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by jonathanoliver 12y ago
But can I play The Oregon Trail on it?
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What troubles did you typically see with Kafka? Was it Zookeeper related? (Also, good to talk to you at the Gopher Meetup on Tuesday)
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Linode has a maximum packet per second limit set by default on all nodes. You'll need to email them to have them remove the limit for this particular box. They're very responsive and will increase it within a few minutes. No matte
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by jonathanoliver 12y ago
Back in 1999 I finally decided to toss my pile of PC Magazine and Computer Shopper issues. It felt like I was throwing away part of my soul. To this day I still have some regret over that decision.
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It becomes especially tricky when any given customer can hard code an SSL cert into the Websphere or Tomcat server without the service provider knowing anything about it. Then, when the service provider needs to rotate the certificate becau
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by jonathanoliver 12y ago
A few years ago I looked at about 30 different backup solutions and finally settled on CrashPlan for the following reasons: 1. Can send backups local drive, cloud, or P2P. 2. Encrypts files locally 3. Incremental/delta, e.g. a 5-byte c
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I Was On Page One of Hacker News–Here's What I Learned(blog.jonathanoliver.com)
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As the original poster, I have found that relational databases have become our favorite hammer. The point of my post however is that things like the modern NoSQL movement did not originate in Redmond. Open source drove NoSQL to the forefr
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by jonathanoliver 12y ago
The trouble is that "the ordained path" is MS tooling all the way. I suppose there's a lot of pressure on MS to provide a prescribed method and they're satisfying a market demand, but when I worked in .NET I had to make
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by jonathanoliver 12y ago
vim is a breath of fresh air compared to VS, which you've mentioned is a resource hog. A lot of the oppression comes from the mindset in various organizations that "we must use Microsoft" (because it's safe, because they
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by jonathanoliver 12y ago
On AWS booting Windows can easily take 10-15 minutes. On the same type of EC2 instance, it takes 30 seconds. This makes auto scaling quickly very difficult because you have to scale up in anticipation of demand rather than as it occurs. On
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by jonathanoliver 12y ago
One really big advantage I saw of running .NET was that the upgrade path from 1.0 -> 1.1 -> 2.0 -> 3.0/3.5 ->4.0, etc., was quite painless. Other than having to purchase a new copy of VS each upgrade, the tech side was real
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by jonathanoliver 12y ago
Funny you mention that, as the author of the blog post in question, I'm basically inside of a green-phosphor command line most of the time. I've got my cursor set to block and it doesn't blink.
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Coming from C#, when I originally started using a language that didn't have a debugger I thought I would miss it. But I found that I'm more deliberate about my code because the debugger isn't there for me to fall back on.
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As the author of the blog post in question, I couldn't agree with your comment more. By getting outside of ourselves we are able to utilize those experiences to understand what tools even exist and when each becomes necessary.
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I wrote that article at the end of January 2014. Technically I'm still using .NET because I've got a mountain of code that still runs on Windows. Bit by bit, I'm killing it off in favor of other languages.
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How many of these ideas would have come from within Microsoft had in not beed for the ALT.NET movement and .NET developers looking outside themselves to other communities?
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Are there any other providers out there that have anything like this? For example, SoftLayer has "Bare Metal" servers, but I'm not sure if there's a virtualization layer.
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The "ladder method" is a simple system designed to take no longer than 15 minutes each day no matter your current level of endurance/health/etc: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/exercise.htm
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Kinda sounds like Golang, except not as platform independent.
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I was there too. There were like 6 demos during the presentation--all of them were awesome! The first rule of presentations is to minimize demonstrations because things can go wrong, but all of there demos were amazing and went off without