rrdharan

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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   > Wikipedia is some MySQL databases with read-only slaves front-ended by Nginx caches and load balancers. You're not wrong , but they are slightly more complicated than that: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wi
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   Yep, I agree with you to an extent but I was also using "campuses" and "offices" interchangeably. The Google New York offices follow exactly the model that you are suggesting.
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   Disclaimer: I work at Google but the following comments are just based on personal observation and public information. I think you're talking about the Mountain View campus and I agree it seems superficially to be an example of what yo
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   I had never heard of Intentional Software until I recently read Dreaming In Code[1] where the company is mentioned briefly. Prompted me to wonder if they were still around, which led me to their Glasdoor reviews page which is sort of entert
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   Was that with or without the defeat device though?
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   It's true that Map Reduce is no longer the "primary Big Data processing model" for some definition of primary. However, it is still very much available . There are still many important production MapReduce jobs running AIUI.
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   Yes: http://about.eventful.com/management.html
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   by rrdharan 10y ago

   So wait, remind me why we should believe Antonio Garcia Martinez? The guy trumpeted the fact that he lied to his investors as a point of pride: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5b4tqe/i_am_antonio_g
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   by rrdharan 10y ago

   [Disclaimer: I used to work at Dropbox.] > So I am back on Dropbox because I have no other options. And it just works. I had no idea syncing was such a hard problem. This is such a great comment. I'm bookmarking it so I can post a l
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    [Disclaimer: I used to work at Dropbox.] Dropbox has exabytes of data. I'd be very surprised if SpiderOak is storing more than a few PB. Perhaps some SpiderOak folks would care to correct me on this though?
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    I generally agree with your assessment, but for what it's worth more recently Amazon has shipped its Elastic Filesystem (which exposes NFSv4) and Microsoft offers Azure File Storage (SMB 3.0). AIUI neither is truly POSIX compliant but
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    golang somewhat recently gained dynamic plugin support; wonder if that can be leveraged in Caddy? https://beta.golang.org/pkg/plugin/
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    I grew up in Toronto and have visited Montreal numerous times but only as a tourist. At any rate I'm very skeptical of the Montreal claims. It is a wonderful place to visit, but all of my Canadian non-native French speaking friends eve
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    For your logic to make sense businesses would have to charge 2% less for using cash. Very few do so.
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    Helm is mentioned and discussed in the article. Deis, however, is not.
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    What the Public Knows About Cybersecurity(pewinternet.org)

    3 points by rrdharan 10y ago|1 comments
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    Here's an interesting long-form writeup on how CalPERS mismanagement contributed to this situation: https://www.city-journal.org/html/pension-fund-ate-californi...
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    You are permitted by the license/EULA to run macOS Server in a VM, as long as it is on Apple hardware.
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    As far as I know, Canonical has never turned a profit.
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    Doesn't really help that there's a source website if there's not a sane process for actually submitting PRs and merging patches, and apparently there isn't one.
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    > they're the most successful free software business in history. Aren't they also the only successful free software business in history? Asking seriously, since I am not aware of any other examples. And I suppose it depends
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    Related, this is a fun tool to play with - well if your idea of fun includes enacting disaster fantasies anyway: http://gothamist.com/2015/10/13/nyc_climate_change_map.php
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    I use Optimal Layout and the sadly-now-discontinued-but-still seems-to-work Zooom/2 for alt-window dragging: http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/ http://www.coderage-software.com/index.html
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    [disclaimer: I work at Google] https://cloud.google.com/customers/ Spotify, SnapChat, eBay are the examples I usually give when asked that question. I'm not sure what numbers I am allowed to provide for any of the
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    I think the Kindles offer a pretty decent experience (even the Cloud Reader which I occasionally use).
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    Dropbox's CEO declared it as a fact last year and it has been widely reported: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-14/dropbox-c... https://www.wsj.com/articles/dropbox-ce
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    They're free cash-flow positive. Consider that Amazon is also mostly not profitable but has staggering amounts of positive free cash flow.
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    [Disclaimer: I used to work at Dropbox.] TL;DR: The only actual news here is the new line of credit. The folks involved in securing that line of credit only noted that it was secured since the previous line of credit had expired. There&#x27
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    Isn't the better population comparison the MSAs (metropolitan statistical areas)? For Boston that's ~5M and for NYC it's ~20M. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Boston
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    by rrdharan 10y ago

    Except at Google, Microsoft and Amazon. As far as I know the three biggest public clouds are all implemented with C++ as one of if not the primary backend language.