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I think it's nothing, pointing out we shouldn't be wasting our time figuring out useless poster puzzles that have little value to our work?
They likely ran through their stock of replacement units for warranty issues, too. I reported mine defective and have an RMA to send it back, but it's been a week and they still haven't shipped the replacement.
I'm pretty maxxed out on ingesting hyperbole from the deluge of punched-up linkbait/SEO'd articles over the past few years.
Dell bought an existing company.

Cisco bought an existing company, and the product is stagnant.

Citrix bought an existing company, and the product is stagnant.

F5 went to Linux many years ago

Juniper is still FreeBSD. They win this one ;)

NetApp has a port to Linux, but is still shipping FreeBSD. 50/50.

Nokia/CheckPoint went to Linux (SecurePlatform)
I don't understand. It's a wiki. You have a collection of plain text files with markdown or something. There's a web server. The webserver expects html.

How does the text get converted to html? What provokes the process? Do you just initiate it by hand having changed the plain text files? If so, what's the difference between a wiki and a static web site?

I don't understand what you're trying to achieve, and why you're calling it a wiki.
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Ruby package management comes down to bundle install.

The packages with C bindings I always run into are Oracle and MySQL libraries. On OS X this is easy. On Ubuntu it is a bit of a pain.

That's really about the extent of the pain.
I didn't see the thread either, but I like this post. I think the best way to go about starting something large and ridiculous is to tell all your friends and family you're going to do it, to the point where it would become embarrassing if you didn't even try to make it a success. Friends and family are the best at calling you out on not living your dreams.

"Hey Gaius, weren't you going to build a Cylon detector? You talked about it for months"

"Yeah, but it was too hard and I didn't know how to start"

"You suck"

A more practical benefit of telling all the people you meet is that one of them might know or be associated with someone who is connected with the industry.
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> Most of the things that are not in the package repositories for your distro is going to give you a hard time (6h install time might be reserved for extreme cases tough, if you are a seasoned linux veteran).

Honestly, how often does that really come up? This is one of those horror stories that I always hear people (particularly BSD users) telling, but I've never had problems of this sort[1].

I run a distribution which doesn't use deb/rpm packages, and I compile things from source all the time. The vast majority of the time spent is the sheer compilation process, not debugging any local problems.

The only times I've had issues with binaries are with sloppily compiled executables - and it's not worth complaining about those, because there are a hundred different ways that sloppy code can be incompatible with two different systems running the same distro.

A static

> Btw, I suppose the problem is the same between the different BSDs.

Yes, and frankly, if you have a piece of code that is architected to work on at least one Linux distribution and at least one BSD or OS X, I have a hard time imagining that it would fail on other Linux distributions as well.

If it's not "cross-NIX", then it's probably something that only makes sense in the context of your distribution anyway (say, a patch for your package .manager) or a small, one-off that is easily modified.

[1] Problems, sure, but not problems arising from distro variation.
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Thank you for this. I can't believe anyone would applaud this mindset. For some reason we seem to applaud extremist views here and don't stop to think about how practical or unhealthy they are. There's a small minority of the population that has found success in being extreme in some way but we are not those people. We want to be though. We want to be the Steve Jobs or the Elon Musk or the Richard Stallman that has these eccentricities, these rare and extreme personality traits, these strongly held views and model ourselves after them all the while thinking "if he can do it, so can I" and duping ourselves into believing these things are okay. That we'll be the lucky ones who are able to pull it off. And when someone with a little star power like TBray says something like this we want to jump all over it because we believe that this will help us make it to the top and be like them.

But it won't. These people have some great advice and knowledge to share and I, like the rest of us, are more than willing to take it in and implement it but an article like this is dangerous and not good advice. But it's hard to recognize that when it comes from someone prominent because if they're so successful and they think like that then logic dictates that if we do it too we'll have an advantage, right? Not always. Each of us perceives the world differently and we gt by in our own unique way. I guarantee that if any one of us normals became prominent figured and successful in startup culture then there'd be stories and legends of some obscure thing we do that made us successful. I'd also be willing to bet we write about some of those things and people would cling to every word, applaud it, and think to themselves "I've gotta try that!" whether it was a good idea or not. It's not that anyone is trying to give bad advice, it's just that we don't know it.
Actually it's far cheaper than even an equivalent Supermicro solution let alone HP/Dell etc. You are getting at minimum 2 Mac Minis in 1RU which as of today could be a 8 core Core i7 / Dual SSDs / 16GB RAM.

Plus if you want to upgrade them then you can put them on eBay and get 75% of the original cost back. Try doing that with a server.
"Draws sweet FA"?
I can totally relate to the author of this post. People say that ideas are the easy bit and that it's the implementation that is the hard part. Well, it's actually slightly different than that. Ideas are easy, implementation is hard, getting people the use it is nearly impossible.

