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by xb95 13y ago
Nice to see a fellow pilot -- well, I'm still in the student phase, but I've been doing lots of "glide, grass, gas!" lately, as my instructor likes to say. Sadly, the number of open fields to aim for in the SF Bay Area i
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by xb95 13y ago
Well, scrubbing with md is pretty easy, too. That said, ZFS sounds great, and I've been meaning to learn it sometime. The big thing holding me off has been just -- well, how much time I've put into learning md and such, and how I
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by xb95 13y ago
Not really. A backup would be a filesystem level event, so at best it would only access 1/N of the sectors (where N is the duplication level). It isn't guaranteed to access all of the sectors the data resides in -- and also, it ma
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by xb95 13y ago
Honestly, this doesn't sound like a bad batch of drives or the like -- sounds like they weren't doing scrubbing on their RAID. In case it's helpful, and for general knowledge dissemination: What likely happened is that a driv
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by xb95 13y ago
Amusingly, this post made a lot more sense when I remembered that boxers are a type of dog. That said, it's a great post and something that is all too easy to forget when you work with people, who often get angry at you when things are
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by xb95 13y ago
I think that in a lot of ways it's because of the roots of the organizations in question. Instead of saying "yeah, we have money, we can go buy this solution and trust in the vendor to support us" (an objectively viable solut
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by xb95 13y ago
But Google's will still work. :) It turns out it's a hell of a job to go through and figure out what to delete. It's far cheaper to just buy more disks and continue expanding the storage system and never delete anything...
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by xb95 13y ago
For me, the really interesting point of the article was less "yay, it's faster than Python" (which is generally undisputed), but more that (to paraphrase): "I didn't know anything about Go other than 'it sounds cool', so I decided to rewrit
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by xb95 13y ago
One of the most solid news sources for EVE lately is http://themittani.com/ -- it's actually more than just EVE, but they have a large number of EVE related articles. If you're not a player it can be hard to figure out what's going on, th
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by xb95 13y ago
I am not acquainted with what language every framework uses. It would be useful for me in interpreting the data if you could annotate -- Java/JVM, PHP, Python, Perl, etc. This is great work, though. Thank you for doing it -- and double than
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by xb95 13y ago
Well, if your argument is that it's easier to contribute to NPM, then you should consider that Perl has been managing the same output for 18 years that the Node community has for the past four: about 6700 modules/year. For what it's worth,
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by xb95 14y ago
In my experience with an underperforming employee on my team, it was exactly like this. Everybody knew what the problem was; they were constantly talking about him in my one-on-ones. "Man, Ted did this thing and it pissed me off." "Ted didn
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by xb95 14y ago
It wasn't just being mean. First-hand experience in my case. He and his GNAA attacked my volunteer-run open source project and did many things, including calling Child Protective Services (CPS) and making false complaints -- leading one of
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by xb95 14y ago
This advise seems like it's suited for the business world and not well placed here. In the tech/startup world, I would advise against doing this sort of in-depth questioning of references. Really, most of these checks are going to be done b
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by xb95 14y ago
If someone is connected then they can just talk to their connections and get the information and help they need. I'm just saying it's not good to post these postmortems publicly. "We got hit by X. We did Y." Now when Q comes along to attack
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by xb95 14y ago
General practice in the industry is not to discuss the details of attacks publicly. As much as it sucks, the rule of thumb is that you need every advantage you can get when it comes to being attacked. You gain little by talking about these
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by xb95 14y ago
FWIW, those documents are a fantastic start and contain the sort of things that I wish I had known about MongoDB and Riak before embarking on quests to use them. I hope you do well -- the world really needs a good amalgamation of strong dat
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by xb95 14y ago
It is my impression that BTC are mostly used by people who either a) want to stock up for the future "just in case" or b) want to minimize their digital paper trail for online purchases. Think of it as "cash" but for the online world. Some
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by xb95 14y ago
Yeah, I found it incongruous and strange to have that picture on top.
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by xb95 14y ago
I really want to be excited by this. For better or worse, after being in this industry for a long time now all I can say about a new database launch is: cool, I'd love to talk to you in 3-5 years when you've had time to work out the hinks a
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by xb95 14y ago
Speaking as a hiring manager, a resume is still good to setup a basic framework. What has this candidate done (names, places, types of work), what do they find interesting to highlight, what kind of extra stuff can I glean? What's interesti
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by xb95 14y ago
"If it comes to this, don’t get down on yourself. Taking the rejection is an important part of the process. If it comes down to this, don’t get down on yourself." The first sentence is repeated twice in that paragraph. :)
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by xb95 14y ago
I'm a country boy who grew up in the midwest and came here when a company I worked for in Portland got acquired. I've been stuck here for 8 long years, now, and constantly dream about going somewhere else. California is fine, the SV is okay
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by xb95 14y ago
Andrew Auernheimer, known online as "weev" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev ), is nothing like Aaron Swartz. I speak from personal experience with weev. Thanks to weev and his associates, my business partner, many of my volunteers, some
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by xb95 14y ago
There's a lot of conversation in this thread about how they take the whole computer. I can say that in 2006, in San Francisco, the police took just the hard drives out of a tower PC in my apartment. They left the tower itself. (They were af
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by xb95 14y ago
Amusingly, the time police raided my stuff (well, they went after my roommate, and my stuff was in the living room and got taken along for the ride) -- they took the hard drives out of my media server. It was a software RAID-5 setup. I imag
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by xb95 14y ago
Absolutely, yes. In my case I was annoyed that my round trip from Orbitz took me through Hong Kong for 3 hours, so I went to Flightfox to see if I could make it 3 days. They said yes -- AND made the flight cheaper! The other option was to t
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by xb95 14y ago
In my case on Flightfox, the person was clearly just using some software. The time investment was probably minutes. The value for me is that this person knows all of the rules -- cheap legs, good days to fly, how to get X or Y, fare codes,
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by xb95 14y ago
I wasn't aware of/able to find the travel agents, so I paid the finder's fee but never actually booked tickets. It was too intimidating for me and I was too worried about ending up with half of the tickets and the other half becoming unavai
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by xb95 14y ago
Flightfox is neat, but the thing that wasn't super clear and I found out later, after paying a finder's fee, is that you have to go through hoops to book your tickets. This isn't just -- they put it together and you click a button and sudde

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