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by etrain 14y ago
My apologies for the rant here - it's not directed specifically at you, but toward a general attitude I see on HN and in the tech community. I was more commenting on your phrase "if half of that 1 MLOC is still relevant to new ways of build
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by etrain 14y ago
There is an awful lot of 70s tech that is still in constant operation, and is highly relevant to the types of work you're probably doing today. TCP, C, Pipes, etc.
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by etrain 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque Was it in regard to this?
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by etrain 14y ago
From a purely financial perspective, the net present value of AH's future earnings is almost certainly much higher than the net present value of the money deployed elsewhere, assuming their hot streak continues. Two things mitigate this: 1)
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by etrain 14y ago
Until they switch backends, or negotiate with Amazon. While google has the buying power and made investment in running cheap, reliable datacenters, DropBox has so far made its investment in good software and user acquisition. Dropbox has a
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by etrain 14y ago
Yeah, this seems kind of bogus - if I'm reading it right, you also have to be creating a webapp to use their API - so hope of implementing a Linux client on FUSE is low at this point.
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by etrain 14y ago
Don't see any formal Linux support, anyone know if they'll open up their API or support with FUSE?
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by etrain 15y ago
Yep, RStudio is GWT driven ( https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/ ) and uses some very particular configuration tricks to keep you from accessing it with a browser in local mode.
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by etrain 15y ago
I expect the Web REPL will ultimately evolve into something like RStudio (which itself is web-based, even in local mode). There is already an emacs mode for Julia: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/contrib/julia...
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by etrain 15y ago
For a language as young as Julia, I'm really surprised that the author focused as much as he did on the Web REPL and development environment. These things can be added later, and I think at this point in the language lifecycle, the team beh
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by etrain 15y ago
foodler.com and mixmenu.com offer this service in my area for (often) a small delivery fee. but then they have deals, so you often end up saving money. I think that the delivery fee model beats the fixed subscription model in this case.
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by etrain 15y ago
Always sad to hear about that many people losing their jobs - but, at least the technical job market is as strong now as it has been in a decade. With a workforce at the end of last year of >14,000, this is clearly a substantial reducti
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by etrain 15y ago
Oracle tends to be pretty opaque in their pricing, and part of that is because with any sale this big, there's always going to be a lot of negotiation. Sure, it's going to be expensive, but only schmucks pay full price for a 64-core license
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I am very real(lettersofnote.com)
943 points by etrain 15y ago|150 comments
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by etrain 15y ago
Didn't mean to minimize the contributions made in the article - fully agree that proper settings matter a lot. The attention to detail in turning off unnecessary cruft was great. Loved the sudo ufw logging off.
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by etrain 15y ago
TL;DR - Vanilla ubuntu, configure firewall, install nginx, install wordpress, turn on wordpress caching, install and configure varnish.
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Statistics with Julia(statalgo.com)
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by etrain 15y ago
This is pretty cool, but it's so early in the drug -> product process that it's really difficult to get one's hopes up. The article indicates that they're nowhere near clinical trials, which often take 5 years by themselves - and most d
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by etrain 15y ago
I would love to hear a lawyers opinion on whether the OP has any legal case whatsoever if his "not suggestions" are ever used, his identity is identified, and someone decides they want to throw the book at him. Basically, if some DA decides
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by etrain 15y ago
I have nothing to do with YC and no reason to defend pg, but I will say that this article clearly misses one of his big points: it's very hard to be successful if your whole goal is to change the world from day 1. Even if it is your secret
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by etrain 15y ago
Let's talk about context switches here: OMG! it's going to be sooo hard for developers to switch from a model where all the logic happens on the server and where the client is just a dumb display to a model where the all the logic happens o
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by etrain 15y ago
Since you asked for it... the 'bro' style makes the thing unreadable. Not to mention the 'lol!'s that felt like they finished every sentence. After seeing that you were here asking what's wrong with it, I decided to go back and actually rea
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by etrain 15y ago
Oblig Simpsons reference: "Speed holes - they make the car go faster."
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by etrain 15y ago
Fully agreed here. It's amazing how many people could be replaced (or freed up to do better things) by very simple shell scripts or excel macros. This is where someone who knows a little programming but understands the business process real
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by etrain 15y ago
I'm an offender of the 'this guy' thing. I have heard of Matt before, but come on, there is almost no context as to who he is given in the posting, and do you really expect everyone in this community to know every semi-significant kernel ha
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by etrain 15y ago
On the other hand, you've got FPGAs, which bring the software stuff to the hardware guys - and based on my (limited) understanding of the hardware industry, they've improved certain prototyping exercises by an order of magnitude. Agreed tha
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by etrain 15y ago
My hat's off to this guy for the work he did, and indeed, finding a CPU is quite the accomplishment. That said - what is it about the hardware manufacturers that makes them relatively immune to this sort of thing? Is it formal verification
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by etrain 15y ago
Q: do you think the designers of TCP were thinking of the constant that they started with in the first place? Or do you think as computer scientists they said "some integer n > 0 so that we can achieve the exponential effect." While we'
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by etrain 15y ago
You missed the point. This is why he talks about Plan 9. In Plan 9, everything IS a file. Including sockets, and windows, and processes. Several of these features have made their way back into linux.
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by etrain 15y ago
I have serious problems with the relational data model, but I do think he raises a good point. This relational stuff has REALLY strong fundamentals and is battle tested. There are a lot of people out there shouting 'scalability!' without un

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