msiebuhr

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by msiebuhr 12y ago
AFAIK, PHK has written quite a bit of the FreeBSD kernel, most of Varnish (and a few other popular bits) in C. I think it's safe to say that he's forgotten more about C/kernel/low-level/... programming than HN'
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by msiebuhr 12y ago
Check his series of posts on the subject: http://phk.freebsd.dk/time/index.html (TL;DR: Yes, he thought things through and are ntimed is implementing a few new tricks.)
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by msiebuhr 12y ago
Since they had the submarine, rocket and it's perfectly legal to launch in international waters, they talked about just putting the rocket in/on the submarine and be done with it. ... until someone pointed out that building a subm
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by msiebuhr 12y ago
We don't need a RDBMS; we get along quite well with key/value + keyscans, making it a lot easier to switch to a database with roughly similar features later (CouchBase, Cassandra, HBase, possibly others)
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by msiebuhr 12y ago
$WORK anecdote: We had a quartet of legacy-ish databases with sharded customer data (had some interconnection, but we sharded in the application-layer, so the database didn't have to move any data internally). It was a bitch to maintai
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by msiebuhr 12y ago
>> "Chinese now consume more Guccis and Bulgaris and Louis Vuittons than the rest of the world combined." > He wants you to think Chinese consumers have a lot of buying power. They don't. They just happen to like tho
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by msiebuhr 12y ago
Wikipedia has the details + references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt#Three-point
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by msiebuhr 12y ago
After re-reading it a few days later, I realize it reads a lot like advertisement. Some technical stuff wrt. SNI: We waited a long time for the SNI-support to be widespread enough for us to provide to the customers. Despite we have a lot of
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by msiebuhr 12y ago
I believe it is possible, if you beg the support enough. I do know we strongly discourage it though, as it makes some parts of shared hosting hard for us; ex. quickly move your website to another IP in case of a DDoS attack.
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by msiebuhr 12y ago
One.com uses SNI in order to sell SSL-enabled websites for somewhere around $2.5/month. Edit: We have around 1.-something million websites, though I don't know how many of those have SSL enabled. (Disclosure: I happen to work ther
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by msiebuhr 12y ago
Both Xbox360 and PS3 use modified POWER-designs. Edit: Also, it's notable that both Xbox One and PS4 switched to use x64.