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by moe 12y ago
You don't even need sprintf, Ruby supports Python-style interpolation, too: bar='batz' "foo #{bar} #{0.5+0.5}" => "foo batz 1.0" "foo %s %.2f" % [bar, 1.0] => "foo ba
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by moe 12y ago
simple things like updating the board are done at best inconsistently And here you have your real problem. You're applying an office-tool (the board) to a team that is not sharing an office. What works much better for distributed tea
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by moe 12y ago
I like that I can actually understand this program and don't feel like it was carefully designed to rip me off. Unlike the usual jungle of capped/uncapped notes, dilution, vesting schedules, option pools, pre/post valuation,
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by moe 12y ago
With the rise of realtime applications What does "realtime" have to do with the datastore?
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Communication Costs in Real-World Networks (2013)(bailis.org)
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by moe 12y ago
Every company that runs on AWS is dependent upon SAN I think the discussion was about running your own SAN, i.e. creating your own EBS. As it happens EBS itself is not backed by a SAN either. According to the rumors it's implemented
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by moe 12y ago
Ugh, I managed to fatfinger-delete my parent comment, sorry. (the essence was what you quoted: I claimed most people don't need these advanced SAN-features anymore because they don't need SANs in the traditional sense anymore) Any
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by moe 12y ago
Where, exactly, is the strawman? The strawman is that he builds a solution for his exact needs and you attack it for not having features (multipathing, replication, automatic tiering, thin provisioning, disk-deduplication, streaming hardw
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by moe 12y ago
cross-unit replication tuning and the load balancing / multipathing. That's going to be interesting. At those speeds (1.5GB/s, 850k IOPS) you must bump[1] into all kinds of DRBD bottlenecks? Also I'm very curious about
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by moe 12y ago
Previous post (197 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8343469
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by moe 12y ago
A direct quote from waterlesscloud: >There's some truly transformative tech at the core of Bitcoin. Calling the blockchain technology transformative doesn't put him in a bucket with people claiming "it will stop wars, st
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by moe 12y ago
But to be worse than a fixed monetary policy, they essentially have to be choosing worse than random, which I doubt they'll do over the long run. I would argue that we're all collectively part of this experiment right now. We ca
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by moe 12y ago
if you can find someone you trust to explain Bitcoin to you, I'd imagine you can find someone you trust to explain US fiscal policy to you That seems very optimistic to me. The fiscal policy in Bitcoin boils down to a few small chunk
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by moe 12y ago
The difference is, the people whose behavior would be controlled have no say in changing those economic assumptions. Isn't it exactly the other way round? For Bitcoin I can at least inspect and understand the economic assumptions, by
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by moe 12y ago
Nobody is fearful of bitcoin, especially not with regard to the idea that bitcoin will somehow replace fiat money and "devalue my pension fund" Then how would you explain this irrational aggression in every Bitcoin thread? As a
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by moe 12y ago
Do we really need to repeat the exact same circle-bashing on every HN bitcoin post ever? Isn't everyone sufficiently aware by now that there have been bad bugs and fraud? Wouldn't it be more interesting to discuss what needs to be
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by moe 12y ago
That's my theory, anyway. Which the HN community helpfully confirms by downvoting your perfectly reasonable comment. I think Bitcoin tickles a rather deep-rooted fear in many people. Money is fundamental to everyone's existence
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by moe 12y ago
Bitcoin [...] is the only [...] blockchain which is cared about That is not correct. Bitcoin is by far the largest, but people also have non-trivial amounts in various alt-coins: http://coinmarketcap.com/ In terms of your
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by moe 12y ago
Curiously the btc-price went slightly up rather than down following this announcement. The community at large doesn't seem to care much.
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by moe 12y ago
I would say the author now morally owes the world an equally convenient PGP-signer/verifier.
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by moe 12y ago
Not with commenting but with classifying the comments. As maxerickson said we'd have additional votes for adjectives like e.g. "mean", "interesting", "funny" and others, but the hard part would be to choos
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by moe 12y ago
Yes, that's actually the direction I was aiming for, a little bit like the Slashdot system. I just think it's very hard to choose meaningful adjectives/dimensions (the slashdot set also quickly feels limiting). That's wh
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by moe 12y ago
Random idea: How about an extra pair of vote-buttons to classify a comment as "positive/negative" (karma-neutral)? I often find the karma-system frustratingly one-dimensional. Experiments in that direction are of course a sli
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by moe 12y ago
hire someone to come and take the bike and change the tubes every year What do you guys do to your bikes? The biggest maintenance I've ever had to do on my 10yr old bike was putting on new tires and brake shoes. Any bike shop will ch
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by moe 12y ago
GitHub has the protection of the US Government, which has a vested interest in fighting the precedent that Chinese attackers are setting here. Why would the US Government be concerned about "chinese attackers" that apparently ca
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by moe 12y ago
Now every company will think twice and come up with some weaselly reason why they can't have text files about Falun Gong or whatever. You mean like Github did in this very case? Except wait, they didn't. So who is this "ev
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by moe 12y ago
It publicly demonstrates that China has the will to punish businesses for serving certain kinds of content. Do you really think anyone concerned with these things (activists, VPN providers, companies doing business with China) needed a ha
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by moe 12y ago
You dont see a chilling effect when the choice is either host your content on github or be blasted off the internet? Was there any doubt about China's ability to blast sites much bigger than Github off the internet to begin with? The
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by moe 12y ago
What chilling effect? Github is up and running after all. Both targeted projects are online: https://github.com/greatfire https://github.com/cn-nytimes Looks like if you want to mess with China then al
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by moe 12y ago
"github terrorism" the era of a weaponized internet Is HN turning into Fox News now?

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