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by rbranson 16y ago
Care to explain why a huge swath of corporate IT departments are still running XP and IE6 (or 7) then?
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by rbranson 16y ago
You are right. That's a pretty glaring hole.
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by rbranson 16y ago
So what you're basically saying is with a modern kernel, if you pull the plug on XFS or EXT3/EXT4, to the end user, they are equivalent?
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by rbranson 16y ago
Even if you aren't "on a budget," it's always a good idea to spend some time benchmarking and tuning your setup. You never know if you'll receive a spike of traffic or what the limits of your setup are. Most of the time, between the OS, Web
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by rbranson 16y ago
The VM image idea might be most palatable under a kernel-threading scheme like Linux OpenVZ or Solaris Zones. They are very inexpensive and quite efficient.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Not exactly. If you are doing strenuous enough weight training, your cardiovascular system is going to get quite the workout.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Perhaps over a 3-year span. However, over 10-20 years, you can't beat the market. Even if you try to predict the ups and downs, the odds are pretty stacked against you. The only funds that have been able to beat the market over a non-trivia
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by rbranson 16y ago
Until you figure it out, immediately dump half of it into a Vanguard 500 Index fund (VFINX). Vanguard's management fees are tiny (one quarter of one percent-ish). No other risk investment will do you better than the S&P 500 as it's comp
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by rbranson 16y ago
In most situations, I definitely concur. There are a few cases where I've had to process >10g flat files and I whipped up a specialized tool in C that could run through it nearly as fast as the disk could feed it.
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by rbranson 16y ago
If you want to learn fundamentals, you need to master C. The language itself is very simple and readable, but what it will teach you is how memory works. Every algorithm & data structure worth implementing has been implemented in C and
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by rbranson 16y ago
What you're looking at is probably all of the TIGER city blocks bounced against various zip code or county lists that the telecom companies provide. That's why if, for instance, AT&T has ANY U-verse coverage in your area, you will likel
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by rbranson 16y ago
Wow, BridgeSupport looks amazing! I've always fantasized adding some minimal .h parsing to determine function call prototypes for node-ffi, but it's hellish to try to interpret all the typedefs and includes.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Given the same semantics, RabbitMQ pushes 100k+ per core as well. It utilizes multi-core machines quite effectively too. Obviously as you tune nobs for more durability or reliability, you're going to take a performance hit. IMHO, Redis is a
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by rbranson 16y ago
You could also do AOF with group commit where every N milliseconds you do an fsync and only ack write commands after the fsync completes. I hacked group commit for Redis: https://github.com/rbranson/redis
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by rbranson 16y ago
FWIW, I'd encourage you to still take a deeper look at AMQP, just because it includes features you may not know you need. While I can't pretend to know anything about your scaling challenges or the intimate details of how messaging is utili
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by rbranson 16y ago
I don't get what is so difficult about AMQP. These are clearly talented programmers, so what gives? Even if you're not a bank, simple features like message timeouts can make your infrastructure tremendously more resilient.
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by rbranson 16y ago
It seems we've come full circle -- features easier to push out in client software than through modification of server code.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Normality can be statistically proven. If using an abnormal name is not something that will benefit a child, what is the purpose of it, other than satisfying a sick urge to imprint the parents personality on the child? Would you only buy yo
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by rbranson 16y ago
I don't think this is comparable. There is a large difference in dynamics between the utilization of a computer and that of a 3D printer. I would argue that IBM was largely right -- the vast majority of consumers do not use their computer i
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by rbranson 16y ago
This article is ignorant and extremely biased. The first paragraph totally ignores the fact that consumer behavior radically changes when the price of a good hits zero. People who would otherwise not listen to Radiohead downloaded it -- jus
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by rbranson 16y ago
It is sad that the underlying system gets blamed in these cases. While it is easiest to simplify and the blame gets passed around, there's no reason why you can't build a fault-tolerant system on-top of Windows. In fact, there's nothing par
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by rbranson 16y ago
I think we are moving away from ownership and towards a more utility/service-oriented society, so I don't think a 3D printer in every home will ever become a reality.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Perhaps not a paperless society, but computers & the Internet HAVE dramatically decreased the amount of paper we use these days. Just off the top of my head for consumers: Phone books & directories, maps, banking & billing, writ
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by rbranson 16y ago
This is really lame, but parents, do heed: if at all possible, try to name your kids something normal. This is going to get much worse WAY before it gets better. Obviously you can't predict all cultural phenomenons (for instance, if you nam
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by rbranson 16y ago
Software development IS design, not production. The compiler (or interpreter) and computer itself does all the production. That's the point of software and computers in general. Developed countries have the advantage because it is more desi
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by rbranson 16y ago
There are bad developers everywhere, they just don't try it with local people because there's very little cost advantage. Good developers can demand high wages regardless of where they are located.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Outsourcing != off-shoring. Nobody is saying outsourcing is bad, as I'm sure a very large portion of HN's users are freelance developers and/or consultants.
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by rbranson 16y ago
There is no false dichotomy. The connotation of "off-shoring" is that the purpose is to reduce costs because median wages are an order of magnitude lower in third world countries. Costs aren't reduced if you've still got to pay people middl
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by rbranson 16y ago
By this logic, you might as well hire people in less expensive parts of the US and avoid the (small, but existant) cross-border business issues. Also, Vancouver and Toronto aren't particularly low cost-of-living cities. Chicago, Portland, S
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by rbranson 16y ago
I/O isn't awful on virtualized infrastructure, I/O is awful on EC2.

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