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DDR-3's bandwidth is about 20 times SATA-3's.

I'm sure people will make SATA SSD's.

There is an architecture revolution to be had, but it isn't as easy carving off a high speed bus from the CPU and turning your database speed up to a factor of 20.

If the write lifetime is a million writes, at 10ns/write you can burn that up in a millisecond.[1]

Maybe you trust your server hardware to last for three years.[2] You get about 38 writes per hour. I hope you aren't syncing a critical chunk of data once a minute.

So you have an insanely fast, nonvolatile store, but you can't just write to it willy-nilly. Let the engineering begin! (I'm sure it has for some people.)

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[1] Malware can be expensive in a hurry. A couple quick loops and you can ruin 1000 blocks/second.

[2] If you have less than a few dozen servers you end up playing quality roulette. You have no idea which models from which vendors are going to hold up, so you make a guess based on reputation and price. Sometimes you are right, sometimes you are wrong. Sometimes you have a 50% mortality in 6 months. When you get a model that works well, by the time you know it lasts, you can't buy it any more. My strategy was always to buy a batch, run them in non-critical positions for 6 months to screen for early failures, if they were good, move the critical functions to them, but then get off of them before the age related failures begin. Three years was about my limit.
Interesting that you consciously chose to be more "outgoing". I believe that (ex-)introverts still have less need for others. Do you believe that your needs have changed too, e.g would you be OK if you went back to living like an introvert tomorrow as you did in the past or would you be overly depressed about it?
According to Tim Cook's company email on the matter, they do.

The fact is, you can't just pour money over the place and see what comes out of it. Especially in a country like China, and with multiple factories sizing in the range of 100'000s of workers. Hundred fscking thousands. This is the same order of magnitude as the whole of General Motors, for a single factory. The whole thing is architected to be able to reconfigure itself to produce whatever the demand needs almost overnight. This is incredible. There is no single country out there which has such a powerful tool. It's of thermonuclear scale, when the US tries to fight with a bunch of Winchesters (and even smaller countries like France are battling with swords and bows in a stone castle). Even if you're Apple you can't come in cash in hand and say 'Okay folks, this is not how we want things to work here' and re-architect the whole thing in a day. As you said they're in the best position to use leverage and I think they're doing it but moving such a huge block needs a freaking huge lever, and time.
Well, it is the Sun we're talking about here. It does have a very specific target audience.
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I think he means the area as a whole- that is, if you were an investor visiting various startups, you'd be bouncing between SV and SF, and in between. In NYC almost all startups are based in Lower Manhattan- you could walk from office to office.
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We're not offering a window to the past but: http://wheresitup.com/ has some nice geo features.
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If you want to get out of the echo chamber your best choice might be "none of the above". Both NYC and the bay area are fishtanks.

You see ads for location-based services and you always see a map centered on SF. Well, I can say I never felt dumber than the day a friend and I were using a "smartphone" to look for lunch in SF and it kept sending us to places that were closed and we kept walking past places that were open.
Those guys are screwed now.

Refusal of access means that they'll never get in on the visa waiver program and any employment in the future that might be with a multi-national will be limited by their ability to travel. They just won't be able to enter the USA without going through an arduously long process every time.

I've been telling my friends for the longest time to moderate everything that they say on the internet, in private and in public. Little of it will be used in your favour, and all of it can and will be used against you.

It's not far from the way you would have to think if you were living under the Stasi. You'd have to think about how your public actions could be perceived, and you'd have to consider whether you trust any present parties for private actions.

The biggest difference between people today and people under the Stasi is the awareness of it. Those under the Stasi knew to change their actions.

The only thing to which these two are guilty of, is a failure to understand that this is not the world they thought it was.
Nope, fast fuzzy search is closer to find than grep since it looks for files. But it requires less keystrokes and precision, allow you to be lazier. It's a much more fluid experience.

I still use grep a lot while using ST2, but I use it for other purposes.
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I am a sysadmin, and frankly no book will teach you sufficiently.

Either you use Linux all day every day for some time, or hire someone to consult with you. That's my opinion anyway from years of consulting with people :)
Proving the lost costs would be a case of saying we made $Z per day and were off line for Y days, Z*Y= lost revenue. Add to that compensation for lost data for end users plus an arbitrarily large figure for lost "goodwill" in the business and punitive damages. Lawyers are good at this sort of sum as they usually get to stick a few 0's on the end of the figure they come up with.
Antarctica isn't really a hot (no pun intended) vacation area. People go there to work and conduct research, but there's no hotels or resorts.

