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by j-kidd 13y ago
I went through a similar phase trying to use an OpenWRT router plus external hard drives for file sharing. The main problems are performance and reliability. I can only get 20 MB/s read and 10 MB/s write using a decent router with
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by j-kidd 13y ago
The "buydown" option provides a nice alternative between colocation and dedicated server. With initial setup fee of $1300, you can get a server with similar specs to m2.2xlarge + 4000 IOPS for just $139 a month, while not having t
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by j-kidd 13y ago
http://blog.sciencelogic.com/netflix-steals-time-in-the-clou... tl;dr: Netflix kills slow performing AWS machines due to resource contention
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by j-kidd 13y ago
On one end, you have stone age developers who need Visual Studio on production systems because that's the only tool they know. On the other end, you have hipster developers who need Git on production systems because that's the onl
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by j-kidd 13y ago
> Wanna have multiple memcache buckets, ... [snip] On Gentoo, you would just create /etc/conf.d/memcached.xxx and then symlink /etc/init.d/memcached.xxx to /etc/init.d/memcached. Relevant Chan
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by j-kidd 13y ago
Off topic: it is perfectly fine to install things like PyQt / PySide on a headless server. I suppose the problem is because the distro doesn't provide these packages? Also, PhantomJS works fine in this case because the binary in t
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by j-kidd 13y ago
That's the beauty of Chrome Frame. In most cases, it gets "deployed" without needing any approval from IT. Chrome for Business looks like a solid and proper upgrade path, but it does require a semi-progressive IT team.
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by j-kidd 13y ago
Those are certainly valid points, but I can't help but feel like the OP is going down a slippery slope, and will soon start contracting out coding work to 3rd party, which would then comes back full of bugs and doesn't mesh nicely
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by j-kidd 13y ago
That sounds a lot like Linux kernel development.
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by j-kidd 13y ago
That bit is definitely wrong for EC2, which is notoriously slow in dropping the prices. The web hosting business has always been cut-throat, where price cutting and overselling are the norm. And since we started to have fast enough CPUs sev
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by j-kidd 13y ago
You are making it sounds like EC2 versus dedicated hosting. There are other cloud hosting providers such as Joyent who offer much better performance and reliability at lower price. In Joyent case, they even have experts of the whole stack (
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by j-kidd 13y ago
The hybrid technology you mentioned came from Voxel, which was looking really good before the company was acquired by Internap. Now, it seems like the service has gone downhill: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1213599
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by j-kidd 13y ago
For interview question, the keyword I like best would be EXISTS. Sadly, many developers write SQL for years without knowing its existence. If I am not mistaken, the propel ORM of symfony doesn't even have native support for it. As shown by
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by j-kidd 13y ago
I am pretty sure ownCloud web client does have timezone support, but he didn't change the setting. From http://owncloud.org/support/calendars/ > The calendar needs your current position for detecting your timezone. Without the correct
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by j-kidd 13y ago
Perhaps they did their research on MongoDB and knew all the limitations, but thought to themselves "meh, I can solve all that in the application code", and eventually found out it wasn't so easy to handle transactions and joins in the code?
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by j-kidd 13y ago
If we go with your way, then we would have problem like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/630803/associating-enums-... The new enum library does more without introducing new syntax, and I think that's a good thing.
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by j-kidd 13y ago
That's the problem with self-proclaimed usability experts. They see the word "consistency" and think to themselves "Oooooh, I shall make everything consistent". This is why in Gnome, all tab bars are on top, including in the terminal. Consi
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by j-kidd 13y ago
The craziness started more than 10 years ago when Havoc Pennington declared himself as the "usability expert" by writing this article: http://www106.pair.com/rhp/free-software-ui.html Excerpt: > On hearing that preferences have a cost
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by j-kidd 13y ago
I am sure there are many Grade A students who never went on to do amazing things, simply because there are many aspects in life that cannot be controlled. Many things one does in life end up being meaningless, and that's life. Your grudge a
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by j-kidd 13y ago
> I've always found it kind of odd how there are some people who despise SQL merely for its syntax, yet they'll turn around and advocate the use of libraries which mimic a SQL-like syntax in some other programming language (but do an ab
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by j-kidd 13y ago
All football fans in the world agree with Albert Einstein :)
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by j-kidd 13y ago
I am not sure if the "just coast" advice would work. The source of stress is still there, still sapping away all the mental power, still occupying your brain during shower.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Handling of special character is usually a bigger problem than unicode. Just today, I tried to name a file with both a single quote and an exclamation point from bash shell. Ended up doing that with a GUI file manager.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Or put on your sysadmin hat and ssh into your Gentoo machines and do some maintenance works. Soon you will have more screens to stare at.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Let's say I modified an existing file (not staged) and then git add a new file. It is a work in progress, and the two changes are not supposed to be in the same commit. Now, what can I do to see all changes I have made so far? I have done t
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Retroactively justifying things is what we always do. Here's an excerpt from Dan Ariely's "The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty": > The experience taught me that sometimes (perhaps often) we don't make choices based on our explicit prefe
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by j-kidd 14y ago
Sorry about the accusation. I read the Bamboo's issue wrongly. The article from Feb 2013 seems to imply that the slow degradation happened from 2011 to 2013. It starts with "Over the past couple of years", I guess that's what got me confuse
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by j-kidd 14y ago
From the article: > Q. Did the Bamboo router degrade? > A. Yes. Our older router was built and designed during the early years of Heroku to support the Aspen and later the Bamboo stack. These stacks did not support concurrent backen
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by j-kidd 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_discoveries Scroll down and look for Circadian rhythm.
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by j-kidd 14y ago
The article is about how little study has been done about sleep: > One of the biggest problems I’ve discovered is that sleep is such an over talked topic. We get the general idea that we know all about it: how much we need of it, how it

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