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by gtaylor 13y ago
Wow, this is really informative and thorough. Thanks for going through all of this. I've got an older MBP 2010 that was a real pain the last time I tried to install Ubuntu (13.10) when OSX got me pretty irate. The other big gripe I had
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> OTOH the lowest ($20) tier on Linode is probably used by more serious projects that, on average, exert considerable load. I'm not sure about that. For me, I pay the extra few bucks on Linode for the customer service, stability, an
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> My $5 DO server running almost identical software responds much faster than my Linode server. Faster how? This doesn't tell us anything. > I have put this down to the DO SSDs Linode now uses SSDs, too. And server-grade ones at
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by gtaylor 13y ago
If it were just higher latency, I'd agree. But packet loss is a bit different.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
My installs are headless, no 3D accel or Unity needed. As originally mentioned, the VBox kernel modules are of poor quality. You may or may not trigger an edge case in your daily use, with or without a desktop environment.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> Can anyone talk about how well a Macbook Pro copes with the UEFI version of Ubuntu? I don't know if this is still a case, but I was unable to use the proprietary nvidia drivers booting in pure UEFI mode (not BIOS compatible mode).
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I've had Ubuntu 12.04 guests crash hard (like the commenter mentioned) on OSX and Linux hosts with VirtualBox.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> But I don't see any indication that DO treats servers as disposable or fungible whereas Linode doesn't. I'm not sure "disposable" is a good word to describe DO's approach. We do know that they cram a lot m
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Anecdotally, I get notifications of maintenance outages every month with DO in NYC1 and NYC2. These are exceedingly, exceedingly rare with Linode's Atlanta DC. Also, stolen CPU on my DO boxes is super high, whereas this is very rare on
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> So that brings me back to where I came in: do you experience any concrete, measurable benefits from the "excellent development velocity" you mentioned, or is it simply your team's preferred development style? Yes, see th
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I'm not sure about the American bias, as I see tons of non-US cars in the sedans list, but their truck ratings are a travesty: http://autos.jdpower.com/ratings/quality/trucks.htm I have been utterly unimpress
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Citation needed. Ford seems to have really cleaned up their act the last 3-5 years. I'm still a bit wary of Dodge/Chevy/GM, but have been super impressed with Ford. Granted, Ford did stink it up something ferocious in the ear
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> However, to me neither seems like a strong argument for routinely releasing multiple updates per day. I don't understand this line of thinking. If there's a bug that you can fix in short order, why not fix it and deploy said
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> Limited non-compete agreements have value to startups. Perhaps, but I often get the impression that startups think that they've got some kind of valuable secret methodology that is leagues better than everyone else. I feel that th
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Some of the jobs I've had or looked at made employment contingent on a non-compete. In those cases, saying something like this would mean finding another job. Depending on your skills, your area of expertise, and your reputation, this
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by gtaylor 13y ago
It looks like Amazon ELB + HTTPS come back as vulnerable with their newest default cipher suite. That's fun.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
This isn't specific to Android, as you can pull symbols out of many kinds of binaries with some work. Being silly with you credentials can hurt you, regardless of the platform or using a compiled or interpreted environment.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I gave in and ordered a bidet a year ago. Not wanting to commit to some of the expensive options, I opted for the $25 Astor Bidet: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003TPGPUW/ Installation involved adding a T
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by gtaylor 13y ago
$25 and has been good enough for me. No warm water line, but you can spend $20 more for one that has that if you care. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003TPGPUW/
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by gtaylor 13y ago
AFAIK, a large chunk of Twisted is already working on Python 3. I don't know how long they have left to get 100% of it, but it's made substantial progress.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I don't even listen to Wu-Tang, but I think this is awesome. This is creative and interesting. People like myself who would otherwise never read or think about Wu-Tang are pondering how this will work and what the implications (if any)
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by gtaylor 13y ago
My impression wasn't so much "opaque" as it was "dreadfully, soul-suckingly bureaucratic". It's been a long time since I looked, so this may have improved since, but it was really hard to figure out what the fi
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Why does PulseAudio have anything to do with Ubuntu? AFAIK, there is no relation between the two, other than the fact that Ubuntu offers PulseAudio (along with almost every other distro).
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Check out the bottom of this post for where they stand on that: http://blog.mandrill.com/rejection-imports-subaccount-enhanc... They get accurate data for clicks, but geolocation/browser stats for opens aren't 100
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by gtaylor 13y ago
We just switched off of SES because of the lack of bounce/rejection diagnostics, and their internal blacklisting policies are really aggressive. If someone's email server goes down for a few hours, they're blacklisted for qui
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> - You need to make sure that your email servers IPs are not on black lists. This alone is a huge, huge chore. Especially if you run a hosted service that allows some user-specified content in outbound email bodies. It's a lot chea
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by gtaylor 13y ago
After this latest round of price cuts, I'm starting to question whether I even want to reserve instances on the lower end. An m3.medium is about $52/month on demand vs $35/month (amortized over 12 months with a 1-year heavy u
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by gtaylor 13y ago
That makes sense, thanks for the clarification. Bummer, though. We just reserved a multi-AZ m3.large RDS instance last week. I wish AWS would take up Google's system of graduated price reductions over steady run duration.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Thanks, good sir! This is exciting!
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Let us hope that RDS prices also drop as a result of this. It's enough of a value for us at the current price rates to be happy with it, but there will need to be some decrease to make sure that it makes financial sense over straight s

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