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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Some history, for those not in the know: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110707/03264014993/riaa-a... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2000/06/14/love/prin... Spoil
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Picture of Don Walsh or Jacques Piccard, first to descend into the Mariana Trench?
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Actual recruiter cold-call question in 2011: "So Rails, is that like Java?"
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
I'll bite - what parts of the patent can't be done with bog-standard techniques? I took a look and it seems obvious in retrospect, though so many things do.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
A few years back there was a theft ring in Boston that stole HID headlights from Audis. I put a sticker on mine... WARNING: DEFENSIVE SPRAY MAY BE HARMFUL OR FATAL Nobody touched them.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Wait - didn't he have a photo that showed the employee tearing up his documents? Doesn't that mean the McDonalds executive is outright lying?
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Since Thunderbolt is also some sort of PCIe port, couldn't you have the GPU be internal to the Cinema Display, and transmit only the GPU code over Thunderbolt? Or are significant parts of the screen drawn by the CPU directly these days?
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
True - it's a marketplace, eBay for livery services.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
No, monit doesn't manage services. Monit tries to follow clues you've given it about what's running, it polls them once in a while, and if something appears to be not running (as measured by the instructions you've given it), it runs the on
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Boston has standardized on a way of metering taxis . Taxis get a government-sponsored monopoly - a limited-quantity medallion - which allows them the right to pick up a passenger anywhere in a given territory (e.g. Boston, but not Cambridg
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
OK, but how does MA decide which equipment is considered a measuring device used for trade? Are grocer's scales and gas pump meters a special case that's explicitly regulated, or is anything that (a) takes a measurement while (b) in the pa
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
More importantly, Uber is neither a cab NOR a private car service. It's a communications network that links private car services with people who want to get a ride from the private car service.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Sure, but Akamai is the "big iron" of CDNs - you can run your own custom code in a JVM at their edge locations. So I kinda think anyone in the market for Akamai isn't getting SSL termination advice on HN :)
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
As with any archival storage system, the CAP theorem applies. Clay, Acid-free, Papyrus: pick two.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
What if they hire some stats bloggers and become the next Nate Silver - only with analyses that WE can all interact with and learn from? What if this could improve statistical literacy?
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
"We often see rudiments of various parts in monsters." I must ask: What animal was it that, in those days, was referred to by eminent scientists as "monsters"?
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
What? How many former KGB agents do you know, period?
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Similarly, we don't know the names of any of those executives. That means we don't know if we currently work for them. If we work for other executives, we shouldn't assume that we can generalize this story to our experience! In fact, since
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
I think you're trying to argue (in multiple responses) that the evidence in the article doesn't rule out all other hypotheses, so we shouldn't take it as proof. Sure. It's not a formal proof. It's a narrative of a general pattern that we m
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
I think we're all conflating "worst case" with "common case" of Save As and Duplicate. In the worst case, the traditional filesystem behavior could lose your data if you accidentally hit "Save" instead of "Save As". In the common case, it l
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Is there something fundamental about the API that makes you say that, or just understandable cynicism?
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Robotically offering me a box seems significantly easier than robotically driving a freaking van.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
I once had a co-worker, LS, who insisted on never saying the word "problem"; everything was a "challenge". Always. If the data center exploded in a fiery ball, we were experiencing massive system challenges. I bet our VP of Operations a h
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
...so that Fortune could publish an article saying he followed industry-standard guidelines of responsible disclosure, so that non-techies wouldn't get further ammo to say "there ought to be a law against this."
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
People already lie to themselves and are lied to. Millions of years of evolution have given us a brain with a remarkable ability to heal over any damage to its worldview. (See _Phantoms in the Brain._) AR is not the gating factor here.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
You're thinking too hard. He's using "blend" mode and he needs to use "dodge". Or maybe it's "burn", or "dissolve".
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Has Amazon ever bumped the specs on existing hardware types? Or do they just create new hardware types? e.g. is it possible that if you get a 3-year reservation for an h1.xlarge, by 2015 h1.xlarge might have newer specs? I had thought that
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
There are also the network benefits (pun intended). If the rest of your app does benefit from elasticity, you've had to choose betwen: 1. Keeping your app on EC2 and working around the lack of high I/O options 2. Keeping your app somewher
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
First of all, no, it isn't. At a large enough scale, any metric that goes up with usage is a perfectly fine proxy for many conversations. Every day for a decade we had the same 3% of our user base online at peak doing the same transactions
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
If your system is complex, you don't know what your capacity is, or whether the curve has a sharp knee. Think of disk I/O; if 100K simultaneous users keep your disks 50% busy, how many simultaneous users can you actually support? The ans

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