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by wstrange 10y ago
Try to draw a diagram that conveys exactly what you have written above. Text is a powerful medium for conveying abstract thought.
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It looks like his work is not deleted, just not accessible due to possible TOS violations? I am guessing he can get it back. The title seems like click-bait.
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Slack's identity management is really painful. Why do I need to create a new account for each slack team I want to join? I am the same person. Joining a slack team should be an entitlement that gets granted to my identity -not an enti
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by wstrange 10y ago
> China did the right thing I don't think China did the right thing. Their citizens were almost certainly better off with Google holding their meta-data and private email communications.
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ZFS: The other new Apple file system that almost was–until it wasn’t(arstechnica.com)
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According to the linked page, that would be yes :-)
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Associated presentation is here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Qbr3MWyTwhqXCPPrBoat...
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Design Patterns for Container-Based Distributed Systems(usenix.org)
3 points by wstrange 10y ago|3 comments
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> You write a case/when block that chooses the right name. I think this starts to get to the heart of the issue. This is why Configuration Mangement gets so complex - because your CM scripts need all of this special purpose logic to
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> Kubernetes is painful to install from scratch Fair comment, and AFAIK, this is recognised and being addressed. For example, minikube [ https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube ] to easily run Kubernetes on the desktop
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Strategically I think it would make a ton of sense for CF to rehost on Kubernetes. There is a bunch of infrastructure that becomes someone else's problem - letting CF focus on higher level PaaS primitives. Just my 2 cents ;-)
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Kubernetes I think is a strategy to counter AWS. If people start running their apps on Kubernetes, even on AWS- Google has a shot at getting them over to GCE/GKE. On the other hand, apps that are tied tightly to AWS services are very
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by wstrange 10y ago
Google offers managed service variants comparable to most of those AWS services. For example - Cloud SQL. How are these anymore "home grown" than the AWS equivalents?
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That is an interesting anecdote, but as you say - likely more attributed to luck.
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Interesting looking at Google's Vision API overview, where they explicitly state that facial recognition is not available. The technology to do this clearly exists, but I gather they are concerned about the potential for abuse. Which
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Is that data never synced to the cloud? What happens if you lose your phone. Do you lose all your photos?
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by wstrange 10y ago
I have a theory on this regarding consumer devices: Checksumming drives a lot of support calls that would otherwise not happen. As long as the errors are in media files and not meta-data, most consumers are going to be oblivious to bit rot
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by wstrange 10y ago
Given that there are other companies shipping ZFS without Oracle's blessing, I am curious why Apple could not do the same? (honest question) Is it that Apple is a much bigger target? Patent issues?
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But why couldn't ZFS also take advantage of those opcodes?
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University of Calgary paid $20K in ransomware attack(cbc.ca)
1 points by wstrange 10y ago|0 comments
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Or the fact that new servers are an order of magnitude faster than the ones they replaced.
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What is a co-op, but another form of government?
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I honestly don't get all the libertarian angst about paying taxes. As a Canadian, I pay a lot of tax. I grumble a bit during tax season - but I am incredibly grateful that I was lucky enough to be born in a prosperous country. A goo
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by wstrange 10y ago
There are plenty of third world countries where you can pretty much avoid taxation, but it hasn't worked out terribly well for them. There are benefits to belonging to civilisation. Voluntary taxation is just not realistic.
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I find it quite readable.
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The Delorme Inreach is on the Iridium band and is very popular with back country enthusiasts. It's a little pricey (16 CDN / month, if you dont use it at all, and about a buck a message if you do) -but for peace of mind they are
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by wstrange 10y ago
Get Grandma a Chromebook. It won't stop 100% of all scams, but it does eliminate a whole class of malware. I converted my 88-year-old father to Chromebooks 3 years ago. He loves it, and my support calls have tapered off :-)
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Won't we end up saying that about all AI breakthroughs? Once you know the trick, it doesn't look amazing anymore
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Yea - I hear ya. Self driving cars, conversational AIs, VR hardware - same old same old.
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Ultimately it comes down to a question if you trust Google or not. I do, but I know that sentiment is not widely shared on HN. Enabling state spying would destroy people's trust, and hence their business. I think Google is highly motiv

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