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by easp 15y ago
I think people are too quick to throw out Apache + mod_php. It remains the defacto deployment environment for most open source PHP apps, which means that it is the best understood and best supported. For example, if you deploy using Apach
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by easp 15y ago
I found that a major contributor to page generation times on Wordpress is the time taken to load and parse all the PHP files. I installed a PHP opcode cache (APC) as I recall, and it made a huge difference, because the parsed representatio
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by easp 15y ago
I'd imagine that machining a piston engine is simpler and moraccessable than machining an efficient turbine.
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by easp 16y ago
Different perspectives can be valuable, if only to feed the narcissism of youth, but I have my doubts it will be enough to grow or sustain this thing.
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by easp 16y ago
How many of those 600M monthly active users are fake accounts created by webcam and dating site spammers, and mafia wars addicts?
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by easp 16y ago
Yes, advocates are over promising on safety, but the incumbent alternatives (burning fossil fuels) have their own downsides with global impact.
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by easp 16y ago
Well, since they got caught trying to slip this through, I'm going to bet that it makes this and any other asset sale they are contemplating even more drawn out.
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by easp 16y ago
You sure its purpose isn't to reinstantiate the cryogenically frozen brain of IBM's founder? Maybe that's just a bonus.
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by easp 16y ago
I knew Apple was on to something again when, not long after Jobs retook Apple, their inventory on hand started to approach that of Dell. That was Cook's doing.
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by easp 16y ago
I wouldn't take face cook's claim that they have 600M active accounts to mean that they actually have 600M active users. If you wander very far from your own "neighborhood" you'll reali ze that there are a lot of bogus accounts used by spam
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by easp 16y ago
In my limited experience, the actual costs have been small enough that I regret even spending time on a detailed spreadsheet based cost model to predict costs. At some point, that will change. At that point I'll have a very clear basis for
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by easp 16y ago
Which was still infinitely better than racking your own servers and then, later, driving to the colo at 4:30 am because of yet another contingency you failed to anticipate in your HA planning. One of the earlier contingencies was that the c
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by easp 16y ago
You could have said the same thing about papers covering BigTable and MapReduce. Today we have Hadoop...
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by easp 16y ago
One difference is that Heroku and similar are fairly young companies, whose infrastructure was largely built in "the cloud" and for "the cloud." Whatever preconceptions the builders had about the charactaristics of the underlying environmen
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by easp 16y ago
Huh? Netflix is a going concern, and has been for quite some time. Even the streaming business is a few years old. It may be an up front investment since the full benefits may take some time to accrue, but it is an investment made based on
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by easp 16y ago
"chances are good"
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by easp 16y ago
The cohorts aren't defined by race though, or even ethnicity, are they? Someone born in china, raised in Brazil who did their undergrad in France and got their doctorate in India before publishing a fraudulent paper as a postdoc at UCSF is
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by easp 16y ago
I think I'm in love! When I saw this video last week I started thinking if there was any data munging that I've been putting off. There is, but I need to do some scraping first. In the meantime, I sent it to a friend who is working on an i
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by easp 16y ago
Capacity planning isn't just hard, it is costly. You have to profile every new version of your app, and every new version of the software you depend on. You have to update your planning models with that data, and then you have to provisio
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by easp 16y ago
I believe each physical host has at least 8 real cores. They give each instance 4 virtual cores. As long as CPU time is available, an instance can use the full capacity of four cores. If there is contention for CPU time, every instance gets
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by easp 16y ago
I like Linode, but they are wearing a little thin for me. In general, uptimes have been excellent but the physical server hosting one of our VPSs had three emergency reboots in a little over a month before they replaced the hardware. Perha
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by easp 16y ago
I suspect that you have it backwards. Making great products comes first. Profitability validates that, and makes it possible to keep making great products.
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by easp 16y ago
Clearly the only legitimate comparison is the number of phones activated on Verizon's network. Anyone who feels differently is a sheep who puts fashion and popularity ahead of the only things that really matter and has been sucked into Ste
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by easp 16y ago
You mean "apple desktop bus," which let you attach multiple low speed peripherals to your Mac as early as 1987, back when the best you could do on a PC was PS/2 ports? Apple ditched that when they adopted USB 1. Or are you saying computers
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by easp 16y ago
And what do you think the number should be?
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by easp 16y ago
Put nginx in front of apache and allow it to buffer responses. That way apache can move on to rendering the next request while nginix empties the buffer. Each apache process still uses just as much memory, but they can get more work done,
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by easp 16y ago
I don't know if the numbers pencilled out, but Teledesic, another company with similar ambitions, but, I think, using satellites in lower orbit, was trying to get some long term customers from countries with a lot of wide open spaces, where
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by easp 16y ago
In another context, when making a point about code maturity, someone noted that people were still finding and fixing bugs in Postgres code that was over 10 years old. In those situations, I think preserving info about the provenance of eve
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by easp 16y ago
Apple has something going for iOS relative to android, even without running iaoS apps on macs: people actually install apps on iOS devices, not only that, they'll pay for them.
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by easp 16y ago
Apple didn't put arrow keys on the first Mac either. A couple of years later, they did. You know why they waited? Because they wanted to make sure apps that were written to take advantage of the new UI, rather than ported from purely keyb

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