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by mmalone 12y ago
I don't think your conclusion logically follows. The free market argument would be that the fairest price is whatever Comcast can get netflix to pay (or vice-versa). From a policy perspective I don't see a reason to intervene exce
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by mmalone 12y ago
Still looks like peering to me: https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/guidelines Even if you can colo with Comcast (which I can't find any information about online) you're still not direct-peering with their AS
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by mmalone 12y ago
Unless I'm reading this incorrectly this is a peering arrangement, which is qualitatively different than just hosting a box in a DC run by Comcast (which doesn't exist, as far as I know, so I can't do it as a normal citizen).
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by mmalone 12y ago
Wanted to add a little bit more to my previous comment since I've been thinking about this for a while. The story I heard about broadcast was that they pursued this sort of peering arrangement with smaller ISPs so they didn't have
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by mmalone 12y ago
If you're a net neutrality advocate you should seriously consider whether this sort of peering arrangement should be tolerated. This kind of peering is a de-facto QoS arrangement that gives Netflix a performance and cost advantage over
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by mmalone 13y ago
This is the alternative means of entry page for a contest. This isn't even a page that Apple _wanted_ to build. It's a legal requirement. The CAPTCHA is provided by a third party. Who knows why it was chosen. I doubt they put a ton of thoug
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by mmalone 14y ago
San Francisco, Full Time, H1B is OK Betable is hiring awesome software engineers. About Us Betable engineering is an elite team of hardworking dreamers and tinkerers. We’re pragmatic, but we don’t let that interfere with our perfectionism.
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by mmalone 15y ago
Not sure where you're getting your information, but it's almost entirely wrong. GISelle is the same tech as Penelope. It was renamed because there was a trademark issue. Polygon search has been implemented for some time, but was delayed for
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by mmalone 15y ago
@foobarbazetc: you seem to know an awful lot about the SimpleGeo acquisition. Which VCs were forcing Urban Airship to do the deal?
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by mmalone 15y ago
The argument in the article that inspired this work[1] (and it may be an academic one) is that data models are all semantically very similar. The authors argue that category theory provides mathematical formalism for a generic abstraction t
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by mmalone 15y ago
If this is the first time you've heard about a kernel problem on EC2 you're probably not managing a very large EC2 infrastructure [1, 2]. Even in non-virtualized environments, at scale, it's common to run into linux kernel bugs, or at least
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by mmalone 15y ago
Amazon's official linux build, at this time, is a custom distribution that uses RPM and is different from the Ubuntu/Debian world in several significant ways (e.g., a new libc implementation). Migrating your WordPress blog to a new platform
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by mmalone 15y ago
This bug affected several "supported" AMIs running 2.6.32 series kernels that we tested at SimpleGeo, including the official AMI released by Canonical. After we ran out of patience debugging this stuff we contacted Amazon and worked on the
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by mmalone 15y ago
Or even FreeBSD, which works on EC2 now. It uses a different technique for scheduling, so this issue will not affect it.
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by mmalone 15y ago
BigTable enforces integrity constraints defined by a schema on a per-row basis? This is interesting news. Why hasn't Google included this information in any of the published materials describing the system? - Forever Malone
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by mmalone 15y ago
Credit where credit's due, the 10gen and MongoDB guys have done a great job convincing developers to adopt their product despite the existence of technically superior alternatives. I guess that's what happens when a bunch of ex-DoubleClick
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by mmalone 15y ago
I run a database that does not fit in memory on AWS with great success. Generalizing is dangerous. If you work with and understand the constraints imposed by the environment you can do some pretty amazing stuff.
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by mmalone 15y ago
Disclosure: I work at SimpleGeo. You're right, copyright does not protect facts _in the United States_. Rules differ around the world. In the EU, for instance, there's a "sweat of the brow" criteria for database protection. Even in the US,
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by mmalone 17y ago
My point was that for an interactive application it doesn't take a very long time for user experience to degrade substantially. And we've glossed over my points about newer databases exposing these knobs to clients. It's possible to do exac
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by mmalone 17y ago
Uhm, of course they're not the same thing... but they have the same effect. The point is that the system remains available even if a node becomes unavailable for _whatever_ reason. I'm not sure what you're disagreeing on... There are common
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by mmalone 17y ago
Your first point is not true. In the absence of partitions, all "eventually consistent" data stores that I know of will give you strong consistency. The eventual consistency bit only comes into play if a problem occurs. (It's probably also
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by mmalone 17y ago
Er, no. I'm just not differentiating between the various reasons why a single node may be unavailable. It doesn't really matter _why_ the node is unavailable... it just is. FWIW, databases like Cassandra expose the consistency tradeoff to t
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by mmalone 17y ago
It _may_ be a worthwhile tradeoff. But if you're in three datacenters and one of them splits you could have a third of your requests fail. Depending on what you're doing, that may be unacceptable. I agree that it's a tradeoff. I disagree wi
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by mmalone 17y ago
Sure, but quorum protocols only provide strong consistency in the absence of partitions. If a partition occurs you may not be able to get a quorum (where R + W > N) and, again, you're stuck with either being unavailable or potentially i
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by mmalone 17y ago
Actually he's not really addressing it at all. What stats does he have that show WAN partitions are rare? I find that short WAN partitions occur regularly. And how does the small portion "block?" How does it even know that it's the "small p
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by mmalone 17y ago
I posted this comment to the ACM article, but they're pre-moderating and apparently someone's shirking their responsibilities... so I'm reposting here. Hope you guys don't mind: Hey Michael, Interesting read. I'm with you on most points. I
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by mmalone 17y ago
Up and coming Django developer lets fame go to his head. It's poeple like this that ruin communities! Wtf??? So glad I chose RAILS!
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by mmalone 17y ago
Slides are also on slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/mmalone/scaling-django-1393282 if you're into that sort of thing.
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by mmalone 18y ago
Free booze? I'm in.
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by mmalone 19y ago
I think the idea is to add some functionality that would make the browser a viable environment for "sovereign applications." That is, applications that are long running and highly interactive. Ajax has gone a long ways towards doing this fo

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