pwaring

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   by pwaring 15y ago

   I'd disagree with that, England does have several 'hub cities' - see Manchester (largest non-London airport, probably second biggest financial services area outside of London) and Birmingham as just two examples. Moving your startup to Newc
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   by pwaring 15y ago

   Agree on the quality/quantity point - I haven't even heard of most of the companies these mentors work for and I'm always a bit dubious when someone describes themselves as a 'serial entrepreneur'. However, the fact that there are quality V
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   by pwaring 15y ago

   PDF of said book can be found here: http://www.letterp.com/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf It's on the author's site, so I presume it's legitimate.
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   by pwaring 15y ago

   It's not a matter of love/hate, but I've found it's a lot easier to sell something as "a web service using XML" than "a RESTful API using JSON". People know what XML is, not everyone has heard of JSON.
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   by pwaring 15y ago

   They were never a Xen shop, they trialled Xen with a few customers but never rolled it out. This blog post has more detailed info: http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2011/02/28/why-we-skipped-xen
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   by pwaring 15y ago

   I believe the management tools for Xen (or lack thereof) were the reason for using KVM instead. None of my machines (I have 7 or 8) have ever used Xen.
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   by pwaring 15y ago

   KVM is used by Bytemark (www.bytemark.co.uk), who provide virtual machines for hosting (smaller scale than Linode, mostly UK).