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by firemanx 14y ago
Hopefully this pushes them to support more variety in the underlying operating system as well. I still can't get Steam to run on my Mac because I made the apparently rare decision to format my machine as case sensitive filesystem.
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by firemanx 15y ago
These are welcome changes, but I really, really wish that new medium instance had 2 or 4 cores. I would pay a bit more for that, and having a single core is where many of our workloads really start to feel the pain, but we don't need all o
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by firemanx 15y ago
They've still had medium instances - I just spun up a few the other day. When did they retire them?
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by firemanx 15y ago
The thing about the buying on Amazon vs. anywhere else, even if its more expensive: In the vast, vast majority of cases that I've price shopped elsewhere, Amazon is almost always the cheaper option. And if they're more expensive, it's gene
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by firemanx 15y ago
Last I heard, it was in the works for NGinx: https://twitter.com/#!/nginxorg/status/150112670966747137
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by firemanx 15y ago
This reminds me of the book Ringworld and the "Fall of Cities" - the civilization had become dependent on a particular superconductor, and wired it into everything. A microorganism that fed off of the superconductor came along and spread l
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by firemanx 15y ago
I sure hope not. The most dangerous guys at work are the product managers who had a few programming classes in college and think software engineering is "easy". Programming is, like many disciplines, easy to pick up but hard work to truly
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by firemanx 15y ago
I can't speak to overall strategy, as that's above my pay grade, but I can say that I HAVE worked in that area and I think everybody here is really interested in getting into that. At my last startup, we had a prototype going at my house wh
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by firemanx 15y ago
Oh, I don't mean to imply that solar and wind are entirely unpredictable (I was hoping my comments about hydro would cover that), but they aren't always predictable when and where you need it. One of the problems for BIG infrastructure (sa
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by firemanx 15y ago
It's funny you mention that - that book has been making its way around at work, and I've got it sitting on my desk to read right now. I think the author is right on, though I bet we'll see some significant incremental progress in the next c
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by firemanx 15y ago
It's a great company to work for. Lots of smart, motivated folks with tons of experience both in the energy industry and other connected industries. I'm in the second wave of new hires, working as an architect on the software system that
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by firemanx 15y ago
Ultimately, the problem with solar, wind, and any other "periodic" or localized generation method is storage and distribution. I live in an area with incredibly cheap power due to hydro dams that generate well in excess of what we need. H
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by firemanx 15y ago
Re: the BizSpark cost that most folks are talking about I've been in BizSpark for almost 3 years now (graduation date is April 2012), and hopefully I can add a bit to the conversation. I'll caveat this with the fact that I primarily develo
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by firemanx 15y ago
Awesome! Now if we can just get HBase to update it's prereqs and bump it's version, I can have some symmetry in my life! On a more serious note - is anyone using HDFS for something like the WebHDFS stuff was designed? We're currently look
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by firemanx 15y ago
I started using IDEA with this latest version, and it's the version that has convinced me to come over from Eclipse. I don't particularly like Eclipse (I don't hate it either, but it's not exactly winning best coding environment for me), bu
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by firemanx 15y ago
While I'd agree that the documentation could really use an overhaul, once you figure out what the "modern" way to use it is - I've found it to be none of the things which you describe it. I recently implemented an application on the 1.6 ve
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by firemanx 15y ago
Well, you have to keep in mind that compartments, from the way I understand them, are topical, or centered around the specific field they pertain to. Thus, the DOE and the DOD won't have the same compartments, and even the Army and the Nav
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by firemanx 15y ago
It's likely referring to the SCI status - the point of SCI, over and above just Secret or Top Secret, is that you have different "compartments" (clearances) for different categories of information. A guy with SCI working for the DOE would
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by firemanx 15y ago
I bought a Mac to partially do Java development, but I also do .NET development on a Windows VM via Fusion. I've been extremely happy with the setup. I also do Ruby development, and was working in Windows with an Ubuntu VM. I would do Ja
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by firemanx 15y ago
We're launching a new VPC in the region today. Unfortunately none of the Community AMIs we used in US East and US West-1 are available in the new region yet :( To second your sentiment, it would be really, REALLY nice if we could port AMIs
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by firemanx 15y ago
I'm in the same boat. The problem I keep finding with a lot of these UI libs is that they don't have layout managers. We settled on dojo because we wanted an open source option with a layout manager, but it's got other headaches we need t
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by firemanx 15y ago
In towns like mine, however, 40,000 people share the same zip code with the hospital. I'm sure there are quite a few more town like mine throughout the US.
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by firemanx 15y ago
Do they still limit the usage of user defined functions and contrib modules, or did that open up? I would love to use Heroku for some lightweight data warehousing that I've got going, but it's still pretty dependent on functions/sprocs for
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by firemanx 15y ago
Money going to the government to "fund programs" doesn't go into the economy either. There's a possibility it will go to salaries and things, but that's hardly a guarantee. The government doesn't create the economy, private sector growth d
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by firemanx 15y ago
This seems fishy to me. I actually got this message as well, and we're evaluating the impact - but this is a tremendously serious and obvious bug to appear in a shipping release of one of the most used softwares on the planet. It just doe
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by firemanx 15y ago
I live in Wenatchee, but work for a company out of Seattle (Downtown). I'd be interested in attending!
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by firemanx 15y ago
I have to disagree with you. "Publicly-held companies" don't encourage immoral behavior. People encourage immoral behavior. I know that some folks like to think of people as "basically good", but I don't think history has held that out
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by firemanx 15y ago
For some task-specific definition of elegance. For me, elegance is not just about how terse the syntax is, but how well it solves the problem at hand and responds to changes around it. For me, some problems require a performant solution a
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by firemanx 15y ago
One is real dollars (subsidy), one is potential dollars - tax revenue doesn't exist without actual revenue to create it. If the business bankrupts without ever making a dime, you haven't lost anything through a tax break. If you give the
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by firemanx 15y ago
It's easy to throw out numbers like 8% until you realize that it represents over 100 million people. Per capita that may be a small number, but in the general scheme of things it means a lot of disgruntled people. I never really thought a

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