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Large company, performance is based almost entirely on feedback from peers and those you report to with check-ins every 6 months. Overall score from 1-5 with a 3 being "meets expectations" and the most common rating by far.

The problem is that the feedback from superiors seems to be weighted much higher so the peer feedback is almost useless so don't bother mentoring or helping someone get back in front of their tasking. This leads to a lot of I'm-working-so-hard theatrics instead of actually being efficient/effective and delivering product.

Combine this with "suggested targets" (quotas) for the number of people in each 1-5 bin, you end up with the usual stack ranking problem that getting on the shittiest project (and keeping it that way to ward off competition) and making it damn clear to your manager that they can't live without you is the best strategy.
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Or just use mercurial, and it's bundled right in by default :)
I'm not saying it isn't a problem, I just wanted to know if I was correct in thinking that it is only a problem the first time you compile each crate (or rather each version of each crate, I think).
Right, nobody pays /more/ than the published prices.

And prospective users can look at the published prices, and see that historically they've gone down more than they've gone up (although obviously that trend could reverse).

So people think they're safe from the risk of Amazon quadrupling their bill over night.

Of course, vendor lock-in can have other negative effects, but apparently people aren't worried about them, or at least think AWS is no worse than the alternatives.
Why are you sure of that?
You seem to be using a different definition of scrubbing than people talking about filesystems usually use.

Scrubbing means to read all the data off a filesystem and compare it against its checksums, so that you are confident nothing has happened to the data (hardware failures, cosmic rays, whatever).

ZFS and btrfs have specific scrub commands that do that.

There's no scrubbing available for a system which does not keep some form of checksum/crc/hash of the data.

I think that you are talking about secure delete procedures.
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Having negotiated both, AWS is negotiable within a range that is much tighter than the range for enterprise sales of Cisco, EMC, etc gear. (Or AWS has better negotiators, but I've never gotten a call "Hey, Qx is about to end and I need to hit my numbers, so is there anything we can pull forward" from an AWS rep.)
> he doesn't want pronoun choice to be enforced

That just makes him a dickhead that should be ignored.

> doesn't think biological sex and gender are distinct

Which makes him wrong, scientifically (his testimony to the Canadian Senate has him saying that because the vast majority of people express their biological* sex as their gender, it would violate causality to accept they weren't linked), and, because he keeps using this nonsense to push his "trans people are just SJW leftists trying to take control" rhetoric, that makes him anti-trans.

For more about the spectrum of biological sex (way more than 2) and the expressed biological genders that can result (more than 2, not necessarily matching the biological sex) -

http://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943
Concourse (which is a CI/CD system that orchestrates Docker containers) recently switched from btrfs to overlay to fix performance and stability issues.

For those with morbid curiosity on the many stability issues with btrfs as a container file system, this is chronicled in Github: https://github.com/concourse/concourse/issues/1045
10's millions of files should have been the ideal use case for XFS, that's why I installed it in the first place. This was for the 'reocities.com' project and by the time I realized what the problem was most of the import had already been done so I let it run to completion but it makes updating the project a real PITA.
That's a very good question, and one that I haven't seen answered in
a satisfactory way. People rarely think about this particular issue, much less
try to solve it. It's one of the reasons I consider SSH unsuitable for
unattended batch communication between servers.

What I would try is running just after installing a machine a registration
script that reports server's public SSH keys. Then it would be quite easy to
generate a system-wide known_hosts file on a server that would be used as
a jump host (sometimes it's called "bastion host"), or distribute it in any
other way.

Note that Puppet with its most popular deployment method, with master node,
uses registration process and reports SSH keys (and other information) back to
the master.
Is the current user-base an asset or a liability? I guess I am asking is it a kind of technical debt?

I'm not sure, and Digg is obviously the cautionary tail here on the "don't tick off the user-base" side, but I'd wager that to continue to grow, they need a little more mass appeal.

