kmasters

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by kmasters 13y ago
I want to apologize for my earlier downvoted comment by saying that, I only said what anyone in a software organization would say. eg your boss. If you dont know how to run DNS, then your the wrong guy to be running it. Dont come out in pub
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by kmasters 13y ago
Dont care about DNS, its your problem, fix it and stop whining about hackers.
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by kmasters 13y ago
Real journalists put people on the spot. Their (the subjects) feelings dont matter. Go watch some 60 minutes Mike Wallace interviews. If they can charm their way through the interview they win. If they cant well then we can all think abou
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by kmasters 13y ago
This really only strengthens AWS, a self service cloud that anyone can manage. IBM is chasing a dying consulting model "we know best". But they dont. You yourself with the knowledge can outscale IBM using AWS. IBM's business is profiting f
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by kmasters 13y ago
What "countermeasures" has the US "installed" to prevent suicides? Just because they aren't occurring in a sweatshop makes them no less real.
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by kmasters 13y ago
In all sincerity please dont refer to Java and Android in the same sentence. As far as Google is concerned, Java does not run on Android and you might be bearing witness to something that Google disclaims.
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by kmasters 13y ago
I dont think the media "gets it wrong", although they do endemically, I think that media is reflective of ourselves. If we dont see a threat, we dont react. If we dont see a threat the media wont react to it either. This can operate in rev
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by kmasters 13y ago
I wont discredit your experience, however, I have been a consultant in several 64 bit shops, linux and solaris who had 64GB servers who could not scale above 8GB due to OOMs. Also remember that if you are on linux doing that 28 GB heap you
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by kmasters 13y ago
I look at this a little differently, Im not going to opine on the character of the CEO or his employees. Besides raw economic factors and the trend-happy game industry, I think its worth it to ask: What on earth are we building? And why are
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by kmasters 13y ago
It seems the implication of the article is to say that we have potentially drawn the wrong conclusion on "which straw" broke the camels back. And that if we drew the wrong conclusion that somehow this might impact or could have impacted the
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by kmasters 13y ago
There are many use cases for which EC2 is exactly perfect and not overpriced. As a consultant recently I was tasked to build a service which (rather not say), I had good data on requests per day, total data storage, factored in ELB, etc. Th
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by kmasters 13y ago
Twist isn't solving a fake problem anymore the many services trying to solve the problem of hailing a cab. That said, sometimes I think it would be nice if a lot of these micro solutions could be aggregated into macro solutions ;)
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by kmasters 13y ago
The trick is getting your company to pay for it and run the JVM on top of their VM. But yes, that's where I was heading.
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by kmasters 13y ago
While the JVM has an excellent garbage collector (maybe the best on the planet), it's performance is linearly degraded by the amount of memory a process is using. If you go into any Java shop (which is where I live) and try to run a highly
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by kmasters 13y ago
Wow thank you for that!
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by kmasters 13y ago
Do the news outlets that that quote Steve Jobs bio incessantly have to pay Walter Isaacson to do so? I have read so many print articles on news sites from the book that Im sure I have read it by now. I kind of wish media would stop reprinti
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by kmasters 13y ago
The headline is a little misleading. What SFLC is saying is that patent licensing agreements are orthogonal to enumerated license terms of the GPL. The construction of a patent claim has little to do with the license terms of the source. S
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by kmasters 13y ago
Im confused by the use of the occupy lingo. Is occupy just a meme now for any protest?
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by kmasters 13y ago
Hm. Am I reading into this or is this article suggesting that we "help" the Iranian people avoid their governments censorship by setting up encryption and Tor nodes? Are we to believe that folks in Iran trying to avoid the govt dont have t
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by kmasters 13y ago
Funny you should post this I saw the exact same thing. What seems to be happening is that Yahoo is starting to source links from a ton of different sources in the news feed. They have even started to include Onion stories and there was a s
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by kmasters 13y ago
Staring at traffic for 4 hours a day is no way to treat oneself.
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by kmasters 13y ago
Thats exactly what Ive been doing. Every day isnt a party but I worry that the culture of software shops has changed in ways that I will never be happy in a software job again. And I hate pretending Im OK with stuff Im not OK with. Its go
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by kmasters 13y ago
Its actually OK. I write code when I get an idea. There's worse things than being bored. At least Im not spending my time checking facebook all day.
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by kmasters 13y ago
Im bored.
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by kmasters 13y ago
I dont think TechCrunch is right on this one. Automation is not putting people out of work. The failure of future reward for a lifetime of effort is turning careerism on its head regardless of your career field. Ive been a software engine
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by kmasters 13y ago
I hesitate to add to this conversation if thats what this is. I've seen alot of comments saying that "if RMS can post his opinions then we can post ours" Thats completely true, its also completely juvenile and unnecessary. RMS is a controve
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by kmasters 13y ago
From bitcoin.org Bitcoin is not anonymous Some effort is required in order to protect your privacy with Bitcoin. All Bitcoin transactions are stored publicly and permanently on the network, which means anyone can see the balance and transac
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by kmasters 13y ago
I didnt mean that the second wouldnt have to be redefined at all only that if it was defined in metric, it wouldnt be any more or less prone to adjustment (which I though was the first comments point) than our current system which is inaccu
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by kmasters 13y ago
How can you possibly make an argument for not caring about failed deployments? "Skip over", "do it again", "its fast". You can't possibly be talking about deployment here. Deployment is the result of moving tested, proven, known working ar
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by kmasters 13y ago
I agree its a little bizarre, but as for the length of days, changing to a metric equivalent wouldnt really require changing the length of a second would it? We have a fixed system right now and when its off we just say this day is a minute

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