jegoodwin3

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by jegoodwin3 11y ago
Mostly on base -- but no mention of the exit from Saigon? 1975 was the year the '60s ended. Also, in 1975, one heard a lot more about 'the coming ice age' than global warming. The concept had a brief reprise in the 80s with
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by jegoodwin3 11y ago
So this is a political problem -- here's my prediction of what will happen (given that we live in the real, political, world). A political entity -- not necessary a sovereign government, but perhaps a bank or financial institution -- w
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by jegoodwin3 11y ago
You should take it a step further and help the retailers add this as a feature to their own apps -- having a store app should include a promise that if the store lowers prices, it will refund the difference for purchases in the last week (o
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by jegoodwin3 11y ago
Is it like a kid screaming and paying people to shake down restaurants? Not really. The essence of the problem solved is information asymmetry. To see this, break the app into two apps -- one that simply informs you that you missed out o
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by jegoodwin3 11y ago
This was very helpful. Thanks. The second link made it sound very smalltalkish to me -- it sounded like an OODBMS that real world users could relate to. So I followed the link at the Wikipedia article and was surprised to learn that Newt
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by jegoodwin3 11y ago
Obligatory educational link on bufferbloat http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction 'One of the most insidious things about bufferbloat is that it easily masquerades as something else:
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by jegoodwin3 12y ago
Readers might want to acquaint themselves with the performance issues around buffer bloat: http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction
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by jegoodwin3 12y ago
'market position' is a red herring -- it's a proxy for Developer Will. Developers care about the market share of what platform they write for, and they care about it more than principle. You might as well say, if the develop
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by jegoodwin3 12y ago
If only he'd called it 'the 1%' instead of the 99th percentile, he could have founded the 'Occupy EC2 movement'. #lostopportunity
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by jegoodwin3 12y ago
Representing Germany as a US client state made sense a generation ago, when it was an occupied nation not least because of its aggressive actions towards European Jewry, and because of the Cold War. Now it is home to a large Muslim populat
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by jegoodwin3 14y ago
Not sure I buy the paper's analysis. They don't seem to know much about load testing -- they speak as though throughput is 'load' (rather than the multiprogramming level) and don't computer Bandwidth - Delay products. Also, rather than usi