Reddit as an anonymous FaceBook Feed might have some real value, as both a value prop for people, and as retargeting for Marketers. Reddit knows that you browse, say, /r/atheism as a Mormon, or /r/gonewildasian as a single guy, and those are not things FaceBook may know. There is a lot of value in anonymous, on both sides.
Different subgroups. Replacement products are interesting for omnivores that want to get rid of meat in their diet. Omnivores that intend to remain such don't really care.
He at least did give information about the topic at hand

Edit: I apologize to the readers, this is not the right place for this kind of talk
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My memory may be wrong, but I thought several regions were affected by the recent S3 outage? Also, I suspect that if us-east-1 went down completely that that would have a debilitating effect on the others.
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But presumably, as copyright holders, Oracle is the entity that could try to enforce CDDL in court, in particular breaking the CDDL by mixing in GPL code in the same (ie: OS) distribution? Oracle goes: we bought Sun, and hold copyright to ZFS (also at the point of the OpenZFS fork) - RedHat could respond: we got a license - the CDDL - and Oracle could respond, sure - but CDDL isn't compatible with GPL - so you're in breach of the CDDL?
Considering the size of disks now-a-days, the chance of bit rot is high. And (I don't have the original source) on SSD, bit rots probability is higher still. So... ZFS and BTRF have meta-data as well as data checksumming. From what I've read, XFS may have metadata checksumming, but not on the data side of things.

I consider checksumming important. Do others? What is the solution? What other file systems offer that sort of capability?

Snapshotting is a second go-to function. Particularly when it is integrated into the LXC container creation process. (There was a comment elsewhere here which said LXC is on it's way out.... huh? what?)
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apt doesn't assume that you have a reliable filesystem. It assumes that you might crash at any moment, and it would be really important for you to have a consistent view of what packages are installed when you reboot.
Very cool post! :)
"Simple" method (good ol' spectrograms, and something people can realistically actually reproduce without requiring a GPU farm), and great results!
> If the Class A shares have no voting rights, and you want to buy the company, why even tender to buy the Class A shares? Just buy Evan's shares, at whatever price you and he agree to, and the Class A shares come along for the ride.

The Class A shares' owners will still own them, they'll still have rights, the company directors will still have obligations to them. If the company were to sell its business then the cash from that sale would belong to the company. If they then wound up the company they would have to distribute the company's assets (i.e. the sale cash) evenly among all shareholders. If they tried to sell the company for a low price and were paid separately by the buyer there are laws about that.
Indeed, I did this in the past through ffmpeg. Great tool!
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>due to a lack of focus.

And due to their competitors ability to advertise on the majority of people's home page. For most people, chrome wasn't a firefox alternative, it was an internet explorer alternative.
> they can if npm enforces the usage of TOTP for publishing.

So what is going to happen to all of the packages published before TOTP is turned on? Not to mention that there have been many cases where second-factors have been bypassed (even Google's authentication[1]). Which means I'm forced to trust that there are no exploits in NPM's authentication system, as opposed to trusting that PGP signatures are not broken. I know which one I would bet on.

As for dealing with PGP keys, come on. We all know that GPG's interfaces are bad for normal users, but all it takes to be able to sign things is:

% gpg --generate-key

And answering the interactive prompts. There are many tools that wrap this functionality as well. Once you have a key you can just write a single script and then re-use it (I would expect that NPM would also publish said script to make it even easier). I'm sorry, but if you are trying to develop software for other people to depend on, I expect you to have enough technical literacy to be able to run two commands and read some documentation. It's really not that hard.

[1]: https://shubs.io/how-i-bypassed-2-factor-authentication-on-g...
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It uses Ffmpeg for the video processing bits.
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Good point. I'm using Debian as my Desktop for many years. I don't remember a "botched" system package upgrade in the last 5 years, but i've probably learned over years how to handle dpkg/apt.

The atomic updating is a very interesting topic and the reason why i find ostree/guix/nixos very appealing. Note that neither ostree nor guix or nixos make use of filesystem snapshots, afaik. OSTree even documents why it won't use filesystem snapshots: https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual/related-proje...
Debians dpkg does not use snapshots as well.

So, it's a definitely a nice-to-have, but not something i need, because i can handle dpkg/apt much better then i could handle filesystem internals.

That's sort of the point: I don't want the complexity in the filesystem, but i am fine with it in userspace. I can use snapshots on filesystem level. Or i can use other backup tools in userspace. While it's certainly neat that the filesystem can do that, i'm perfectly fine with handling backups on another level.

