justizin

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by justizin 12y ago
> A ton of people love all of those things. This is exactly the problem with completely data-driven decisions. First, do people really love those things, or given an ever-increasing trend toward those formulaic things, are those the part
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by justizin 12y ago
> Except that's not how anyone did it. I can affirmatively tell you that more than one of my employers, successful startups several years in, _did_ do this when I started. Anyway, I don't blame people that get burned by this, v
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by justizin 12y ago
Go to the Exploratorium, the California Academy of Sciences, The Marine Mammal Center, Muir Woods. Learn about something that doesn't use GitHub. ;)
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by justizin 12y ago
I largely agree with this, but I also think it's worth noting that DJB opted out of writing most functionality, leaving it to the end user, so he has provided us with a fantastic bike frame upon which we bolt far less superior software
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by justizin 12y ago
"This is abhorrent!" "What kind of monster would suck up my CPU cycles, increasing my power bill, and shortening the life of my hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of computing equipment, to make a few cents?!" This i
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by justizin 12y ago
> And you've just been sold on moving from EC2, where you're effectively on your own VLAN. Mrh, not quite. If you are a relatively new EC2 customer, then you are a VPC customer, which might effectively be your own VLAN. EC2 ha
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by justizin 12y ago
Are they _really_ emulating "disks", though? Storage presents block devices to operating system. Spinning Rust and all manner of SSD use lots of clever engineering to appear as a block device. Block device is the most basic abstr
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by justizin 12y ago
I think there's a lesson here, but it's not "Don't ask for help, even all the time." To the contrary, I'd say something like: Ask yourself for help, first. If that didn't work, you might have a worthwhile
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by justizin 12y ago
This is a really fascinating problem set for distributed computing. I've been involved in Active-Active designs that never fully went live, and some Active-Passive, and I def agree with the criticisms of Active-Passive, and the assert
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by justizin 12y ago
Look. :) Yeah, the build machine churns a lot. But that work should be primarily done by the FS cache, by buffers. Yes, it's going to write out those small files, but if DragonflyBSD has any kind of respectable kernel, though should
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by justizin 12y ago
I don't have to agree with the author's justifications, I switched back some time ago for primary browsing because FireFox makes a browser for me and Google makes a browser for them . Privacy Extensions always seem to work bett
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by justizin 12y ago
Did we work together at OneLogin?
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by justizin 12y ago
I'm just getting a whitepage with "SF Life" title, fwiw, which is triggering a massive irony reaction. ;) "Why don't people scale a little before posting a Show HN", I always wonder...
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by justizin 12y ago
Didn't catch that, yeah, that is more like a windfall. :)
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by justizin 12y ago
Wait, reading the wrong article. Thought this was about Swizz Beats.
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by justizin 12y ago
Why didn't I invent this?! :D Srsly, this is fascinating and sounds like a lot of fun.
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by justizin 12y ago
Yes, but deadly weapons are created by people who think, simply, "science is cool". ;)
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by justizin 12y ago
Sign a simple lease, travel the world? This is incredibly tempting. ;)
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by justizin 12y ago
I'm reading this later, but upvote based solely on the title. ;)
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by justizin 12y ago
$60k is hardly a windfall, but it is a lifeboat.
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by justizin 12y ago
> "Sure, sometimes things go wrong, but if it happens so often that there needs to be an official rotation to deal with it, then it means that something is fundamentally broken." People who say things like this are usually the
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by justizin 12y ago
You could always throw back to "Road Trip" with Tom Greene: "Austin, not Boston" ;)
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by justizin 12y ago
"Waaah, wahh, my corrupt mechanic who installs my brake pads calls me ignorant because I'm a know it all, but I don't fucking work on cars for a living." Shut the fuck up. You hit a cyclist with that car and I will thro
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by justizin 12y ago
> "Goodenough in his lab at the University of Austin." There is no University of Austin, it's the University of Texas at Austin, or "UT Austin" - same as there is no "University of Berkeley", but instea
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by justizin 12y ago
Wow, pretty shitty that I was downvoted for this comment, when I personally upvoted the one before it. #discourse
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by justizin 12y ago
They're definitely different, I forget _all_ the technical details of Xnet, having last read the book a couple years ago, I was mostly talking about the show of human ingenuity. Xnet was certainly "informally monitored", thou
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by justizin 12y ago
This is so completely out of Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother". Brilliant book, highly suggest reading. Goes to show how accurate his estimation of what censored youth will do was.
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by justizin 12y ago
No such thing as a 'private beach' in CA. No matter how rich you are, you cannot own a beach in California, though you can own the adjoining land and be a real dick about closing long-standing beach access paths. Nothing new, see
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by justizin 12y ago
More effective, yes, but more practical, not so much IMO. I'm eager to see your github repository for fixing the police. :)
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by justizin 12y ago
"The 5th amendment protects US citizens from being forced to reveal their encryption keys." Tell that to Ladar Levison. ;)

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