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Well, it's possible to make the deduplication work with Glacier, though. Colin's right that you want to phase versions of the whole tar into slower and cheaper storage, but the tec…

I think that iXsystems' support of PC-BSD is something like an attempt to do that, but it seems like they're not doing much workstation stuff these days, whereas previously they we…

Devices being used in a kiosk-like or other setting in which they are mostly not being used by people who would be responsible for activating them?

The filename refers to NCFTA, which might seem in context to be http://www.ncfta.net — perhaps some bit of intel that's widely-traded in NCFTA circles for various uses? I mean, hey…

I'm not sure I see how this is in-keeping with any Unix philosophy I've encountered. "Everything's a file" is good, yes, but this program is needlessly-specific when what it does n…

Now that we can see what a results page looks like, it seems like something more than a sorted list of numbers might be interesting. I mean, there's not enough data collected at th…

Alright, so the obvious thing would seem to be to have a pool for HN readers, right? http://www.salaryshare.me/10ffcd6db9cf188be1a1175de8ff8f3d

Your problem is actually with the organizers. You don't care a bit about random venues except for where organizers of events you are likely to attend decide to use them, I would gu…

Well, Amazon is making news because we can naively assume by looking at a summary that they're doing it the same way they make money — by working in volume. We can estimate pretty …

Two hours of travel round trip to go to, what, an hour of class? And that's alongside however far one has to drive to work in a day. So maybe you can get away with doing that one d…

I think when you say that you pretty well reduce the vision of programmer culture in the US. How much cypherpunk influence is there in the wide swaths of programming culture that c…

Can you expand on "shows its age"? Code entropy doesn't increase as a function of time alone. An ANSI C "Hello, World!" from 1990 doesn't show its age in the context of C today, fo…

99.999% confidence.

Note the use of the word "accessible" in the original post. This is not a synonym for "pretty" or some way of demanding a particular aesthetic style for its own sake. The reality i…

The FreeBSD Project has elections, and is in short order going to announce a new Core Team.

Only function pointer types. An indirect function call on some architecture, for example, could require that when one makes an indirect call one sets up several registers in additi…

For the set of features you have, with most calling conventions on most platforms you don't need to synthesize all that. You could simply have your apply function be written in ass…

How do you feel about the reported performance of "SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 5;"? Is this something that needs to be improved there, or are you happy with that bei…

This seems like a silly point to pick on. Why is the MBP so thin? Because of design considerations and the desires of the target market. The design considerations are a serious com…

It's a common financial strategy among the fabulously-wealthy. Selling shares would incur all kinds of taxes, but he can get a line of credit with a reasonable interest rate quite …

The proliferation of new TLDs is already, quickly reducing some interesting shibboleths of the web. In a few years, young audiences won't be expected to realize how awkward and sil…

At one point it seemed to me that the prices were sorted by the listed retail price for that particular item, and not the lowest offered price for it, or something along those line…

The article already did. I think it's useful to support the guy, as someone who agrees with him, by cheering this as the actions of a real person that should be a source of pride, …

Looks like Seagate: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9922065 .