jholman

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by jholman 14y ago
Sorry, yes, I'm supposing that the second tier serves fewer dynos; sufficiently few that your solutions from 2009 (that motivated you to advertise intelligent routing in the first place) are still usable. > As a rule of thumb, I find it
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by jholman 14y ago
I'd like to start by acknowledging that I'm one of the "non-customers who are watching from the sidelines". I think Adam's right that this is an important distinction. Adam, there's something that confuses me about this. I'm no expert in
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by jholman 14y ago
This isn't a good context in which to wax lyrical about how completely I fail to get why people like Iain Banks's SF, so I'll skip the ranting, but I'd love to have someone convince me what there is to like. A loved one loves Banks, so I've
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by jholman 14y ago
In ASE, we spell that "intact". Tact is what he lacks. ;) (Sorry to be a prat, but it was so deliciously topical.)
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by jholman 14y ago
Should be "proceed and persist". It fits better both in meaning and in rhyme.
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by jholman 14y ago
Oh I try so hard to not go meta, but this complaint is too much. I was favourably inclined to your original post ("I noticed an uptick..."), and disfavourably inclined against coldtea's ("violently politically correct"; anyone who says "pol
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by jholman 14y ago
I think CRAs are a perfect analogy, yeah.
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by jholman 14y ago
Whew, I read 4500 words, then paused to see how many more I had to go, and quit at that point. (As you will see from this comment, I'm pretty patient with length, but Morozov defeated me.) Here's my review of the first 4500 words: 1) There
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by jholman 14y ago
Very similar here, although it's decreasing as I age. In my twenties I needed 9.5-10 hours per night to feel optimally sharp and focused; 10 years later my requirement seems to be down around 9 hours. Although, like most hot-air-pushers in
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by jholman 14y ago
I agree that the style guide they link is pretty short and leaves a lot out. Although there were a few nice bits, I think. The really laughable bit in the article was "One of the reasons the Doom code is so readable is because ... Carmack
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by jholman 14y ago
Don't be an ass. Today you learned, at most, that at least one person thinks that finding a woman ugly is hardcore sexism. More generally, calling things "PC" is a lazy shortcut, a straw man attack. I mean, unless someone actually sincer
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by jholman 14y ago
>>> "we can welcome newcomers, women and people of color" >> Good job, focus on YOUR visible minority statuses. Way to build bridges for everyone. > She started with newcomers. Should we not worry about queer folk?
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by jholman 14y ago
> Because "substantial third-party coverage" is a flawed test for the importance of a subject. So what? Importance of a subject is not what WP is trying to filter. Wikipedia wants to contain all the important knowledge, yes, but tha
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by jholman 14y ago
> Is it just that there is some cachet (whether SEO or just general prestige) to having a Wikipedia article, while there isn't the same cachet to having an article on a music-scene wiki? Yes. And that's exactly what's going on in the
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by jholman 14y ago
That's a philosophically vexed question. AIUI, as mhurron says, what Spamhaus does is publish a list. The nominal purpose of that list is to identify spammers, so that people who wish to filter out spam can be assisted by that. People do,
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by jholman 14y ago
Hear, hear. People make hilarious claims about how Google has "gone evil". Hilarious. And often, backed up by completely delusional models of how law enforcement works, or how Google engineering works, etc. You're not a happy user, fine,
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by jholman 14y ago
tl;dr: Adria Richards's statement quoted in TFA is self-serving, disingenuous, and contains some obviously false statements, but oh well, so what. Passing judgement on this incident is beneath me (I strive to one day act as I preach). A
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by jholman 14y ago
Based on past HN recommendations, I chose Gandi for my registrations last week. I'm having quite a bit of trouble getting them to reply to my support emails. The relationship is off to a rocky start. I'm still hopeful.
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by jholman 14y ago
I'll start by saying I think you're absolutely correct. To further refine the point (possibly what you meant in your penultimate clause), it's not ad hominem when the attack on the man in question is germane. If I say "I am a good candidate
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by jholman 14y ago
When you forget even one factor, you can be off by many orders of magnitude. And you're measuring the cost of the real data in totally useless terms. Who gives a shit about linear scans and "data destruction", lolz. What matters is how lo
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by jholman 14y ago
Please. There are around a billion smartphones. Dumbphones do not count as "online". At least, certainly not in the context of csomar's comment, and not in the context of paulrouget's blog post.
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by jholman 14y ago
Fermi estimates are a terrific technique, and indeed in this case we can see that "tens of thousands" x "five for each user" x 20B saved = 10MB, so that worked out nicely. So yeah, that would have been smart. BUT... When Fermi estimates f
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by jholman 14y ago
This comment disagrees with your profile. One is a typo. Fix it.
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by jholman 14y ago
Isn't this a project for archive.org? Doesn't archive.org hopefully already have all of this content?
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by jholman 14y ago
I'm excited about MYO too, and thanks for bringing ASETNIOP to my attention. But I think "practical" is the wrong word for the advantages of both of those technologies (separately and also in combination). "Powerful" seems more to-the-poin
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by jholman 14y ago
Video: crazy awesomeness starting at 1:30 blew my mind so hard I passed out, and due to unconsciousness did not hear the CTA at 2:10.
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by jholman 14y ago
IANAL either, of course. Thanks for clarifying your claim. Without having read all the stuff, and in fact mostly just having read the first few pages of the judgement that you posted, I think it's clear that a key part of (B) is that the IS
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by jholman 14y ago
I'm trying to understand your claim here. If I understand correctly, the sequences of events is like this: A) FBI issues NSL to ISP, demanding information, and prohibiting disclosure. B) ISP starts a proceeding challenging constitutionality
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by jholman 14y ago
I agree, which is why I said "If <blah blah blah>, then I think the FSF's political position is sound."
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by jholman 14y ago
I agree. It's really unclear what's going on, actually. We don't know exactly what the FSF is seeing, nor if they did fair tests, nor if they're reporting fairly (though I tend to assume so, tentatively). We don't know if Google did somethi

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