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That wasn't the point. Is the network really "slower by orders of magnitude" than disk? Why is using the network such a silly idea, considering network speeds are more than keeping…

Isn't he replacing disk I/O with network I/O, and unless you are talking about SSD isn't the network faster? http://serverfault.com/questions/238417/are-networks-now-fas... Doesn't…

Not sure that the message really has sunk in. The way to a good reputation is to be good and exceed people's expectations. Not complain that the world isn't a good judge.

I'd go further than this, if this is confusing architecture with development. This is not to say that a senior developer or systems engineer could take on an architecture role: but…

In our neighbourhood we've been calling working with particularly difficult legacy code software archaeology: where it's not not clear what some piece of software was supposed to d…

If copyright were just to protect the investment of a company in development of an artist or product I'd broadly agree with this argument. Where copyright seems objectionable to me…

I'm sure "where am I" is next

Being disingenuous won't increase market share, especially when the press jump expose it as hogwash. Microsoft would do better to get rid of the people that produce this trash and …

I remember people being pretty sceptical of android when it first came out, and it took time for the issues to be ironed out. If google are going to use the same gameplan, then the…

I find this unsurprising, companies don't resort to court before having a conversation. Even if the conversation is I think you should pay us licensing. The court actions are born …

Is this surprising since chrome uses a sandbox model, It is firefox's apparent memory leaking that's the worry.

An illustration of why some of the software industry wants to be more like the music industry and why the music industry doesn't want to be like the software industry. Imagine if y…

Also worth looking into tcmalloc: http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html Which comes with tools: http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/heap_checker.html http:/…

My understanding is the use of Open was used before this by Symbolics and possibly other lisp machine manufactuers. I'd argue too that their systems were more open, where the user …

Doesn't north korea have a "private internet" and it's rubbish: if you're centrally managing content it's not an internet.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is more about Twitter's other customers rather than Twitter's attitude to Google+. There are many who would pay a lot to get one over Google.

If tax is for anything it ought to be to help the less fortune in society. Once you start discriminating on who is the most deserving of basic medical society you have to start que…

Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051967

This appears to be an interview problem, possibly to determine how candidates think. It reminds me of stories like this: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

The specification ( http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-file-format.txt ) reads like this format allows the application of a chain of compression "filters". Perhaps the most interesting, and …

A competitive marketplace is proving better than stagnant monopoly. Long live the competition.

Seems a superficial argument, C++'s features have not been added into Java to create Scala. Even the Java community is pushing Java7 in a direction with richer features, except the…

Rather than going it alone it sounds like you ought to be partnering with someone. Studying IT even at a higher level courses aim at giving you a grounding in the subject, I'd imag…