Another example: It's certainly neat that there are a bunch of distributed filesystems (which by the way have A LOT of complexity and often can't handle all workloads you would expect from a filesystem). But i'd rather use either an S3-like network storage or build a system that scales well without relying on Ceph/Gluster/Quobyte/etc.

For example, in a hypothetical distributed system i'd rather use Cassandra and distribute data over commodity hardware then use Ceph. I'd rather handle problems with data persistence/replication on the cassandra level then debugging on file system level. Especially, when Cassandra has a problem i'll most likely be able to access all data atleast on the filesystem level. When my filesystem is borked, i'm in a much worse situation.
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Usually not having the ICP also means your site is dog slow and prone to being blocked at any moment.

Of course if your site is actually needed enough this rule kind of gets ignored. See: GitHub. They probably don't have an ICP license or plans to get one and yet it works really well in China (not even joking)
Very, very few businesses should be architecting to ensure higher than 99.95% availability, IMO. (Less than 4.5 hours of downtime per year.)

Users are patient enough to give you a pass if you're down that amount (especially if you're down that amount while 1/3rd of the internet is also down).

Our largest e-commerce retail site does over $1BB/yr in fairly high-margin sales and still targets "only" 99.95% availability (generally it exceeds that with actual results, but we don't target higher than that). It's a hybrid of on-prem and cloud services backing that, migrating towards the cloud, but will never be 100% cloud as we own and run factories with on-prem equipment.

(I know you asked "how" and I answered "whether", but I thought it relevant.)
Your question is not retarded at all. FFMpeg IS the best tool to build a Thumbnail extraction service.

Over-engineering is sometimes quite fun, though.
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Rest doesn't mean Json, just that communication is stateless. HTTP itself is a Rest API.

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A minor point: theatlantic.com isn't a British tabloid.
Maybe these structures are themselves a free market reaction to the misbehaviour of hedge funds and hostile takeovers messing with how a company is run. They only want investors who trust how the company is run.

I admit I have very mixed feelings about these kind of structures. On the one hand it feels like cheating, on the other hand I totally get why this is necessary to protect the company. Still, it basically means that investors don't really own part of the company anymore; they just have a right to its dividends, but need blind trust in how the real owners of the company decide to run it. It enables more autocratically run companies without any accountability to shareholders, because those aren't real shares anymore.
It's easy. Artists define a license for each track which explains whether it can be remixed.
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if in your mind he's doing a good job cloaking hate in free speech rhetoric, how can you be so sure that he isn't actually arguing the free speech case? Hate isn't a subtle emotion, and Dr Peterson's arguments are reasonable to those who aren't fully committed to the postmodern understanding of sex and gender. Both sides of the debate are perfectly reasonable to hold and the issue isn't in any way settled (at least in part due to how politicised the study of gender and sex has become) so to suggest that Dr Peterson hates trans people because he disagrees with the far-left narrative on gender is misguided at best. If you think his views are outdated then that's a fair criticism but it's not like the current postmodern perspective on the issue is old and well-established.
How could you possibly quantify "too long" when you can perform arbitrary computation at compile-time? How do you know the library you're using doesn't need you to compute and embed the first N primes in the final output?

At least if your type checker weren't Turing complete, you know it will finish at some point.
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The push from Adafruit at least seemed rather bizarre and cynical to me. All of a sudden, they started caring about the open-source status of hardware that predated the Arduino split and using it as justification for why Musto was evil and needed to go. This wasn't something they'd cared about before. Indeed, when Bre Pettis and Makerbot went against their loudly-proclaimed principles and took their 3D printers (which borrowed heavily from other's open designs) closed source while hiding behind vague statements, Adafruit's response was to post a piece that compared the people who criticised Makerbot to "fundamentalists" who "blow things up" and claimed to be defending "open source innovation and polite disagreement" by doing so: https://blog.adafruit.com/2012/09/21/in-defense-of-open-sour...

Honestly, ever since the Makerbot fiasco it's increasingly felt like the main principle in open hardware is what makes the right clique of insiders most money, and this hasn't done much to change my opinion on that.
This rule seems a bit more of a judgement than the previous rules were. I think "less passive" is fair.
I own a series 2 watch, the one with GPS and I really like it. I bought it not really knowing what I'd use it for but now I've got it setup for what I want I find myself really missing it when I'm not wearing it.

