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Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS(redhat.com)
997 points by noahl 9y ago|197 comments
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by noahl 9y ago
The Chapel Hill-Durham section of that is already in planning: http://ourtransitfuture.com/projects/lrt/
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by noahl 9y ago
That is related, but the university I was referring to is Duke :).
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by noahl 9y ago
Interestingly, a university in North Carolina is working on this exact problem, right now. Guess how they got interested in it :). https://services.math.duke.edu/projects/gerrymandering/
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by noahl 9y ago
To answer your question, people get discounts just for negotiating, no PR required. I would guess the conversation went something like this: "___ is how much we pay to host Etsy on bare metal right now. Can you match that?" "
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by noahl 9y ago
I moved from Seattle to the Raleigh-Durham (North Carolina) area this summer, and I'm very happy with it. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have about it.
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by noahl 9y ago
Do you think the tier 1 thing started after the NYTimes article on them, or before?
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by noahl 9y ago
Could you expand on that, please?
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by noahl 9y ago
I moved from Seattle to Raleigh, and love it so far. I'd be happy to answer questions about it if that would be helpful to you.
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by noahl 9y ago
I moved from Seattle to the Raleigh/Durham area. I absolutely love it so far. Everything is cheaper here, and quality of life is (in my subjective opinion) far superior. Feel free to ask me more about it.
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by noahl 9y ago
I believe the fundamental difference is that instead of hand-writing snippets of assembly which their JIT can append, they are having the Rust compiler generate the assembly snippets from Rust code. This lets them be much more confident tha
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by noahl 9y ago
Yes, it matters who does the job. Good teachers have measurably better effects on students than bad ones. Here's one essay with a lot of statistics: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/opinion/kristof-
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by noahl 9y ago
The idea would be to use IP addresses for all levels of routing, and MAC addresses only on the endpoints to identify the connection. So routing actually becomes simpler. However, you have a good point about privacy. One of the other comment
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by noahl 9y ago
This was a very informative article for me, but there was one thing I didn't understand. At the end he made the case that mobile routing needed essentially two layers: a fixed per-device (or per session) identifier, and then a separat
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by noahl 9y ago
As a former Google Cloud employee, I think "stakes its future on TensorFlow" is overstating things. Maybe "Google executes clever strategy with TensorFlow, reaps rewards" is a better headline. This is exactly the same st
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by noahl 9y ago
I agree! This is a real issue for cloud providers currently. You shouldn't have to pay for the super-reliable fast network if you don't want it.
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by noahl 9y ago
Yes, you're right, and you mentioned something else that I forgot to. A lot of people here are comparing Big 3 network costs to the cost of hiring a single network administrator. The correct comparison is to the cost of hiring a team b
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by noahl 9y ago
This is true, but I think there's another point that's even more significant: not all network access is the same. In particular, putting some machines in a rack in a colo and connecting to the nearest Internet exchange is really n
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by noahl 9y ago
The legal system is different than code in a very important way: the law is written to be applied by intelligent people working (mostly) in good faith. This is why judges have discretion ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J
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by noahl 10y ago
Eric Brewer's post on Cloud Spanner mentioned that Google intends to expose TrueTime to customers at some point. If/when that happens, it would be very interesting to see CockroachDB's performance on Google Cloud. (They mig
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by noahl 10y ago
Another point is that since all records are globally timestamped, you can do a read that is consistent at a timestamp in the past (i.e. read data as the database was 1 second ago, or something like that). If data from other places has synch
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by noahl 10y ago
I've contributed to open source software, and done a little maintenance work too. The number one thing I recommend is that you email the project mailing list before you start work. Tell them that you're new, but you want to help
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by noahl 10y ago
You're right :). But I've also seen "disclaimer" commonly used in specifically this context (disclosing your affiliation with a company you're mentioning), which is why I use it that way. "Disclosure" woul
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by noahl 10y ago
The core repository has an AUTHORS file, and the only entry is "Google, Inc." Disclaimer: I work for Google, but I have no idea what this is.
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by noahl 10y ago
I think this post misses one of the points in the original essay, which is that federation is less important for user-level protocols because the network layer beneath it is open. That tilts the slow-moving-federated-service vs. fast-movi
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by noahl 11y ago
(Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud) Thanks for your great review! We really appreciate it. I hate to nitpick one point in what you said, but are you sure that S3 is cheaper than Google Cloud Storage? Glacier is definitely cheaper than we a
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by noahl 11y ago
I understand your point, but GCP does address this in the terms of service (disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud): 7. Deprecation of Services 7.1 Discontinuance of Services. Subject to Section 7.2, Google may discontinue any Services or any p
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by noahl 11y ago
> You never know what you don't measure and test Funny you should mention that. :) I work at Google on PerfKit Benchmarker ( https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker ). Not only can you measure a
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Measuring cloud performance just got easier and better(googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
6 points by noahl 11y ago|1 comments
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What Does the On-Demand Workforce Look Like?(theatlantic.com)
2 points by noahl 11y ago|0 comments

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