Besides Canada, the rest on your list don't scream "freedom" or "welcoming to foreigners" to me. I'm not saying Cuba isn't an interesting place to visit, but a Cuban vacation isn't really comparable to a US vacation in terms of sight-seeing and luxury.

Though as an American, my viewpoint of Cuba might be skewed. There's a lot of unwarranted and false anti-Cuban propaganda in this country, it makes it hard to tell the truth from the lies.
I'm a competitive powerlifter, and to me the most awesome thing about going to the gym on a regular basis is that nothing I come up against in a normal week is going to be as hard or as mentally taxing as what I do in the gym. It's helped me put my life in perspective and to realize that no matter what happens outside of the gym, it's nowhere near as hard or as awful as it seems.
I did mean in the hosted case. I want a web hook.
I am going to assume you are not American and that this is an honest question.

Yup, you guessed right.

The Americans I've met here in Sweden have been pretty homogenous as a whole, didn't matter if they were from SF or Kansas or Boston. They all seemed like liberal-minded europhile people. Then again, heavy selection bias.
Don't worry about, or apologize for, being pedantic. I rather enjoy it.

While I appreciate your point about the literal meanings of the words "introvert" and "extrovert," I would submit that the axis around which both personality types hinge is not so much approval-seeking in specific, but rather, stimulus-seeking in general. Hence, my point about introverts needing or seeking less social stimulus, and extroverts needing and/or seeking more social stimulus.

In the case you cite:

"You can be a very social person and have tons of friends etc etc but at the end of the day if you are not too affected by other's opinions about you then you are an introvert."

This is not wholly correct. Introverts can be affected by others' opinions, and indeed, some are very affected. I do agree, however, that it is entirely possible for an introvert to be sociable and to have a lot of friends. Conversely, it is entirely possible to find extroverts who lack social graces and thus, can count few friends.

On the whole, however, I believe you and I are more in agreement than disagreement. I think we could both agree that the words have been twisted and overused demotically. And perhaps we'd also agree, as I believe, that the division into the world of "introverts" and "extroverts" as binary personality types represents a somewhat primitive and unsophisticated view of things -- regardless of how we choose to define those words.
French national who visited Canada a few months ago here. I crossed the US/CA border with only a small backpack ( I left my luggage at the bus station ) and the US border agents after the Rainbow Bridge where fun and welcoming.

It wasn't the case in SFO, after a 12 hours flight from Paris, the agent was OK but far from welcoming.
No, that's slang for orbital bombing.
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Well put, although I'm not quite sure "optimism" is the right term. Is it optimistic or egotistical for every SV engineer to believe that they are capable of creating a company worth a nine-figure IPO or acquisition - or, alternatively, that they can personally increase an established company's bottom line by a million a year? Somewhere in between, I'd guess. Partly it's overestimation of the market, partly it's overestimation of the self. Either way, it does seem to be a difference between SV and elsewhere. SV entrepreneurs believe they can succeed because it never even occurred to them to believe otherwise and of course nobody else would suggest such a thing. Entrepreneurs elsewhere are generally more aware of doubts and concerns, but consciously intend to prove the nay-sayers wrong.

Is one approach or mindset better than the other? It's tempting to say that the financial success of SV validates that approach, but I don't think that success occurs in a vacuum. Could those SV companies get where they are without past contributions from MIT or Bell Labs, current ones from Austin or Seattle? I don't think so. An army needs more than one kind of soldier, an industry needs more than one kind of company, and just because SV seems to hog all the glamour doesn't mean other places are somehow lacking.
http://gogs.info/books/debian-mail/chunked/

This one was written by me, for Debian Squeeze...
Any possibility of open-sourcing?
The latest xkcd[1] sums it up pretty well.

[1] http://xkcd.com/1010/
Also tried it. The editor itself is great and very fast, unfortunately the org-mode clone is much less than the original.
It doesn't have to be either/or, too. A combination of both might make him even more productive than one or the other. However, if diet and exercise are proven to be effective, they will likely have better long term health benefits than consistent stimulant dosing.
It's the same with clothing. Demand for fashion is extremely fickle, but the supply is relatively fixed- the stores order their inventory ahead of time and what they don't sell they have to put on clearance, send to TJMaxx, etc. And like flights, that trendy four-button blazer has a "shelf-life."
This sentence is false?

