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by personZ 12y ago
Ubuntu, for instance, has unattended-upgrade (that it defaults to on), the premise being that it will forcefully install and use critical security patches. Ideally you'd have done this yourself ASAP, but if not I have to think that una
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by personZ 12y ago
Because there are a thousand other people saying "oooh, what a good scheme. Maybe I should try that." Deterrence is a significant part of the justice system.
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by personZ 12y ago
Your Java example seriously undermine your point -- you have set up a world where you have an opinion, and thus your opinion is the "truth", and people who believe otherwise are being fooled by liars.
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by personZ 12y ago
I run a small consultancy (myself, though I engage peers whose work I respect as subcontractors for larger jobs), and the #1 issue I've faced are company representatives who look for consultants to make them, personally , rewarded: Th
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by personZ 12y ago
The government is saying that they will pursue people who break the law through any means possible. In this case, they apparently socially engineered their way in. And? How is this possibly a problem? Is it really an attack on potential leg
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by personZ 12y ago
There is absolutely nothing untowards or abnormal about their claim, nor are they threatening the "public", which overwhelmingly doesn't operate black market sites. Law enforcement absolutely includes an element of making exa
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by personZ 12y ago
Has it worked? I'm not supporting any opposition to SOX, however we all know of many processes that offer no real checks or value, but we have to do it...just because why not, you're getting paid for it. In the case of SOX and the
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by personZ 12y ago
You state this as if I've claimed that I'm going to create a Netflix clone just to prove something, which of course is nonsense. Netflix is a large company that has been around for years, yet their solution remains relatively sim
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by personZ 12y ago
Starting with a patronizing "sorry", looking down from heights, doesn't somehow give your comment more credibility. There are a large number of services of the user scale of Netflix, with dramatically more complexity, that
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by personZ 12y ago
They aren't creating all of this software just because they are having fun in their free time. Sorry, but this is an invention of yours. No one said they're doing anything flippantly. But they may be doing it ignorantly : Succe
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by personZ 12y ago
Neither that or the number of open engineering positions tells you the difficulty of the problems they are solving. It might just tell you the difficulty of the problems they are making : If Netflix has a technology side with a history and
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by personZ 12y ago
Comments that contrive absurd strawmen annoy me, even if they provide the author that righteous sense of striking down an imagined position.
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by personZ 12y ago
How is it a 'fallacy'? To be clear, this has nothing to do with the actual streaming (which does not happen from EC2) but instead are the basics like viewing history and categories. It absolutely is the simple part of the applicat
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by personZ 12y ago
Netflix always makes for an interesting case, but what always strikes me is how incredibly "trivial" their application really is: It's a simple application at a very large scale. This doesn't dismiss their accomplishment
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by personZ 12y ago
Okay, so you have a strong opinion in a field that you are opposed to. I think that can pretty soundly be discounted by anyone who cares about this industry.
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by personZ 12y ago
The web is currently slowly centralizing and turning into Facebook. Google could fight this trend by using SRV records for HTTP/2. I fail to see how HTTP n.n has anything to do with the web centralizing towards Facebook, nor have you
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by personZ 12y ago
And as soon as the buttons and the scripts are delivered from other servers, you effectively can't speed their delivery up. Aside from the fact that choosing to use those sorts of resources is optional, those (facebook/google+ b
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by personZ 12y ago
No, of course that's not why the web is slow. What is the point of this sort of lowbrow sarcasm, fueled by raw cynicism? Web applications have gotten significantly more complex. From a developer perspective, managing resources separa
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by personZ 12y ago
Of the varied bizarrely negative posts this submission has earned, yours is the one that perplexes me most. How is HTTP/2 going to "bite" Google (even if we assume that Google is the only initiator of the HTTP/2 spec, wh
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by personZ 12y ago
Worth noting that Go has been able to generate Android-compatible binaries for some time -- Linux ARM binaries -- however they are executables, not libraries. Still possibly usable, but more awkwardly. So now they added the ability to gener
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by personZ 12y ago
Does fork not use copy-on-write? I would expect it to add overhead to all overlapped memory operations going forward, but am really surprised if it literally duplicated the entire memory contents.
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by personZ 12y ago
There was never a shortage of people taking some of those words out of their context, and arguing against what those words supposedly say. Long ago I learned that if you want to have "viral" success, even on a more informed site
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by personZ 12y ago
Cartier-Bresson's "Man Leaping" could not have been captured with a cell phone camera. The shutter lag is just too bad. Humorously, he didn't even see the man leaping, and wasn't timing for that. He took some shot
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by personZ 12y ago
Your pictures hold importance to you for obvious reason, but your impression that they are the result of some sort of technical perfection of hardware is absurd. I see very similar photos, by the dozens if not hundreds, every day on Faceboo
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by personZ 12y ago
I suspect that the reason people keeps tabs open is a deficiency of all modern browsers -- if we had the ability to search the contents of our history of sites, it would dramatically reduce our need to desperately hold onto tabs. Right no
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by personZ 12y ago
"Splitting the difference between candlelight and daylight, around 6 years of technology has made up for the massive difference in the size of the lenses and sensors between the best phone and the $2,000 DSLRs." "Phil Askey f
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by personZ 12y ago
Yes, of course. I'm not saying that SLRs don't have a place. If you're a wedding photographer, you probably shouldn't bring your iPhone to the job. But the post I replied to took it to the point of absurdity, where peopl
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by personZ 12y ago
The Galaxy S5 and iPhone 6 both feature on sensor phase detection. Further it's worth nothing that the whole notion of "n points of autofocus" is a flaw of phase detection, not a feature -- contrast detection has millions o
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by personZ 12y ago
Worth noting that this is the case across most compact camera devices. Most smartphone camera sensors are 4:3 (e.g. iPhones), while the screen on the device is often 16:9 or 16:10. In contrast full-sized SLRs are usually 3:2 owing to the 35
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by personZ 12y ago
They are entirely different sensors, and share nothing at all in common. To start, the Nexus 5 has a 1/3.2" sensor, while the 5s has a 1/3.0" sensor (making evident from the start that in no universe are they "bor

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