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by iigs 17y ago
"The heuristic I suggest is: hear the corner case objections, make the objector calculate the odds, if the potential damage estimate is low (probability of the event occurring multiplied by its ability to put you out of business) keep the m
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by iigs 17y ago
I don't understand your assertion -- the deportation thing is BS, but working conditions seem to be favorable enough that people are willing to leave their families behind and work in the USA. I don't really want to argue about immigration
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by iigs 17y ago
I don't want to speak for anyone else, but I'll take the 6% pay cut over more entire projects being outsourced overseas. I have no desire to see San Francisco become the next Detroit.
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by iigs 17y ago
clock speed Yeah, I knew when I wrote that I chose poorly. I mean perf per core: that is to say, tasks that require clock speed. web serving, virtualization, database workloads Virtualization: Virtualizing Solaris is a practical non-sta
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by iigs 17y ago
Witness, for example, Intel’s “new” Nehalem line - it’s great right? By Wintel standards, it is - but if Sun hadn’t lent AMD some people to design x64 and then supported the company by building its own motherboards to demonstrate what x86
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by iigs 17y ago
I think the idea is that Sun is the technical steward for the project and it's worth supporting Sun (via Solaris) to continue to fund efforts to create tools of these types. I don't believe the idea is "I need a platform with great debuggin
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by iigs 18y ago
I agree to an extreme level. I also worked at a large corporation that didn't tolerate negativity, and it was miserable. There's a difference between attacking an idea and attacking the person advancing the idea.
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by iigs 18y ago
I can say, w\o hyperbole, that radical honesty ruined my life. Do you truly feel that your life is ruined? It sounds like you are/were in a bad situation, but do you not see yourself bouncing back eventually? (some brutal honesty here, if
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by iigs 18y ago
So, tell me: what's so funny? That innocent childhood naivety ("Mom! This looks scary!") coming from a very unusual source. I'm 29, an age where a few of my friends "grew up" online, and a lot of them did not. It's remarkable to see the b
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by iigs 18y ago
I suspect you're right, and this is a double-whammy when you consider that excluding file sharing, there's no significant driver for internet bandwidth above a small fraction of (even USA) broadband installations. You can stream HD video in
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by iigs 18y ago
I'm having one of those moments where I can't tell if the guy is really smart and "above my pay grade" or if he's stuffing his sentences with industry terminology in order to make everyone think he's a SME. The crux of the argument seems to
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by iigs 18y ago
I've had some problems diving into Perl land, and I'd appreciate your thoughts. While it's obviously very possible to have clean and elegant code in any language (corollary: you can write cobol in any language), I've found that when I'm stu
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by iigs 18y ago
The core idea of this article has merit but the analysis of the topic is abysmal. Ford invented the assembly line, we're calling it "Staged Event Driven Architecture (SEDA)". End result, ninety three seconds to manufacture a car vs one to
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by iigs 18y ago
NYT articles with a NYC focus are fascinating to me as an outsider. One thing that jumps out at me, spending my entire life west of the Mississippi river, is that NYC appears to just give their schools numbers: Public Schools 6, 59 and 290
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by iigs 18y ago
If someone walked up to me and said "Wouldn't you like $292 cash right now so you can buy your kids a Christmas present?", I'd say "No". A lot of other people would say "Yes", though. I have some distant acquaintances that are horrible wit
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by iigs 18y ago
Can anyone explain why we should look up to him? I've never heard of this guy before today, but I'd venture to defend an honest loan agency. Simply, loans are only profitable for lenders if they get back more money than they lend out. As
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by iigs 18y ago
This is why it has been essentially impossible to buy a house lately (well, up to 2008) if you have any intention of not being foreclosed upon. It would seem that the market has a way of righting itself over time. The people who would tak
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by iigs 18y ago
Google search for "free dating" put PoF at #2
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by iigs 18y ago
The article seems to be (primarily) framed in the context of a startup gasping for a last breath of air. It seems like this would also be tremendously valuable advice for a company when times are good. Furthermore, it's thought provoking to
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by iigs 18y ago
Fun exercise! 1) The old school UNIX admin solution to this is to make each of your fileservers NFS servers as well and cross-mount them all with each other. Pros: it's there, easy, and pretty simple to understand Cons: NFS clients (the who
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by iigs 18y ago
Fortunately there are a lot of electronic components that can't take the kind of heat you allude to (100C), and it would cost a lot to engineer components that could. 100F is a hot day in the southern US, and nothing compared to some of the
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by iigs 18y ago
Perhaps they could take this to the logical conclusion and just require you to go through the Recover Password steps to access your web page. I know on every site I have to do this with I end up forgetting the password (somehow they seem to
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by iigs 18y ago
I've had a hard time getting that prototype to work as a valid question because I've always found I'm leading candidates through the thought process. I have yet to find a way to ask it in an open ended manner and receive a satisfactory (mea
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by iigs 18y ago
Over the last few years I've spent more time interviewing than being interviewed, so I sympathize with these questions. Questions of the form "How many X are there in Y" are vanilla sizing questions, which are not first-order relevant for c
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by iigs 18y ago
At the size they're doing things, the algorithims, data structures, and application specific optimizations (assumptions you can make about the data) are where the big challenge is. It would be relatively simple to export/offer the data as a
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by iigs 18y ago
I'm not sure how anyone would get around 6,256,642, which is "Method and system for file system management using a flash-erasable, programmable, read-only memory", which honestly just sounds like the idea of a filesystem trivially applied t
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by iigs 18y ago
I also experience problems. Microsoft Windows 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.080814-1236: Service Pack 3) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/1.0.154.48 Safari/525.19 Reading from the
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by iigs 18y ago
You know, I intended to chart blue = new, red = (old - new), so the red bar would be the comparison, the total bar width would be the old value, and the blue would be the new bar (compare in a single line), but I didn't check my data, thus
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by iigs 18y ago
If a browser had been tested and found lacking in some type, I'd hope they'd state the feature that they were relying on that was missing or buggy. The verbiage made it sound like Chrome wasn't tested (or they're pretty arrogant in their di
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by iigs 18y ago
Off topic for Bespin, but on topic for their site, I just had one of those "if you want your customers to use it make it easy to play with" moments. I actually caught myself weighing the benefits of seeing it first hand vs putting my email

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