jvehent

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by jvehent 15y ago
Invest in companies that are actually producing something valuable. That's the way to restart the economy. Can we all move on from the social media bubble and get back to real work now ?
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by jvehent 15y ago
They didn't join anything. They created it to extend their markets with a common currency. The others joined in.
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by jvehent 15y ago
"Writing is very easy. All you do is sit in front of a type-writer keyboard until little drops of blood appear on your forehead" Walter W "Red" Smith
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by jvehent 15y ago
Now that a reference my dad would love :) Not sure if the regular HN folks would know of Bourbaki though
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by jvehent 15y ago
That was 16 years ago. Since then, PostgreSQL engineers spent a LOT of time proving the reliability of their engine. And today, 16 years later, we can consider it reliable. Most key-value databases didn't prove (as in: show me actual resist
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by jvehent 15y ago
> MySQL had a much bigger effect to the database world compared to PostgreSQL And if MySQL never existed, what would have happened ? Would we have all used PostgreSQL in the first place and avoided years of painful instability ? I read
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by jvehent 15y ago
Big news: you actually need to learn networking if you're going to manage a network. VPC is just basic networking, reinvented by AWS because they screwed up that part real bad in the first EC2 arch. VPC is not complicated, it probably takes
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Traffic Control and QoS in the Linux Kernel(wiki.linuxwall.info)
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by jvehent 15y ago
If you have 25 devs, you're going to spend a minimum of 1.5/2 millions a years on salaries. Does a $5,000 difference really matters at that point ?
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by jvehent 15y ago
Any company that doesn't have cash, and is struggling for survival, will tell you that their revenue will explode "next year". They might very well be covered in debts and try to acquire you to generate more revenue. In which case, you take
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by jvehent 15y ago
So what do you call a sysadmin exactly ?
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by jvehent 15y ago
So we agree on the definition of what a sysadmin, systems engineers, devops or whatever people want to call it should be. A sysadmin must program, that's a given. When did we forget that exactly ? But why are so many devs shooting at the sy
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by jvehent 15y ago
So, we're playing with the terms ? That's it ? As a sysadmin, I'm fine with the concept of continual improvement, there is nothing worse than a static industry. The job is changing every day and this.is.good. What I understand from this pos
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by jvehent 15y ago
While I agree with your comment, I would also point out that the fastest, most reactive and most scalable webapps have seen were written in C. Some people out there actually know how to use C, and instead of battling with async JS do ge
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by jvehent 15y ago
I support that ! This is the feature I miss the most in DDG. Most of my searches during the day relate to tech stuff, and recent content is one of the most relevant criteria (usually, I filter to get the result from the last 12 months).
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by jvehent 15y ago
This is what happens when developers want to do sysadmin. Come on guys, we, sysadmin, spent as much time learning our job as your learned coding. If we would be trying to code, we would be lost and pissed off. That's why we don't do it. The
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by jvehent 15y ago
You might want to check out The Superfluid http://thesuperfluid.com/ . It does exactly this: share you skills among projects without involving money.
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by jvehent 15y ago
Apparently, the site is not a nuclear plant. But they do manipulate nuclear matter.
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by jvehent 15y ago
Because he escaped when the MBAs took over ?
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by jvehent 15y ago
Noun founder (plural founders) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something originates; one who endows. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/founder Whatever his title officially was,
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by jvehent 15y ago
"Forget daily backups, Continuous Protection redundantly archives data to high-durability storage as it is written, ensuring that it is safe no matter what." I'm sorry, but daily backups are not only for high availability, but also for poin
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by jvehent 15y ago
I'd be curious to see some numbers. Just for fun, and also to get an idea of the amount of visitors that kind of link can bring. Capacity planning, they say :)
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Using ssh-agent with a relay to create a user account on multiple servers(jve.linuxwall.info)
2 points by jvehent 15y ago|0 comments
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by jvehent 15y ago
Just went back to XFCE4 after a month or so on KDE4.4 on Debian. I go back to KDE every now and then, when I feel the need for desktop effects and pretty transparency and stuff like that. This time, I really tried to customize my desktop to
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Industrializing SSH and Sudo to work with EC2(jve.linuxwall.info)
2 points by jvehent 15y ago|0 comments
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by jvehent 15y ago
SSL is so minimally computationally intensive that it doesn't hurt to just use it by default for all of your traffic May I ask where you got that from ? SSL, or to be more accurate RSA, IS computationally intensive, but mostly at the esta
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by jvehent 15y ago
A few years back, I tested cyassl http://1nw.eu/!f8 for RSA computation (a friend of mine had patched it to remove a lot of malloc and optimize the code, something he couldn't do on openssl). It had interesting results compared to OpenSSL
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by jvehent 15y ago
While I totally agree with you, I don't think that: "1000 -Use a packet sniffer to learn about the network requests your computer does to your favorite game server." Is an easy thing to do. The first time I learned networking, packet encaps
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by jvehent 15y ago
Good architecture. And nice of you to explain clearly and completely the problem and to invite your users to backup. I'd like to see that more often, but more companies are too scared to lose customers to do that.
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by jvehent 15y ago
Nicely done. Roundcubemail has been struggling with email encryption for a while now. I would love to see you solution in a plugin: http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Plugin_Repository

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