kraemate

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by kraemate 13y ago
Anyone have the link to the original presentation? Particularly intrigued by the statistical fault tolerance.
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by kraemate 13y ago
I dont get the hype. BSD and Solaris have had proper containers for years now. Just because Linux hasn't had any all these years and LXC is maturing only now, it is wrong to think that containers are the next big thing.
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by kraemate 13y ago
As always, Linus is right. 99% commenters here probably work for businesses which are surviving only because of the Free and amazing kernel which he has managed to build. Linus has explained his directness and lack of sugar coating several
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by kraemate 13y ago
Too bad most "nerds" these days work for firms whose sole purpose is to gather user data and violate privacy in general.
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by kraemate 13y ago
I cant believe how quickly UI and design have fallen now that Jobs is gone. Things like childish gradients and terrible icons. Don't even get me started on the contrast -- light text on fluorescent green background and the really thin
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by kraemate 13y ago
All the three points in the "wishlist" are real-world problems, something which academic conferences will shun straight-away. All work in areas like configuration management must be either a)Evolutionary work based off existing tools. This
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by kraemate 14y ago
Maybe you are giving instagram too much credit? Isnt it just a photo uploading website. Sure the "scalability" challenges might be non-trivial but definitely not rocket science
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by kraemate 14y ago
I have an "old" 2006 era laptop with all of 176 MB of RAM (oh, and 1000s of bad addresses, so it keeps segfaulting all the time). On this setup i use stock Ubuntu 7.10 (the last Ubuntu which "worked"). And its not stripped down or anything
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by kraemate 14y ago
I dont want applications to be file-managers and hiding where my files really are. Files+directories is a very intuitive, powerful, and low-abstraction concept --- directories and files correspond directly to inodes. Thus the file-system an
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by kraemate 14y ago
Is it just me or is firefox's update system completely broken? I am using some firefox 3.x version because the software-updater never finds a new version (and i do not wish to download a new executable). This is on OSX. On ubuntu, because u
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by kraemate 14y ago
The author seems to blame Latex, when the fault squarely lies with Apple and their "any iPad app be a single executable" policy. Oh, and Latex is not 4GB. The standard,minimal distribution (which is what 99% users will ever need) fits insi
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by kraemate 14y ago
There are complexities and nuances in the most 'trivial' activities of life. Brick laying is brick laying, you say, but there are several sophisticated factors at play at erecting a wall. But the core principal has remained the same "stack
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by kraemate 14y ago
We've become lazy. Its much easier building a photo uploader in php (aka facebook) than actually build something or put man on the moon.
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by kraemate 15y ago
Earlier, i would actively anticipate new ubuntu releases. These days, its replaced by dreading what parts they have completely broken this time.
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by kraemate 15y ago
Desktop is the only indexing+search tool that works in Linux. Ive tried all of them, but the search+ranking algorithms in Google Desktop _just work_. Seriously, killing G-Desktop just sent computing back to 1990.
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by kraemate 15y ago
Anyone know how 'free' storage providers make any money? This is basically 10G + backup + geographical replication. IT costs (hard disks), electricity,cooling, bandwidth all add up.
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by kraemate 15y ago
This is simply amazing. Tracing KVM using Dtrace is going to throw up some pretty useful and surprising results. And add ZFS on top that as well - with all its features (sp. dedup+COW) useful for virtualized hosting. Anyone know if linux h
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by kraemate 15y ago
Kate really combines all the good KDE features, in particular its usage of Kparts is excellent. You get complete shell integration, tabs, snippets, loads of plugins, split-views, highlighting etc. The most feature complete editor after emac
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by kraemate 15y ago
While this is cool, i'm surprised by its lack of features : no real editing, the rendering is nowhere near openoffice standards, and the documents just "look different". Also, did it really take all this while for someone to come up with ja
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by kraemate 15y ago
Yep, using linux (and KDE). Screen rotation works perfectly. [stock intel 965]
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by kraemate 15y ago
I simply rotate my flatscreen monitor to make it upright. This way i get 900x1600 resolution, and >80 lines (10pt monospace) in one screen. 32 years of emacs! Wow!
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by kraemate 15y ago
If you define individual productivity as the amount of misuse of hardware resources , then yes. In all other cases, no. A few pretentious programmers wanting fast hardware to play with is one thing, but demanding it and proclaiming that pro
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by kraemate 15y ago
Not sure if being sarcastic .. Expectations might have increased , quality hasnt.
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by kraemate 15y ago
Am i the only one who thinks developers asking for good hardware is an extremely bad idea? All the greatest software ever written has been developed on extremely slow hardware (especially by today's standards). Fast compile times is an oft
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by kraemate 15y ago
I wonder what the author means by programming language "academic research". None of the mentioned deficiencies of Go (anon lambdas/TCO) is the product of any new academic research and have been around for a very long time (see Lisp). Most
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by kraemate 15y ago
Is there any info about the percentage of servers running FreeBSD? I think FreeBSD provides better software management (ports/packages) than most linux distros, along with dtrace+ZFS.
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by kraemate 15y ago
Is this really a chicken and egg kind of situation? Linux is more widely used because it's more popular because BigCorp supports it? If so, i find the situation a bit depressing. After all, it should be the merits of a software that warran
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Linux vs FreeBSD
1 points by kraemate 15y ago|6 comments
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by kraemate 15y ago
Linux was excellent on the desktop about 4 years ago. After that we had fedora turning to a big pile of broken packages, ubuntu adopting some seriously broken technologies (pulseaudio, compiz-beryl, tracker, unity, upstart, readahead, ... )
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by kraemate 15y ago
I had submitted something about Stallman and his genius some days back : [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2471620 ]

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