You'd say; "then just make something that people want". It's not only the word "just" that's thrown around lightly. Even making something that people want is incredibly difficult. I'm slowly starting to believe that most successful websites are mere flukes, coincidences, being at the right place at the right time. That sort of thing.

I'd like to open a discussion here. You've made a side project, say it's a website, and you're interested in driving traffic to it. Other than relaying on posting a "Show HN", what strategies would you apply? Also, does someone has experience with paid strategies and is willing to share some pitfalls and do & don'ts?
it was when he started talking about using solder on a 220 VAC connection that I lost the faith in him knowing how to do it right.
I honestly think Derek's article slips into sarcasm at the midpoint and nobody is picking up on that:

Someone was rude to me today? My fault. I could have lightened their mood beforehand.

At least when I read this, the message I got is that it's easy to blame yourself when overthinking failures, but in reality it takes two to tango.

Your girlfriend dumped you out of the blue? Where was her communication? That guy that stole $9,000? He's still a thief. Those are things out of your control.
I wonder what part LG actually plays in this shortage. When you are producing a device for somebody else that is strikingly similar (as in sharing the exact same hardware platform) to one of your own devices, which you are selling for way more (with of course small but nonetheless important differences)...well, something just screams conflict of interest to me. I am in no way accusing LG of doing so, I'm sure they have had their contract with Google on this and followed it to the point, but still, something just doesn't feal right.

Uhm, well, maybe just my paranoia distortion field kicking in, I for one hope I am completely astray on this one.
Fascinating project. This is definitely HN-worthy.
I think it's cool that there's people who like and enjoy this.

...but for me personally, this is just kind of weird. The dishes seem exotic just for the sake of being that way. The presentation reminds me of nouveau cuisine mixed with the results of an abstract art class, and I doubt the food would be very pleasing to my palate. It reminds me a lot of my literature classes in high school -- works that are odd, disturbing things that you had to have some magical "property" that others don't to really enjoy.
Nice touch with the ellipses...
I'm a proud owner of a Mini Server (slightly customised - replaced memory and primary disk with SSD) for over a year. I use it as my main workstation and I love it; So small (and relatively cheap including the upgrade), yet so powerful.
12 games in 12 months
Thank you for including EMET. I was about to post about this.
I'm doing this with Arduino. We should talk.
The machine you quote (Mac mini: 8 core i7 / Dual SSD / 16GB ram) does not exist.

The closest thing to it (Mac mini: 4 core i7 / single SSD / 16GB ram) costs $1499 from Apple.

Are you proposing that I can't get a dual i7 @ 2.6GHz, dual SSD, 16GB ram from Supermicro for less than $3,000?

I have a mini on my desk, but even as an Apple fan, I think you're off the mark here.
I wager that PG won't even reply to this one, unless to prove me wrong. It seems like one of those things that might not scale.
FA = "Fuck All"

It draws precious little electricity, in other words.
TSLA Puts seem to be priced with higher IV than Calls at the same distance for both near and far expiries (Calls at 120% vs. Puts at 80% of spot). I see Puts at strike $27 priced at 200% to 166% of the Calls at strike $41.

Options chains from Google Finance : http://www.google.com/finance/option_chain?q=NASDAQ:TSLA&...

So I'm assuming that the TSLA collar (unlike your other equity collars) is not costless. Or is it? Am I missing something?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, BTW. I'm just loving going through your comments on other HN articles!
I think hyperboles serve a purpose: they provide additional meta informations, generally about author's emotions. It helps to understand author's exact mind set and makes the text more enjoyable to read.

Edit: This Everything is my fault blog post is a good illustration:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4895335
I am currently using a cluster of Mac Minis as a server platform. Some benefits:

* Launchd is a massive improvement over the equivalent mess on Linux. This can't be understated if you are managing your own hardware.
* You can develop on the same machine you are deploying to.
* You have exactly the same toolchain as on Linux.
* Lots of remote monitoring options that are unique to OSX e.g. OSX Server
* The OS is stable and upgrades are safe enough to enable auto update. I could never do that on CentOS.

But really it comes down to hardware and resale value for me. 2 Mac Minis in 1RU is great value.
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The purpose is simply to give back and hopefully have wider user than ourselves to build a better tool besides our explicit use-case.

Since we're using AngularJS+D3+Symfony specifically, I figured others could at least learn the same way I did by seeing a real application using these technologies rather than the usual example apps.

