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by skuhn 11y ago
Not really at small scale, but if you're building a large service there are several advantages. For one thing, not having to copy response data between processes improves throughput. Since Varnish is so resistant to supporting SSL nati
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by skuhn 11y ago
As others have indicated, it's a proxy server rather than a general purpose webserver. There's no code relation between the two servers; it's simply that the team at Yahoo chose to pursue it as an Apache Foundation project wh
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by skuhn 11y ago
The narrative given by that article around Detroit's actions isn't very compelling to me. Just claiming that they "got pissy" and so forth doesn't make it so. In fact, there appears to be some evidence to the contra
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by skuhn 11y ago
I confirmed that it does not need to be placed into a Host block, as long as it is above all of your blocks. For instance: UseRoaming no Host * Blah yes Test with: ssh -v remote.ssh.host.com uptime 2>&1 | grep -i r
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by skuhn 11y ago
In this case it's true. Marissa makes $40 million a year (in 2014) and the average engineer at Yahoo is about $130,000. Yahoo is not one of the top several dozen companies in the Fortune 500 either, it's at #561 and falling.
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by skuhn 11y ago
I think this was the original plan, but they dropped the membership fee and have since raised several hundreds of millions to continue operating. Hence all of the head scratching about their financial prospects.
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by skuhn 11y ago
Sure, 100Mbit/s circuits aren't very cost effective -- also, no one buys them. If your needs are a little larger, you can do a 1 gig commit on a 10 gig circuit in a well connected datacenter in a first tier region (e.g. Silicon Va
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by skuhn 11y ago
I think this is true in a lot of markets. 11 Great Oaks is the place to be in Silicon Valley (with PAIX and MPT as distant second and third), but it's an old, shitty building and you can't get any kind of reasonable power density.
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by skuhn 11y ago
The sad thing is that (in terms of base salary), they don't remotely pay tip top of the market in SV. So consider how bad it is to lose out to a giant mega-corp that only pays 80% of top of market salary.
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by skuhn 11y ago
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't think Mailbox was derailed by Dropbox, since it barely had a public life before Dropbox and certainly would not have survived without the acquisition, Dropbox is equally as responsibl
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by skuhn 11y ago
So you're saying that Mailbox was a great product for the whole month between when it launched and Dropbox acquired it? I can tell you that behind the scenes it was far from a well architected service, and the only reason why it was ab
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by skuhn 11y ago
For those who aren't familiar with it, the parent is quoting from Eisenhower's 1953 Chance for Peace speech [1]. There's an interesting piece from the NY Times in 2013 about what a bomber would buy today [2]. The situation ha
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by skuhn 11y ago
No one would ever say "have got", it's the sort of redundancy that naturally gets distilled down to the minimum required in everyday language. I imagine this sort of focus on technically correct but functionally useless thing
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by skuhn 11y ago
Good, they should accelerate it. However, I wish that Microsoft made it extremely clear in these announcements that root certificates are not subject to SHA-1 collision attacks. Certain people [1] have misunderstood the situation and remove
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by skuhn 11y ago
Seagate acquired SandForce last year, but it doesn't seem to have really worked out for them. Likewise SanDisk acquired Fusion-io, but it doesn't seem to have done a ton for them either. In both cases the acquisitions were made af
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by skuhn 11y ago
There's also the ever-increasing safety requirements, which have resulted in (among other things) substantially heavier cars over the last few decades. Heavier cars require more power, which creates a bit of a catch-22 when it comes to
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by skuhn 11y ago
I think this is a common expectation, but consider this: what did Airbnb get from you when you signed up to rent a room? Not much right? They only get very slightly more than that from the people renting the rooms. Over time they can weed o
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by skuhn 11y ago
Sorry that you're so fixated on prop 13 not contributing to any issues with local revenue collection or housing shortfalls. I continue to disagree. Either way though, neither of us are likely to get to express our opinions by voting in
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by skuhn 11y ago
By changing the eviction policy and using the maxmemory directive, you can effectively reproduce memcached's behavior in redis. http://redis.io/topics/lru-cache
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by skuhn 11y ago
I agree that simpler is often better, but running multiple cache processes may be a requirement for either memcached or redis if you want to get consistent latency from them. I have observed a significant improvement in performance (at larg
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by skuhn 11y ago
I did not state that property sales have been suppressed, I said that property tax revenue has been suppressed. My particular anecdote was around property improvement, not sales. And once again, a property sale does not mean that reassess
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by skuhn 11y ago
OK. So then I take it we can agree that they shouldn't be artificially capped for some people because they got here first.
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by skuhn 11y ago
memcache operations are mostly constant time, but their behavior is not what I would call deterministic due to the slab allocator. A long running memcached will not behave the same as a fresh memcached because pages are not reclaimed from a
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by skuhn 11y ago
I think you might be surprised. There are a ton of exceptions to reassessment [1]. A notable one is that transfers from parent to child are typically excluded, meaning that you can indeed pass down low property taxes from generation to gene
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by skuhn 11y ago
These antibiotics aren't made out of humans or in some way related to humans, but they have a place in human treatment plans. They're the ones we care about, and they're immensely valuable. Calling them "human antibiotic
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by skuhn 11y ago
I didn't respond directly to ubernostrom, and my comment doesn't discuss whether prop 13 creates a perverse incentive for landowners in any respect (although: it does). I'm saying that if you tie your revenue stream (i.e. tax
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by skuhn 11y ago
I don't believe that's what I said. Cities in California have services they are obligated to provide -- police services, for instance. The cost of those services over time has increased proportional to salaries. However, the reven
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by skuhn 11y ago
I find the proposition system extremely aggravating. Even for propositions that I largely or wholly agree with I have to ask myself: does this deserve to be an amendment of the state constitution or city charter? That's the power that
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by skuhn 11y ago
I'm sure that it isn't all smelling roses and cashing checks, but rental property in San Francisco is literally a license to print money for many landlords. Simply by virtue of having owned the property for several decades, you st
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by skuhn 11y ago
Don't make all of your money from a property tax that does not increase as your costs to provide services increase. There are options besides property tax for raising tax revenue. City-level local income tax is the first thing that com

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