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by jclulow 11y ago
E-mail and mailing lists are still, I think, a good tool for long-form asynchronous communication. For some things, I want the opportunity to think about my broader point for a while before I subject others to it. In response, I want to e
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by jclulow 11y ago
I'm not sure if I agree that these circular charts are more readable than flamegraphs. It seems to obscure the actual stack frame detail and make it difficult to visually compare the depth of non-adjacent stacks.
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by jclulow 11y ago
Speaking for myself, that's exactly why I work at Joyent. I believe in OS virtualisation (whether you call them zones or containers) for multi-tenancy, in high quality tools for debugging both live (DTrace) and post mortem (mdb), and
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by jclulow 11y ago
If not to be a hosted software lifecycle tool, what the hell is Github even for?
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by jclulow 11y ago
It is not outdated, but _prescient_. Any third party (company, or otherwise) that you depend on for your business can elect to make your life more difficult (or nigh on impossible) at any time. You may choose to depend on a vendor to an ex
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by jclulow 11y ago
It's important not to over-value pithy quotes from Steve Jobs (or other successful figures). For starters, it's difficult to say if this particular assertion is even well-founded; less likely still that implementing his rhetoric
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by jclulow 11y ago
If you're shipping Java software, you probably already deliver more than one class file, possibly within a JAR. I think it makes more sense to include the binary data as a regular file and load it as a resource through the class loade
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by jclulow 11y ago
In illumos distributions, we have elfwrap for this: http://illumos.org/man/1/elfwrap
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by jclulow 11y ago
Are they not allowed to? The Upshot seems more like a column than regular news journalism, and they do cite studies and information from other people.
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by jclulow 11y ago
I tend to find that shorter, putatively simpler bash scripts are often shorter because they don't do adequate (or, at times, any) checking of error conditions. It is deceptively easy to write a terse shell script when you assume that
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by jclulow 11y ago
> Side note: Have we at a meta level concluded that self-identified "small batch" and "artisanal" products sold at farmers markets in hipsterish packaging are very highly correlated with "young people that don&#x
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by jclulow 11y ago
A trustworthy company is always one "being acquired by Oracle" away from becoming an untrustworthy, belligerent rent-seeker. Any dependency on another company for your own business must be considered a risk to be managed.
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by jclulow 11y ago
"Babysitting."
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MDB: Now More Than Ever(youtube.com)
1 points by jclulow 11y ago|0 comments
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by jclulow 11y ago
You can't really "add" your key to a computer you don't trust, though. At best, it could destroy your USB device; at worst it could copy the contents out once you decrypt them. This may be better than using one password
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by jclulow 11y ago
Die hard audio people using the desktop application surely must have been turned off by the fact that the desktop application could not even do gapless playback, even after years of subscribers begging for it over their forums. In my experi
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by jclulow 11y ago
> Joyent chose BSD which does containers better than Linux and Cantrill is pissed that everyone chose Linux+VMs (Disclaimer: I sit next to Bryan at Joyent) We chose _SmartOS_, a distribution of illumos -- itself a fork of the last drop o
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by jclulow 11y ago
One imagines this is precisely the confusion the Oxford comma might prevent.
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by jclulow 11y ago
Yes, the QEMU process that underpins the hardware virtual machine lives within a container on the host. It means that a vulnerability in QEMU that allows for guest escape will land you in an otherwise empty container, rather than out on th
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Bryan Cantrill (CTO of Joyent) Reddit AMA(reddit.com)
4 points by jclulow 12y ago|0 comments
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by jclulow 12y ago
It is somewhat disappointing to see the term "OS virtualisation" used to describe what is really still just virtualised hardware; albeit with a less traditional OS on top of the HVM hypervisor. It makes more sense to reserve the
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by jclulow 12y ago
The Internet is not especially forgiving. This is a good case study in why it's probably not ideal to quote (especially unattributed) snippets of popular culture[1] to try and convey deeper feelings -- especially frustration -- when y
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by jclulow 12y ago
Much of the colour scheme and the grey/blue fading ramp behaviour appears to have been lifted from a similar tool I wrote, vtmc[1]. While it was nice to be credited in the "CREDITS" file, it would have been nicer to make it
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by jclulow 13y ago
Shameless plug for more terminal-based slide/presentation software: now with fading, 256 colour transitions and experimental PDF export! http://github.com/jclulow/vtmc
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by jclulow 13y ago
It is certainly unfortunate that Strongloop have published this blog post in a voice that implies 0.12.0 is already released. For _official_ messaging around Node.js, you should definitely be looking at http://nodejs.org/ a
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by jclulow 13y ago
So this is somewhat OT, but: how much compiling do you actually _do_ in-situ on your laptop? I mostly look, these days, for the best possible portable pane-of-glass I can get that allows me to do all my work on "real" computers --
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DTrace JSON Parser(blog.sysmgr.org)
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by jclulow 14y ago
Firstly, the (at this stage surely still alleged ) infringement on another's intellectual property is not equivalent to the theft of a car, or the selling of a bridge that you don't own, or whatever. Secondly, I was simply saying that in
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by jclulow 14y ago
Suggesting that people should "just buy an iPad" is an unhelpful over-simplification. I appreciate that a patent is a state-granted monopoly on your idea. I feel it to be a mostly unhelpful right to be granting in the consumer software and
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by jclulow 14y ago
I think suggesting that nobody is hurt by ridiculous injunctions like this is a bit disingenuous. Firstly, consumers are denied the chance to purchase a product that exists; it's been made! It's ready to ship! Sure, you might not want on

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