You seem to be contradicting and confirming your parent at the same time.
At this point I'm scared to comment...
If nothing else, this was great to watch for the delectable geek humor.
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If you want to get out of the echo chamber your best choice might be "none of the above". Both NYC and the bay area are fishtanks.

But if you want to get funding you're better off in the fish tank.
Just becasue something is in the ToS does not make it enforceable or legal, this usually applies when the Terms are sufficiently unfair or too broad, I would not knwo the specifics here but the point remains that just because they details it in the ToS/Terms and Conditions does not make it binding. I am sure that someone who had a premium account (i.e. paid for a service) that lost significant data could pursue a legal claim with a suitably friendly legal team, i.e. happy to take a punt in return for a share fo significant damages.
Let's just say it hits close to home.
> Instead it should eliminate taxes on unsold physical inventory

As the article says, Thor wasn't about tax on unsold physical inventory.

The company had inventory at cost $X. It decided that said inventory was worth $Y, for X>Y and tried to write off X-Y as a loss. The IRS said that the company's reason for deciding that the inventory was worth only $Y was bogus.
I'm the complete opposite. Early in college I got into powerlifting for fun (not competitive). Once I got into the working world, my days got harder and my energy disappeared. Getting up at 5 to hit the gym made it really difficult to get involved with what I was working on all day. I tried switching to going at night, but the thought of working all day then hitting the gym was unbearable.

I'm really glad you see it as the hardest challenge of your day and are able to keep that mindset all week, I really wish I could do that. Instead for me, it's just one more taxing and brutal aspect of my day. I love my job and I love lifting, but for me it's one or the other...
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All this is fine, but I definitely need a debugger with a gui
I'm not sure what you mean by a 'web hook.' Can you elaborate?
You may find this interesting:
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Yes, that is the standard DC license plate.
It depends mostly on the size of the data you'll be using. Pages containing code are usually few in comparison with pages containing data. The biggest hurdle is to prevent 100 little processors from starving - the memory bus will either be insanely wide or insanely busy.

I'll have to do some math to find out how many cores could fit into a single chip provided each core had, say, 2 GB of RAM to itself, behaving not as a processor in a single-image but as a node in a distributed computer. We could even provide it with a more interesting memory architecture, with the lower 2GB being non-shared and the rest of the memory space being drawn from a shared pool of memory, with chunks allocated exclusively to any given core.
Kudos to you for daring to confront your problems.
First I'd like to try re-release with a new architecture. If that does not pan out I'd be open to releasing the source.
Is this story really true? If so then I am amazed that hackers could be so naive at all.
I concur. Labels add no value and hold people back from improving their lives.

Dealing with groups requires one set of skills. Dealing with solitude requires another (with much overlap).

If you don't have skills for one situation you will avoid it. Once you acquire the skills to handle it, you'll be able to handle either. If you can only handle one now that doesn't mean you can't handle the other, it just means you haven't yet.

When you have the skills and experience to handle one situation you will enjoy it and look forward to it, either one. When you don't you will not look forward to it and feel anxiety or fear from it. You don't have to be stuck that way. The same with any other set of skills.

I once didn't have skills to handle groups. Now I do. Labeling me an extrovert would have held me back from learning skills and gaining experience to handle groups. I was anxious and afraid of going to the gym before I started going, but I wasn't a non-gym person. I just had to build up skills and experience.
I've heard good things about http://prgmr.com/ and they have 5/6/8/12 -dollar tiers.
The GNU /bin/true is almost certainly complex enough to qualify for copyright.
I wish I knew how to express my dismay at the pointlessness of this article and its presence on the front page without being down modded.

"Regular exercise has psychological benefits."

This is news? Give me a break.
You can get a PCIe solid state drive today with speeds higher than SATA3 can provide. Here's one with a read speed of 12.5 Gbit/s.

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodrive-3-x2-max-iops-pci...

Device controllers used to be divided between a northbridge (memory, video) and southbridge (pcie, sata, usb, etc), but in the latest generation northbridge components are integrated into the CPU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northbridge_%28computing%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southbridge_%28computing%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_5_Series
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If nature is a woman (rather than a collection of stochastic processes), then she is a strong argument against letting women into the same building as a computer.

This along with the following paragraph come across as somewhat misogynistic. I'm sure you didn't mean it to. Saying "person" instead of "women" would have avoided that.

