parasubvert

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by parasubvert 16y ago
EBS isn't really RAIDed, it's virtualized block storage with replicas. The issue Reddit experienced wasn't drive failure, though, it was network degradation. The solution is to deploy redundant replicas in different availability zones (a
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by parasubvert 16y ago
Gruber said that's what Apple thinks the iOS ecosystem is. Arguably, it's the right attitude to have when you're riding a wave that is now over 60% of your revenues...
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by parasubvert 16y ago
Ahh, I see the disconnect, based on your last sentence. I basically don't think it's a mistake to improve corporate software from within. It's not going away. And there are many decent programmers who will work in that environment beca
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by parasubvert 16y ago
XP, the real catalyst to agile, was born out of the Smalltalk hacker community with Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham in particular. They're the furthest from methodologists I could imagine. The only professional methodologists on the agile
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by parasubvert 16y ago
One thing I like about the movie is how different the reactions and takeaways were. For example, lots of people I went with felt he was a hapless guy that made the wrong decisions & got screwed, but wasn't really hero/protagonist. Zuck
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by parasubvert 16y ago
ON the bright side, I think the Playbook is based on QNX, and hopefully will have a different experience from BlackBerry OS...
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by parasubvert 16y ago
As I mentioned in a reply below, Japanese business culture (the good side of it, anyway) was heavily influenced by Peter Drucker in the 60s, and carried it forward decades, long after he became a sort of side show in the U.S.-business-mogul
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by parasubvert 16y ago
There was an old Peter Drucker adage that the top executive should only be at a 20-to-1 compensation ratio from top executives to entry level positions. In the U.S., this is now around 260-to-1. ( http://thedx.org/2011/02/turning-up-the-
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by parasubvert 16y ago
Uh, no. There's no consensus on the ethical or illogical nature of IP. It would be extremely biased and wrong for CS majors or engineers to be "taught" that IP is illogical. There's a big difference between being supportive of FOSS and b
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by parasubvert 16y ago
The thing is, the multitasking tray displays applications in MRU order, so it already does what you're asking for in your last sentence. The tray as the equivalent to alt-TAB on a desktop, which is handy for MRU switching, but pretty anno
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by parasubvert 16y ago
I use it pretty much all the time, though mostly the "double-click home button" to fast switch between applications. Most apps seem to support fast switching (where I don't have to wait for them to re-initalize), though a few don't. Otherw
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by parasubvert 16y ago
basic summary (I'm paraphrasing) - the basic problem with most "futurism" is that it's additive. what's more interesting, and what Taleb is trying to do, is look at what no longer belongs: what will be removed, or what is fragile - First
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by parasubvert 16y ago
I think you've hit on something very important, essential, in the problem with OO-as-taught. This is something that is known in many quarters of skillful practictioners, but missed by most schools or beginners. I think the first part of
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by parasubvert 16y ago
Yup. For me, a 4 year relationship (out of 13 of off & on + a great friendship) ended in bitterness, in large part due to startup stress.
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by parasubvert 16y ago
Every organization, private or public, has enormous waste. It seems that at a US-level scale that leads to a crippled government. Canada and Scandinavian governments seem to more or less work & get things done, even in the face of wa
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by parasubvert 16y ago
Lew Platt, her predecessor, did the Agilent split in the late 90's. He was an HP engineer in the 60's and worked his way up, but ultimately planted the seeds for its downfall during his tenure. I remember disliking him in the 1998-1999 t
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by parasubvert 16y ago
Yeah I got that from the movie too. It definitely illustrated that Mark had mixed motivations in creating Facebook, but generally it seemed to portray "building stuff" as an outlet to whatever more primordial drives (fear, angst, exciteme