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   Why We Need to Talk about Ethics in Technology(vimeo.com)

   1 points by jdub 12y ago|0 comments
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   by jdub 12y ago

   And the January 2015 award for "Technical Solution to a Social Problem" goes to…
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   by jdub 12y ago

   He's talking about UNIX , not Linux, and he's 100% right. Look at the BSDs some time, or the Solaris forks. The disconnect between the Linux kernel and basic userland has been a criticism of UNIX traditionalists for years. It&#x2
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   by jdub 12y ago

   But autotools/autoconf solve a whole set of different cross-platform problems to "make runs and does things". The make syntax doesn't change across platforms; nor does the sh syntax. What you execute might change, but I&
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   by jdub 12y ago

   Not so much "the old guard he had to deal with hated the idea" and "bought into the idea that the way Linux managed software was awesome and superior", but... closer to... "changing a fundamental building block need
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   by jdub 12y ago

   Why don't people just use make?
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   by jdub 12y ago

   There's some confusion in this post about the testing methodology vs. the implementation of SQS itself. SQS itself may well be implemented on EC2 instances with auto-scaling (though I doubt it), but that's irrelevant to the test h
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   by jdub 12y ago

   Yep, it's only revision control plus user interface.
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   by jdub 12y ago

   There were screenshots shown during the re:Invent keynote. It looks remarkably similar to GitHub.
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    by jdub 12y ago

    <blockquote>"Capitalism" is a system in which people are allowed to exchange and accumulate goods freely.</blockquote> That's what the word means. But our capitalism? The one we have? It's not that. It&#
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    by jdub 12y ago

    Thanks for the great post. Despite your background and very complete explanation, you're going to get a lot of, "Couldn't you just...?" responses. :-)
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    by jdub 12y ago

    AWS is all about MVP, MVP, MVP. node.js happens to be a really good fit for this use case.
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    by jdub 12y ago

    A bunch of the OS X Server stuff, including calendars, feeds, etc.
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    by jdub 12y ago

    Yeah, so, over three years in us-east-1: S3 = ~USD $1,085,552.64 Or more realistically: Glacier = ~USD $377,487.36
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    by jdub 12y ago

    But in 2014, 1PB in S3 – with 11 nines of data durability – costs ~USD$30,000.
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    by jdub 12y ago

    Unscientific, but: mir$ bzr log --include-merged | grep committer: | sed 's#.*<##' | sort -u | wc -l 59 vs. wayland$ git log --format='%aN' | sort -u | wc -l 105 (And there's some messiness in t
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    by jdub 12y ago

    Sure, but that's "the resources of Canonical" (more like a small amount of Canonical's already relatively meagre development resources, on a project that is not exactly a crucial enabler or breadwinner) vs. practically e
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    by jdub 12y ago

    Varnish is extremely flexible. Its primary design goal is to be a programmable reverse proxy cache -- so it's almost certainly a better choice for a challenging session-dependent use case such as e-commerce than repurposed web servers
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    by jdub 12y ago

    There's no double standard here. It's a conversation specifically about jerkish behaviour in the open source world, and merely having this discussion does not ignore jerkish behaviour in other companies, communities, etc.
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    [April Fool's 2013] Microsoft skips 'too good' Windows 9, jumps to Windows 10(infoworld.com)

    4 points by jdub 12y ago|1 comments
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    by jdub 12y ago

    Ubuntu made the change for Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy), released in October 2006 (for those unfamiliar with the version scheme). A slight correction to the poster before you: /bin/sh was linked to dash (making quite a few shellshock exploi
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    by jdub 12y ago

    I enjoyed that brain reset feeling. I think I'm going to borrow the phrase... "You think a reboot is going to help? This reminds me of my days in the Space Shuttle program."
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    by jdub 12y ago

    This is terrific work. I agree with other posters that the graphs and supporting information could be improved, but underneath the presentation of the results, you've done a VERY good job avoiding the pitfalls most comparisons suffer.
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    by jdub 12y ago

    ELB has features that nginx does not (health checks for one), and does not take advantage of many features that nginx does have. On the other hand, the feature set of HAProxy (1.5 branch, now "released") matches remarkably close
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    by jdub 12y ago

    I have the sneaking suspicion that Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer is based on HAProxy (and has been tracking the 1.5 series in development for some time). Nothing particularly evidentiary, but it's a glass slipper that fits very s
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    by jdub 12y ago

    Please don't use the R word, which is so deeply emotive and meaningful, in such an inappropriate context.
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    by jdub 12y ago

    You can do latency based load balancing to non-AWS endpoints with Route 53 -- the limitation is that you have to associate those endpoints with an AWS region. If your endpoints are not anywhere near an AWS region, you're stuck. Otherwi
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    Docker-based platform managed with Netflix's Asgard(youtube.com)

    2 points by jdub 12y ago|0 comments
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    Home entertainment implementations are pretty appalling(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

    120 points by jdub 13y ago|61 comments
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    by jdub 13y ago

    :-)