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by mattbee 11y ago
See also The Ultimate Alphabet which I pored over for years as a teenager - e.g. this is "S" which apparently has 1234 words illustrated (the complete book had 7777 total) - http://www.codex99.com/illustration&#x2F
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by mattbee 11y ago
"We want employees to have the flexibility and confidence to balance the needs of their growing families without worrying about work or finances ... Each employee ... works with their managers for coverage during their absences."
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by mattbee 11y ago
I learned almost all my low-level computer knowledge from Archimedes & RISC PC through the 90s. Very glad that ARM code is still a useful skill, even if knowledge of absolute memory address of OS_ SWI patch tables went in the dustbin :
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by mattbee 11y ago
Bytemark (York, UK) is looking for an experienced web developer. We're seeking someone who is able to get things done from scratch, who can tell us about something they made the web and say "I made that!". We need an engineer
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by mattbee 11y ago
I'm already far more interested in reading about the _stories_ that came out of e.g. Eve Online, WoW, and the social connections people made, than ever playing those games myself. If you ask me, it's a mistake to obsess over the d
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by mattbee 11y ago
We explicitly washed our hands of "cultural fit" on our careers site, which took a bit of persuasion on our board - https://careers.bytemark.co.uk/process We need 1) skilled people who can 2) learn and 3) work in
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by mattbee 11y ago
My company has just launched an anonymous interview process for 3 open positions - https://careers.bytemark.co.uk/ . We only take a mobile# and an alias, and just talk to candidates over IM for 2/3 interviews. I blo
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by mattbee 11y ago
Spreading that fictional "parody situation" is fuel for real discrimination. At best, you've got it backwards. People of colour & women who are perfectly competent at their jobs fall under more suspicion, have to prove t
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by mattbee 12y ago
Relevant: "Sir, You Are Being Hunted" is a weird, hard FPS featuring a "British countryside generator" to build its landscapes. I played an early version and it had that whole MR James vibe (though with robots) http:&#
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by mattbee 12y ago
Putting 40hrs/week into a stable, increasingly-profitable business is hardly a slow death, though.
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by mattbee 12y ago
We started bytemark.co.uk around the same time, with the same lightbulb, using User-Mode Linux which was way slower :) We're still selling virtual machines (using KVM), and dedicated servers at bigv.io which I submitted to the site, a
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by mattbee 12y ago
"According to the report, reddit received 33 requests to remove content ... to do with alleged defamation. reddit stood by its users and refused to comply with any of these requests." Good on Reddit for not being swayed, but they&
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Why we're donating €1,000 to GnuPG(blog.bytemark.co.uk)
4 points by mattbee 12y ago|0 comments
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by mattbee 12y ago
Totally agree on that front. Efficient software = fewer servers. You can't know when to invest in new capacity if you can't tell the difference between hitting the limit of the hardware, and a fixable performance problem. Seemd
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by mattbee 12y ago
The article's premise is a poor introduction to the project. Sure, reinvent MOSIX if you want :) but don't pretend it'll serve more than a niche of a niche. Firstly, "distributed computing is the norm"? It's
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by mattbee 12y ago
Yeah, it's important to know where your service provider is, both physically and judicially. The majority of hosting providers are surely located in just one country. Amazon, Google, Microsoft are the exceptions here. Mainly because
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by mattbee 12y ago
Good rant :) As the co-owner of a hosting provider with its own data centre I might be biased but I totally reject "You can’t trust your datacenter anymore when you’re in the cloud" argument. You _need_ your backup server to do s
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by mattbee 12y ago
My "computer says no" support experience was in November 2013. If there were any options to save my friend's data and domain registration, their support guy didn't know about them, or wasn't willing to tell me.
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by mattbee 12y ago
If you ever lose both your login & access to the email address from which you signed up, you will lose everything you host with nearlyfreespeech. I was trying to help a friend recover his own site after the pre-paid credit expired. A m
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How we're executing an 80-mile data centre move(blog.bytemark.co.uk)
7 points by mattbee 12y ago|0 comments
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by mattbee 12y ago
I like what3words - it's about as good as you can get for the same goofy idea. Those ubicate names are shorter but ... ugly. I like that my data centre is at *fish.wages.jelly but not TACEGE-CARAFAN. If I'd heard my office name
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by mattbee 12y ago
Sure benefits rates are set by the government but there's no corresponding measure to ensure the market will provide properties at that rate. The government has just cut 14-25% off the rates they'll pay with their "bedroom t
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by mattbee 12y ago
I don't think that's going to be the case very often, unless a network's normal paths are seriously broken or misconfigured. I guess if you got transit from a big international who was just over here, you might find your traf
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The Bytemark Guide to Dodging Spies(blog.bytemark.co.uk)
36 points by mattbee 12y ago|7 comments
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by mattbee 12y ago
Greetings from Bytemark, we are contemplating much the same thing right now. We have our old content DNS system ( http://www.bytemark.co.uk/support/technical_documents/dnsc ) which just lets you upload tinydns data
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by mattbee 12y ago
And how to suceed at board level - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WGrmTJnfIg
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by mattbee 12y ago
http://symbiosis.bytemark.co.uk/ - a set of packages to install on top of Debian to automatically manage vhosts and email domains, so you just create & delete files and directories rather than edit configuration files.
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by mattbee 13y ago
Has any company with "unlimited" but tracked vacation actually revealed how many days their staff take? And what disparities there are between individuals and departments? I'd bet that it's overall _less_ time than comp
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by mattbee 13y ago
See also https://status.aa.net.uk/ from a company we're friendly with - 100% openness but in common with most good status pages, doesn't help a customer to know whether they're affected by a particular issue
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by mattbee 13y ago
As an infrastructure provider, I disagree. Customers expect to find the answer to the question "did I do something wrong, or are you having problems?" on the status page. While we've listed every outage affecting >1 custo

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