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"That's just semantics." Exactly. The semantics is what the words actually mean .

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Most people don't upgrade their CPUs. Most people don't know what generation their CPU is from when they buy.

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 fol…

They don't have to take it.

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 perf…

I'd go see that movie.

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 ins…

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'…

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…

Not if x is negative.

Reflector is a great tool. They should charge if they can.

You can't continue to get affordable insurance if you are continually making claims.

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…

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 h…

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.…

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.

I believe you can enable billing and leave your cap at $0.

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 addi…

It's not legally harassment, but it's definitely not calm, rational, productive communication either.

And the 32-bit address space generally has some space reserved for the kernel, so more like 3GB per process, depending on the OS.

Be unfortunate enough to get seriously ill without medical insurance.

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 me…

I'm curious what the latency impact is, and how that compares to more traditional high-speed routers.

If it were "ideal", it wouldn't be game-able. I'm not going to claim that this ideal is possible!