The target audience consists of users like me, which need a simple live dashboard to see high-level metrics and tell (1) if anything may be wrong and (2) if performance is improved for a custom application using MySQL, Postgres or MongoDB.

It's not meant to be a BI solution like QlikView (which the company uses internally and is awful), but something light, embeddable, and doesn't require `for..each`ing custom SQL queries and mapping it to D3 just to make sure the last deployment didn't break anything.

I'm very surprised that users wanted something in PHP or as installable as Wordpress. The installable part is pretty simple, and most configuration is done on the client-side. I just wasn't sure if a Node backend would be more accessible to this audience.
Please don't melt holes into that material with a soldering iron. The plastic you are using appears to be nylon, and nylon releases highly toxic fumes when melted. In addition to the nasty smell, there are some things in there that can kill you before you notice them. I highly recommend using a drill and a small file to make access holes like that. It's faster, safer, and looks better in the end.
Except it's not actually disabled according to the article, and it's simple enough to make JIT play well with DEP (you just need to make an appropriate call to VirtualProtect before you try to execute the code).
Before the thread becomes cluttered with people suggesting alternatives or questioning why you wouldn't just run <insert manufacturer, OS, etc>, the person that did this replied the following:

simbimbo says:
December 9, 2012 at 11:03 am
Thanks for the great write up Hack A Day. I would like to answer some of the questions posted. @Geebles these machines all run SSD’s and I ordered them with AppleCare, so I hope to never have to change a drive ;-)

As for the reason I built this.. Well, I guess I’m just like a challenge ;-), but seriously, the company I work for has a need to have large numbers of machines to build and test the software we make.

There were plenty of discussions of Virtual environments and other “Bare Motherboard”/Google Datacenter-type solutions, but the fact is, the Apple EULA requires that Mac OS X run on Apple Hardware, since we are a software company we adhere to these rules without exception. These Mac Machines all run OS X in a NetBooted environment. We require Mac OS X because the products we make support Windows, Linux and Mac so we have data centers with thousands of machines configured with all 3 OS’s running constant build and test operations 24 hours a day 365 days a year.

As for device failure, we treat these machines like pixels in a very large display, if a few fail, it’s ok, the management software disables them until we can switch them out. This approach allows us to continue our operations regardless of machine failures.

@bitbass I tried the vertical approach, but manufacturing the required plenum to keep the air clean to the rear machines cost too much for this project, but it’s not off the table for the next rack

@Kris Lee When I open the door I can literally watch the machine temps go up, but I can keep it open for 15-20 minutes before the core temps reach 180F

@Adam Ahhh.. Nope, you can’t have my job ;-)
Nope, Google doesn't give them out. If you're an investor, don't worry, they're "huge" -_-
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Well, thanks for telling me what bothered you. I think I was just surprised to see the question of hostility being brought up at all. Certainly my words can be read in as many ways as there are readers, thus in my head that question was sort of off-topic so I think I didn't pay attention to how important it was to you and possibly others.

I am not actively or passively hostile to women, at least to any such extent that I can recognize myself or that can be recognized by my friends, so the whole matter simply hasn't been on my radar at all.
That is our view as well (that 8 is more coherent and complete, stable, etc.).

The problem is that it doesn't matter unless it has a long lifecycle with lots of minor releases.

You can't deploy on the x.0 release - a bigotry that we think is deserved given the results of 5.0 and 9.0. So you need to wait for .2 or .3 or so to be confident in the release at all. But then ... if .4 is as far as it goes, you've invested years of work and hundreds (or thousands) of thousands of dollars into just one more year of lifecycle.

So 8.4 would be a good sign, and 8.5 would be great, but we need a release that lasts for a good five years and runs up to the .10 or .11 or .12...

One of the links we just posted from that big thread (the second one, I think) is the proposal John made for picking a "long term release" every few releases and really committing both time and energy to making it last long enough so that serious investment can be made in it.

That's a two way street, btw - it's not just the ability to invest in your own processes and architecture, but the ability to invest back into FreeBSD. We've had a LOT of potential feedback and contributions that could have been made throughout 6 and 7 that just never seemed worth the time and effort given how excited everyone always is about the bleeding edge ...
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Indeed - or WatiN, the .NET port of WatiR. I've done some pretty heavy duty scraping and automation with WatiN, which included building a OO framework that trivialized writing scripts. Good stuff.
I hope you're kidding. Dated? It satirizes the cold war, the elements of which — deterrence, mutual assured destruction, espionage, minority factions which desire to provoke war, etc. — are still relevant, if in a modified form. (USA and Russia are no longer in a cold war, but there are plenty of nukes, and plenty of countries who desire them.) It's still consistently and widely considered a masterpiece of political satire.
Any idea when people down under might be able to try it out? Any other regions apart from Australia that are not supported as of yet, as well?
By the way, it's also exactly how orbiting works. The Moon and all the satellites are trying to fall down on us constantly, but they go so fast they actually keep on missing :).
Nice -- it's good to see something like this that has long been a natural niche for Perl.

