deirdres

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by deirdres 5y ago
Basically anyone who washes their hands frequently (ie all medical personnel, food handlers, etc.) or does manual work with ungloved hands (including home gardening) can later in life have fingerprints so abraded as to be unidentifiable. Us
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by deirdres 5y ago
Very true! But it's a lot warmer and the day/night seasonal change is not so extreme.
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by deirdres 5y ago
I'm told (by tax specialists) that nowadays the situation is that you pay the taxes in whichever country has the higher taxation rate, but nothing in the other country. That will be fine - I'm ok with paying higher taxes when I&#x
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by deirdres 5y ago
In 1999 I was earning $135k from a US-based job while I lived in Italy. Thanks to the tax treaty, I did not pay US income tax on the first $85k of that, but I paid Italy for it. I paid BOTH COUNTRIES on the remainder. Lost over 55% of my in
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by deirdres 5y ago
Ah, but the weather... yes, I know it doesn't rain as much as people think (I've been there at all times of year) but it is awfully dark for awfully many hours in the winter.
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by deirdres 5y ago
Both of us had good-to-great health insurance in the US thanks to our employers. But there's the rub: it's tied to employment, and if you lose your job for any reason, you either do without or pay (very expensive) COBRA. In Austra
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Bpftrace for Linux 2018(brendangregg.com)
268 points by deirdres 8y ago|21 comments
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Does success in the Silicon Valley come from silence?(openbubbles.com)
3 points by deirdres 10y ago|0 comments
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by deirdres 11y ago
Having met a number of Netflix employees (and knowing one extremely well), I don't think this is actually true. YMMV.
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by deirdres 11y ago
Sexist, homophobic, etc. speech or behavior is less and less tolerated in most serious office environments, not least because it opens up a company to harassment lawsuits. That being the case, I wonder what all the very big serious companie
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by deirdres 11y ago
Forcing adults who would automatically think "trucks for boys, dolls for girls" to think about their choices is, in itself, valuable. As a child I was given dolls because I was a girl. I had absolutely no interest in dolls. Nor in
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by deirdres 11y ago
If the child is too young to express a preference, you don't need to choose between (eg) dolls or trucks - baby toys need to be primarily something that can't hurt the baby. If the child is old enough to express a preference, you
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Netflix on an NES(gizmodo.com)
117 points by deirdres 12y ago|26 comments
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by deirdres 12y ago
For those who missed today's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9121015 because it got downvoted (wrongly) for being a duplicate: accompanying blog post and video now available: http://www.brendangre
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by deirdres 12y ago
The previous discussion refers to the slideshare and did not include the new blog post and video.
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Linux Profiling at Netflix(brendangregg.com)
17 points by deirdres 12y ago|2 comments
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by deirdres 12y ago
For those wondering "Who is this guy?" - you can look up his engineering qualifications and contributions elsewhere. My experience of him personally, in two years spent looking across our desks at each other, is that he has intell
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by deirdres 12y ago
LOL. Exactly. When you don't have any good response based on the merits of the argument, attack the presentation. This tactic is very familiar to those of us who call out sexism or racism: "You should be nicer when asking for your
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From Clouds to Roots: Performance Analysis at Netflix(brendangregg.com)
3 points by deirdres 12y ago|0 comments
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The Model Specific Registers of EC2(brendangregg.com)
79 points by deirdres 12y ago|8 comments
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Linux Performance Tools at LinuxCon North America 2014(brendangregg.com)
4 points by deirdres 12y ago|0 comments
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Strace Wow Much Syscall(brendangregg.com)
3 points by deirdres 12y ago|0 comments
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by deirdres 13y ago
There was a good deal of discussion about this in an earlier thread about the slide deck: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7291877
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Now with video What Linux Can Learn from Solaris Performance, and Vice-Versa(joyent.com)
1 points by deirdres 13y ago|1 comments
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by deirdres 13y ago
Video now available: http://www.joyent.com/blog/what-linux-can-learn-from-solaris...
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What Linux can learn from Solaris performance and vice-versa(slideshare.net)
151 points by deirdres 13y ago|63 comments
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Detecting Outliers: The Six Sigma Test(dtrace.org)
4 points by deirdres 13y ago|0 comments
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by deirdres 13y ago
At this point in the history of the CDDL, it's very much open to question what anyone's motives were at the time it was written. It is likely that the various parties involved - even within Sun - had varying motives: Sun, like any
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Revealing Hidden Latency Patterns(dtrace.org)
4 points by deirdres 13y ago|0 comments
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by deirdres 14y ago
That's covered in Brendan's recent talk at SCaLE 11x, also currently on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5310719

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