful way to acquaint people with the gravity of taking another person's life in the name of justice, then our society is already repugnantly sick and violent
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by easp 17y ago
Prisons are indeed dangerous, but it is a matter of degree. You seem to be asserting that there is little practical difference between a life sentence and a death sentence in terms of opportunities to right an unjust conviction. Can you s
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by easp 17y ago
Sorry, Rupert.
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by easp 17y ago
Well, you could turn that into a shell script... But what I think you are missing is the upgrade option that pops up in your dashboard. Yeah, there are some downsides, like security. I just chown the file tree to the webserver user for as
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by easp 17y ago
Properly, Flash is another tier in the storage hierarchy. Faster than disk in important measures, but more expensive. Slower than RAM, but cheaper, lower power, and durable. Unfortunately, the infrastrucure for taking easy advantage of
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by easp 17y ago
I'd be interested in that too, since people tend to overestimate the inefficiency of apache.
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by easp 17y ago
You are not stuck dealing with the forward/back button structure. iPhone web apps can be bookmarked like applications. The author can tell the iPhone that it wants to be launched in full-screen mode, without the nav bar at the bottom of th
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by easp 17y ago
The overhead of a hypervisor is pretty low. VPS hosts will divide a 16GB 4-8 core machine into 40 pieces with Xen and each slice performs pretty well (provided that not all of them are running CPU intensive jobs at once. The main overhead
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by easp 17y ago
How is EC2 a "lock-in" platform, particularly when compared to space on a shared server?
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by easp 17y ago
How many people who are capable of writing a viable app but can't afford $20/month or less also lack friends who would give them some server space? I'm serious about this. If someone is so painfully shy or otherwise socially incompetent tha
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by easp 17y ago
I think the strategy google is pursuing with Chrome, ChromeOS, SPDY and even google docs is to make web-centric computing more widespread, both among the established base of existing desktop and laptop users, and among non-users like people
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by easp 17y ago
Subtracting shared from resident gives a best case, I think, because the "shared" memory isn't necessarily shared. The thing that drives me nuts is the people who freak out over Apache's memory usage because they add up the resident size of
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by easp 17y ago
Well, consider that they've probably been using it for the better part of a decade.
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by easp 17y ago
Are you posting this from 2005?
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by easp 17y ago
Why would their use case seem better suited to renting a bunch of servers? The 400% jump in video utilization upon the release of the iPhone 3gs probably represented a major inflection in their rate of storage growth, and their peak need fo
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by easp 17y ago
Then use the LTS releases.
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by easp 17y ago
While I think he has a point worth making, it seems hurried under volumes of copius douchebaggery. To give just one example, his trivialization of the role of social media in Iran in service of making his own point. And frankly, "pro" journ
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by easp 17y ago
Let's think this through. 1. If IT infrastructure was a relatively small cost for their retail business, why on earth would Amazon have built a core competency building infrastructure and services that operate at a scale only a handful of
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by easp 17y ago
And there is all the data handling/mangling that needs to be done.
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by easp 17y ago
I've been using this at work to rebuild our internal infrastructure for test, file serving, etc. I was intrigued by its ability to manage disk redundancy via DRDB, though I haven't really tested the instance failover features. So far, I'v
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by easp 17y ago
I'm not sure why I think this, but I had them impression that they use it for test environments, but I'm pretty sure they also use it to provide "cloud" desktops for employees, I think I saw reference to it in a presentation about the open
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by easp 17y ago
James Fallows wrote an interesting book a decade ago called Free Flight. Part of the book covered the dismal state of general aviation, resulting from a death spiral in which product liability suits played a prominent role. The rest of th
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by easp 17y ago
Any code? You mean any code other than JavaScript?
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by easp 17y ago
More interesting to me is that he was able to realize significant improvements in fuel consumption with the same airframe and same basic engine by upgrading the ignition and fuel injection systems to something that probably wouldn't look ou
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by easp 17y ago
Very interesting. I understand the conservatism of aviation engineering, but this is a clear example of how stagnation in an industry can cause even conservative adoption of innovations proven in other realms to lag by decades.

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