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by moe 12y ago
I can't place calls with the 2000$ box on my desk Of course you can. Get a Softphone[1], a SIP account[2], and you're good to go. [1] e.g. https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/telephone/id406825478?mt=1
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by moe 12y ago
Large ISPs and public DNS resolvers typically don't use a single server, but rather a fleet [...] I assume all major ISPs use 2 or 3 layers of cache, which makes the size of their perimeter fleet largely irrelevant. it's very h
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by moe 12y ago
Assume your sources of traffic are uniformly distributed among 75000 resolvers I think your argument is flawed because your users are not uniformly distributed among those 75000 resolvers. In practice just ~1% of the resolvers (Comcast, N
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by moe 12y ago
Your DNS information should already be cached in all major ISPs DNS caches (unless you mean the first page load ever ).
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by moe 12y ago
I always find it fascinating how quickly a family fortune disappears That's a good thing and the reason why e.g. the Inheritance Tax exists. Inherited wealth sabotages the fundamental reward mechanisms of society and ultimately harms
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by moe 12y ago
Postgres couldn't support eventual consistency even if it wanted to. You're barking up the wrong tree. And you're barking at a strawman. Nobody was talking about eventual consistency. I don't disagree You could do th
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by moe 12y ago
Are you being deliberately obtuse? You're the one being obtuse here. I introduced four databases, three of which use more complex replication models than PG, all of which are easier to admin than PG. And I'm asking PG to mak
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by moe 12y ago
Hinted handoff multimaster What does multi-master have to do with anything? The subject was making the postgres master/slave replication as easy to use as the aforementioned db's. Yes, some of them use more advanced clusteri
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by moe 12y ago
and if history is any indication, it will Very true. I was merely bemoaning the status quo. This is a thread about a third party tool to patch up a rather severe UX flaw after all...
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by moe 12y ago
Since they all lack schemas, constraints, strict consistency and ACID transactions, their replication logic can be much simpler. Why would an RDBMS txlog be somehow harder to ship than any other db log? And how is that an excuse for crapp
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by moe 12y ago
Frankly these new-fangled auto-everything databases are untrustworthy I'm not asking for postgres to change its ways and become "untrustworthy". I'm merely asking that postgres wraps more automation and convenience aro
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by moe 12y ago
Because when you promote a slave, you also need to fence writes to the master, otherwise you can end up in a "split-brain" scenario. There is only one master, hence there can not be a "split brain". You seem to be conf
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by moe 12y ago
fencing Which relates to a master/slave cluster as in how? no other open source RDBMS out there manages those things either Rethinkdb, Redis, Riak, ElasticSearch all do. (them not being relational is irrelevant to replication) Mak
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by moe 12y ago
Literally six lines Which is six lines too many for what is inherently a runtime configuration that shouldn't be mentioned in any config file at all. Then you use pg_basebackup, and start the slave. I take it you don't care fo
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by moe 12y ago
Because there is no reason to screw with common terminology to begin with. Neither Master nor Slave is a derogatory word. And using the concept of slavery to describe a relationship between inanimate objects in a technical context is not an
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by moe 12y ago
what you would need to set up ahead of time to make it work Nothing except a shared secret or keypair. Other databases (rethinkdb, redis, riak etc.) show how it's done.
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by moe 12y ago
I know it is functionally immaterial There's nothing wrong with Master/slave. We also read man pages, shove male plugs into female ports, fork and kill children, and use dozens of other odd words to describe perfectly harmless
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by moe 12y ago
This looks like a great tool, but it's also a sour reminder that replication still feels a lot like open heart surgery on postgresql. Why can't we just type "enslave 10.0.0.2" into psql and have the computer do the hard
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by moe 12y ago
Moreover Rolex are said to retain their resale-value pretty well. A Rolex can live 30+ years, be re-sold or inherited many times, and still work like on the first day. Some of them even increase in value. Resale value of the Apple watch? W
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by moe 12y ago
What do you think happens to all the old phones of the people who buy new phones?
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by moe 12y ago
The current world population is 7 billion people. Approximately 1 billion smartphones are sold every year. Do the math. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population [2] http://www.gartner.com/newsr
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by moe 12y ago
Are you going to buy them the digital technology? Are you going to pay for their internet access? How are you going to provide equal privilege? It may come as a shock to you, but poor people have cellphones and internet, too.
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by moe 12y ago
This looks like Liquid Feedback[1] done right. Liquid Feedback was a "liquid democracy" platform developed by the german pirate party. Both the software and the party are now largely dissolved; ironically killed by their over-zeal
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by moe 12y ago
This. Small VPS are dime a dozen on Lowendbox.com. You can grab them for $1 and below. They tend to be unstable, slow as molasses, poorly supported, and the hosters sometimes just disappear overnight (often to relaunch under a new name a fe
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by moe 12y ago
I've dealt with them in their CDN role on multiple occasions. They're the most abhorrent combination of incompetence and arrogance that I've ever met in the tech industry. They're the Oracle of the network world. Just do
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by moe 12y ago
Not sure that turning the light off is the first thing you want to do when you're bullied. Unless your attitude is worth $20 USD per minute to you then yes, that's very much what you want to do. And pretty certain that there&#x
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by moe 12y ago
Don't call Akamai. Never call Akamai. They are horrible. Try Incapsula, GigENet, Blacklotus, Cloudflare first.
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by moe 12y ago
Sitting down and writing a blog-post seems a pretty laid back reaction to $30k/day in Amazon bills... First thing I'd have done is take the site offline and call the various DDoS mitigation services (Incapsula, Cloudflare, etc.)
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by moe 12y ago
Show me a company that can save 50% by moving off AWS, and I'll show you a company that isn't using AWS properly at all. Using AWS "properly" usually means moving most of your stuff off AWS. AWS has a few very narrow s
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by moe 12y ago
Inconceivable! Not really if you've ever had to work with ASN.1... (shudder)

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