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by mmt 8y ago
> the common paradigm is buying machine time on AWS. That alone is an indicator that cost (at least of compute) isn't a critical factor in the decision process. If it were, AWS costing a multiple of self-hosting would render it no l
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Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (2013)(mjt.me.uk)
2 points by mmt 8y ago|0 comments
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by mmt 8y ago
> Seriously, perhaps there are other ways to accomplish that. Yet another hidden assumption right there: that art must (or should) come from full-time professional artists (as opposed to hobbyists and/or part-timers).
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by mmt 8y ago
To be fair, they may also be trying to change a 3 into a 2 (or providing that option), but "trying" is the key word. There are enough high-value and/or physically large items that aren't cars (e.g. HDTVs, furniture) wher
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by mmt 8y ago
> = $14 .. per year. Or $1.16/mo or under .04%. Although that's not literally nothing, it's awfully close. Oh, and that's before income tax. > If you assumed you could get 9% in the stock market, the time value wou
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by mmt 8y ago
> At the end of the day, isn't salaried work often NET 30 or NET 15? I've never heard of being paid more often than bi-weekly. Although being paid in arrears (up to 7? days in California, IIRC) is legal, it's uncommon. Oth
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by mmt 8y ago
> Of course, you can use checks, but sometimes you need hard cash (e.g., buying a used car). I use "cashier's checks" [1] to buy used cars, since that still offers more security and convenience (of not handling physically
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by mmt 8y ago
> spend half of their budget on a demographic objectively clicks through at a drastically lower rate, they will have to spend 2X more money This reasoning pre-supposes that only CPM-style ads are available, to the exclusion of CPC or CPA
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by mmt 8y ago
> Thanks to the magic of used bookstores, I was even able to turn them into more books I hadn't read yet. For me, that's the primary reason ebooks don't appeal to me: they always cost much more, despite the fact that I do
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by mmt 8y ago
> What next? Hold AT&T culpable for providing internet to these advertisers? If AT&T is otherwise interacting with the content (e.g. throttling or zero-rating based on it being an ad), I don't see a problem with that. Tradit
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by mmt 8y ago
That would only be a headline if the VPN software were somehow camera-specific, which seems unlikely. That fact alone is a benefit to using general-purpose security tools: more eyes on it, making a zero-day that much less likely (and a fix
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by mmt 8y ago
Presumably, this is because their results are really just from someone else's index (e.g. Bing). If that's the case, then it's not really DDG doing the curating or filtering. The real test will come if they ever switch over t
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by mmt 8y ago
A more subtle problem, besides employers not willing to pay with money, is that, more often than not, they can't actually "pay" with interesting work (or experience or growth or something similar). Complaining about companies
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by mmt 8y ago
Presumably, when hydrazine is "burned", what's spewed into the air from the end of the rocket is relatively benign. With mercury as an input, there's no way of avoiding spewing mercury compounds, which have a much lower
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by mmt 8y ago
> It has had very little discussions, That can be viewed as a very good thing, considering the word "vaccine" can be a lightning-rod fod flamewars, even on HN. > isn't really about "hacking" It's about s
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by mmt 8y ago
> Like a lot of folks here, I always appreciate things that are minimal and quick. One of the appealing aspects of this (and hckrnews's) implementation, for me, is that it works, at least minimally, without javascript turned on. Thi
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by mmt 8y ago
> Take this comment thread on PostgeSQL 11: That example doesn't seem to support your point. 211 upvote with only 54 comments seems like a thread with a very high votes-to-comments ratio as well as a high absolute number of upvotes,
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by mmt 8y ago
A credit reporting agency seems very much like a publisher. They receive statements from some parties and distribute them (usually more widely) to other parties.
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by mmt 8y ago
> you won't have to repair when they break. I hear this as a reason not to own, but I struggle to understand it, given my experience with how reliable modern hardware is (with notable exceptions[1]). Regardless, you don't have
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Less annoying Hacker News(hn.elijames.org)
90 points by mmt 8y ago|50 comments
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by mmt 8y ago
> "a fresh look" and may occasionally happen to be useful The use of three words to hedge the usefulness aspect, somewhat contradicts the original assertion of opinions being undervalued. I happen to agree that a fresh look, in
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by mmt 8y ago
> managing your own systems at places like Softlayer The problem is, at a place like SL, they're not actually your own systems. > can save you a bundle It can, and usually does provide at least some savings, but it still comes wi
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by mmt 8y ago
> It only works good if you know exactly what you want It's worse than that, though. I already know exactly what I want (as did the parent commenter, I'm sure). For their search to work well, you also have to know exactly how
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by mmt 8y ago
> 10% of that market -- 8 million dogs in need of walking every day Although 10% may, ultimately, be a good estimate, it's a bit misleading to equate all owned dogs to the whole "market". At the very least, you'd want
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by mmt 8y ago
> if you can use all of the mainframes capability > cost of mainframe will be comparable to IaaS I'd be very interested in seeing even a rough cost comparison, since I have no experience with mainframes. I also have, essentially,
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by mmt 8y ago
> There's an entire cottage industry of not-docker tools for that. Not the least of which are the distros own packaging systems (e.g. rpm/yum or dpkg/apt). Full investment in the complexity of the ecosystem isn't even
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by mmt 8y ago
> if you assume the same level of organizational competence at running your own infrastructure I'm not sure that the competence required is organizational (e.g. people managing) so much as operational (e.g. best practices) and even
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by mmt 8y ago
.. subject to sample bias, due to including only countries where they operate. Also, "the most demands" is, at best, misleading. To be meaningful, number of demands would be a numerator, requiring a denominator, such as total numb
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by mmt 8y ago
Are you replying to the right sub-thread? I was asking about cost. That said.. > Problem with IaaS clouds is that it is strictly less reliable than having your own infrastructure. Although I'm a fan of running ones own hardware, I&#
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by mmt 8y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something. I'm still unsure if you're saying that Channel I/O (or its equivalent) is missing from current x86 server systems. Does virtualization affect this situation? Initially, you mentioned high u

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