I liked your description of nature's methodology as a development process.
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Oh. Right. I assumed a socialist setting. My country (France) has a welfare system (unemployment, retirement etc…), so part of its taxes are directly redistributed.

Note however that direct redistribution isn't the only way. For instance, the infrastructure (like roads and schools) benefits many citizens. You can reasonably equate such benefits with "a bit of wealth". So it is still a form of redistribution of wealth.

I don't think wealth redistribution can easily be separated from state.
I've heard quite a few people knocking virpus for unreliability and bad support, though I've never used them myself. http://www.lowendbox.com/ is a good resource for cheap VPS information, though be aware that I wouldn't put anything "production" on just one (I have a couple of cheap VPSs that playthings and some non-sensitive off-site backups go on, but anything of any import does not just go on one of them). Also, be wary of "burstable RAM" - more often than not it is far more trouble than it could possibly be worth (the feature might make sense in an environment where you know the likely use patterns of the whole host and its guest OSs, but it just causes problems in a shared environment IMO).
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It's more urban/rural than North/South. The average person in Athens (Georgia) or Atlanta would get along fine with someone from NYC. I get weird looks (probably mutual) when I go much deeper into the exurbs of Atlanta. And it was like traveling to a different world the times I went to south Georgia and out of state by car.
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That's the sort of discussion I'd love to hear. There's surprisingly little about the privacy ramifications here of somehow associating real people to an online account.

Granted, the tech exists. Google has been doing it for a while now. Anyone who's gotten the little "is this you?" thing when doing a search knows what I'm talking about.
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Same here. I have an $8/mo prgmr.com VPS and a $10/mo. Rackspace cloud instance. Both running Ubuntu LTS with similar options, but the Rackspace box has more disk and is generally more responsive.

Given the "I'm gonna break something" feeling I get when using the Xen console on prgmr coupled with my desire to kill and rebuild VMs regularly I'll probably just stick with Rackspace in the future.
I've found that the higher level the test (i.e. unit -> integration -> functional) the better they catch things, but the harder it is to figure out what broke.

For instance we had a rule at a place I worked, where we needed to have 80% unit test coverage. And what is described in this article happened. Anytime we'd make a small refactor, we'd have to go update 3-4 test libraries. And if it was a big one, then you have a lot of tests to update. And since some were complex (or since there were a lot of them) people didn't dig into that much. When people finally did it sometimes showed the test wasn't even testing what it was supposed to anymore.

The other issue is we had a lot of bugs around the integration of data. For instance if the DB class returned back an empty array vs null vs empty string. When we did the unit test we mocked it to return what we thought it should, which may not be the correct one. Integration tests better caught this, functional tests even more so.

It seems a lot of shops don't use tests at all, now working at places that have done both, I'd rather error on the side of fewer tests, and do it smart instead of hitting a metric and assuming your code falls into line.
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I was going to say the same thing.

If they're going to use "tweeter" as a information source, they should as least get it's name right.
I'm usually on Fedora, but I barely have to touch anything.
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Each time I recieve an email, I would like my app to parse and then POST the email to a web server in real time.
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Even if I don't trust the justice system in the US I really hope that the FBI will fail their investigation and will have wasted a ton on money on this. Even better that they are found convicted of wrongfully use of power or something approaching that.

(I never said that Megaupload is innocent though, but I like well followed procedures, they are the guardians of our liberties)
The comment about excelling really rubs me the wrong way. I wish he would check finishing times for some local races, see how much the powerlifters at his gym are lifting, or visit a local Crossfit affiliate. Where did he get the idea that it is so easy to "excel" these days? The word can be used without an object, but it is inherently comparative. The gym provides me a lot of satisfaction and physical benefits, but comparing myself physically to other people is a not a benefit but a pitfall. It's the one thing at the gym that can ruin my day. "Why do I come here? I will never be like that guy... or that guy... or that guy." I will never be 6'4" and have an eight-pack. I will never squat 500 lbs. I will never have a killer Murph time (look it up.) I will never qualify for the Boston marathon. Well, that last one I could perhaps do, but only by giving up many other things I value more highly. The impulse to excel argues against working out the way I want, which is to work out three times a week and enjoy the health and appearance benefits.

So I will continue to go to the gym, reap the benefits, and try to keep my impulse to compete in check. Be warned that excelling is not something you simply decide to do as a third or fourth passion. It's best not to compete and expect to win against people whose first priority is fitness when your first and second priorities are something else.
Google has PR people too: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yanw
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