gsmethells

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by gsmethells 10y ago
Even though I have a Master's of Science in Computer Science, I also spent a few years of my youth (more than they suggest in this article) working as a groundskeeping for several apartment buildings across town. Mowing, weeding, edgin
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by gsmethells 10y ago
Our local Wisconsin university, UW-EC, received an entire computer lab full of SGI workstations in the 90's when SGI was big. I even had a friend who worked at SGI in Chippewa Falls, WI. I recall lots of folks fleeing to Cray (same cit
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by gsmethells 10y ago
" ... and future research will explore what affects sleep quality once asleep ..." :)
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by gsmethells 10y ago
I think traffic lights are ripe for disruption.
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by gsmethells 10y ago
So ... does this mean we are going to see yogurt with "B. Infantis"? Or is this a infant-only symbiotic strain? Curious.
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by gsmethells 10y ago
So, entanglement could be said to be chaotic. Sounds more plausible than most attempts to bind these models together more succinctly.
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by gsmethells 10y ago
I love the name. :) Fits right in with "flask" ( http://flask.pocoo.org ) and "bottle" ( http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/index.html ).
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by gsmethells 10y ago
Build something the world has never seen and carve your own path. Nothing builds confidence like productivity and it helps you learn new things to boot!
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by gsmethells 10y ago
Long live CmdrTaco. Avid slashdot reader since '98.
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by gsmethells 10y ago
I concur. This is old news.
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by gsmethells 10y ago
Yep. This the classic end-to-end argument, a white paper all CS grads must read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_principle
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by gsmethells 10y ago
So ... explain like I'm five. :) How can Diffie-Hellman, which has been taught ad infinitum as a safe method for key exchange, be discussed like it has a loophole?
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by gsmethells 10y ago
Given our current computer architecture models, we'll run into Planck's constant or some other universal constant eventually. Already the path forward has more to do with increasing the number of cores rather than the performance
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by gsmethells 10y ago
"In a distributed system, you can know where the work is done or you can know when the work is done but you can't know both." A simple thought experiment will quickly tell you that's not true. Given a task queue, the com
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by gsmethells 10y ago
The diaper pattern is a well-know anti-pattern. But the idea that all exceptions are thus evil is a giant leap of logic that is hard to swallow.
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by gsmethells 10y ago
I concur, wine fridges are totally a necessity!
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by gsmethells 10y ago
Ceph, OpenStack Swift, GlusterFS, OrangeFS, Lustre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustered_file_system#Distribu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage
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by gsmethells 10y ago
Will each disk in the system be weighted so that different size disks can be used in the system over time? OpenStack Swift offers this and is useful to not lock-in disk size at design time.
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by gsmethells 10y ago
Is the goal to provide POSIX file access as NFS and AFS do? The mention of object storage as a future direction feels like the early "the sky's the limit" euphoria of a new project that has yet to adopt specific end goals.
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by gsmethells 10y ago
If there ever was a need for a TL;DR, then this is it. Anyone care to take a crack at it?
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by gsmethells 10y ago
Cool!
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by gsmethells 10y ago
Know your dependencies well. Keep them few and far between -- and well vetted.
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by gsmethells 10y ago
This was originally on Slashdot in 1990's and has been on HN before.
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by gsmethells 10y ago
Perhaps mosquitos are here to manage the human population in the ecosystem.
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by gsmethells 11y ago
Why did you guys choose Ceph instead of OpenStack Swift? Just curious.
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by gsmethells 11y ago
They do have some differences if you look close enough.
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by gsmethells 11y ago
What happened to division of labor? Progressive enhancement? Mixing CSS into JS is just muddying the water.
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by gsmethells 11y ago
Security is completely ignored here. Is a web app controlling your microphone or camera a Good Thing? Maybe yes, maybe no.
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Ask HN: Best product requirements tracker in 2016?
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by gsmethells 11y ago
The fact that anyone has to even think about code size is the real problem. Yes, downloading a giant JS lib for one function is insane, hence the ton of tiny dependencies. However, it is equally insane that basic SDK expectations found in e

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