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by latch 12y ago
There's another, shorter one, answering the "why are manhole covers round" question: http://www.sellsbrothers.com/posts/details/12395
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by latch 12y ago
There's a pretty common pattern where companies push for openness and standards where they lag, while being closed and proprietary where they lead.
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by latch 12y ago
You don't like fruits and vegetables (incl legumes and grains)?
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by latch 12y ago
Though notably more than the quoted $50, for €69, you get a server chip and ECC.
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by latch 12y ago
Ran UnixBench c4.2xlarge https://gist.github.com/karlseguin/a659ef87b3a4a5d590e9 c4.8xlarge https://gist.github.com/karlseguin/0f38b9ad87ebd54375da i7-4770 https://gist.github.com/
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by latch 12y ago
Nothing you mentioned, spinning instances up and down, balancing between them, clustering databases, is exclusive to EC2, AWS or "cloud" computing in general. Scalability is largely a design exercise, not, as much as AWS sales e
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by latch 12y ago
I'm a Go developer, but I don't buy this. At best it's showing how, with a bit of work (often times by the developer), errors aren't that bad. But I don't see how it's showing that it's better? If you log
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by latch 12y ago
it's a small abstraction, but I could see it being useful. My gripe, and I don't know how to say this without people saying I'm whining about generics, is the interface{} return. Such a pain.
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by latch 12y ago
Someone with money gets to consume more than someone without. This isn't odd, and I'm not even sure it's particularly tied to a "system". Being rich means you get to fly business class or first class, which means yo
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by latch 12y ago
I do like the rMBP, but I know I could use the 4 cores when I'm at home or just going to work, which is why I wish I had gotten the 15". However, -1 lbs + smaller form factor + better battery is pretty significant when you're
851.
by latch 12y ago
Is there a laptop other than these? [1] They are all limited to 8GB. According to [2] the new X250 is, like the new X1, also a single DIMM. [1] - http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series&#x2
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by latch 12y ago
As a frequent traveler, I regret replacing my 3-year-old 4GB + 128SSD with a 13" rMBP. I like the rMPB, but I should have kept my Air and gotten a quad-core 15" rMBP. The point? I'll pay a lot, in terms of cash and power, for
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by latch 12y ago
I imagine high. 911 calls.
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by latch 12y ago
We can only guess: 1 - Supervisors might feel threatened or disrespected 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority 3 - Cost (with or without considering the true value/cost)
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by latch 12y ago
On your first point, you're assuming that you know his requirements (or that his requirements weren't just to learn and have fun). I'm a lot more interested in hearing from people who handle 10K req/sec on 4 cores versus
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by latch 12y ago
I ran it against: https://github.com/julienschmidt/go-http-routing-benchmark which is a pretty thorough benchmark for Go multiplexers. The author's own framework is always fastest and takes the least amount of mem
858.
by latch 12y ago
I need to learn to let things go, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4280515 I've been a DnsMadeEasy customer for a while (they had an outage ~4 years ago from a 50Gbps attack), but once my year is up, I'm
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by latch 12y ago
I recommend Gitlab for anyone looking for something Github-like. On a $10/m DO instance you can be up and running quickly [1]. There's a rake task for backups and it's easy to get it to sync to S3. [1] https://www.
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by latch 12y ago
I'm in the AI will kill all humans camp (or we'll kill it). We'll try to subjugate it. We'll see it as a tool to do things beneath us. We'll award it no rights. It'll be property. We do that to humans and anima
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by latch 12y ago
This, and I suspect most people are smart enough to know they shouldn't be mean around (and especially) towards him or his wife.
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by latch 12y ago
This recent post and accompanying comments might help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8549348
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by latch 12y ago
I'm no expert, but no. Most big sites rely on a fairly short TTL. It's a thick layer of caches. Your browser, OS, router, ISP, and a bunch of intermediaries can cache the DNS. So even at 60s, you get good cache hits (the busier, t
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by latch 12y ago
From experience with multi-datacenter setups, if you set a 60second TTL on your DNS records, you'll see 95%+ of traffic get the update within 5 minutes. Also, you can associate multiple addresses with a record. It's up to the clie
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by latch 12y ago
The recorded fact was that the new land was useless without the labor to support it. Herman Merivale spoke at length about the economic realities of slavery America: "No economical cause can be assigned on which we may rely for the ext
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by latch 12y ago
The US became an economic power in large part because of slavery [1]. And I don't mean to say that in a snarky or condescending manner. The US is hardly the only country to give itself advantages. As you say, China's taking advant
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by latch 12y ago
Depending on where I'm living, I've struggled with this too. It's difficult in some cities/countries/cultures. I've found that, in most places, it's normally possible to find eggs produced by free-range ch
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by latch 12y ago
It's 100% clear. Not having those animals live is morally superior than subjecting them to cruelty.
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by latch 12y ago
Which does not mean there's necessarily anything wrong with it. If it's nutritionally mundane, we should base our decision on other factors: environmental impact, sustainability and animal cruelty. In Australia, 400K-700
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by latch 12y ago
I'll be disappointed if you tell me that I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that Google has been stellar with respect to patents. The only thing I'm aware of is that HTC used Google patents to counter-sue Apple a wh

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