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by noobface 12y ago
Is anyone falling for this?
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by noobface 12y ago
Richard Stallman is the man.
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by noobface 12y ago
It's illegal for US corporations to do deals directly with several governments. Syria most likely bought the gear used through gray/black market channels.
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by noobface 12y ago
This is actually pretty big. If I'm interpreting this correctly, Google arbitrarily stack ranked employees then dropped the lowest ranked one. Courts thought that process was unfair, opening up the door for every single ex-Googler in I
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by noobface 13y ago
From a systems engineering perspective: Any marketing, at all, in documentation really complicates my research. I was already interested in the product, and I'm trying to solve a problem with it. I understand the use case. I don't
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by noobface 13y ago
You'd be surprised how similar they are, at least the consumer versions.
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by noobface 13y ago
A good example of how the most successful, and innovative people can still fail. Sobering.
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by noobface 13y ago
Assange wrote some code for a pre-nmap port scanner. If he'd chosen a different path I think he would've been a pretty decent security researcher.
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by noobface 13y ago
M&A over the past 5 years hasn't been as successful.
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by noobface 13y ago
Drew Curtis wants his comment back
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by noobface 13y ago
"The major causes for low subscribership, as extensive survey research shows, are low interest in the Internet and minimal digital literacy." I'd really like to see these surveys
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by noobface 13y ago
Bosses like that are as valuable as they are unbearable.
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by noobface 13y ago
http://www.nvidia.com/object/grid-vgx-software.html So Nvidia can do 25 users per GPU at the moment with their "hypervisor aware" VDI cards. That's first gen. The real trick will be doing texture swaps in conjunction with compression scal
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by noobface 13y ago
Spot on analogy.
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by noobface 14y ago
Registering blunt disapproval may stop the behavior temporarily, but what caused it in the first place? It can't be entirely due to a general passive acceptance of such statements. Our approach to ending racism was similar, and it was effec
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by noobface 14y ago
You know what I'm tired of: condescension. The guy who was making sexist statements is ignorant, not a "fucking loser." How do you make these situations positive for everyone? Empathy. Empathy for all sides. Everyone exposed to this kind o
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by noobface 14y ago
Totally agree. Carbon offsets for personal travel? Come on.
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by noobface 14y ago
Heh. You've seen what I've seen.
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by noobface 14y ago
Like I said initially, my concern is only tangentially related to the server stack. Oh I'm not advocating serving less clients at the server or even limiting the sockets available at the server. It's purely a critique of the number of sock
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by noobface 14y ago
Hardware/Network guy here. I realize this thread is probably only tangentially appropriate for this discussion, but I digress, I haven't seen anything too close in my daily visits here. There's a ton to be said for per-thread connections. T
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by noobface 14y ago
If the Woody Harrelson AMA has taught us anything. Do a legit AMA or don't do one at all. Although I'm surprised more people aren't calling him out on completely dodging the questions.
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by noobface 14y ago
ATI acquisition. At the time ATI was 1/2 AMD's market cap. Too much of their capital got tied up in the acquisition and R&D fell off. The overall vision is still very, very compelling (integrated FP co-processing). At the time, AMD figu
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by noobface 14y ago
1st hand from engineers. I don't think you've been misinformed, I personally think the marketing of the 20% time idea is better than its actual implementation. Pitching the 20% time ideas to management is kinda killing the concept. Managers
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by noobface 14y ago
The concept is really easy to implement with smaller teams. But look at Google. Their "20% time" policy has become 120% time. Scaling these highly creative, productivity inducing policies simply doesn't scale when you reach a certain size.
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by noobface 14y ago
Security through obscurity. If this ever becomes a common use security measure, thieves will not think twice. Good gimmick though. Very novel.
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by noobface 14y ago
Putting a time frame on the commoditization of particular technologies is really, really, really hard. Most of the big ASIC design shops (was at one for a few years) have to design a feature 2 - 3 years in advance and hope to god that it be
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by noobface 14y ago
Any MBA program
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by noobface 14y ago
1. It's possible to rewrite DSCP values at each hop. 2. It is likely these DSCP values are not used for prioritization over other services. The most likely scenario in my mind: Comcast's trust boundaries could encompass a large enough porti
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by noobface 14y ago
Totally agree, but there are protocols in place to tunnel layer 2 domains to encompass multiple data centers. VMotion between DCs is not as crazy as it sounds, it's just prohibitively expensive.
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by noobface 14y ago
Sorry, I forget my audience when I'm on HN. I professionally teach classes regarding L2 networking and servers, so I do hope I have some insight to share. I was a Cisco systems engineer at one point in my life. Spanning Tree Protocol: http

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