My main uses are telling the time, notifications from whatsapp & being able to see which meeting room my next meeting is in by glancing at my wrist.

I don't use any actual app on the watch itself. Its still to slow to really do anything, even if it was quicker I'm not sure reading twitter feeds / emails would be that great on it anyway.
I don't have a lot of use for the Apple watch myself, but it's been great for my wife. She, like a lot of women, regularly wears clothing without pockets that can hold her phone, and puts her phone in her purse.

Having your phone in your purse radically changes the value of the watch. She used to often miss notifications, and sometimes calls, that she couldn't hear or feel. And even if she did notice them, digging your phone out of your purse is considerably less convenient than taking it out of your pocket.
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Related, I used to jokingly explain mean-square-error approximation like this: there is this geometrical theorem, that you can drive a line through any three points on a plane, as long as the line is thick enough. So mean-square-error approximation is basically minimizing the thickness of that line :).
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Can they also "take on" legacy admissions? Why should someone get a better chance at going to college because their parents went to the same college?

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May I ask, any further details on the use cases or plain use of the networking landscape on your setup?
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Correct, Oracle would be in a position to do exactly that. Whether they do or not is another story but thats a pretty big liability.

Given they are discontinuing Solaris and all-in on Red Hat Enterprise Linux I can't help but wonder why they don't do more with ZFS on Linux and therefor wonder if the NetApp patent suits or some other patent suit is preventing them from doing anything in the background.

Many people don't realise that these crappy patent suits in the background prevent all sorts of really basic stuff, like the fact most things now bounce through a cloud server (like Facetime) because there's a patent troll for peer-to-peer communications. And it's causing total waste as a result :( It also seems likely that prevented facetime becoming an open standard as Apple original promised. This is only 1 example though.
Your criticism comes across as if you are only evaluating that one posting in a vacuum.

She has written essays on the value basis of architecture theory, like "MMH Does Architectural Theory Part 5: Empiricism & The Picturesque (Conclusion)" at http://mcmansionhell.com/post/161514422581/mmh-does-architec... . The second and third paragraphs are: "The architectural theory we’ve known and loved so far revolved around a Platonic concept of absolute harmony, or innate beauty, a concept the Renaissance tied to proportions in architecture. / However, what if it’s not proportions in architecture that make architecture beautiful? What if beauty really is relative? What if there’s more to great architecture than beauty alone?"

She has also written essays about the technical evolution of house designs, like the essay previous to this Montana one, titled "Looking Around: Transitional Plans", which is "about the detached houses that marked the period when the railroads were just beginning to expand, and resources started reaching more and more remote locations." http://mcmansionhell.com/post/163076545466/looking-around-tr...

Fundamentally, the blog describes itself as "If you love to hate the ugly houses that became ubiquitous before (and after) the bubble burst you've come to the right place." Her fans (including me) are people who like her criticism style, which mixes both general architectural theory and her personal taste and subjectivity.
How do you persuade people who have been using your services free to start paying $5 or $10 a month?

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Company: would you pay one Starbucks per month for it?
User: Nah

And there you have it in a nutshell. For all the handwringing, noone actually is willing to put their money where their mouth, ermmm, ears are.
It seems like "Enterprise" is synonym with "Technical debt"
I think it is definitely worth it. I blogged daily when teaching myself JavaScript, being open with the fact that I knew nothing and including things I'd learned that day and code snippets. It helped recall to get my thoughts and approaches down in writing, but also resulted in people chiming in with helpful comments on how I could improve. Eventually as my knowledge grew my posts actually ended up being helpful for others, too.
Brian Klug also. Both at Apple now.
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There's a fairly simple reason for that which is that ZFS (and btrfs to some extent) are almost literally "ACID" databases. They do alot of the same double-writes and other safe behaviour the database is also doing. Those have a penalty and you're doubled up.

There are various guides around for tuning ZFS and database servers to try reduce that duplication, for example you can disable the InnoDB double write buffer because ZFS guarantees you don't need it. You also need to tune recordsize to match the database page size so that you don't accidentally create large multi page blocks.
Ahhh, I see what you mean. Yeah, that would probably work. :)
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