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by jbarham 15y ago
You're evidently too young to remember when AT&T had a government granted monopoly. Suffice it to say that it was not an era that was known for innovation and value.
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by jbarham 15y ago
Better: http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#concurrency
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by jbarham 15y ago
For my money, the best "ultraportable" around is a ThinkPad X: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/notebooks/thinkpad/x-series
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by jbarham 15y ago
It's worth pointing out that although the Google code search service is going away, RE2, the regular expression engine built for code search by Russ Cox, is open source ( http://code.google.com/p/re2/ ). RE2 is also the basis for Go's rege
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by jbarham 15y ago
Telstra's so-called cloud is just another VPS service: Setup fees? Yes. API? No. And you'd better hope that whatever you're running doesn't become popular at $1/GB for the pay-as-you-go plan. It's high time for AWS to set up shop Down
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by jbarham 15y ago
Also see article at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/08/telstra_opens_sme_cl...
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Telstra launches cloud service in Australia(cloud.telstra.com)
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by jbarham 15y ago
> Google App Engine is a toy Compared to what? Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but last time I checked building fault-tolerant, arbitrarily scalable distributed systems was still pretty hard.
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by jbarham 15y ago
Given that 37signals don't have investors, why should they care? (I know that Bezos has tossed some money their way, but the terms were apparently in exchange for his advice, rather than for an eventual exit.)
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by jbarham 15y ago
http://alestic.com/2011/08/ec2-max-instances Somewhat out-of-date (Aug, 2011) but a useful estimate.
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by jbarham 15y ago
Given that I'm currently personally setting up a caching cluster to host www.melbournecup.com (aka "The Race That Stops a Nation"), being able to gracefully handle a huge spike in traffic is something that is very much on my mind! :) The si
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by jbarham 15y ago
This is misleading. The reservation fee for a small instance is $227.50 annually ( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ ) but you still pay an hourly rate to run it, albeit a lower rate than for a non-reserved instance. Running a small reser
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by jbarham 15y ago
Mad props to all the l33t COBOL programmer analysts out there!
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by jbarham 15y ago
Forget AutoCAD, use Tinkercad ( http://www.tinkercad.com/ ) which lets you do solid modelling in your browser using WebGL. (I have no association w/ Tinkercad; just think it's very cool technology w/ WebGL in the front end and Go in the bac
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by jbarham 15y ago
> Winter in Canada is better than most places. Instead of getting lots of rain you get lots of snow. You obviously don't live in Vancouver, where it rains virtually every day for the 6 months of winter (and I say this as someone who liv
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by jbarham 15y ago
> Have you compared your cost with the cost of running your own cloud on top of dedicated servers from a traditional provider? For me, using EC2 and other Amazon web services isn't just, or even mostly, about cost. It's also about ease
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by jbarham 15y ago
Give it some time and the Canadian housing market will also correct itself. Same for Australia where the situation is very similar to Canada's (i.e., asset appreciation bubble largely driven by a commodities boom). As in most things, the A
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by jbarham 15y ago
No, Go is completely open source: http://golang.org/src/ and http://code.google.com/p/go/ .
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by jbarham 15y ago
I worked in the LA area (aka "Southern California") for 4.5 years in three different companies in three different industries--image restoration/movie post production, network test and measurement, and finance. FWIW during that time I also
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by jbarham 15y ago
I was in Adelaide until 6 weeks ago when I moved to Melbourne to start a new job as tech lead in Python/Django web development. I would have liked to have stayed in Adelaide, but from my own personal job search there were very few developme
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by jbarham 15y ago
"Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing." - Rob Pike
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by jbarham 15y ago
> And when the people don't tolerate an ineffective government they change it. Easier said than done, or there wouldn't be so many long-standing ineffective governments around... It is often easier for people to change the country they
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by jbarham 16y ago
How's that North Carolina data center coming along, Apple?! ;)
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by jbarham 16y ago
> As a non-US there is no way for me to use this. I'm in Australia and that's what it looked like to me initially too, but after manually uploading an MP3 and then attempting to play it, the Cloud Player then worked.
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by jbarham 16y ago
Nah, come join the fun w/ the Plan 9 crew at http://golang.org !
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by jbarham 16y ago
"Our potential customers [within Google] eventually found other ways of solving their performance problems that they felt more comfortable deploying." I wonder how much this includes teams within Google that have since started using Go for
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by jbarham 16y ago
Plan 9's cat is written in a mere 35 lines: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cat.c As always, if you want to read C code as written by the same people who invented C, the Plan 9 source code ( http://plan9.bell-labs.com
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by jbarham 16y ago
> Anyone here in California not asked for a raise in, say, six months? Sure, the suckers on H1B work visas who are waiting for their green cards, which can take several years... Given that your H1B visa is tied to a particular job at a
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by jbarham 16y ago
Some open source things I've written in Go: - A port from C of a fast prime number generator: https://github.com/jbarham/primegen.go - A Cdb ("constant database") implementation: https://github.com/jbarham/cdb.go - A Cgo PostgreSQL wrap
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by jbarham 16y ago
> Feels like a scripting language, but you get static typing and the performance of a compiled language. Exactly. I'm a longtime enthusiastic Python programmer and reluctant C++ programmer, and for me Go is the first language that coul

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