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by zzzcpan 7y ago
So old broken networking tech (Jini and Javaspaces) over a fast reliable local network (a grid) in 2001. How could this knowledge help anyone with fault tolerance, high-availability, partitioning/sharding, CAP consistency/availabi
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Walled gardens for extensions is also a big problem. Maybe web browsers will finally be forced to give up that control because of all this. Personally I would like at least user freedom to choose extension stores for themselves.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Flagged your comment for this. You should at least glance over my comment history on distributed computing before attacking me on things you don't understand.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Cloud computing in hardware is oxymoron.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
For software development jobs across Europe you typically make at least as much or more in cheaper countries, as salaries are not significantly lower. Things are not in your favor for other fields though.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
What do you mean by that?
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Sun Microsystems literally invented geoclustering! They didn't. Not that any of it is important anyway. All 80s and early 90s networking tech was ridiculously broken, which should be obvious, since distributed systems field was ju
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
There is more, they couldn't even survive the age of the internet and distributed computing.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
He says everything in the control room was pretty routine, no misdeeds, no risky experiments, no drama, no questioning of orders, no worries as unpredictable behavior of the reactor happens, the reactor was just poorly designed. After the e
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Because they didn't seem to know any of the simple and nice ideas from distributed systems to solve pain points of managing space, since adding, removing nodes, sharding/partitioning is something you have to figure out pretty much
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
I guess I rephrase: they didn't do any of the distributed systems stuff necessary for the cloud if people so desperately want to call all the network stuff they did "distributed systems". Technically they were distributed sys
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Ignored the internet in terms of distributed systems, which I assumed was obvious from the wording. Look at that 1994 paper, none of the things in the paper show any background to build a distributed key-value storage or really anything for
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Well, they showed only very mildly bad stuff about the Soviet Union. It was much worse than that. Millions of people were affected, not just in Pripyat. They were kept in the dark, they were not allowed to take vacations, they were lied to
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
All of this experience is pretty shallow and completely irrelevant to distributed systems in the age of the cloud computing and the internet. For some reason Sun ignored the internet and didn't move into distributed systems at all. So,
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Technically speaking, they were quite far ahead of the curve. While VMs were all the rage, they were shipping container-based products > The technical abilities of the Joyent folks were well beyond just about anybody else for a long
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Have we considered the possibility that this is what a mature liberal democracy looks like? It's not a mature liberal democracy, maybe it was one time. It's just that power always tries to acquire more power and obviously any
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Like what's the message here ? I guess the stand is for different audience with audiophile-level fanaticism towards Apple products or for organizations that don't care about the price, but definitely not for mass market.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
Status symbols have to be visible to others, not hiding behind the monitor in private. It cannot be a status symbol.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> You need to be self sufficient but also be willing to reach out proactively when you have problems It's not that different from sitting in a cube, at least for software development. It's just threshold when something becomes
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
But megacorps hire in such volumes that it's simply not possible to ensure any quality at all by any measure. It's all just random people that even perform worse when put in a corporate environment. So overall it's below aver
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
While you can't block volumetric attacks on the server, this is something a hosting provider can help you with. Some have automatic volumetric DDoS detection and protection, like OVH, and some might be able to ask upstreams, internet e
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> With Microsoft switching to Chromium, Firefox is now the only viable I'm not sure I understand your point. Is there a public statement from Microsoft that they are following Google on this? I don't know what Microsoft is goin
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
How about Github without a big corporation? Not controlled by Cloudflare, ddecentralized and uncensorable. Like bittorrent, but for git repos, issues, etc.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
HN crowd is not that open to opinions.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
But bigots are allowed to speak their minds elsewhere, in many many places, especially in private, hidden from people who don't like them. They don't naturally gravitate to any place that lets them spread their ideas. What I'
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> So what does it say that unmoderated platforms always seem to become sinkholes of bigotry? They don't become that. Or rather this is orthogonal to moderation.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
We can achieve a lot on top of unreliable components, buggy kernels, buggy firmware. Make unbelievably reliable systems. But can't, if we assume we can rely on unreliable components. This is what bad engineering is.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> when the store responds to a block write, it's going to be stable. That's the thing, you are communicating with your storage controller and these are just promises from your controller, not guarantees. Once you try to read th
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
It shouldn't be mind boggling, given that this guarantee is impossible to achieve. A little bit better or worse is not that big of a deal, still very far from 100%.
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by zzzcpan 7y ago
> Newspapers are meant to be a source of accurate, current information on topics that are relevant to the continued health and progress of society. They never ever meant to be that. They always meant to do one thing and one thing only -

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