nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
Spikes of 2000/second are not unrealistic, and part of the problem is that once the spike hits, inadequately designed applications start to wedge on lock contentions and just plain inadequate CPU, the VM layer starts swapping, people trying
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by nknight 15y ago
Define "regularly", he's talking about 15 minutes. I don't know that I'd even want it done that often. This is not critical data, let the filesystem layers do their job, at which point the RAM used by keeping a (very small, in any event) wo
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by nknight 15y ago
"Free" projects lose that excuse when they start making money through third parties (Google pays Mozilla a ton of money to be the default search engine) and make concentrated marketing pushes. I'm certainly going to treat them like I would
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by nknight 15y ago
They do that in pretty much every state. As far as I know, California's treatment of non-competes remains unique. Everywhere else, they're fully enforceable with rare exceptions, even on grunt-level code monkeys. Debates surface every once
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by nknight 15y ago
I instinctively recoil every time a document like this, ostensibly targeted at a fairly wide audience, just assumes that you'll be using the latest fad business method. When that business method further assumes "agile" is the right thing, I
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by nknight 15y ago
Whether the trend is real or not, I note two highly encouraging, closely related things: 1) A hell of a lot less money overall is being poured into "Dot Com II". Even if Dot Bomb II happens, it won't be as bad. 2) A lot more companies are b
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by nknight 15y ago
A lot more than just your deaf customers hate phone calls. They're disruptive, intrusive, unreliable, and for many people with autism-spectrum disorders, extremely uncomfortable.
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by nknight 15y ago
Yeah, I'll get right on that Mars mirror. Seriously, I didn't say he was wrong in theory, but focusing so much attention on the highly unlikely to the detriment of the exceedingly common is a drastic distortion of the issue, and a cost/bene
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by nknight 15y ago
No, I've not dealt with enough of them for long enough to have anything meaningful to say on the subject. So far I've not even had one clearly die (though there have been some very odd transient incidents.) Jeff Atwood made an interesting p
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by nknight 15y ago
Your point isn't entirely invalid, but I lose HDDs a hell of a lot more often than I encounter any of the other problems you mention. I don't think I've seen a power supply pop since 2006, I've never lost UPS/surge-protected gear to a mains
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by nknight 15y ago
Thankfully, HN's content is not governed by the content of Slashdot's comments.
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by nknight 15y ago
One, a peaceful activist. The other, a confessed -- nay, proudly boastful -- mass murderer. Yeah, these are exactly equivalent cases, and should be treated the same. I say sincerely, WTF?!
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm inclined to say much or all of the background is indeed all rear-projected. If you look at the top-right around 5:06 or 5:07, you see what looks a lot like it might be light-emitting text floating in midair. (EDIT: Correction! It's not
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by nknight 15y ago
They're not doing the right thing because they fear economic reprisal. That is cowardice. Stupidity is allowing an economic bully to win over and over again by threatening individual countries one by one.
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by nknight 15y ago
I truly, honestly feel like you're fundamentally misunderstanding what has happened here. Apple made a technical decision to follow the newer partition table, booting, and "BIOS" (EFI) standards from Intel rather than continue to use the le
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by nknight 15y ago
Whining about publishing/distribution costs for standards in 2011 is laughable. The only excuse for printing virtually anything these days is small quick reference cards, invoices and packing lists (mostly for shipping), and labels. Most of
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by nknight 15y ago
Um, no. It wasn't "from a private Google-staff-and-their-friends" beta, it was from the modestly-controlled semi-open beta that ran along the same lines as the earlier gmail "beta" with "invite codes" given fairly plentifully to everyone al
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by nknight 15y ago
Lots of people find cowardice to be one of the more disgusting of human characteristics.
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by nknight 15y ago
Silicon Valley is much the same way. I finally gave up waiting a couple years ago and now pay Comcast a bunch of money for an overpriced but functional 50/10 business connection to my house. It's pretty pathetic.
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by nknight 15y ago
#1: You've moved the goalpost. You "asked" how to boot a Mac from a USB stick, not for instructions on creating a bootable USB stick to boot an operating system not specifically intended to boot on a Mac. #2: That a particular kind of compu
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by nknight 15y ago
The parts where: A) That phrase is a classic copout to try and draw attention from the fact that you're generalizing based on your own biased opinions with no evidence. and B) It was immediately followed by further reinforcement that you be
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by nknight 15y ago
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1948 Where's the problem?
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by nknight 15y ago
By that logic, no one but an investor should ever be permitted to cash out, since you must retain that motivational carrot! This worldview seems completely cynical and utterly immoral, and reality runs roughshod over it in any case. Two wor
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by nknight 15y ago
So, what, you think "grief" is not a "feeling"? Being neither a psychologist nor your mother, I really have no idea how to begin to correct that problem, except to say that you are deeply mistaken.
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by nknight 15y ago
> Try and explain how to boot a MacBookPro from USB stick to someone You hold down the Option key while booting. > Or explain how to dual boot a Mac with OSX and Linux Install rEFIt (comes in a nice, standard OS X installer pack
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by nknight 15y ago
> You need a memo to tell you others don't have to feel the same way you do? Wow. What utter, irredeemable hypocrisy. "It's not legitimate for HN to grieve" is met by indignation at being told how we should feel, and then you have t
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by nknight 15y ago
In a sense. I was after a bytecode that had a JIT for the more common platforms (e.g. x86, ARM, possibly MIPS), could be extended for new ones without massive effort (even if sub-optimally), and had reasonable facilities for hooking into na
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by nknight 15y ago
And yet it says it might be used to build such, and this thread contains disagreement amongst the developers of the original purposes and the meaning of "virtual machine". I'm just a developer who has looked into LLVM in the recent past for
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by nknight 15y ago
And what purpose was it designed to serve? That's exactly the problem I'm alluding to -- the LLVM developers don't even agree amongst themselves, so how am I supposed to know?
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by nknight 15y ago
Thanks for the fortune-cookie wisdom. That tells no one anything. We don't have square pegs or round holes, we have complex engineering problems to solve, and LLVM's complex shape is obscured by a community that doesn't agree on its shape,

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