nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
You should read past the first post in the thread. It apparently compiled just fine. They just can't get it to boot. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21113848&...
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by nknight 15y ago
No, he's saying it won't boot. Big, huge, enormous difference. He can clearly get it to compile, since he apparently produced some image that he thought (apparently wrongly) that the Nook would be willing to boot.
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by nknight 15y ago
> I believe if there is straightforward evidence As far as I could tell from that thread, there isn't, just a lot of ignorance. B&N has no legal obligation to tell them how to get a custom kernel to boot on the Nook.
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by nknight 15y ago
So, I don't have a right to a trial, which requires the work of a prosecutor, a defense attorney, a judge, and a jury? What about the right to vote, which requires someone to count the votes?
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by nknight 15y ago
Sounding good to Congress and looking good for the shallow masses is not the same as having something substantive to say. He generally just parrots the party line, and once in a while you get an article like this, where it looks like he tri
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by nknight 15y ago
Vint Cerf has been some combination of politician/lobbyist/bureaucrat for 30 years. Expecting him to have something meaningful to say is a sucker's bet.
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by nknight 15y ago
I suspect this is their repo: https://github.com/couchbase/couchdb
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by nknight 15y ago
> queued up on disk IO And there's where your legacy understanding fails. You're really not supposed to be doing a lot of disk IO in modern datastores in the first place. Your working set should be in RAM. > beat benchmarks If m
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by nknight 15y ago
If there were an argument to attack, I'd gladly attack it. You didn't offer one, just snide remarks and an appeal to authority. Kindly refrain from content-free posts.
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by nknight 15y ago
> There have been some efforts to bring ARM architecture into the server market. None of which have really gone anywhere. > China is building its own MIPS-based supercomputer. You think a lot of supercomputers are going to be ru
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by nknight 15y ago
The world runs on x86. You might have some legacy systems running SPARC or POWER, but those systems are unlikely to reside in MongoDB's target market anyway. Arguing everyone else should ditch code that happens to not work on your pet archi
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by nknight 15y ago
Why is it all the "experienced" database people I encounter remind me of flat earthers? Are you really so hung up on yourselves that you'll watch the entire industry pass you by rather than admit the traditional models might not always be t
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by nknight 15y ago
> In MongoDB version 2.0 and higher, this is addressed by detecting the likelihood of a page fault and releasing the lock before faulting. I'm assuming MongoDB tries to detect this with OS-specific syscalls. Has there been any attempt
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by nknight 15y ago
Your employees are not robots, nor are the contacts they make, please don't treat them as if they are. You don't get to reach into their minds and wipe or edit relationships as you see fit simply because they were developed on company time.
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by nknight 15y ago
You're way off. Possession, contrary to popular cliché, is not 9/10ths of the law. Property, real or personal, has an owner. In the case of real estate and certain other property (such as a car), that ownership is usually even on record wit
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by nknight 15y ago
The "dumbass" you're talking about co-founded MySpace, and I don't think he's ever had any professional link to Google.
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by nknight 15y ago
> Legally, there is no such a thing as a "business". The US Internal Revenue Service would probably disagree with you there. If I didn't file Schedule C ("Profit or Loss From Business") every year, I'd be in prison. > Is an HFT p
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by nknight 15y ago
The Supreme Court does not share your views of state power and the nature of Congressional representation. See U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779. Assorted passages from Justice Stevens' majority opinion: "Even if we believed
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by nknight 15y ago
States have a lot of laws on the books that can't be enforced, that's not really relevant to my point.
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by nknight 15y ago
Who decides what's "clear"? And what would you have the punishment be, exactly? And who gets to decide which of the minimum 269 individuals had the necessary mens rea? And do you really want to criminalize people having different opinions o
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by nknight 15y ago
Not gonna happen. Two key passages from Article 1: "Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members" "Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly
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by nknight 15y ago
ANSI will have relatively inexpensive PDFs soonish. There won't be any trouble getting copies to the people that most need it. [This should not be construed as a defense of the rather insane practice of charging for these standards in the f
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by nknight 15y ago
> What's best for you is making the most money you can. I can't even begin to fathom that mindset. No amount of money is worth my health. None. I walked out on a great-paying job that turned into a clusterfuck and voluntarily did noth
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by nknight 15y ago
I have no real (non-software) engineering background, and I could probably design, within current technology, shelters and mechanisms sufficient to keep people alive on Mars indefinitely. The problem is, there is no way you could possibly g
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by nknight 15y ago
No, I pay my mortgage. (Or I would, if I were stupid enough to buy real estate in this part of the country.) If my physical and mental health are trashed from overwork, I can't pay my mortgage, because I can't work for anybody . Me and my
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by nknight 15y ago
> fiduciary responsibility "Fiduciary" derives from latin words meaning "faith" and "trust". You could reasonably rephrase it as "duty of good faith". It's just as vague as it sounds. It does not mean you have to do everything that's
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by nknight 15y ago
Why should I be more concerned about what's best for an abstract concept than what's best for me?
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by nknight 15y ago
The mailing lists are where it was happening early this year. Look through posts from Karanbir Singh, it was like pulling teeth just to get him to tell people how they could help with testing (knowledge previously limited to some semi-priva
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by nknight 15y ago
When did they start doing that? The last time I tried to find a window into the CentOS process, the Powers That Be were ignoring or belittling anyone who wondered what was going on or how to help.
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by nknight 15y ago
http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2007/0 First hit for "seclists godaddy" on Google for me...

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