space-monkey

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by space-monkey 15y ago
"That's just semantics." Exactly. The semantics is what the words actually mean .
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by space-monkey 15y ago
http://www.google.com/events/io/2011
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by space-monkey 15y ago
Most people don't upgrade their CPUs. Most people don't know what generation their CPU is from when they buy.
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by space-monkey 15y ago
The tradeoff is in that AZs are "engineered to be insulated" as opposed to being actually, or naturally isolated. Prior to their downtime, I've had plenty of conversations with folks that I work with about AWS and we've always assumed that
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by space-monkey 15y ago
They don't have to take it.
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by space-monkey 15y ago
And that's why they have multiple fully-isolated regions. Availability zones are a purposeful tradeoff that provides easier to use service with higher inter-zone communication performance and lower cost.
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by space-monkey 15y ago
I'd go see that movie.
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by space-monkey 15y ago
It's not a huge restriction since GAE will happily spin up dozens of instances without any intervention if your load requires it. Getting multiple concurrent requests into each instance will make things like local memory caching somewhat m
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by space-monkey 15y ago
There seems to be a steady stream of these from ex-Googlers, which is frankly what I'd expect from a company of that size. What I'd be interested to know is what percentage of SWE's are leaving each year, and of course how do the people th
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Programming is not tedious, and it is hard. Listing instructions for the computer to follow is only 10% of the job. Most of the job is figuring out how to deal with complexity in a way that is economical, maintainable, and satisfies sec
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Not if x is negative.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Reflector is a great tool. They should charge if they can.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
You can't continue to get affordable insurance if you are continually making claims.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
I bought a Mac Mini and returned it last year. If it had cost 1/2 as much, I wouldn't have returned it. It just didn't do enough for me to justify the price. If something turns out to be worth less to you than (the return value - time an
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Last time I heard, twitter still uses MySQL for the statuses (tweets) table. They did have a plan to migrate to Cassandra, but didn't go all the way through with it. So I find it hard to agree with "you just can't scale those". It may be
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Agreed. These are good places to start because you can just start building and learn as you go. Once you start building, you'll figure out what you need to be reading very quickly.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
And IIRC Oracle had been actively attempting to exert this degree of control, to the point of interfering in infrastructure changes that project contributors wanted to make.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
I believe you can enable billing and leave your cap at $0.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Frankly, the great thing about leading edge datastore development right now is that it's all over the map. Many of them will fall off the map over time, but having a couple of additional models to add on to the current great RDBMS tools ca
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by space-monkey 16y ago
It's not legally harassment, but it's definitely not calm, rational, productive communication either.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
And the 32-bit address space generally has some space reserved for the kernel, so more like 3GB per process, depending on the OS.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Be unfortunate enough to get seriously ill without medical insurance.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
I see over and over again that "Relational databases are not easily scalable. It will require a lot of efforts to build a scalable and redundant setup." I would like to see more mention of how many users/rps/etc you can handle with a maxim
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by space-monkey 16y ago
I'm curious what the latency impact is, and how that compares to more traditional high-speed routers.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
If it were "ideal", it wouldn't be game-able. I'm not going to claim that this ideal is possible!
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by space-monkey 16y ago
"if Heroku simply spawned a new instance (they're already running on EC2) for each customer, wouldn't this be mitigated?" Yes, but that'd cost a ton more than what they're doing right now. Consider the number of apps that they are hosting
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Google is probably right to not go down the hard-coding path. Hard coding the offenders doesn't work. You block a domain, they changes names. You block an IP, they switch to AWS so that your choice is to block all of AWS or not block the
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by space-monkey 16y ago
Agreed. My ideal search engine wouldn't require real websites to play in the SEO arms-race to beat out the junk sites.
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by space-monkey 16y ago
"You'll never go back to school - The statistics don't lie on this one: people who take terms off are disproportionately unlikely to finish up, even if its only a couple classes." Is this just evidence that once people start working, they f
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by space-monkey 16y ago
You could let the user designate a charity and get friends to pledge donations if the user meets their goal. A smaller charitable gift may go a longer way psychologically for some folks, and it may be easier for them to get their friends t

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