See also http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/
Mac mini is hyper threaded so appears in the OS as 8-cores. The OSX Server edition starts at $999. Replace the two hard drives with two SSD ($200) and add 16GB RAM ($100). Now show me a Supermicro that will have two nodes in 1RU for equivalent price.

Then remind me how much it is going to sell in a year when I decide to upgrade. I guarantee that the Mac Minis would sell in a day on eBay.
And those books are...?

I've got a copy of Macroeconomics by Mankiw sitting over here that says you're wrong. So does the consensus on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly and to get right down to it Adam Smith, when writing of monopolies in Wealth of Nations, has a different definition than you as well.
Can you elaborate on that? In what ways do you (or anyone else who has played Ingress) think it will change MM games?

For example, is there a possibility it will affect future MMORPG design?
Why not use 2 racks?

This would solve his thermal dissipation problem and probably be easier when compared to getting custom hardware.
But I'm sure there are several other Mr. confluences out there with the same personal habits and commenting habits that are not loved! :-(

Just kidding, I love him, too.
I think the only interesting thing here is Gabe's definition of "very controlled". If it means fixed hardware is acceptable. If it means walled garden with no root or unsigned code - no thanks.
I wonder how many phones LG is capable of making at a given time? I know that Samsung can put out 5 million a month (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/18/us-samsung-idUSBRE...), but I would imagine LG cannot come anywhere as close as them, given the size differences in their mobile divisions.
Indeed. From here on in, I'll be using a dremel.
Why are they using still Challenge Response?
I wouldn't make that assumption. Do check return codes and load times, and back off if you see issues. If these sites are business partners/suppliers you have a lot to lose if things go wrong. It's worth it to develop your relationship with the business owners of the services you're touching in the correspondent organizations. And do set a User-Agent string that declares who you are and provides a link for information; if you are doing business with them, it should be on a basis of honesty.
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You have the best way, avoid such people. You can also expect the lying and mitigate it. With practice you'll have less of your time wasted. In some cases you'll learn to ignore it. For examples watch the show Pawn Stars.
Haha, I've used all of these "hacks" since 2006 :)

In addition, you can ask for "double wrapped," so they give you two tortillas. You can also ask for them to skew the tortillas a bit, so they are in the shape of a venn diagram rather than on top of each other. I've found that with this "hack," they will give you more food even if you don't ask for it. Well if you do... this happens:
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/430727_101513405...

You can basically get 2 burritos for the price of one. And don't say burrito bowls are bigger, since as you can see in the picture, the resulting burrito is larger than the basket.

This method + asking for extra everything except guac and meat is probably the highest amount of calories/$ you can get. I think it comes out to less than .4 cents per calorie, for a meal that includes most of the food groups!
Really spot on. Like, how the "cure" for a fissure in anno is to open another fissure on the side.

I am sure in 50 years people will see such procedure as barbaric.
I don't have extensive experience with Launchd, but what makes it better?

OS X doesn't have the same toolchain as Linux - notably, Apple doesn't ship anything licensed under GPLv3. This leads to OS X versions of common GNU tools being extremely outdated.

I do agree with the point about developing and deploying in the same environment. I do both in Linux for that exact reason; far fewer surprises when your deploy environment matches what you've already debugged.
Anyone knows how the the team without an idea is doing?
I lost countless hours reading through these catalogs as a kid. Great memories.
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Our current answer is that our platform is ZFS based, and given the muddy waters with Oracle and Solaris and so on, it's more responsible to deploy ZFS on FreeBSD.

But JUST BARELY. We've had our ZFS roadmap in place since 2009, and only just finally deployed in 2012. Our intention originally was to switch to Solaris, with real support contracts and contractual commitments and so on, but then Oracle came along.

So then we had to come back to where we've been all along, since the beginning of JohnCompanies[1] - with FreeBSD.

[1] JC deployed with FreeBSD since the first VPS product rollout was based on jail, so that was that.
It is a Linux box. Gabe said it.
Ever visited a poor country? There aren't many obese people in poor countries for one very obvious reason.
That's true. But doesn't that kind of sidestep the question?

It's always going to be a matter of opinion what constitutes middlebrow-dismissalness, so if we accept that then the question is really:

"Is it possible to automatically determine if this post would be judged in this way by this person (or group of people)?"

It seems like that's a question that has at least a possibility of a "yes" answer.