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by justinsb 12y ago
So why did you choose to go along with it? Have you considered you might be making an appearance in the next "Borat" film, or some other similar spoof?
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by justinsb 12y ago
HP site here: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/cloud/helion-overview.html But the ZDNet story seems to have the most information: OpenStack, CloudFoundry, Patent Indemnification, Professional Services. Reminds me of
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HP Helion: will invest $1 billion in OpenStack, CloudFoundry(zdnet.com)
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by justinsb 12y ago
The problem is not that you didn't publish the data. It is that, when collecting it, you chose to fix/re-run some experiments, but not others. The ones you chose to re-run were (presumably) based on your pre-conceived notions of
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by justinsb 12y ago
Absolutely agree, but (at least in my mind) Docker with a full OS really is just LXC. Running a single process inside the container is something that genuinely differentiates Docker from other approaches. It's a powerful idea which to
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by justinsb 12y ago
Interesting benchmarks, ruined for me by a huge experimental no-no: when one of the tests (the Docker delete) didn't produce the result the author wanted, he investigated the underlying problem and fixed it. Sure enough, that became t
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by justinsb 12y ago
Please don't draw that conclusion yet. There are some serious issues with the blog post, I think "benchmarking is hard" might well prove to be a better re-title!
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by justinsb 12y ago
It's suspicious that doing N requests of 100 bytes is slower than doing N requests of 10000 bytes. That doesn't pass the sniff-test for me.
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by justinsb 12y ago
The way thin provisioning normally works (e.g. on ZFS or LVM) is that only non-zero blocks are stored; an unstored block is read as zero; a block written as zeroes could be "unstored". It doesn't matter whether a block of ze
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by justinsb 12y ago
It's a good point: a cloud provider could choose to try to under-provision disks instead. The problem though is that (some) disks are local to the machine; it's not easy to move physical hard disks around when the calculations ar
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by justinsb 12y ago
What I'd like to see is a storage product that aggregates the unused storage space on EC2 instances. * By default instance storage isn't attached, so there's probably a lot of completely available capacity. * Even if attached
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by justinsb 13y ago
Fair point (particularly in view of the sibling suggestion). I do think this answers the OP though - it's probably just not important enough to be worth the fight!
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by justinsb 13y ago
That sounds like it could work - nice hack!
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by justinsb 13y ago
I suspect if you tried to do it federally it would be a violation of States' rights and thus unconstitutional.
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by justinsb 13y ago
Amazon fought tooth and nail against paying sales tax, even in states where they clearly had a presence (California in particular). Now that they agreed to start paying sales tax going forward (in return for no back-penalties), they are lob
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by justinsb 13y ago
This does seem the most important conclusion. What's likely happening is Amazon is no longer showing themselves as the top seller in some cases. Consumers are still buying on Amazon, but from a different seller, who does not charge s
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by justinsb 13y ago
I agree that Amazon is often the most convenient option. But their prices simply aren't the best any more (at least for things other than books). Try a price comparison next time and see if you agree! (Another change is that Google
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by justinsb 13y ago
I don't think we disagree as much as you might think! I'm trying not to critique MongoDB today, but rather thinking of what it will become. Today's implementation problems will hopefully be fixed. I agree that without joins,
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by justinsb 13y ago
My personal "big picture" critique of MongoDB is that I see it evolving into a SQL database with a different syntax. It is a strongly-consistent, distributed-through-replication-and-sharding system. Additions to 'traditiona
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by justinsb 13y ago
Ah - I meant the collective "Windows 7 & 8". Windows 7 is fine, but has already been replaced by Windows 8, so why not Windows 8? Windows 8 introduced Metro, which is hated and not really an option for the enterprise, so 8.1
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by justinsb 13y ago
Alternatively, Windows 7 / 8 is such a disaster that the IRS is paying a few million dollars (out of their 10 billion dollar budget) to stick with something that works. To me, that seems like a very prudent decision.
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by justinsb 13y ago
Interesting, but it looks like it doesn't detect threading errors (concurrent access)?
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by justinsb 13y ago
I take your point, but I don't think _anything_ can defend against unknown attacks. However, we could defend against all known attacks using formal methods, which is a lot better than we're doing at the moment. Further, when a n
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by justinsb 13y ago
These are all great reasons to stick with Scala. However, to survive Scala must also attract new developers; I think a better Java will lessen that influx.
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by justinsb 13y ago
Agreed: there's definitely still more features in Scala. But Java has taken "Scala - the good parts"; or at least, what they consider the good parts. That'll be enough for many people, and my guess is it will suck the
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by justinsb 13y ago
It isn't that Java 8 will kill Scala, it is that Scala has demonstrated the utility of lambdas to the point where they can safely be incorporated back into Java. So Scala has "won", but in my opinion likely Scala will now fa
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by justinsb 13y ago
If you can tolerate some data loss, yes. I believe Kafka can still lose some data if all the active machines fail. It's a deliberate design decision (it's the right thing to do if you want to remain available and can tolerate som
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by justinsb 13y ago
This is cool, but I suspect that the reason Digital Ocean doesn't accept Bitcoin is not technical, but more to do with the sort of customers that would want to pay anonymously.
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by justinsb 13y ago
To me, it seems much more likely that an Apple/Tesla meeting revolved around Apple wanting Tesla to offer an iOS powered in-car computer, as they've just done with the other carmakers. Apple could also be buying Tesla, of course,
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by justinsb 13y ago
The JVM gives you very good JIT, GC, threading, manageability (profiling, debugging, memory inspection etc), scalability to huge machines, a huge ecosystem of software and has basically solved every real-world deployment problem. (Maybe ap

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