jcastro

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by jcastro 14y ago
> Ubuntu, on the other hand, doesn't have the same strong OSS sensibilities and will probably tow the Oracle line, at least for a little while longer. Sorry to ruin your "Ubuntu is more closed" claim (seriously why even make that up?) b
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by jcastro 14y ago
Ubuntu, along with Debian, Fedora, and just about every major distro have always been on RMS's "not recommended" list.
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Lock In: Why Your OS Choice Matters in the Cloud(undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com)
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by jcastro 14y ago
> The question for distros is just when? A rolling distro sees such changes continuously, and each package may in principle change at any point independently of any other package. The way it's set up now is there is a -proposed pocket w
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Deploying Ceph with Juju(ceph.com)
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by jcastro 14y ago
There's been a ton of performance improvements made to Unity for the past 6 months (mostly due to needing to work on things like Tablets). Here's an example of the work from Feb: - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-Februa
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by jcastro 14y ago
Great job, the UI looks really slick, Ubuntu is working on something similar (deploying development stacks to any cloud): http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/11/16/deploying-your-rails-a... Do you guys have any plans to support OpenStack clou
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by jcastro 14y ago
I recommend reading Jack Horner's "How to build a Dinosaur", he talks about this sort of thing, namely that you can take an existing flightless bird, give it teeth, a tail, and flip the arms around and you've basically got a dinosaur. The c
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by jcastro 14y ago
No, dinosaurs are a distinct kind of animal; - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archosaur Animals species that used to be alive are classified "extinct", as opposed to being around today which is "ext
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by jcastro 14y ago
> Also why didn't dinosaurs living in the sea survive this? The entire ecosystem of the planet collapsed, lots of things went extinct (including some mammals), the classic "dinosaurs" are just the most famous ones.
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by jcastro 14y ago
It's a nice incentive to get people to fail over across regions so when US East goes down again your application has less of a chance of embarrassing them. :)
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by jcastro 14y ago
I would rebuy these games again if they came to Steam, I have the original id special Edition Quake3 metal box but I lost the CDs long ago. :-/
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by jcastro 14y ago
Ubuntu has had something like this for a while now: https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/
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by jcastro 14y ago
We've been doubling down on QA since the last LTS, there's some info on that here: http://qa.ubuntu.com/
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by jcastro 14y ago
Have you ever seen a googler work? They do nearly everything on their webapps, and the programmers live in source control. There was an article from a while back as to why Google wasn't working on gdrive faster and one of their engineering
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by jcastro 14y ago
Would love to see what kind of dev platform/technology you use to build trello, specifically the scaling challenges.
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by jcastro 14y ago
Out of curiosity what OS do you use? And do you make your own custom AMIs for various workloads?
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by jcastro 14y ago
I've recently found The Old Reader: http://theoldreader.com/ Feels like greader would be if they kept driving it forward. They also do an import of all your greader feeds in one step, so I was able to just drop-in replace greader.
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by jcastro 14y ago
There's no content in that article other than a link to a google search for "why mongodb is bad".
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by jcastro 14y ago
http://launchpad.net has a bug tracker and a blueprints function.
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by jcastro 14y ago
Has anyone used this or a prerelease with the btrfs fsync improvements? I'm interested to see if dpkg performance is usable now.
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by jcastro 14y ago
You can disable it via the GUI in the Privacy settings: http://askubuntu.com/a/192270/235
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Deploying Mongodb clustered shards with Ubuntu in the cloud(blog.xtremeghost.com)
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by jcastro 14y ago
Do you have links to bugreports to your problems by any chance? Or more detail on what problems you ran into so I could have the Ubuntu kernel team check them out?
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by jcastro 14y ago
This is really great, I was going to post to ask for just 4 strings, but I suppose people can just reuse the bottom 4 guitar ones for bass? Hope this takes off, really well done!
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by jcastro 14y ago
juju is a cloud service orchestration tool. So basically you search in the box for the service you want (Hadoop, haproxy, memcached, postgresql, and so on) and click deploy and then an instance launches with that service on AWS/HP Cloud/Ope
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by jcastro 14y ago
> Your deployment platform is going to be very similar to your development platform. I'm glad you mentioned this because Sputnik is very awesome for this. They included our new service orchestration tool [Juju]( https://juju.ubuntu.com/
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by jcastro 14y ago
That's how I started figuring out it wasn't a recent article. I ran into this link from the G+ HN circle and didn't see a mention of the date. Then about 1/3 of the way through I started thinking "what the hell, no article can be this long"
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by jcastro 14y ago
Double clicking a .ttf and then clicking the install button has been in Ubuntu's/Debian's default for years now. I mean, you installed a stripped down desktop for some reason, of course it's going to be missing some features when you could
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by jcastro 14y ago
I'd love to see this connected to Trello!

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