jbert

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by jbert 18y ago
I don't know how much things have improved with Ibex, but there are some (mostly resolvable) issues with 64bit on hardy. You need to play around to find solutions for some bits of software you don't have the source to, e.g. flash plugin, nd
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by jbert 18y ago
You might, if you find out too late that your liver has been compromised and rolling back to a previous snapshot means you're not married anymore.
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by jbert 18y ago
"A good example of orientalism." Could you elaborate? Is it because I'm being dualistic in my apparent mindset? Surely that's more occidental? (Actually it was on purpose, but never mind).
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by jbert 18y ago
> Can anyone seriously argue that ingredient labels are anti-market? Well, it's fairly close to an issue which has been controversial: whether to require the labelling of GM milk. Personally, I'm happy for there to be a goodly amount of
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by jbert 18y ago
So, are mandated calorie counts on foods, (evil) government intervention in the free market or a useful boost to creating an efficient market by trying to help create that essential prerequisite, the informed consumer? Or both, I guess, sin
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by jbert 18y ago
> it's just my yearning for those days of daring frugality, when a byte was worth fighting for. Which I certainly share :-) I borrowed a ZX-80&ZX-81 and then got my own Spectrum... Perhaps buy yourself an NSLU-2 http://www.nslu2-li
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by jbert 18y ago
When a company playing catchup says "comparable", they generally mean "not quite as good as". So it still seems an odd mix of messages to me.
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by jbert 18y ago
I realise it's a gag. But... Have the site sponsored by different people each day, and record the number of clicks on that day. Keep an archive, make it competitive. e.g. 30th October is Obama day (just an example - not partisan), click to
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by jbert 18y ago
That's interesting. They'll be "comparable" to google docs, which Ballmer called "pretty primitive" just a couple of weeks ago? http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/steve-ballmer-disses-goo...
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by jbert 18y ago
> Also, I believe that the kernel has also grown much larger, especially in recent years (don't have data or links, just from articles I've read). OK. The kernel runs happily on a 32Mbyte ARM system I have to hand. dmesg tells me the ke
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by jbert 18y ago
> Things like Compiz and KDE/Gnome really weigh a system down. If you're looking for a modern desktop operating system, then yes, it is tuned for a modern(-ish) desktop. But if you're talking about using "a different OS" (as the OP was)
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by jbert 18y ago
> Linux has bloated, through evolving in the same rich hardware environment as Windows. I'm not disputing your point directly, but I'd be interested in your data. For example, there are Linux distros which run well on what I consider lo
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by jbert 18y ago
> If your domain is .com, and Verisign pulls it, you could be hosted on the moon, and still disappear. Ouch. I forgot about that. I guess one approach would be to have the same name under several registries, trying to get decent coverag
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by jbert 18y ago
Would it be possible to create a web hosting system which doesn't have a single point of "legal failure"? I guess by definition, it couldn't be run as one company. But you could have independent but co-operating companies in multiple countr
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by jbert 18y ago
He looks at differing error rates for GET/DELETE/PUT to S3. This will presumably include any failures on the network path from the client to the server. Might that be enough to explain the higher rate of failed PUTs? Would anyone expect the
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by jbert 18y ago
No, I do get that. Perhaps I wasn't clear. I was trying to point out that these same pool of people (low-paid workers in India and/or China) are necessary to the economies of all developed economies. And so it's not really fair to say Indi
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by jbert 18y ago
I don't live in the US, but I was under the impression that the vast majority of consumer goods for sale were fabricated in China (or perhaps assembled from parts fabricated in China). Is that not your perception? I may be wrong, but also,
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by jbert 18y ago
Could you elaborate, please?
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by jbert 18y ago
But doesn't every developed country depend on a large pool of cheap labour (i.e. poor people, working for low wages)? You could look at is as Europe and the US just outsourcing their cheap labour, whereas India keeps it in-house?
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by jbert 18y ago
If there is such a disparity, presumably that will show up in the health stats? They mention a few viruses transmissable in this way, so if their numbers and their inferences stand up, we should see a huge difference in the number of cases
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by jbert 18y ago
It's not the greatest example (since there are various ways to get SQL queries from a live mysql db - tcpdump/ngrep, query logging or strace from a client - you could strace the server but mysql appears to die when you strace it - dunno why
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by jbert 18y ago
> I don't really think that this explains the paper mill business, but you could make the argument. I was thinking along those lines (then thought it relevant to the way students are judged too, as well as coders). Teaching used to be a
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by jbert 18y ago
My theory is that if you try to "manage by metrics", the quality of what you are managing will go down. Unhappily, this often leads to more metrics, since more quality control is clearly needed... To me, the alternative of "managing by metr
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by jbert 18y ago
Agreed. The hypothesis is interesting, but the phraseology and assembly of info reads a bit like a kook. But as you say - it's a testable hypothesis, so I don't care how it's been written up, it would be good to test this.
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by jbert 18y ago
> economic-style research design If you sample 100 uncorrelated variables looking for significance at 95% confidence, you should find about 5 which are significant. Data mining to produce hypotheses is fraught with danger. You should de
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by jbert 18y ago
Sorry, I meant "interviewing" from the perspective of the interviewer. Reliably selecting good people to join your company is often thought of as a difficult task. He's trying an analogous evaluation of the founder - and giving it more weig
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by jbert 18y ago
I guess it also depends on how good you are at assessing people as opposed to plans. Given how hard people find interviewing, I'm not sure it's that obvious to spot great people.
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by jbert 18y ago
That was my thought as well. Of course, the next step is to have an hardened mail goggles feature which requires you to write a greasemonkey script in order to send an email.
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by jbert 18y ago
Yes. If 1000 people toss a coin 10 times, only the ones with exceptional results are likely to blog about it.
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by jbert 18y ago
Some of those look like instances of a local variable called errno being used as a return code. That's OK, it'll just shadow the global errno in that func, no?

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