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by gtaylor 13y ago
If he's asking for money from me, I would like to know why it's not an option. The root of the issue being raised is power/space, so I'd definitely want to know why I'm forking up for something the project could pot
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Especially if the fate of OpenBSD as it stands is hanging in the balance. Depending on who is offering, this may be because of the uncertainty of whatever arrangement is being proposed. For example, if a smaller company or an individual off
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. I've seen some really good questions buried/closed prematurely because of this overzealous policing. I'm not really sure what the other options are, though. Quora? Other web communities that are specif
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> If your life raft is sinking, do you try to patch it, or do you throw someone overboard? Your instinctual answer says a lot about the type of person you are. Nobody is being thrown overboard. The article is just pointing out that it ma
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by gtaylor 13y ago
It's not super bandwidth intensive, and my house is in a spot that gets terrible reception. Aereo is a huge win for us. We don't have to mount a big, ugly roof antenna, and we get every channel instead of just what our antenna c
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by gtaylor 13y ago
KDE4 had a rough launch, but the later versions are actually really good. Resource usage is down, it's an order of magnitude faster, and it's just an overall much better situation. Looking forward to see KDE5 once it's releas
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by gtaylor 13y ago
To be fair, Apple has done its fair share of copying the last few years, too. They all do it now. Singling out one is pretty silly these days. Also, Android didn't copy the kernel. They adopted it, modified it, and abide by the license
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I like the look of this language every time I see it mentioned, but I'm too afraid to be running daemons on mono. Would love to see the JVM backend progress.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I think they staggered the right bracket a little too much to be optimal. This means you still have to reach much further than the other fingers do for stuff like periods and commas. I've seen this mentioned pretty frequently, so there
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I too was hesitant to jump on the Kinesis Advantage, but my hands were hurting so bad that I sprung for it on Amazon for about $260. It has definitely taken some getting used to, but I am typing pain-free for about a month and a half. I am
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by gtaylor 13y ago
The recently released X: Rebirth sure gives these games a run for their money. Unlike some of the games listed, dev time for X was around 7 years. We can't say that the game was re-arranged in the last hour (like that Superman game). T
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When (and when not) to use EC2(gc-taylor.com)
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Some call it laziness, but I like to think of it more as simplification. I used to run a handful of VMs for various things, did a lot more myself, and maintained it all. I don't feel like doing that anymore. I'd rather spend the t
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I think this may be overlooking the primary benefit of IRCCloud: This is a service that makes it someone else's problem. I ran a bouncer for a while, but honestly, it's really nice being able to pay these guys a few bucks and have
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I'm a little confused by the standard values they've chosen for exercise and weight. It looks like even the guy with three hours a week spent exercising got knocked into the red, and the lady weighing in at 112 lost points as well
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I definitely don't think that they are bad, just not great. It's not even really a lack of content like with the Salt docs, it's more of an organization issue.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
True on all accounts. I'm not a YAML fan either, but it ends up being a pretty minor detail for us. It is very convenient not having to run an agent on the managed machines.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Ansible has worked really well for us at Pathwright. We initially played a lot with Chef and Puppet, as they're two really safe bets. This is kind of petty, but we're a Python shop, so the Rubyisms were a bit jarring. Both were al
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by gtaylor 13y ago
More money than what? With a better model in place, it's possible they'd make even more money. But we may never know because of political BS.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
That's somehow ironically funny. Someone outside of the US gets a better selection than someone inside the US, where the actual product "lives". Blackouts are messed up. And pretty easy to circumvent for online stuff like MLB
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Also, college football is even worse about this. Cable-cutters would gladly pay up to be able to watch their team all season. You can get the low profile games/teams on WatchESPN (ESPN3) (if your ISP pays a toll), but if the game is
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by gtaylor 13y ago
The frustrating thing is that more people would pay up for MLB.tv if they didn't have these stupid blackout rules in place. It's the way business is done in the industry, but I can't stand it. Let me throw my money at you, ML
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by gtaylor 13y ago
You're paying for a lot more than just the hardware your instance runs on with EC2. You're also indirectly paying for the other systems they make available to you within EC2 (auto-scaling, ELB, EBS, CloudWatch, etc). If you don&#x
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> Yes, every situation is different, but replacing capacity that you use at peak on AWS will cost you much less to buy, rack, and power yourself considering hardware and hosting costs. The important thing to keep in mind with a DIY situa
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> AWS has turned infrastructure into an api and software which is just simply fantastic, but you pay for that sort of flexibility. There's nothing wrong with paying for the flexibility, though. We gladly do it because it's a gr
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Right now, probably so. Though, to AWS' credit, they've been "diversifying" in developing some of these other complementary services (RDS, Route53, ElastiCache, Search, DynamoDB, Elastic Transcoder). It's getting to
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I mentioned this elsewhere in the thread, but you pay the premium with EC2 for flexibility, not so much for raw computing power. If you don't need to be able to scale up AND down with regularity, EC2 is indeed a lot more expensive (sin
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by gtaylor 13y ago
They cut prices for customers many times a year. Seems like we get 2-3 EC2 price cuts every year, and S3 continues to get cheaper. They are one of the few vendors we use that regularly passes on savings to us.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
This is something that I feel so many people don't understand about EC2 (ELASTIC Cloud Compute). If you are using it like a traditional VPS provider, you are likely over-paying for something you could get cheaper elsewhere. If you are
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by gtaylor 13y ago
This obviously depends on your specific scenario, but paying the maintenance/flexibility premium for something like AWS can be cheaper than something more rigid (see Netflix). I hesitate to make any generalizations like "buildin

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