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by yeukhon 9y ago
You are referring to the slow down and hence the extra slow down for calling an extra syscall? If so, then isn't it technically correct that the bug will affect regardless of virtualization or not, but heavier penalty for VMs?
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by yeukhon 9y ago
> If you could know all of the addresses of important kernel routines Are those kernel logical addresses?
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by yeukhon 9y ago
But shouldn’t the fix affect the kernel performance regardless of whether the OS system is a guest or not?
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Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care(nytimes.com)
324 points by yeukhon 9y ago|555 comments
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Why are people insisting this affects cloud computing market? I am not sure if this bug is absolutely limited to cloud instances.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Not sure if it makes any sense and even logical to compare the market before and after Intel's floating point bug was uncovered a decade ago. My bet is this current bug won't shake Intel's stock price much.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
> There's a significant distinction between "I understand how [inheritance|recursion|functional programming|etc] works in <language of choice>." and "I understand how [inheritance|recursion|functional programmin
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Holy shit. Was looking at the pricing. > $1,037/mo > Billed monthly > 10 Concurrent builds That’s A LOT for 10 concurrent builds... I am sure the product is great, but that pricing is just a jaw drop. Probably a sign of “we a
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Is that a requirement? Let say a big startup announces to cease operation with hundreds of paid customers. I think it is totally acceptable for a short announcement like Mapzen’s, but with a seperate page about migration and refund. Then th
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I think that is changing, as more opening in Seattle, Washington, New York, Boston, Denver and Austin. If I am based in SF/North Cal, yeah, I am okay working in Bay area. Since Bay area is getting more expensive to recruit, companies s
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Yeah. In fact, I think psychotic prescription is a trial and error treatment. It sucks.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
> What's your solution for annoying sites that require changing your password every 3-12 months, and not reusing previous passwords? If eHunterG8 becomes eHunterG9 and then eHunterG10, how do you remember the number you are up to? G
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Thank you. Would you mind to elaborate a little more with perhaps a little pseudo-code snippet?
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by yeukhon 9y ago
> In the example given, suppose you wanted to replace the database with a nosql version. Now you have to throw away or modify your tests even though the behaviour of your system has not changed Well, not really. Because now I have the DB
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by yeukhon 9y ago
> It was fine until they wanted separate accounts on the same service and it failed. When it comes to designing a system, I try my best to prioritize this way: security, privacy, and finally usability. A product with the best user-exper
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I am not sure if all physicans have adequate training on psychoatic drugs, but giving SSRI to a patient with both bipolar and personality disorder can have very negative effects. So if a non-psychiatrist prescribing antidepressant to someon
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by yeukhon 9y ago
True people do share. But you have to believe it isn’t. If your system already assumes email must be unique, then your system will make email field as a unique constraint. Otherwise what will you considered as unique? Phone number, however,
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Wonder if this has been considered: mixing English and “insert your langauage here”. Also, perhaps not so relevant in 10-20 years, but some folks like my grandma cannot speak mandarin. She can only speak local dialect, which is not covered
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by yeukhon 9y ago
> If more methods were written to not call out to disk or some external service (e.g., a database or API) and we had a main method that handled the external communication, then the unit tests would be much less fragile. I am not really f
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by yeukhon 9y ago
On #3 “slicing”, on a related note for Python, remember after a new list is created from slicing, each element/item in the new list is the exact reference to the corresponding element/item in the original list. This is espeically
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Mind to disclose the industries they are in? I am stunned by this!
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by yeukhon 9y ago
How is Netflix going to move off the cloud overnight? If this vulnerability applies regardless of where it is, what is the mitigation then? Move your machine to where? Your suggestion is not practical and you know it. The right mitigation i
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by yeukhon 9y ago
> Once there is disclosure then 100% of users can make the choice to take appropriate mitigation steps. And what are those mitigation steps?
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by yeukhon 9y ago
That’d be odd though. HR usually have no weight on the decision making. If HR does, I wouldn’t want to work there. I wouldn’t expect the legal team influences me hiring a junior developer. It is rhe manager’s responsibility to budget. HR &#
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by yeukhon 9y ago
> For better or worse, Apple is a smartphone company that happens to make computers on the side. Apple makes computer and operating system way before it entered the mobile market. The first part is right, but your second part is inaccura
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by yeukhon 9y ago
This is stupid though. macOS is the operating system for its flagship desktop/laptop devices. The lack of bug bounty on macOS (or even an invite one) seems really bizarre.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I suggest contact Google's Project Zero. I think those guys would love to help you...
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by yeukhon 9y ago
> We already have done tests for in-house testing but nobody wants to stick his neck out and tell IT to go away. So true, but in my experience, once you spread the words, other business owners will jump in like an infectious disease and
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by yeukhon 9y ago
WhatsApp and Wechat are now very widely used in all age levels for both work as non-work purposes. Not so much with Snapchat. Telegram is catching up and I feel it is contesting the space. WhatsApp lacks mini games, channels and stickers. I
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Ha! This means no one should take any user feedback! Ha! But nope, the parent comment was not meant for you anyway.

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