Could be worse, can't see a new keyword yet
Readit Newsnowprovision commented on Announcing .NET Core 1.1 Preview 1 blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/... · Posted by u/wmccullough
nowprovision commented on .NET Core Tooling in Visual Studio “15” blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/... · Posted by u/hitr
What's the story with fsproj ?
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nowprovision commented on How DreamHost Builds Its Cloud: Selecting Hard Drives dreamhost.com/blog/2016/1... · Posted by u/kungfudoi
their shared hosting product is very, very different from their DreamCompute offering. completely different everything, aside from the datacenter space.
Same company same standards?
nowprovision commented on How DreamHost Builds Its Cloud: Selecting Hard Drives dreamhost.com/blog/2016/1... · Posted by u/kungfudoi
This is only my personal experience, bu I am embarrassed to report that I have been in DreamHost customer for over 10 years for hosting some small and unimportant personal projects. I have been consistently disappointed with the level of their engineering and systems. Their systems are unreliable, their custom build ticketing system is atrocious. I would take any technical advice from them with a handful of salt.
Yeah over the years they have had some major WTFs. Most recently one of their email clusters supporting thousands of customers went out for 9 days. http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1588201
I'd take the article with a pinch of salt, they admit they haven't got anywhere near capacity yet, and it doesn't seem like they'd done any real load testing before "final layout". They could easily go the way of most low end VPS providers, day one benchmarks look great and then a few months later when the node fills out and people start using it performances sinks with no lower bound to be seen anywhere.
nowprovision commented on Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx wsj.com/articles/amazons-... · Posted by u/cosmoharrigan
Hmmm this is a human problem at the end of the day. You don't get the wrong mail because of USPS policy.
When the mailperson that delivers your mail currently gets fired by USPS and gets hired by Amazon - do you think much will change in that regard??
I think Amazon will use the data. USPS operator probably fills in a paper form, it get stamps and then it get filled never to be used in any meaningful way again.
Problem #1: 90% of Twitter is shit [1]
Problem #2: It's expensive to support millions of users who post shit
Problem #3: Twitter's revenue base is too small for its cost base
Solution: Eliminate advertising and charge $20 per 1000 tweets. Free to read, costs a tiny bit to tweet.
People who post shit will disappear. People who have an audience and something to say won't bat an eye at this low cost.
If this weeds out 80% of the shit while keeping 80% of the good stuff, Twitter will simultaneously shrink their costs while growing revenues to become a sustainable business.
With this model, Twitter is a $1 billion per year profitable business [2] with a much higher signal-to-noise ratio. [3]
Improve the signal-to-noise ratio and Twitter becomes THE place to be for all kinds of communities. That means a return to growth and higher rates per 1000 tweets.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
[2] Start with 200 billion tweets per year. 90% are shit, and 80% of these go away, leaving 36 billion shitty tweets. 10% are good, and 80% of these stay, leaving 16 billion good tweets. 52 billion tweets in total, monetized at $20 per thousand is a billion bucks a year.
[3] Signal-to-noise ratio before is 1:9, after it's 1:2.
Disagree, I don't follow people who "post shit", I follow a few hundred people in the tech space (developers, devops, VCs, CTOs etc..) that I think are interesting (and dont post shit) and thus my twitter feed has very little overall shit. You curate your own feed based on who you follow, if you don't want to listen to whiney SJWs, or people twisting every word of Hillary or Trump then don't follow them (or unfollow them)..
nowprovision commented on Linux can’t be installed on a recent Lenovo laptop reddit.com/r/linux/commen... · Posted by u/makaronin
The version of linux he used does not have the right drivers! simple.
You're missing the point. The mode of operation is defined in the BIOS, and these parts have been deliberately disabled. Whilst in theory it's true that Debian could potentially release a version in the future at present due to delibrate crippling in the BIOS (changed firmware to disable features) one can not even workaround this.
Acer used to do something somewhat similar on some Aspire models (disabling option to enable Vx at BIOS) so using VirtualBox was a no starting, but with some creativity and long winded efi vars mounting and fiddling you could get it working or break your system, not soldering though :)
I'd be interested to see how it pans out Lenovo community admins are worse than Acer community. At least with Dell I find a few engineer on Twitter and ping them..
A fews things I wanted out of CouchDB years back:
- faster bulk indexing
- space reduction, I think a simple couchdb to psql json was 1/10th of size
- ES6 or even ES5 - * its been a few years since I last looked but I remember you had to tread carefully - Object.keys maybe was one?
When I started with CouchDB it wrong choice for so many reasons, client had <30gb of data, couchdb was cooler than node.js, and I was frustrated with SQL Server. In hindsight sticking with SQL Server or Postgresql would of been better - older/wiser today.
And that's what Google, Facebook, and Amazon, at the very least, have done: bought fiber, hired network engineers, and designed things that work efficiently for them. If YouTube is 90% of Google's traffic, it's not surprising that Google's network looks like a CDN. Amazon wants to interconnect their AWS datacenters to lower their internal traffic costs. Facebook wrote a new routing protocol (Open/R).