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by tsmith 13y ago
> Does anyone even know what a Linux container is? Judging by the number of times "when will Docker support Windows containers?" has been asked... no.
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by tsmith 13y ago
To add a bit of context: - The OpenStack project makes a major release every six months. The feature freeze for the next release (codename: Havana, scheduled to be GA mid-October) was 00:00 UTC this morning. As this commit has been approved
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by tsmith 13y ago
I was keen to understand how it works and what this "flow" thing is, as the technical premise is really quite interesting. So I click on the video... and start hearing the xylophone... and say "uh oh". Folks, I have good
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by tsmith 13y ago
Heh, yes. I was going to facetiously suggest that if designers wanted to work on another ephemeral product, they should redesign the patterns printed on TP (first suggestion: chevrons indicating which direction to pull). Then I remembered
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by tsmith 13y ago
It's 100% accurate. In your "counter-example", you're running four different userspaces/distributions on the same operating system kernel. You could have posted a useful clarification to my comment (e.g. "but y
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by tsmith 13y ago
Unfortunately, that's where the "containers are like VMs, but better!" argument breaks down. Linux Containers, which docker makes use of, are more like creating a "clone" of the currently running operating system wi
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by tsmith 13y ago
As a frequent flier, I neither a) have any issues with the way boarding passes are designed currently nor b) have witnessed bewilderment in fellow passengers due to poorly designed boarding passes. Is this a case of design for the sake of a
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by tsmith 13y ago
Seriously. Why not make this on Tuesdays? Or any other day but Friday?
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by tsmith 13y ago
In high school auto shop we had a different (and contradictory) mantra: "Make it fit!" Sometimes you've gotta force it...
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by tsmith 13y ago
Think about it this way: no matter how low you put the dividing line between A-level and B-level performers, you will always have people that fall below the line. So, set your line appropriately, but fire people below the line, no matter ho
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by tsmith 13y ago
F * the dream! Founders: Don't Forget to Sell The Product!
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by tsmith 13y ago
The thesis of the article is mostly correct, though there are plenty of exceptions in the valley - the Facebook and Google IPOs made 100s of instant millionaires. This part bugged me though: "Lets put it this way. You're working at a start-
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by tsmith 14y ago
> I can understand that virtualization is useful when your resource requirement is less than one machine but above that, I doubt there are any real benefits. It's snake oil. Tell that to Netflix - or any of AWS' customers, really.
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by tsmith 14y ago
Almost definitely KVM. The Ubuntu/KVM/OpenStack combo is the bread-and-butter deployment scenario outside of a small number of folks (notably Rackspace, which is OpenStack on XenServer^TM). Also, <= Diablo and to a large extent Essex re
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Finding zeros in a haystack(gridcentric.com)
2 points by tsmith 14y ago|0 comments
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by tsmith 14y ago
You can just show up at the border with your license / ID. If you have a passport they can look it up in the system. No fine, maybe a little lecture. Happens 100s of times a day as lots of people are still not aware that you need a passport
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by tsmith 14y ago
I can't speak to a comparison with Chinese cities, but TJ is pretty safe, as there are hundreds of thousands of middle class people living there now. Just stick to the places they go to (Zona Rio, Agua Caliente, etc) and you can have a nice
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by tsmith 14y ago
"Kid"? What is it about people that makes them think a person about to complete a degree and enter a Masters' program, and assumedly old enough to drive, vote, serve in the military, and reproduce, is a "kid"? George Washington was a major
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by tsmith 14y ago
Yet another reason why the iPhone 5 is the worst iPhone ever produced. Not because it is bad - objectively it is in all ways better than previous iPhones - but because it is comparatively worse than the current state of the art (Galaxy Nexu
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by tsmith 14y ago
"What you'll get: Free Room & board [...]" "What is expected of you: [...] You pay for your own food" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_and_board
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by tsmith 14y ago
I'd never seen the Hershey's / Ferrero Rocher experiment referenced in the article (that supposedly "started the free-mania") but couldn't the opposite conclusions be drawn from the experiment? I.e. that having a free option (somewhat obvio
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by tsmith 14y ago
"But I still have a couple hundred gigabytes in my home directory that I pull across to every new computer I set up." That seems... like a lot. Maybe I'm used to the space constraints of tablets/netbooks/SSDs, but I've been pushing everythi
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by tsmith 15y ago
The kid was old enough to engage in meaningful financial transactions. There's always _some_ power imbalance in any kind of meaningful transaction - that doesn't mean that the person on the weaker side has the prerogative to act unfairly.
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by tsmith 15y ago
Looks awesome, guys! Congratulations on the launch!
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by tsmith 15y ago
"At my school, it wasn't intro programming courses that weeded out so many CS students, it was sophomore level discrete math. That class had a 50+% failure rate." At my school, the CS program was designed so that the Intro to Programming cl
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Virtualization startup hiring systems hackers in Toronto
7 points by tsmith 15y ago|0 comments
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by tsmith 15y ago
This is so cool. You guys are really on a roll since moving to the valley!
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by tsmith 16y ago
I've had an iPad1, now have a rooted Nook Color, and on Friday (or Saturday) will be getting an iPad2. The Nook Color is great in all ways except one: video. No Netflix client available or forthcoming, no streaming from NAS a la Air Video S
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by tsmith 16y ago
I really like the followers-over-time graph. Question: is there a way to embed the graph into another "dashboarding" tool? I.e. through an API or even a simple URL?
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by tsmith 16y ago
He was my hero back when I was in grad school. I could never figure out how he funded his experimentation. I had to beg for 50' ethernet cables (unsuccessfully, I might add). A set of wiimotes would have been completely out of the question.

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