mtam

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by mtam 13y ago
It is unfortunate that you had problems upgrading and I feel your frustration (been there and it sucks) but... You cannot compare Windows upgrades with OS X upgrades for the simple reason that Apple dictates and extensively tests all the ha
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by mtam 13y ago
I am struggling to see how this approach would be beneficial outside of large organizations with massive web apps. For most apps, the benefits do not seem to outweigh the drawbacks of having (1) another dependency, (2) another piece of soft
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by mtam 13y ago
True, however don't most large web-based applications have some sort of "warm-up" process/procedure to compile and populate the mostly used caches and pages? A shorter ramp-up time is always welcomed but JIT is not the o
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by mtam 13y ago
Redshift is a SQL relational database for large structured data volumes, whereas Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is for non-structured data. The Redshift FAQ has more details on this topic: http://aws.amazon.com/redshift&#x2F
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by mtam 13y ago
Not a lot of details and 150K price tag.
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by mtam 13y ago
Yes, Docker builds on top Linux containers but they seem to be releasing some neat features that make containers easier to use, manage, and reuse. For example: The docker-cluster project, https://github.com/globocom/doc
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by mtam 13y ago
How about OS patching? If I am running hundreds of different containers and I need to patch the OS (let's say upgrade the kernel or a driver), will I affect hundreds of applications at once? If so this will be a problem for several sho
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U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents show(washingtonpost.com)
11 points by mtam 13y ago|0 comments
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by mtam 13y ago
Thanks. I agree with your perspective but I still don't grasp what is motivating so many developers to create new languages. Knowing that many languages are open source I would think people would improve on existing ones vs. going on t
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Why so many programing languages?
1 points by mtam 13y ago|2 comments
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by mtam 13y ago
LinkedIn seems to be back online.
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by mtam 13y ago
It really depends on many factors such as (a) the technology/stack you are using, (b) the purpose of your website, (c) how you expect it to grow over time, (d) your budget, (e) your users geographic location, etc...
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by mtam 13y ago
The large companies I worked with typically use a combination of one or more of the following on the server names: - abbreviated physical location (city/state/data center,availability zone/country) - abbreviated environm
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by mtam 13y ago
My traceroute is going thru prolexic.com so there might be something else at play here. "Prolexic is the world’s largest and most trusted distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation service provider"