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541.
by xchaotic 9y ago
The obsessions are because you can have serverless architecture and spin up things on demand. If you Need to load a ton of things that kills performance and latencies add up.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
I think the article should have been in the Onion, not NYT
543.
by xchaotic 9y ago
This completely ignores the the cost of setting up your cloud VMs, cost of downtime if your Internet is down etc. Sure an actual home server might be more expensive in electricty alone, but you can keep your VMs there 24/7 for not extr
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by xchaotic 9y ago
How do you define done? Software is never done. A better way to look at things is whether a feature is in good enough shape and whether moving on to working on other things is likely to be more beneficial.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Same here, I think it's a very nice system to learn programming with (certainly nicer, more forgiving than c++) As time went by I moved on to PHP and other things. Is there anything that actually requires deep, low level OS hooks or an
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by xchaotic 9y ago
It's a good strategy, if you can afford not to withdraw from the fund on the year (and for several years after) you 97% bet turns sour - there was an article somewhere, which showed that options on S&P singe the great depression al
547.
by xchaotic 9y ago
I live in a country which requires a B-1 anyway. The reason we have to apply for visas is that too many (3%) people overstay their visas or something like that. Well, I got the visa bought the tickets and got asked about my return tickets
548.
by xchaotic 9y ago
Brutal plug, but MarkLogic is a good alternative if you want a good search solution that runs and scales on AWS (and you can migrate to another cloud or on prem)
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by xchaotic 9y ago
The facts don't support this guy. Levi Strauss has no magical tech in place, just some commodity clothes with a bit of history, marketing attached to it. Management style adda very little here.
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by xchaotic 9y ago
Whoever made the donation was clearly of an opinion that MIT, being a bunch of smart people can allocate the money better than the donor or other institutions.
551.
by xchaotic 9y ago
the 'eventual consistency' is ok for some use cases, but for those cases you have tools like Cassandra which are orders of magnitude faster. I just don't know who'd want to deal with mongodb consistency model in producti
552.
by xchaotic 9y ago
Do you find subway-style to be a good method of conveying information? People seem to have agreed that the use of distinct colors is good, but are there more efficient ways of conveying the same info, for a given size? For example London tu
553.
by xchaotic 9y ago
It looks like you're using monotonically increasing numbers for people, I couldn't exploit it straight away, looks like users have added around 900 people so far.
554.
by xchaotic 9y ago
I'm trying to explain what these are to my grandmother. Any car analogies? ;)
555.
by xchaotic 9y ago
Well, if every asset class was equitably 'overvalued' then we are at an equilibrium and there's no problem.
556.
by xchaotic 9y ago
With 12 websites out of which I visited 1, once, I suspect another Google abandoned project in 18 months.
557.
by xchaotic 9y ago
How do you define successful single-person? I've been running a one person consultancy for 12 years now, had to retrain quite a bit over the years, sometimes it was so busy that I outsourced pieces of work. It's been good enough t
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Is this the cheapest place for storing another copy of your photos? I have 150GB worth atm with 3 copies and I don't mind another copy if it's cheap enough.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
Should we design the processing units differently then? There's been talk about hundreds of cores, all with local memory, but this will only speed up a certain subset of computing problems...
560.
by xchaotic 10y ago
This is so obvious, but so few roles allow for that. I am below my market rate but happy and motivated, as I am 100% remote. Imagine if someone offered market rate, they'd still be ahead, without the need to pay for the office space
561.
by xchaotic 10y ago
That sounds very generic too. How do you even define fake? How do you know it's not fake?
562.
by xchaotic 10y ago
What is the use case? Why can't you 'enhance the resolution' CSI style?
563.
by xchaotic 10y ago
There is a 100 ways to integrate it with WebRTC. You don't mind wasting 6 hours of your life driving, but can't be bothered to do your own research, let me guess, you are a sales person, selling cloud stuff.
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by xchaotic 10y ago
The new coin will not get rid of forgeries completely, at least not until the old is removed from circulation. In pure money terms, it's not worth it. But since they're printing money anyway, I guess if it's too costly, they
565.
by xchaotic 10y ago
I can distract myself with twitter, youtube, stackexchange, even doing chores in the house, you name it. I don't even need anyone else to be distracted, thanks!
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by xchaotic 10y ago
I always wonder, why not isolate on a process level, or even withing a single, multi-threaded app. Sure you can run some sort of web service on hundreds of docker containers or you can run a single, fast web server that scales?
567.
by xchaotic 10y ago
Have you found any parts of the OS or your workflow that are really hard without the mouse? I can do keyboard in terminal and text editors, but browsers are so so and Windows RDP is where it all fails the worst for me...
568.
by xchaotic 10y ago
A bit like the other submission on learning JS in 2016. I find that I am getting dragged down by complexity. Even simple tic tac toe game that I was planning to write in vanilla js took me via jQuery, npm, Firebase etc. Sure its production
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by xchaotic 10y ago
So let me get this straight - science can't currently beat flipping a coin in terms of predicting the weather more than 2 days in advance, but he can accurately simulate space weather for many years and how it will affect other planets
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by xchaotic 10y ago
FWIW I am now dealing with a system that is supported by HPE for over 10 years now. Even if they get bought out, someone will inherit those support obligations. I am also in the camp of not trusting Google with anything.

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