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by hosay123 13y ago
> a system that is designed to never crash I'm pretty sure no self-respecting engineer would ever attempt to design such a thing (although many might be deluded into thinking that e.g. advanced type systems might help achieve that g
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EU: Mobile telecoms firms probed for details of Google Android deals(out-law.com)
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by hosay123 13y ago
Not disagreeing with your conclusion, but.. > In real life, if you are accused of hiding information in a well known text, you could just show that your version of the text exactly matches the original, and so there is no scope for hidin
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Eric Schmidt interview: 'You have to fight for your privacy or you will lose it(telegraph.co.uk)
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by hosay123 13y ago
> He said "We need a real bytecode for the web That's what I was talking about, too. Since processors have essentially plateaued in performance improvements by increasing raw clock speed, the only growth options going forward are wider
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by hosay123 13y ago
> duct-taped to a bundle of silly hacks, wrapped up in some interesting attempts to standardise, with a few more vendor-specific hacks crowbarred in there for good measure By this point you could easily have been confused for someone de
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by hosay123 13y ago
There are two alternatives to what RethinkDB does: parsing the function's associated source file (yucky and breaky when multiple lambdas per line) or disassembling its func_code.. I've looked at this problem before (and ran away screaming e
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by hosay123 13y ago
LevelDB holds neither a read performance advantage in any scenerio over common alternatives (LSM reads fundamentally require extra work by design), or a write performance advantage for anything but very short benchmark-friendly bursts. In t
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by hosay123 13y ago
Woah, you couldn't have this any more backwards. Google Finance regularly publish bad price and fundamentals data, including for their own ticker. It's been that way since launch. Their database is also full of stub companies that haven
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by hosay123 13y ago
Perhaps the conviction of seeing it plastered all over the UK headlines in the past few weeks was too much for him? I'm not sure what being Christian has to do with it, why you're reacting to that, or why the journo even bothered mentioning
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by hosay123 13y ago
> if you cannot stand behind your comments personally, why even make them Experimentation? > Not only that but I also never delete a comment I delete regularly, particularly if on re-reading the comment I realize I'm a total idiot,
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by hosay123 13y ago
I tend to recycle accounts every so often, and make a reasonable effort to keep each account anonymous (although a determined creeper could likely identify me). I've also got a "real world" account, but generally prefer the freedom of posti
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by hosay123 13y ago
Thanks for the link, will check it out. GNOME was the first environment I used that had cohesive e.g. system preferences across the environment, and later a consistent update process (if I remember it right, Ximian were the first to include
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by hosay123 13y ago
I've long dreamed of a resurgence in the open source community, attacking big media much as the community attacked Microsoft in the late 1990s. It's depressing that the PR machine has so thoroughly succeeded that most of those who still cal
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by hosay123 13y ago
Within 15 minutes of setting up a https CI environment, complete with robots.txt, Googlebot was hitting the DNS name which also wasn't public or previously used or easily guessed. All the team use Gmail and one was using Chrome.
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by hosay123 13y ago
It's an underscore followed by 4 bytes, possibly the integer 2650072859 or 468186269. If they're intentionally trying to obfuscate their URLs to prevent crawling, it might be further encrypted somehow.
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by hosay123 13y ago
Woah, desperate much? Headline roughly translates to "we're willing to pay the perpetual maintenance cost of a new runtime because our existing runtimes aren't attracting enough users to justify the product", and the reasons for that cannot
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by hosay123 13y ago
It's worth mentioning SDF still (IIRC) provides dialup service. So a USB modem, telecoupler and payphone are all required to really truly publish without leaving much trace.
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by hosay123 14y ago
MDB had no issue on the same hardware and workload I discovered the LevelDB behaviour. It does not defer work (unless running asynchronously, in which case the OS is technically deferring work), so performance is a predictable function of d
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by hosay123 14y ago
Switch the ftp:// for http:// if it's more to your taste.
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by hosay123 14y ago
Try searching their mailing list for "hang" and suchlike (of course they don't openly advertise such an easily triggered flaw). LevelDB write rate initially seems amazing, since it's simply writing unsorted keys to an append-only file until
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by hosay123 14y ago
Since it's leveldb underneath the usual problems with write rate apply: its quite easy to get leveldb into a position where writes completely lock up for minutes at a time, and the machine is tearing itself to shreds trying to complete merg
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by hosay123 14y ago
It's worth avoiding linking to Google Groups entirely, on the basis that the new UI is unusable and that the product will probably be canned soon enough. GMane is a good community-oriented alternate: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.a
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by hosay123 14y ago
So for about $12,000 in bandwidth fees, $17,000 in 4TB SATA drives, and say another $15,000 on 10 2U hosts, you could have a slightly stinky copy of the Internet that would fit in a half-height rack. That's freaking awesome.
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by hosay123 14y ago
Actually if you consider open source as proxy for the communication of ideas, writing docs might be seen as the primary goal of any project. Without docs expressing what code is supposed to do, a random git repo is just another worthless,
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by hosay123 14y ago
This seems relevant.. old concrete can often emit significant levels of Radon that will tend toward floor level. It's supposedly quite important to properly vent old basements on a semiregular basis for this reason. In such an environment,
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by hosay123 14y ago
Consider MacPorts over homebrew.. I'll withhold opinion on any system that turns the only sanctioned UNIX for site adminitrator's control ONLY directory in the system (since like the 80s) into a Git repository. MacPorts (and basically eve
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by hosay123 14y ago
They could always, you know, run their own..
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by hosay123 14y ago
You decide.. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=infoman The domain was registered one day after the HN account was registered, first post wasn't made for 14 days (aka. when the username no longer appears in green). In his defence,
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by hosay123 14y ago
I've never been charged a late fee by a firm I didn't have a credit agreement with. Perhaps other parts of the world are more insane, but here that is definitely not commonplace.

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