johnpmayer

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by johnpmayer 13y ago
This is great advice, and very difficult advice if you have a ego that dislikes not knowing the answers. It's also something that is doubly important for devops - don't let production issues sit idle because you're afraid to
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
Also paramilitary purposes
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
Also known as criticisms of the Law of Excluded Middle.
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
I'm sure if you just said SIGCHLD you demonstrated the knowledge they were looking for. If you gave your extended answer, they would probably be additionally impressed.
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
> I also realize that free software is not a panacea and that closed source, commercial software is a necessary complement to the existence of a healthy ecosystem. Necessary? Is that just because it pays salaries?
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
I think that's a little unfair. Admins' responsibility to keep everything running, all the time, is their top priority. As an organization scales, it pays off greatly to enforce some homogeneity - especially as the ratio of non-te
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
Bare metal is a common term used to describe running directly on the hardware. Such as a non-virtualized operating system, or a program running without an operating system. Or yeah, we could just downmod everybody.
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
Maybe you could instantiate every string in a global radix tree?
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
So that's what an operating system is! Tanenbaum considers it an extended machine and a resource manager [MOS 1.1]. So I think that calling something an OS even though it's not on the bare metal is still cromulent.
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
I think you'd need to add the following constraints. - Non-compromised endpoint hardware - In-person public key exchange - Onion routing
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/MetaHDBC Does exactly that. Runs your SQL against the database at compile time to get type information, which it injects into the program AST.
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
This looks really cool, but I'd prefer a personal tier option that I can host myself - this is auth after all.
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
Elm could do this, and it would also benefit from a graph editor that knew about the types
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
It's worth pointing out that there's now a digitalocean pre-configured image with Docker.
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
Not every STEM major can write a quality, detailed, qualitative analysis, with proper jargon.
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
The ability to think quickly during a crisis seems to be this universal, superhuman trait of astronauts. It's why the kid in me will always see them as heroes and an inspiration.
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
This shouldn't be down voted. It's significant that it's not "Mayor Bloomberg". "Title Lastname" is the format that it used to refer to candidates .
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
Honestly, playing with this tutorial for 5 minutes answered that question for me.
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
Moreover, not everybody working with hardware needs to or should be dealing with low-level details.
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
Very interesting that the architecture has no condition codes, or any global state for that matter. Also, that the belts are logical, in that there really isn't a chunk of memory where the belt lives, but the members of a belt live whe
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
(experienced body boarder/body surfer, novice actual surfer ;-) I think the point is that, regardless of which wave you decide to catch, whether it be the first or second one, at some point to need to sync-up. If you miss the first one
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
I was only responding to the "GPA matters for nobody after a few years" comment, by demonstrating that for a select subset of university students (pre-med) it's simply not true.
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
> Does anybody care about GPA after the first job? If you're trying to get into medical school, that's not really a fair question. Your college GPA directly affects your med school prospects, which greatly affects your residenc
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
Part of me thinks those are cool, but the rest of my shouts "why should I have to do that?!".
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
Say I'm a hosting company. I doubt that the authorities can compel me to lie to my customers in the form of not terminating the canary. Moreover, I think I have every right to choose to terminate any running process on my machine. The
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
I think there's a fair amount of "sorry that we were the first adopters, and sorry but it would ruin commuters to make these upgrades all at once"
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
> We need a real bytecode for the web, we need it to be standardised and we need to push for browsers to support it. We had one. It was called Java. Actually, we still have it, but it just has such a bad reputation now; users don't trus
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
Starting from rest at a distance infinity, any object (regardless of it's own mass) necessarily undergoes a minimum increase in kinetic energy due to the gravitational potential of the mass of the target object (in this case the Earth, whic
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
> The backend is written on NodeJS and Redis, and will include Web APIs for users, permissions, email, and application storage with the remoteStorage protocol. Is grimserver a hard dependency, or just an implementation of some example A
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by johnpmayer 13y ago
I much prefer ksh myself, in particular for scripting. Fun fact about how bash is broken: export a=0 cat $file | while read line do a=$(expr $a + 1) done Bash will fork the while loop as a separate process, inheriting (copy

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