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721.
by illumin8 14y ago
I hate to burst your bubble - I work for a Fortune 15 company and it takes us around 4 weeks to quote, purchase, and source a single new server. During the flooding in Thailand last winter which impacted hard drive inventories at our major
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by illumin8 14y ago
+1. Please give him respect. It's not often that a 17 year old hacker builds a site in 4 and a half days that begins processing over $1M USD in volume. Of course it's going to be a target for hackers. Do you insult the local jewelry sto
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by illumin8 14y ago
If it's an open source app... where can I download the source to run it on my own server? Don't tell me it's open source, then ask me for a credit card number.
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by illumin8 14y ago
Raising your hand only tells the professor that you, an individual, are confused. Interruptions by a single student that doesn't understand the material, when the rest of the class does, might actually cause the professor to focus too much
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by illumin8 15y ago
> I'd been a typical HN-reading, Ayn Rand-quoting, John Galt aspiring-libertarian. Slowly, I began to realize the role of luck and circumstance. I used to look down on the poor, writing them all off as lazy and not willing to work. "How
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by illumin8 15y ago
How do you plan on upgrading this fall, when you're locked into a 2 year contract and you're ineligible for a new device?
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by illumin8 15y ago
Unfortunately, it sounds like it might be time for the iKamasutra team to have a lawyer write a letter to Apple. It seems like they have a pretty clear cut case of unfair treatment towards their app. Sometimes, a letter from a lawyer is a
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by illumin8 15y ago
Any time you are moving from one IP address to another, it better have some damn good security or else anyone will be able to hijack your session.
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by illumin8 15y ago
I realize this is just a startup, and many things that wouldn't fly at a large company are considered fun, however, the founders should really think twice about even having a TWSS bot. They are basically providing documented proof in writin
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by illumin8 15y ago
Most of those don't have a decent graphics card that can run 1080p video and do H.264 decoding in hardware like the AppleTV. They make great Linux boxes, but are lacking in the media center department.
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by illumin8 15y ago
This is why $75,000 a year is not a fair salary. Joel is intentionally hiring college students because they are uneducated about what their real job prospects are if they are willing to move to NYC.
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by illumin8 15y ago
I hate to tell you this, but doing all the right things up through college doesn't entitle you to a guaranteed job upon graduation. You still have to pull yourself up from your bootstraps, pound the pavement (figuratively), and get your fi
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by illumin8 15y ago
Cutting a check is pretty difficult when you stop receiving a salary. The logic of the US system is incredible: Pay a few hundred dollars a month while employed for coverage from your employer, or if they lay you off, you have the opportu
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by illumin8 15y ago
Interesting article, but isn't $75,000 a year pretty much slave wages in Manhattan? You could barely afford a small studio apartment for that much, and most likely need to live outside of downtown and commute in every day.
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by illumin8 15y ago
http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all CentOS and RHEL combined total 41.1% of all websites on the Internet. Ubuntu is a distant 3rd or 4th place behind Debian, depending on whether you count RHEL and CentOS as the same
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by illumin8 15y ago
Managing $1T in client assets doesn't sound like a job for a lowly VP. Your comment is mostly an ad-hominem attack against the author because he may or may not have received a smaller bonus this year.
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by illumin8 15y ago
It's also misleading because he talks about "large scale enterprise workloads," when he really should mention that their marketshare is almost entirely Linux desktop workstations. Most server workloads are entirely RHEL and CentOS.
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by illumin8 15y ago
Short and overly simple answer: If a program allocates 2GB of RAM, it might not need to use it all right away. The kernel pretends like it just gave the program 2GB of RAM, but it doesn't really need to flush all those unused pages of cac
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by illumin8 15y ago
Thanks for the great comment. I really wish more people like yourself at least understood Linux memory management. I think it will truly help you to be an exceptional DBA. I can also understand how an expert DBA might not know or care to
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by illumin8 15y ago
I've tried to educate Oracle DBAs on why top is wrong and their memory really isn't being used. It's painful and they often refuse to believe that I know what I'm talking about, and that they should use the free -m command to see what memo
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by illumin8 15y ago
I never finished Borderlands... Killing tons of skags with an automatic weapon is only fun for about the first 30 minutes for me, but reading this article makes me want to play to the end-game. Then again, the time investment getting to pl
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by illumin8 15y ago
The thing is, Mika Mobile already uses Unity, arguably one of the better cross platform development tools. If they are having this problem, imagine what a dev using his own libraries and porting tools is dealing with.
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by illumin8 15y ago
Not true. If you ripped a CD using the same software and settings as someone else, your files would be identical, byte for byte. There is no magic fingerprinting, however, a lot of pirated tracks could be determined by looking at ID3 tag
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by illumin8 15y ago
Yeah, unfortunately in the US, drinking in public is against the law, and if you are with people who are breaking the law, you are also considered a criminal. Although it is pretty fucked up, you should be aware of the local laws, especial
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by illumin8 15y ago
That's not the way it works. If you have a merchant account, and someone issues a chargeback, you won't ever see the money again, unless you can somehow prove the charge was legit. It's not like you can pump and dump a merchant account fo
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by illumin8 15y ago
The hardware specs are underwhelming, to say the least. This thing is about equivalent to an iPad 1.
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Google Under Fire for Circumvention of Cookie Settings in Safari for iOS(macrumors.com)
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by illumin8 15y ago
What bothers me more about this particular case is that Goldman's attorneys claimed that this code could be used to manipulate the market, and yet the SEC did nothing to investigate. You have documented court testimony of a market participa
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by illumin8 15y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear. It still costs $99 for an ADC account to release signed apps through the Mac app store, however, now with Gatekeeper you will also have a free option in case you want to distribute signed apps on your own.
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by illumin8 15y ago
OneNote only comes with Microsoft Office. Which you can also purchase for Mac. Xcode is free. A developer code signing certificate costs money whether you buy it through Apple or Verisign. Want to release trusted apps on Windows that do

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