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by hp50g 14y ago
I think most users probably don't particularly care about the hot air and ecosystem thing on the Internet - they're too busy using it to get stuff done. These are the guys who if you Google their email address, it will show one or two posts
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by hp50g 14y ago
That's always the case outside of startup culture , which is why despite being a Unix/Linux guy, I end up in Visual C++ quite often and deal with all sorts of esoteric languages and tools. It's quite a bit more fun that sitting in front of
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by hp50g 14y ago
VMware tools is a pain to recompile every damn kernel drop whereas Debian ships and installs VirtualBox guest stuff automatically. Also it's heavier, more expensive and slower from a UI perspective.
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by hp50g 14y ago
Good find. Off topic: how are you finding windows 8?
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by hp50g 14y ago
Good stuff. I sold a bike on gumtree in the UK. Inevitably the guy turned up and wanted to take it for a ride around thr car park to get a feel for it. I asked to keep some of his ID just I case he just rode off and he handed over his walle
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by hp50g 14y ago
Fair point - thanks for the clarification! :)
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by hp50g 14y ago
Really neat stuff, but knowing how paranoid TFL and our current overlords are and the hysteria around 7/7, I'm sure someone will get rattled about this (even though its of no use to terrorists).
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by hp50g 14y ago
To be honest this is the least of our problems. We can reboot parts of our cluster without affecting overall capacity much. You just chuck the machines out of the load balancer pool and reboot them. The issue is versions being pinned on LTS
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by hp50g 14y ago
Tracking minor versions was part of the LTS policy at the time as we had minor updates before the shit version got thrown at us. This is 10.04 for ref. Were talking v5.0.30 -> v5.0.31 here (these aren't the actual versions as I don't ha
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by hp50g 14y ago
It's not "open source specific" when you have a support contract with Canonical. Also if it's a high profile package, there is a moral obligation to do a proper job. MySQL issue was fixed by a minor version upgrade on all other platforms
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by hp50g 14y ago
Use virtual box and debian stable/testing. Solid as a rock. Forget VMware - its a pain in the arse. Make sure you are on 64 bit windows. I have to remain a windows user as I have a ton of stuff written in visual c++ that is at least 10-16 y
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by hp50g 14y ago
I agree with this approach of pointing it out and shaming the gigantic turd. The whole thing is a mess and there is absolutely fuck all you will get out of canonical by either mailing them or raising on launchpad, paid up support or not. I'
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by hp50g 14y ago
I'd rather have debian stable. At least the packages actually work. Ubuntu is so damn unreliable (even LTS).
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by hp50g 14y ago
Puppet/dd?
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by hp50g 14y ago
Draytek Vigor. Any of the mid range units. Bomb proof, well supported and have VoIP support that isn't a piece of shit.
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by hp50g 14y ago
Anything which involves a company rather than an individual keeping a secret is a crock of shit as far as security goes.
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by hp50g 14y ago
If you've ever worked in the defence industry, you will find out that you can't just ship designs to be fabbed. They are strictly information controlled and classified. That favours FPGAs as the process is externalised and the design is sec
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by hp50g 14y ago
Intel run it. AFAIK it was used to produce rad hardened and analogue stuff only. Nothing fancy.
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by hp50g 14y ago
Spot on. We were rudely awoken at 3AM by our alert system after one of our DC's caught fire (host Europe/123-reg in nottingham - utter fucking cowboys now moved on from there). UPS blew and took out the entire power system and generator. It
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by hp50g 14y ago
Up to 2008, 100% sure. AFAIK, they were doing primarily mixed mode analogue as this stuff is harder to do inside an FPGA. I worked for one of their nefarious suppliers for a bit.
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by hp50g 14y ago
NSA use FPGAs. Even they can't afford ASICs unless its a supercomputer CPU I.e IBM power and they aren't all that quick compared to an FPGA.
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by hp50g 14y ago
Infra red camera!
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by hp50g 14y ago
I think its a different culture. Both approaches are valid. The issue with closures and lambda syntax for java developers is probably around the fact that it is in most cases 100% unnecessary and doesn't really add anything to the product y
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by hp50g 14y ago
There's nothing wrong with strncpy if you know what you are doing. The problem is that far too few people know what they are doing and don't how to check if what they're doing is correct or not.
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by hp50g 14y ago
I find that the braces and termination policy forcibly avoid stuff like: for p = initial; p.next != nil; p = p.next; doSomething(p); This is a whole class of pain I've had to debug before. Better to be explicit. I'm not reall
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by hp50g 14y ago
Reviewers and number of commits aren't really relevant stats. I'm the top committer and code reviewer at my company but it doesn't mean I write the most code :)
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by hp50g 14y ago
Indeed, and that is my point. Why would you build the tool to organize the world's information on top of a platform designed to serve a single vendor rather than the user and consumer of the technology? Google are playing a little game here
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by hp50g 14y ago
Does that actually matter? All these are as well: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd208104.aspx Would you consider building on top of them? No because they are not 100% vendor neutral. They serve the vendor, not the consumers of t
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by hp50g 14y ago
Pfft. The Web is run by businesses, not some star trek style council where everyone speaks in turn and there is a common good. WhatWG was formed because the W3C design by committee approach was too slow for some businesses to gain an advant
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by hp50g 14y ago
This reads like: "We're not sharing our stuff anymore as it's costing too much". A the risk of sounding like a paranoid nutbag, with stuff like NaCl, SPDY, Dart etc, it sounds like Google have their own agenda.

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