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by fizx 12y ago
There's no new instance types on that list and AWS hasn't blogged it (despite blogging redshift changes already today). Flagging.
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by fizx 12y ago
Predator drones have enough payload to carry several AIM-120s (where to mount more than one is an open question), which is a ~40mi range fire-and-forget air-to-air missile. Whether the F-35's stealth/avoidance is good enough, I d
483.
by fizx 12y ago
Preferred still has downside protection. What's that worth over common right now? 10%?
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by fizx 12y ago
They can always sell/spin out the headphones business once the acquisition stabilizes a little. See also: Google/Motorola.
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by fizx 12y ago
If you think about it, there's not a lot you can say in German in 140 characters.
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by fizx 12y ago
Back when Pivotal Labs largely made prototypes for wealthy people's ill-conceived ventures (think social networking for dogs), the saving grace was that you were pairing. It's amazing how much better a boring project is when the s
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by fizx 12y ago
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem limits the information that can be transmitted through a given channel. If you want to send more wired data, you add more channels by adding more wires
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by fizx 12y ago
The "who's looking for work" thread is currently boring. One reason the "who's hiring" threads are always fun is that they double as a company popularity contest.
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by fizx 12y ago
The quarterly earnings call just happened, TWTR got roasted, and we all love contrarian articles.
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by fizx 13y ago
Every company I've worked at had similar (though far less costly) issues. Put an API method in every service that exposes the SHA of the running code, the build time of the binary (if compiled), and the timestamp when the deploy was in
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by fizx 13y ago
Good riddance. Oh, and Chef is still in your website's meta tags (and therefore google results).
492.
by fizx 13y ago
Not the correct project.
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by fizx 13y ago
> people who express themselves with such extreme language, usually are batshit crazy Quick question: Would you consider "batshit crazy" extreme language?
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by fizx 13y ago
My experience circa ~2011 > Is Scala used exclusively for systems programming in Twitter or are there other languages in the mix? Java and C++ were also used. > The majority of other big software players seem to be not using it for va
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by fizx 13y ago
Or, you can do what everyone else does. Set your rates 20% higher and give anyone who asks a 20% discount. Or set your rates 10% higher, and give a 20% discount for something that is valuable to you, but not necessarily valuable to the cl
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by fizx 13y ago
Congrats on the launch!
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by fizx 13y ago
It would weigh 100x as much. The key limitation is not collapsing under its own weight.
498.
by fizx 13y ago
I don't know that that's necessarily a good idea. As you (perhaps automatically) expand and collapse the cluster, you'll need to make sure to communicate to all nodes what the new cluster size is. If some nodes don't kn
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by fizx 13y ago
Playing the piano is easier than playing a violin. I would argue that a world-class pianist is about as skilled as a world-class violinist. If you could allocate skill points like an MMO, the violinist is spending 3 points on instrument ma
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by fizx 13y ago
Isn't BBM ephemeral?
501.
by fizx 13y ago
When I was using it, it felt too good to be true! :) It's got a lot of moving parts and internal integrations, however, so it's got to be a ton of work to make open. Still hopeful though.
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by fizx 13y ago
Still missing any of the fleet management stuff that AWS gives you. :/ No replacements for auto-scaling groups, IAM, CloudFormation.
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by fizx 13y ago
Or incognito.
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by fizx 13y ago
And here I was hoping that someone had scraped LinkedIn for people's employment histories, then built a state machine/markov decision process-esque model of the tech industry, and quantified how much the collusion depressed inter-
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by fizx 13y ago
iMessages
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by fizx 13y ago
I've gone Ruby->Java->Scala->Java->Scala over the last five years. Scala was terrible two years ago. All the tools were broken, and every point release broke binary compatibility, so that jar dependency hell was amplified
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by fizx 13y ago
That's odd. I made it public and it's public now. Try again?
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Show HN: I wrote a realtime search and/or pubsub (in memory, C)(github.com)
8 points by fizx 13y ago|3 comments
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by fizx 13y ago
You mean SOAP and WSDL? Or perhaps Rails ActiveResource? Or perhaps http://xkcd.com/927/ ?
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by fizx 13y ago
5B/year is an odd choice, because the rate of inflation starts very high, but will asymptotically approach zero over time. This doesn't seem well thought out.

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