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by mmt 8y ago
Not quite. I believe the point is that it's not an edge case, since "master" isn't a particularly unusual name, not in the Unix tradition, nor, AFAIK, on any other OS. You'll note that, for example, your "rm&
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by mmt 8y ago
However, if you run both commands consistently, nothing untoward occurs: touch -- -l ls -- * The fact that you have to use a double-hyphen flag to create a file with a name starting with a hyphen is a strong indication that this si
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by mmt 8y ago
That makes Wire an especially hard sell, since it risks not just going away, but also being converted to something more nefarious. > Signal's funding is only a recent event, and one could ask how long that would last too, since Sign
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by mmt 8y ago
What's the funding situation like for the company? The GPL/AGPL model does offer some protection, but it's cold comfort to the typical user if the central server goes away and we're left with a fragmented ecosystem of
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm aware, which is why I specified "primary/signup device" in my original comment. Is the desktop client a "first class" one? Can I use it exclusively, including for initial signup? A sibling comment implies t
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by mmt 8y ago
Last I looked, it required the primary/signup device to be a smartphone and a phone number to be used for (at least initial) authentication. If that's still the case, it's understandably a hard sell for users who prefer a lap
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by mmt 8y ago
That belies the previous assertion that they're concerned with the "how" of scaling. What you're desribing is merely the investor (usually VC, which has been discussed here before) behavior of demanding that founders hav
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by mmt 8y ago
> the main technical concern of the investors is how (and if) your application does scale How often is this borne of ignorance, though? > in the past there were a lot of story's about companies that needed to rebuild there system
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by mmt 8y ago
It can be analagous, but usually isn't, not in the vast majority of technical [1], administrative, or purchasing senses. I'd argue that blades are already bordering on being outside of "commodity", at least in this con
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by mmt 8y ago
> you don't need a big data architecture when you get 20GB of data/year Probably no even if it's 50x that at 1TB/year, unless it's in very small chunks and/or requires an outsized amount of (possibly realtim
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by mmt 8y ago
> also does not have nearly as many programmers to do it. Nor the underlying infrastructure, such as, for example, physical server hardware that's a fraction of the cost of cloud.
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by mmt 8y ago
> AFAIK private disability insurance folks love "typical" tech workers It's been more than a few years since I've looked, but any love didn't, then, translate to a diversity of products, transparency in pricing
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by mmt 8y ago
> if you want to increase your spending as your income increases For many people, I think you have this backwards. That is, they seek an increased income in order to support increased spending, such as for raising children. Regardless, t
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The Hiring Post (2015)(sockpuppet.org)
44 points by mmt 8y ago|17 comments
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by mmt 8y ago
Unfortunately, this advices is potentially too shallow to be useful, as (private/individual) DI is tricky. For it to be useful long-term, you'll need to find a policy with both guaranteed renewal and guaranteed coverage increase a
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by mmt 8y ago
Yes, I acknowledged that in my comment: >> I realize that some participants may consider it a part of a hobby My point is that, since it can be a chore [1], not a hobby, time is a relevant part of any discussion of cost, and omittin
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by mmt 8y ago
> re-do the UI again, or move menu options around, or just break major functionality. ...or reduce performance on otherwise perfectly good hardware, possibly due to the those changes or the "20 features nobody wants". I'm
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by mmt 8y ago
> Time isn’t a very big factor If that's true, then I'd hope the analysis to mention something like "and an hour or two" in addition to mentioning the dollar cost savings for 1000 rounds. > there three different ty
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by mmt 8y ago
> it's a hobby, not a career. There at least a third option, which is neither: a chore. > You're not getting rich. This is just a matter of degree. The point of the OC was that reloading was motivated by cost rather than ide
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by mmt 8y ago
Sadly, this cost analysis doesn't even mention time spent, though, given the motivation of the site, that could detract from the message. I realize that some participants may consider it a part of a hobby, in which case the dollar valu
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by mmt 8y ago
That doesn't really address my point. I'm talking about the mainframe (or other high-end server) situation. Granted, you were specifically referring to "mid-range Compaq/HP servers", so perhaps I didn't underst
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by mmt 8y ago
> hard to measure accurately since most leaks are hard to pinpoint. Pinpointing the source isn't necessary, though, only knowing that the leak occurred and the approximate number of people "in on it". Even limiting this to
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by mmt 8y ago
> it's hard to remember a box going down unless I commanded it to This could be a form of the law-of-large-numbers at work. If each customer only has a single box, and the failure rate is .1%, then 999 customers will never have a f
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by mmt 8y ago
Do you happen to know if there are any published studies on this? I'd find it particularly interesting how well this number (curve) correlates with Dunbar's Number.
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Decoding the Chinese Super Micro super spy-chip super-scandal(theregister.co.uk)
6 points by mmt 8y ago|0 comments
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by mmt 8y ago
IIRC, this was what the connection poolers (pgpool, pgbouncer), and perhaps all now-popular postgres extensions/enhancements, looked like in their initial years, as well. In the context of a "large-scale service", my guess is
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by mmt 8y ago
Perhaps situations that are harder to count, such as botnets or bitcoin, would get closer. However, even a thousandth of their scale is enough to demonstrate that decentralized scale is possible at the level where there can be economies (or
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by mmt 8y ago
If I had to guess, this is due to a combination of only being a few years old and marketing (initially, the major version number was 0).
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by mmt 8y ago
> Mosaic was founded in '93 and Netscape in '94 Only Netscape is a for-profit company, and it took 3 years of the Web existing to be founded.
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by mmt 8y ago
Volunteer (distributed) computing projects demonstrate that even scale can be decentralized.

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