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by istvan__ 12y ago
I am not concerned about that. It is bad practice to damage security for all because of few. This is all I am saying. It seems like a pretty bad idea to me.
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by istvan__ 12y ago
No they didn't. There are intelligence operation that you haven't heard of, and this is not an accident. Just because NSA is using brute force and does not care about the collateral damage it does not mean that all of the secret a
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by istvan__ 12y ago
Are you surprised? I think the problem here is the ignorance of an average voter in US. It's kind of insane to me how much people are not aware of the actions of the US government, especially in subjects like foreign matters. What I se
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by istvan__ 12y ago
I guess you have to be aware of the trade offs when choosing a platform. I hope they were.
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by istvan__ 12y ago
I don't see what segment would BTRFS cover. Great comparison though.
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by istvan__ 12y ago
Well I don't think that comparing costs this way makes too much sense. Running a successful business requires having more income than spendings. If you can achieve the same thing with $20 instead of $90 than you found a potential compe
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by istvan__ 12y ago
I thought most of the scientific computation is written in Fortran. Anyways, I have used a big closed source scientific computation package several jobs ago to conduct experiments. The entire stack was running on windows at the time, but th
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by istvan__ 12y ago
I think we need hardware support first before we can think of any language. The support has to be transparent to any other part of the system. On the top of that the language that you are using has to be memory safe. This is probably where
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by istvan__ 12y ago
This was one of my main complaint against Go. However, I still think the out of the box performance is great and for problems that don't require generics it is a very good option. I especially like the static compiling feature that mak
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by istvan__ 12y ago
Unfortunately Rust itself has limited space to secure a kernel. We need a major change in operating systems to have a safer environment that is not trivial to exploit. My list goes as: - kernel memory and userspace memory is hardware separa
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by istvan__ 12y ago
I still recommend Ruby as the first language because it has all of the features you want to know about as a newbie and at the same time there are very few quirks. The things you sacrifice are performance and memory efficiency. I have seen j
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by istvan__ 12y ago
It would be awesome to have commercial flights to space in our lifetime!
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by istvan__ 12y ago
There is a great video from google where somebody explains that time zones are UI related things, and everywhere else UTC is the only timezone that you have to be concerned about. This means humans like timezones, because it is easy to unde
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by istvan__ 12y ago
I forgot to mention that post from Steve Yegge that is one of the best and most entertaining (but still very insightful at the same time) reviews of Amazon. https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
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by istvan__ 12y ago
Ex-Amazonian here, few things to consider. The following things are highly dependent on the team you are ending up working for though. a, Amazon is frugal Meaning that your workplace is looking like a grayscale picture of the surface of Mar
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by istvan__ 12y ago
I am not surprised about the Java performance. URL related: http://java-is-the-new-c.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-persistent-k...
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by istvan__ 12y ago
Isn't this happening partially because the social media platforms are more effective and most of the potential advertisers just use those?
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by istvan__ 12y ago
Continuing the sentence from the title, "but they allow you to deal with it better". The question is what is the business requirement and guarantee regarding the message delivery. In my experience with logging systems is that losi
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by istvan__ 12y ago
I think you raised valid concerns about the single node performance of Erlang. If you have a single node problem or you are looking for raw speed Erlang is not the best option. The fun fact is that most distributed systems don't really
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by istvan__ 12y ago
Well, in certain aspects Linux started as a joke. :)
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by istvan__ 12y ago
Well there are some people out there who have valid concerns about SystemD and in general, about Linux the big and bloated, unmaintainable, insecure monolithic kernel. Is that a valid concern? I am not sure. Is that going to be fixed by Ala
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by istvan__ 12y ago
I used to work for Amazon, and made it all the way through the Google loops once and I can tell you that you are better than the most of the candidates already, because you made it to the second or third last round. Applying for positions