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by tytso 15y ago
/me not my current employer speaking OTOH, that means it's a back door for use with those nasty handset manufacturers that still ship phones that can't be unlocked. :-)
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by tytso 15y ago
The problems which were pointed out are good ones, and they should be fixed. Fortunately, they are easy to fix. In the grand scheme of things, though, this isn't as bad as it seems, since the vast majority of Android applications run in t
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by tytso 15y ago
I can no longer edit the above article, and I just realized that I made a very critical typo. When I wrote: "XFS in particular have proven to be a memory hog, and others have noted severe performance degredations and in some cases stabilit
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by tytso 15y ago
His performance improvements are very specific to XFS; arguably they were fixing a problem/fundamental design issue in the original journaling code in XFS. Ext4's journaling code is very, very different from XFS. So a design improvement t
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by tytso 15y ago
All open source developers want users. Users means more bug reports and often more developers to contribute to the prokect. In addition, the greater relevance also means it's more likely they will be able to get companies to be able to p
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by tytso 15y ago
Personally, what I'm starting to converge on is a smartphone plus a Macbook Air / Ultrabook / Chromebook, with the smartphone providing the tethering capability, and where I'm always carrying the smartphone, and carrying the light weight MB
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by tytso 15y ago
The reality is that you need both. Getting 4.5 million people to sing the anti-SOPA/PIPA petition and blacking out Wikipedia to so that lots of users notice is part of getting them to wake up. It's not everything, by all means. You al
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by tytso 15y ago
Oh, you haven't seen "big company" yet, if you think Google is a big company.... I came from IBM which has something like 350,000 people working world-wide. I came to Google and said, "how refreshing!" VA Linux Systems was too small (and
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by tytso 15y ago
Well, even taking into account the 1995 recentering, according to the College Board's table, a 730 Verbal / 710 Math translates to a 1500 under the new system. Which is still pretty far from a 1570, 1590, or 1600... Personally, I'm not te
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by tytso 15y ago
Hmmm.... what about the abuse of power by the Copyright Lobby pouring millions of millions of dollars into the legislator's campaigns and PAC's? That kind of lobbying is OK, while net.lobbying isn't? Sigh...
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by tytso 15y ago
I had a 1440 SAT, and I still got into MIT. And while I did have straight A's at MIT, I also minored in student activities; I was Treasurer of the computer club, Refreshments and Sunday night director of LSC (which showed 2nd run movies on
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by tytso 15y ago
I've been at Google two years, in the Cambridge office. I work pretty long hours, but part of that is because work is my hobby. I'd be working on the ext4 file system whether Google paid me or not. It's something that I'm passionate abo
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by tytso 15y ago
We don't know your application, so of course we can't tell if you made poor design decisions or not. But have you considered that the poor match went both ways? Google said that they adjusted their prices because people were getting wrong
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by tytso 15y ago
What this essay (from 2008) fails to point out as an advantage is that the GPL requirements have forced many device drivers to be released as open source. And hardware support is critical for an operating system's viability. If a project i
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by tytso 15y ago
Just disable the Privacy and unlock the domain before you do the transfer. See this tutorial: http://hover.screenstepslive.com/s/hover/m/927/l/7788-GoDadd...
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by tytso 15y ago
So a couple of corrections that people are getting wrong over and over again in this discussion. The reason why data=ordered is the default is not because it's more likely for the file system to be recovered after a crash. It's default fo
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by tytso 15y ago
I don't think "corrupted" is fair. Like any startup, teachers face constraints. Those constraints are not under their control; so you try to do the best thing that you can given those constraints. That's like saying that a startup is be
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by tytso 15y ago
I see something very similar happening in many Computer Science papers and the areas in which some CS academics have chosen to focus their time. It's not as bad as what goes on in Law School, certainly, but there is definitely a divide bet
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by tytso 15y ago
I'm not sure that rumor is correct. Look at this comment to Brian Proffitt's article, "Has IBM kicked OpenOffice.org to the curb?". It's from an IBM'er claiming that IBM is investing a huge amount into the OpenOffice project: http://www.
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by tytso 15y ago
The biggest problem for OpenOffice.org as an Apache project, especially given the existence of a vibrant LibreOffice, is what companies are going to fund OpenOffice.org development and why? IBM will because they have a commercial product,
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by tytso 15y ago
It very much is about the terms. 20-25 years ago a sysadmin was expected to be able to fix C bugs, and have skills not that far removed from programming in assembly (i.e., sendmail.cf files :-). About ten years ago I remember talking to s
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by tytso 15y ago
They are using asynchronous queries still, and the problem is that they aren't always asynchronous if there are any long-running queries happening in the background. That's the reason for the hang per the most recent bug. If temp tables we
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by tytso 15y ago
The fundamental problem with Mozilla is that it is trying to do database queries in its UI loop, and it wants every single piece of state safely on disk after every single click. This results in a huge amount of disk space to get written
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by tytso 15y ago
It wasn't that he set his permissions properly, it was that he posted using the wrong account (corporate account vs. personal account).
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by tytso 15y ago
I have to agree with your last point. IBM is a "well run" company; they take very good care of their shareholders. Some of the things they have to do in order to take care of shareholders is one of the reasons why I no longer work there
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by tytso 15y ago
Time may be linear for you. But if you have a several people working together on a project, branches make life so much better.
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by tytso 15y ago
Um, and if they do that, who takes the profits from the search engine? Microsoft, who has "invested" billions and billions of dollars and who would presumably like to recoup some or all of their losses, or Facebook? And if that's the cas
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by tytso 15y ago
I've been regularly sending patch series to Gerrit, and it works fine. If you're not seeing the previous review comments that's because either (a) you're not adding the Change-ID: lines, or (b) you haven't tried diff'ing against the previ
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by tytso 15y ago
You can ammend history in any repository, but all other repositories still have the original state. Hence, someone who tries to tamper with git history in such a way can't do it undetectably. It will be blatently obvious to all that the h
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by tytso 15y ago
Performance is the side-effect, not the cause. The cause is the fact that chrome uses separate processes both for security, and so if one tab crashes, you don't lose them all. The fact that it uses more memory is a design tradeoff (althoug

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