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by tres 15y ago
The problem I was alluding to in my original post is that the user is divorced from the engineering decisions -- as if there can be a better way of building something that doesn't take into account the very reason that it exists at all. I s
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by tres 15y ago
This statement reveals so much about what's wrong with Microsoft... Good engineering is good user experience.
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by tres 15y ago
> So... why, exactly will the tablet market be different? I think the author states a good reason -- that a tablet device is more of a luxury item that appeals to people who want to geek out with it; it makes this a whole different cont
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by tres 15y ago
>> Bob Parsons killed an elephant who was destroying crops and fed an African village. The most instructive part of that video was the end where the crop Bob Parsons was trying to "save" was totally destroyed by people trying to get
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by tres 15y ago
We've processed CCs from Beijing to Bali using Braintree. And we're not doing what I'd consider 'serious volume.'
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by tres 16y ago
I should have said that I found the technique interesting and insightful. Learning doesn't happen without engagement -- that's the key point. I just thought it was a bit disingenuous to ignore what Khan Academy is beyond video lectures &#38
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by tres 16y ago
> The only thing missing from the traditional classroom learning cycle is the possibility of something being explained in a different way if the student is still having difficulty. I believe Khan's "Coaches" are for just this purpose. I
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by tres 16y ago
Essentially this is a critique of lectures and traditional teaching models which unfortunately uses Khan Academy as a pretext for discussing how lectures don't work very well. The tiny feedback loop that Khan Academy quizzes provide just re
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by tres 16y ago
The qualitative assessment of the plant's design is outside the scope of what I'm commenting on. I'm referring to the journalistic bait-and-switch which hides a very relevant piece of information (that contradicts the implied assertion of t
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by tres 16y ago
The title is technically correct; however, it seems like link bait once you get to page two of the article and see: "Bridenbaugh told ABC News that he believes the design flaws that prompted his resignation from GE were eventually addressed
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by tres 16y ago
Real costs associated with building out a datacenter are significant. I'd be surprised if building and operating a warehouse comes anywhere near the cost of building and operating a datacenter. You've got things like generators, HVAC, PDUs
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by tres 16y ago
I'm not sure whether it's that "HN seems to want a heavy dose of finality..." or if we're just naturally inclined to want good news in the face of overwhelmingly bad news. I keep on thinking of Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams..." (One of the segme
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by tres 16y ago
Actually, I meant it the other way around; what's popular isn't necessarily what's better. I personally like coding in Erlang more than JS. I also personally feel the smart technology choice is Erlang -- it scales better. For me, Erlang is
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by tres 16y ago
Why Everyone Is Talking About Node: The very smart guys at Joyent are packaging it and pitching it perfectly. The mobile platform has been gaining steam and so real-time interaction is becoming more important. Joyent was smart enough to see
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by tres 16y ago
This is one of my strategies too (along with screen labels). Add to ~/.bash_profile : PS1="\[\033[0m\](\[\033[0;36m\]\u\[\033[0m\]@\[\033[0;33m\]\h\[\033[0m\])(\[\033[1;34m\]\w\[\033[0;0;0m\])"
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by tres 16y ago
oh, and to change the name to the current machine, ctrl + a shift + a then name to whatever system you're connected to.
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by tres 16y ago
If you're not using captions w/ screen, then you're not using screen. Try adding to ~/.screenrc caption always "| %L=%-Lw%45>%{+b by}%n%f* %t%{-}%+Lw%-0<"
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How We Used Our Network To Build And Bootstrap The Team(blog.reza.org)
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by tres 16y ago
Yeah, for certain. I guess I just really, really like the ability to have some control. Even if it isn't solving the problem. Back when I was working for a shop doing OpenVZ, all we could do is shrug our shoulders & make our best guess
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by tres 16y ago
I've never seen a hardware node get anywhere near saturating the bus before disk I/O became an issue. So yes, there is a potential for saturation; however, I'd be really happy if that were my capacity bottleneck.
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by tres 16y ago
For your better quality VPS providers, memory isn't really an issue because memory is dedicated. For your old time OpenVZ/Virtuozzo low-end box, that's not the case. You can oversell every resource on an OpenVZ box... Back in the day SW-Sof
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by tres 16y ago
Yeah, I guess it does sound like I'm crediting Open Source and the geeks with singlehandedly saving Apple. I don't think it was open source itself that saved Apple, but the decision -- as revolutionary as it was at the time -- proved to be
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by tres 16y ago
Excellent response. The the historic state of Linux at the time makes all the difference. I should have been more general and said "Open Platform." Because at the time BSD was a much less risky choice -- it was more mature & didn't have
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by tres 16y ago
> - CEO quickly decides that the O/S developed in house is not worth maintaining. And that the right O/S is no other than Microsoft's offering And it's even better when you factor in that in each case there is a viable and much better s
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by tres 16y ago
Thanks very much for your honesty. I fully understand and agree. I think that in the US, there are some parallels in the hosting industry to what happened to ISPs a decade ago; the small guys are giving way to big players in the market. The
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by tres 16y ago
Cancel at any time -- it's all automated in the control panel; however, there are no refunds for the unused balance. :(
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by tres 16y ago
Thanks for the excellent feedback. We've tried to do everything we could to get those old VPS memory problems out of the system. In our experience, most performance problems with VPS systems are due to overselling of resources on the node l
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by tres 16y ago
> Linode and prgmr give you pretty much full access unless you are somehow offering something else? Linode is a good example of how we're different. As per my knowledge, you can have your own kernel, that's true, but you need to make a
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by tres 16y ago
I should clarify that the prices listed are for life. Sign up now & that's your price for life. As we start gaining traction, our signup price will be going up, but already existing customers will never see their prices go up as we grow
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by tres 16y ago
> What are you doing that is different to other VPS providers? We're trying to be the VPS provider we always wish we had. One example is the kernel. Pretty much every other VPS provider gives you no access to the kernel. You either get

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