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by jpollock 12y ago
Process upgrades are a variant of fail-over on either hardware death or bug. I recommend treating upgrades as a chance to test your failure recovery processes. If you really can't afford someone getting a "connection refused&quot
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by jpollock 12y ago
No, sorry, I have no data, this is pure anecdote. :)
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by jpollock 12y ago
They were all local buyers.
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by jpollock 12y ago
I just had to do the same thing, and had a completely different experience. I sold our stuff on an auction site (TradeMe, the NZ EBay equivalent), with $1 reserve, and applied some of the lessons I've learned from lurking here. My wife
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by jpollock 12y ago
Of course, all that's really happened is I've replaced the free plastic bags from the grocery store with non-free garbage bags from the same store. I still use the same amount of plastic.
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by jpollock 12y ago
In order to control what happens in the car when you're not in it. I would expect driverless taxis to end up like public toilets.
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by jpollock 12y ago
I was surprised to learn that mobile networks use a lot of xDSL links to their base stations. They're faster to get provisioned than a traditional data link. So, anything which increases bandwidth in DSL will benefit mobile networks.
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by jpollock 12y ago
First, realizing that your reactions (usually an expression of anger) are resulting from stress and not from the behaviour of the other person. Second, inserting a pause between your immediate reaction and your response allowing yourself ti
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by jpollock 12y ago
Given that a child's laptop will likely be connected to the school's wifi, where any other child would then be able to sniff the keypresses... Yes, it's a problem.
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by jpollock 12y ago
If that were true, Americans could simply vote for a local government that increased density allowing new units to be built. Foreigners can't vote and therefore ultimately do not control that part of the process.
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by jpollock 12y ago
In order to be used, it has to be exposed to the network.
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by jpollock 12y ago
My experience is that Internet connections are price competitive with the US (and perhaps cheaper). You can get 100/50 with 80GB of traffic for NZ$110/month, which is US$91.64. You can go full unlimited at USD$115. Amazingly, th
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by jpollock 12y ago
The bigger problem has always been when the version number is marketing. I worked in one team, and there was a contractual requirement that v 1.16 was the last version we would ship. So, where before we would increase the number at certain
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by jpollock 12y ago
In New Zealand, the posted speed limit is often too high for the road. If you drive the speed limit, YOU WILL CRASH AND DIE - frequently taking another car with you. This is because: 1) Very few divided highways 2) Blanket speed limit of 1
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by jpollock 12y ago
This can be intentional. If there is a dangerous piece of road where the average speed of traffic is higher than the road will take, then put a trap in to slow the traffic down to the limit. It doesn't have to be over the entire high
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by jpollock 12y ago
The column change phase 2 has a sneaky bug in it. In the order presented: 1) Run migration 2) Apply trigger There will be a point in time where the migration has been done and the trigger hasn't been applied. Even sneakier, if the trig
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by jpollock 12y ago
For more information, this appears to be attacking the "Cost to Connect" portion of the setup costs, which represent about half the cost of a FTTH deployment. http://www.ftthcouncil.org/d/do/33
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by jpollock 12y ago
If more than one signature was allowed on a certificate, then sites would be able to have more than one path to the root. Then it wouldn't matter if any single CA was removed, giving people time to obtain new signatures.
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by jpollock 12y ago
There are other post-scarcity economies, some of which are discussed more in depth than Star Trek. The first one that comes to mind is Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"[1], which uses whuffie[2]. [1] http:
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by jpollock 12y ago
You use www for the same reason that the ftp server is ftp.X and the mail server is mail.X. This allows organisations to have logical service locations separate from their current configured location. So, www is your web service. If you&#x
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by jpollock 12y ago
My personal experience is that any code that I write that I haven't tested has a bug in it. Usually a NPE/SegFault.
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by jpollock 12y ago
I've also seen this done with founders where the policy is used to buy out a founder's estate, as well as being used to cover the business risk presented by that founder's (or senior staff member's) death.
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by jpollock 12y ago
Watch out for the license. The source appears to be licensed under CC-BY-SA, which at the very least requires attribution, and might be GPL3-style viral. http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12527/do-i-have-to-
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by jpollock 12y ago
I believe people with severe egg allergies avoid some vaccines because of the presence of egg protein - eggs are used as bioreactors to grow the vaccine. However, it looks like that's only the influenza vaccine, and that's not how
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by jpollock 12y ago
Wasn't just L that happened to, N had the same issue.
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by jpollock 12y ago
It depends on the quality of the codec used by the VM system. Any compression is likely to destroy the code. VoIP protocols usually send DTMF as specific messages for this reason. However I wouldn't be surprised if it worked.
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by jpollock 12y ago
The hardest part in any clean room implementation is finding people with no prior knowledge of the source to make the clone.
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by jpollock 12y ago
Class loaders work in a tree, and there typically isn't sharing between sibling branches. I believe that visibility is up the tree, and never across. So, you can end up with two different versions of a library existing quite happily
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by jpollock 12y ago
The US operates a bill-and-keep [1] model for phone calls, which is why people pay to receive calls on their mobile phones, and why spam texts are more prevalent. If a call is made from Verizon to AT&T, no money changes hands between th
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by jpollock 12y ago
Still New Zealand, which was running at 2.12 in 2009, with a long term (30 year) average of 2.01. http://www.socialreport.msd.govt.nz/people/fertility.html The USA is running at 2.09 in 2009.

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