johngalt

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by johngalt 15y ago
The point was that we already have solved the problem of "where do we spend our time given that all options have costs"
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by johngalt 15y ago
You're right. Making arguments like this are a way to shortcut a complex system of possible actions. It's like the old story about a computer's long boot time costing lives. If only there were some mechanism we could use to assign value to
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by johngalt 15y ago
If BYOD and telecommuting was just held up by "security" it would've been steamrolled a long time ago. Very few organizations take security that seriously. Articles like these frame IT strategy about as accurately as a courtroom drama depic
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by johngalt 15y ago
It is a fundamental difference. Some people will sit in a wooden house and decry the lumber industry for deforestation. Others will try to figure out how to make bricks cheaper.
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by johngalt 15y ago
The problem with aggregators like Digg/Reddit/HN is that anger will unite a mob quicker than discussion. Eventually you end up with an angry echo chamber populated with the worst sort of content. HN opened my eyes to a group of problem solv
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by johngalt 15y ago
Someday unified communications.... It will seem anachronistic that phones/email/txt/vm/video were all so disconnected. Each with different rules, and methods of connection. The first thing to go will probably be phone numbers. I can already
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by johngalt 15y ago
By itself this device is poorly suited to backup. Specially for their use case. A huge pile of desktop Hitachi disks isn't something you can stick in a rack and forget about, and people like to forget about backups. Best case: you have some
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by johngalt 15y ago
There may be a reason to build 20 backblaze pods, but I doubt there is a reason to build 1. The whole point of a backblaze build is to move the redundancy out of the individual box.
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by johngalt 15y ago
And I commute via air once a week. According to his math; if I could simultaneously live in five cities at the same time, I'd be a millionaire. Mobility matters. I'd rather take the highest paying work within 500miles vs. the highest paying
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by johngalt 15y ago
Neat packaging for electrolysis, but I'm trying to imagine where/how this would get used. Not as elegant once you add all the apparatus to capture and store the hydrogen.
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by johngalt 15y ago
Aiming at 100% uptime opens up all sorts of scope issues. Consider that 'failover' does technically cause a small amount of downtime as you restart the session. If you acknowledge that, it throws out most of the current model of fault toler
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by johngalt 15y ago
"don’t let go of key team members for replacements until the replacement starts" Not an inspiring message to future key team members. "We begun parting ways with our developers, started to wind down most of our NYC operations" So the next s
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by johngalt 15y ago
To the author; If you're having trouble finding specifically "bi-directional video" guys you may want to expand your search to VoIP devs. Many of the challenges are the same, and the protocols. It is also likely that they will have more exp
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by johngalt 15y ago
If you look at the old OSI model and the original thoughts of the way the internet was supposed to work you see that it was supposed to be vastly more diverse than simply a browser window rendering HTML.
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by johngalt 15y ago
For every one true GSD person you'll find, there are ten who'd rather spend all day arguing about how their tools aren't perfect or they are waiting on X person/thing. In larger teams it becomes easier and easier to blame the 'X'. A good ru
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by johngalt 15y ago
Users would prefer developers pay Microsoft, rather than pay geeksquad themselves.
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by johngalt 15y ago
If you do not wish to have a brick thrown through your window, your written notification must be mailed to... http://bash.org/?577451
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by johngalt 15y ago
That's exactly what I meant. The responses to my comment I mostly agree with. Diminshing returns are true, but businesses pay attention to total output, not per-hour output. To say a childless workaholic with no interruptions will somehow a
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by johngalt 15y ago
Sounds like he's made the right decision. It's important to have balance in your life. However, I don't want to hear him cry "ageism!" when that young kid that's doing 80hour weeks gets promoted ahead of him. It's important to make these ki
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by johngalt 15y ago
So by extension the current economic downturn is entirely Obama's fault then? Also, take a close look at the graph. Looks like things had stagnated in the early 70s, but the graph does it's best to hide that. Now off we go to partisan bicke
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by johngalt 15y ago
We spend more per student than we ever have in history. Why wasn't the country in chaos when there weren't public schools at all? Teaching the kids that they are owed something merely because they have less than someone else? Seems to justi
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by johngalt 15y ago
Most of the people on here are debating the degree that gender affects life choices and goals (obviously it does to some degree). It's not misogyny to debate the differences between men and women. No one is advocating that women should be c
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by johngalt 15y ago
You don't buy DNS service from Godaddy, you buy registration. The DNS service is a courtesy. For all this article states here's much more likely what's happening: 1. People are using the "free DNS service" for high traffic sites rather than
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by johngalt 15y ago
See also the intuitive explanation: http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes Hilarious blurb about priors about 1/3rd of the way in. Q. How can I find the priors for a problem? A. Many commonly used priors are listed in the Handbook of Chemi
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by johngalt 15y ago
Canada produces more oil than Venezuela. Not a country I would characterize for it's ruthless sociopaths and the slaughter of thousands. Whenever you have something of value bad people will try to take it with force. The capitalist ideal of
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by johngalt 15y ago
It is reassuring how well a liberal can succeed in an unregulated industry. Where there are no unions and unpaid overtime is the norm. It's also to be admired how he can build a successful company while insisting on green practices by shipp
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by johngalt 15y ago
We have all those radio telescopes built already. Seems silly for humans to let them sit idle. Even if we don't find aliens I'm sure there is something interesting to see with all that gear.
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by johngalt 15y ago
Terraforming Venus you'd need to figure out how to make a planet rotate 1000km/hr faster. Terraforming Mars you'd need to add mass equal to another planet at least the same size.
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by johngalt 15y ago
The age old debate of chaotic good vs. lawful good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_%28Dungeons_%26_Drago...
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by johngalt 15y ago
Yes, lets leave that to the physicists please.

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