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by skorgu 16y ago
Anecdotally mathowie usually ends up returning the $5 to keep paypal happy. As disappointing as it is to not screw the spammers it seems to be a pragmatic decision to keep valid registrations flowing cleanly.
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by skorgu 16y ago
Perhaps. Perhaps they will pick on the meeker instead of the stronger, the darker-skinned instead of the caucasian or the female instead of the male. Not all bullies are alike.
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by skorgu 16y ago
Would you consider expanding on some of the nuts and bolts of hiring and managing those professional managers? I can't name anyone who's had a good experience with a management company on either side of the transaction but of course that's
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by skorgu 16y ago
I'm (internally) trying to be equitable to all sides in this whole poll/epoll deba(te|cle) but really it does seem that many, many people aren't actually reading the articles they purport to be commenting on. It's frustrating and disappoint
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by skorgu 16y ago
I suppose he's going for the 16 cores instead of 8 given the interconnect isn't used. It would be interesting to see a performance comparison between the xlarges and the cluster instances on simple speedups like this.
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by skorgu 16y ago
I was confused by: > In fact for $3.20 (the price of a latte) I can play around with Clojure code on a high performance 8-core 64bit server for two hours. An m2.4xlarge spot instance is ~$0.80/hr and has "26 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual
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by skorgu 16y ago
Googling wikileaks here anyway nets the Wikipedia page as the third link: > Wikileaks is an amorphous, international organization, originally based in Sweden,[1] that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive documents from
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by skorgu 16y ago
> (I assume, by the way, that the OP would be upset to find that his post was linked to on HN, because that link could be viewed as a form of advertising for the piece, and we know how he feels about advertising....) I'm not in love wit
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by skorgu 16y ago
If you're on BIS it's just a very well implemented IM system. Logging in doesn't exist as a concept, messages are just sent like SMS. It provides sent, delivered and received notifications for each message and lets you do all the normal IM
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by skorgu 16y ago
IANANetwork Engineer but basically with anycasting you can announce a single IP from two different places and different providers will route to whichever is 'closest'. If your datacenter goes down one of those routes stops being advertised
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by skorgu 16y ago
Have you considered joining forces with Lawrence Lessig for this? His Change Congress is a drastically different mechanism but the end results seem roughly similar. Besides the Voltron aspect he is a recognized legal scholar and might quiet
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by skorgu 16y ago
Mu. Buying a hitman lunch does not make you an accessory to murder.
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by skorgu 16y ago
Infographics (and the Times...) trend towards informing the uninformed, 538 is strongly geared towards the already-savvy. I can't see a mix that doesn't dilute one or the other and it seems clear who will wear the pants if you will. That sa
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by skorgu 16y ago
I think Cassandra always writes to the Commit Log before returning success, it just doesn't update the SStables yet: > Commit logs receive every write made to a Cassandra node and have the potential to block client operations [1] I'm no
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by skorgu 16y ago
Bear in mind that at least supervisord and daemontools expect to be the parent of a running, foregrounded process. Monit expects processes to run in the background and generate a pid file, I'm not very familiar with the others. I really enj
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by skorgu 16y ago
Stack Overflow is explicitly a rebellion against Expertsexchange which has a free option with lots of upsell.
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by skorgu 16y ago
Mutual funds (along with pension funds and other large institutional investors) move tens of billions of dollars into and out of various positions regularly. Speeding and simplifying those transactions reduces opportunity and transaction co
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by skorgu 16y ago
Illegal immigrants don't pay income taxes but their employers do contribute payroll and social security payments. Not disagreeing at all, just clarifying for non-US readers; wehave a lot of distinct taxes.
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by skorgu 16y ago
To clarify, you can't be convicted in the US for simply not carrying ID. You can still be effectively arrested and detained for a while with little or no recourse in many places.
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by skorgu 16y ago
(I imagine the consequences for flattening a vice presidential candidate would be...staggering. Maybe the lesson is to wait until they're no longer famous before doing the flattening?)
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by skorgu 16y ago
Personally I think they should spend the rest of their lives in jail for systematically and repeatedly abusing the power they have over the minors placed in their custody by society. Whether by ill intent or truly staggering incompetence an
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by skorgu 16y ago
For certain values of 'nicer' anyway.
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by skorgu 16y ago
To be fair you'd have to include failures of EBS snapshots and of failures to multiple datacenters to gain parity with Google in your comparison. I'm sure the gmail app doesn't use its storage subsystem naively no matter what the numbers ar
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Messagepack-RPC for C++ - Parallel de-serialization and futures(msgpack.wordpress.com)
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by skorgu 16y ago
Fair enough. Not sure why you think I care how Murdoch runs his paper though.
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by skorgu 16y ago
It's HP. They could ship me a free one and I'd ebay it to buy a Lenovo or a Mac.
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by skorgu 16y ago
Yep. No asterisk next to the "developer code" box so it's not actually required.
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by skorgu 16y ago
You can't be physically stopped from jailbreaking your iwhatever either. Apple would probably like to prevent that from happening but they haven't spent nearly as much effort in the system design as say Sony did with the PS3 or BluRay tow
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by skorgu 16y ago
All 'cars' are compromises. Any low-riding sports car would be damaged by riding on a rutted road, that's the tradeoff inherent in purchasing one. Lotus (say) isn't saying you can't drive here or there, they just build cars that happen not
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by skorgu 16y ago
> nameserver 4.4.4.4 Please don't do this unless you're a GTE/Verizon customer. Use your ISP's or run a resolver yourself.

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