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Visual comparison of Foursquare check-ins before and after Hurricane Sandy(updates.gizmodo.com)
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
It's not a throttle, it's the "physical" capacity of the "interface". If you're on an instance with gigabit connectivity and you're doing 1 Gb/s of EBS I/O, other network chatter will suffer, probably fairly dramatically. That's why the hig
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Ephemeral is definitely not EBS, as its I/O does not contribute to saturating an instance's network connection (I've tested that). EBS has a ceiling for throughput (the instance's network throughput) and competes with your other network tra
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
> Well Objective C is a separate language entirely. Not quite; Objective-C is a superset of C. You can write pure C and compile it as Objective-C all day long. This is an important point because people think their C knowledge doesn't tr
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Diesel, on-highway in New England, is averaging $4.205/gal[1] (probably more in the city, especially more in a disaster situation). Applying your information to the above question and assuming they can get just shy of five gallons per bucke
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Ruling out a product and dismissing it based on projected ROI is not criticism. That would be called "making a business decision," not providing constructive feedback.
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
I didn't put words in his mouth, he wrote that they were lying to managers and possibly being deceptive. You also misquoted me, which is ironic given your criticism. Your postulation is unwarranted, by the way, since my posts have been goin
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
People who have never used software should be critical of "here's what our software can do with inexperienced hands, maybe you'll do better"? I'd much rather default to giving benefit of the doubt than assuming everything sucks before I've
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Dismissal is not constructive criticism. There's a sizable difference between "meh, nothing to see here" (which is the original comment in this thread) and "here's how this could be better".
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
I, like pg and hopefully other Hacker News readers, am pretty sick of every story about something cool being immediately derailed by a know-it-all in an industry dismissing the innovation as "not cool enough". pg calls it middlebrow dismiss
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
glibc's malloc() is known to be lackluster under parallel workloads. Alternatives do perform better in certain circumstances, but profile before making the switch -- your situation might not be one of them. It's possible to inject tcmalloc
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Oh, now they're lying? Care to back that one up? That's a steep accusation that you should probably reconsider attaching to your name. They wrote a tool to find things to parallelize. They parallelize them, the code gets faster. I realize t
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
All of what you say is wise, but the engineer doesn't work for the studio and isn't on Doom 3's release timeline. He made the game's frame rate 15% faster of his own volition simply because he could . So it's wrapped in a sales pitch, oh w
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
> Instead of spending 3 weeks wrapping data structures in mutexes for a 15% framerate increase, you could probably get an equivalent speedup by reducing shader detail, texture size, or any number of other options. I see why we differ in
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Came for the dismissive hand-waving that I fully expected to be the top comment and I wasn't disappointed. What's the improvement factor where you'd be impressed? 50%? 60%? It's remarkable in my opinion how little work it took to improve
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
> Neither the name “Markdown” nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/license
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Markdown is a specific implementation, a concept lost on the majority of the people in this thread.
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
> What both Jeff and Gruber bring to the party is profile. As the article points out, there are already variants of Markdown that fix many of the problems but it would seem none of them have gained traction. Sounds like the market has s
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
> Markdown is not some amazing patented invention that John Gruber is entitled to perpetual dictatorial rights to forever. Completely wrong. Markdown is John Gruber's creation, and he is quite entitled to perpetual dictatorial rights fo
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
That's precisely what we should assume, because it's the facts as presented. Inferring things that don't exist because they benefit the parties in question is a subtle undercurrent that drives the entirety of our fact-unfriendly blogosphere
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
I'd say you've discovered a hefty dose of speculation that lacks any evidence. You've also invented a false trichotomy. Those aren't Jeff's only three choices. The fourth one you left out is "make something new without shitting all over Mar
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Your comment reeks so strongly of entitlement that I don't even know where to begin. We could say Twitter was instrumental in organizing human rights causes in the Middle East and is now important to the human race as a communication tool;
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Actually, he lost credibility for not being a decent human being and e-mailing John Gruber first and StackOverflow is really irrelevant here. "Say, so-and-so, you wrote a really nice book but there are several errors in the first edition.
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Regardless of how much I dislike Gruber's opinions on occasion, Jeff Atwood is completely steamrolling him here and I really feel for him; it isn't an accident that Jeff blogged about it instead of asking him privately. You do that when you
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
> and made questionable use of the downvote button In your opinion. I think it was right on target. Complaining about downvotes is in the guidelines as something to be avoided, and predicting their onset is a slightly differently colore
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
> This should probably be rectified: hosting providers should be held accountable for unwarranted terminations as much as they are held accountable for hosting illegal content. A: Hosting companies are not held accountable for hosting i
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
> Since you bothered to create a throwaway just to post this It's one click to deduce that is certainly not the case.
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
That's a thin argument, because it really depends on what the startup does. There are plenty of turn-and-burn startups that have become mission-critical for other startups, I'm sure. Whether that's wise, well...
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Couldn't agree more with most of your points. Almost everybody defaults to assuming their broken Wordpress install is the provider's fault. I'm not sure that I agree with any company being beyond mistakes.
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
> The problem here seems to have been that ServerBeach didn't bother to make a phone call before shutting off the servers of a not insignificant customer. Well, two things: Most hosting companies don't call for anything, and most don't

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