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Rackspace, Indymedia, 2004. Ancient precedent by now.

Ah, see, should've given 'em to us! Big rectangular state, you know, #3 machine owner at the time. We didn't charge overhead, probably because it never occurred to us to do it. Peo…

Maaaaaaybe ID 10150136890464739. Maybe.

Imagine it as "I want to have a http://foo/~me/ type path where I can park 5 TB of stuff and other people can fetch from it when they feel like it". 5 TB of data made available, no…

If only there was something that broadcast the availability of services including the port they're on...

I wish I had taken a picture of that shirt before it had been run through the wash a few times. It used to look a whole lot better! But yeah, that video was epic, and it was spot-o…

Yes please. People trying to discuss those topics on here makes me come back less. It’s probably the worst part of the site for me overall.

Happened on the Golden Gate Bridge in 2007. No Teslas involved, naturally, but people sometimes do honorable things to stop an otherwise runaway vehicle. > Beatty took bold and imm…

No, I’m the one missing something. It tends to make people assume I don’t know what’s up technically. Based on your experiences, I am going to assume you are not in the same situat…

Ah! You are in fact correct. It's so long ago, I screwed up the term for it. ExpressCard it is. In the words of everyone who's ever done a small fix, "reload".

I may never understand why some places are all about assigning titles and roles in this kind of thing. You need one, maybe two, plus a whole whack of technical skills from everyone…

I see someone linked my post earlier (thanks!) but hey, I thought of a few more based on your request. 3583: BASIC bytes free on an unexpanded VIC-20. 38911: same idea for a C-64. …

In the earliest days Java was this thing that showed up in your browser and caused it to just wedge hard (blocking the UI, even) until things got started any time someone decided t…

Note: across multiple machines.

I suspect a lot of these extra steps are not contributing positively to the product. If two solid people could get the same result and there are two dozen people on something, wher…

If you're allowed to call a multi-node setup a "supercomputer", then how about 3 40 machine racks of Xeons where each one is dual-socketed, has 12 DIMMs per socket, and is using 12…

Google hired me in 2006 (then 11 years of experience) as a 3. I didn't know any better at the time, partly because I was coming into the valley from the rest of the world. I didn't…

I guess deliberately 500ing requests through conscious inaction wasn’t good enough?

Did we work for the same company?

Sorry if this makes everyone feel older... but the 2000s, 2010s, and now 2020s... makes three distinct decades.

And yet, if your car had a 3G telematics system involved (the SOS button, among other things), you’re out of luck next year. They’re doing NOTHING about it. They sold 2017 cars wit…

FB's phabricator went its own way long ago. I imagine this has exactly zero impact on their day to day. Put it this way: the last time I saw it, they still had the "clowncopterize"…

"This doesn’t sound like something we would want on the front page of the NYT." is a reference to the training you get while working there. It goes something like this: "if you wou…

Nobody's ever cared about the stuff I made never happen by being good ahead of time. They've only ever really cared about the fixes to stuff that blew up. It helped that whatever b…

I definitely screwed that one up, and it's slightly different now. I was going for one of those voiceover-y "not having attained X, they went for Y instead" approaches and it fizzl…