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by jemfinch 16y ago
The thing that makes those ASes Tier-1 is that they have so many peering points. You seem to be presuming that they're as easy to shut down as cutting the power to a few POPs, but they're not. How many POPs would you have to take out to s
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Familiar enough with it to have written a TCP/IP stack. You? I work directly with it on one of the world's busiest destination ASes on a daily basis. > Yep, those would be first to go. Technically those are under the control of th
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> The filthily rich throughout history haven't exactly been the harbingers of revolution. Most of the founding fathers of the United States were rich, you know.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> Take out a few core locations and you'd have a very hard time getting to google, or most other sites for that matter. Definitely untrue. How familiar are you with how the Internet works? Google and other major websites are massivel
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Americans may be docile, but businesses and corporations are not. What do you think the proprietors of the thousands of POPs across America are going to tell the feds who come to shut them down? What do you think Google or Microsoft or Fa
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by jemfinch 16y ago
It's arguable, but I'd say that the real Internet is like that, at least in well-connected places like the US. I cannot imagine the act of God necessary to stop Americans from accessing Google.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> I'm kinda off-put about their decision to censor the software program titles, rather then say copyrighted illegal content. Pardon, but are you really serious? Disregarding the obvious senselessness of the term "copyrighted illegal co
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by jemfinch 16y ago
If you care about search leakage, turn the Referer header off in your browser. Problem solved. Why is it any website's job to change the way HTTP is designed to work?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Which is exactly why it should never have been called "list". If it were "vector" or "array" you'd never have even wondered.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
So there was press, lots of live-blogging witnesses, and what would be an incredibly interesting statement by Eric Schmidt, and you can't find any record of it? I'm sorry, but the most likely theory in this case seems to me to be that you'r
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I've never seen so many typos in a mainstream web media article. Wired should be ashamed.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
"Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the
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by jemfinch 16y ago
The reason is clear: because it assists readability, and costs me nothing.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Using auto means 100% compatibility with existing C++ code. Using some other name would potentially require updates to existing code, which is bad.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
One of the hallmarks of successful people is that they can derive useful lessons from practically anything. "Is there a lesson in this story?" is a terribly low bar for what should comprise hacker news; it excludes practically nothing.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
C++ templates are great. It's the almost-templates that cause so much trouble. The late 90s was not a good decade for C++. Regardless, today I can write a general, reference-counting pointer off the cuff in about 50 lines of code and it w
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Where else would those parameters be than in the page source?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Hah! Like I'm going to give my address out to people. I meet people in a public place: Starbucks, a grocery store, McDonalds, etc.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
If I'm meeting with you to sell you something, it's because we agreed on a price already. If you try to bargain with me after the fact, I'll just say "No," and leave. You've violated my trust and broken the deal.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
The irony is that he says that immediately after "Selling on Craigslist sucks, it’s time consuming and you have to deal with flaky people that just want a deal." He's recommending exactly the behavior that makes Craigslist suck.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> SLC, but good guess. Given your username (which I just noticed) it was a downright horrible guess :)
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by jemfinch 16y ago
CVG?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
"Luckily"? If the protocol were to catch on, imagine how many terabits of bandwidth would be wasted by such an unnecessarily verbose and redundant protocol. Imagine how many CPU-years will be wasted parsing and unparsing the packets. Ima
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> In the U.S.A. entire generations have given up on cooking (mainly for apparent comfort), and therefore have forgotten about it. Literally. Even worse, they are therefore incapable of passing on this cultural "rule" either. This is exa
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Has DJB written any documentation on his "TCP-friendly alternate transport protocol" that you mentioned above? A quick troll through cr.yp.to didn't reveal anything that matched.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I don't think "cargo cult" means what the author thinks it means. It's not just a general epithet.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I don't think time clocks are normal in our industry. Every W-2 programmer I know is salaried.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Religion is a subset of metaphysics. Ethics is a subset of metaphysics. Neither is a subset of the other. I don't understand your objection to ethical claims unfounded in religion.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
What's a dopamine junkie?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Thundering herd is an efficiency problem on certain implementations of UNIX servers. It's not a common reason why servers crash when overloaded. Graceful degradation is not hard. Serve N clients, and no more. It's an extra conditional in

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