nknighthb

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by nknighthb 12y ago
5 seconds is beyond the tolerance point for most consumers. 3 seconds is getting into annoyance territory. You're mostly OK below 2. Your argument is now circular. 90% of the US is fine because they have at least 4mbps, which is fine b
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by nknighthb 12y ago
You are fortunate to live somewhere with high-quality DSL, and not have anyone else using your connection. These things do not hold true for the majority of people. I expect you're also tolerating much longer startup times than most co
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by nknighthb 12y ago
Under the hood, consumer fixed wireless is usually just wifi gear, but running on licensed frequencies and attached to big outdoor antennas. If you're very, very lucky, the hardware might have been manufactured to run optimally on thos
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by nknighthb 12y ago
I've personally had three fixed wireless installations over the past decade. Two residential, one business. I've researched the option in numerous additional cases for both business and residential service. Both business and consu
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by nknighthb 12y ago
> 4Mbps is already plenty for HD movies and video teleconferencing The last six years of my life have been consumed by work on video streaming services. While in a lab environment you would be correct, I can tell you that in the real w
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by nknighthb 12y ago
By making it public infrastructure. Remember, if not for an accident of history (cable and telephone services running over completely different kinds of wires), it wouldn't be a duopoly, it would be an outright natural monopoly -- a pr
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by nknighthb 12y ago
They would be better served long-term by overall growth in internet traffic. But large corporations beholden to the stock market don't want to have to explain to Wall Street that earnings are going to tank next quarter after some of th
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by nknighthb 12y ago
"Broadcast" and "hook up a server" are in no way similar under the relevant laws and regulations. Radio broadcast is licensed because of the general problem of limited spectrum. The Internet's point-to-point nature
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by nknighthb 12y ago
Congressional testimony is not the same thing as transparency. In my experience, it's just the opposite.
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by nknighthb 12y ago
So you're a bitter ex-employee who comes to HN only to anonymously sling mud? That sounds about right.
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by nknighthb 12y ago
Linux is not a counterexample. The only reason it looks different is that the primary gatekeeper and a few key developers are paid jointly and circuitously by the sponsoring companies.
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by nknighthb 12y ago
> you remind me of the CEO of Linode Hmm... You've just increased my respect for Solomon. > He is equally infallible and ignores criticism. As a long-time Linode customer, I know this to be absolutely false. Was it your inten
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by nknighthb 12y ago
> the same as saying employees who pick up abandoned USB thumbdrives on parking lots and plug them into work computers are guilty This has been true for as long as USB has existed. The broader version -- "don't attach untrust
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by nknighthb 12y ago
What's rude is granting a license and then trying to take it back after people have relied on it.
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by nknighthb 12y ago
I really have no interest in this. You're being incredibly defensive and looking for reasons to argue with someone you don't fundamentally disagree with about trivial crap. For someone who professes to be so busy, that's very
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by nknighthb 12y ago
You're defending a lot of stuff I didn't attack. Almost everything you're doing sounds good to me, and I have no idea why you would think otherwise. The only point I made was that 100,000 lines is not staggering for all of th
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by nknighthb 12y ago
I don't think I am, and you haven't given me any reason to believe I am. Why don't you list some of those "extras" and "nice to haves"? Some of them are probably absolutely critical to my services. All of
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by nknighthb 12y ago
100,000 lines of C is certainly unnecessary for the most common usage of ntpd, but it is far from staggering considering ntpd's full scope as a portable client, server, and peer-to-peer node attempting high precision synchronization on
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by nknighthb 12y ago
Really? Code generation tools shouldn't mention the language they generate code for? (Put another way, you might want to take a moment to understand what the tool is before you use it as an excuse to complain about Go.)
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by nknighthb 12y ago
Yeah, not interested in engaging with someone like you.
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by nknighthb 12y ago
> There's nothing wrong in making it clear that the code itself does not target social issues. I agree, and I suppose if you choose to read my comment completely free of the context of the rest of the thread, my attitude might not
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by nknighthb 12y ago
I seriously have no idea what you're talking about. If you'd like to point out something specific you think I've misunderstood, I'm listening. If you just want to engage in content-free sarcasm, I'm uninterested.
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by nknighthb 12y ago
If my opinions and actions don't stand the test of time, and I'm still alive when they don't, I'll repudiate them. Eich had his chance. He declined and ran away instead.
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by nknighthb 12y ago
People keep claiming Mozilla employees weren't hostile to him, and wanted him to stay. You can't have it both ways. Which is it?
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by nknighthb 12y ago
... Wow. Does it help if we change the word "algorithm" to "system"? Stories entering the HN system on certain subjects are more likely to be penalized by that system. Humans are an integral part of HN. HN would neither
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by nknighthb 12y ago
You said: "The Hacker News ranking algorithm does not penalize stories that address social issues." And then explained the observed effects as being from flags and vote ring detection. People flag stories that address social iss
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by nknighthb 12y ago
This is insanely disingenuous. User flags and the voting ring detector are part of HN's ranking algorithm, whether they're labeled as such in the code or not.
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by nknighthb 12y ago
While I, sadly, am not at all surprised to hear that yet another group of developers treats security and user experience flippantly. I'm rather starting to regret defending you and lending resources to the twitpic grab.
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by nknighthb 12y ago
Actually duplicating the memory contents would be slower still, I'm sure. What seems to be going on here is simply a consequence of paravirtualization needing to implement certain functions in software that would otherwise be taken car
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by nknighthb 12y ago
It's important to remember two things: First, in a more general way, fork() is kind of slow just by virtue of being a system call and involving several steps, so applications try to avoid making lots of calls to fork (e.g. webservers l

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