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I agree. Who runs arbitrary code in a JVM these days? We have real hardware based virtual machines now, making this irrelevant. Back in the day Java JVM was the best way to run unt…

Yeah same here, can somebody find us a pirate bay link?

For the love of God it's not the traffic its lack of public transport. Once you hit a certain density CARS_DONT_WORK . Having lived in NYC, visiting LA was a joke. The first thing …

What we seem to be running into, is that any strategy based on trusting some sites and not others breaks when very large groups of sites have opposite opinions. Depending on your s…

Seen the pictures of guys in boats floating out in the kamiokande? I always thought it was the coolest looking experiment. I was really sad when all the bulbs broke years back :'(

Are they? This news saddens me greatly.

Fake news is just a new version of spam sites. They mostly exist to make money or enforce an agenda. People figured out that Google's algorithms could tell when things were general…

Does that change anything I said? All this marketing doesn't seem to lead to anything tangible unlike similar releases from other big companies. It's just fluff. I'm aware the IBM …

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/0... Not the FBI per se, but it shows that someone is clearly attempting to compromise TOR users. Also there's been whisp…

If anyone had one it would be Google :)

Can somebody tell me something cool IBM actually does for real besides run softlayer? I'm so tired of endless waves of marketing bullshit with no substance. At least when most comp…

You can see from this that google considers text earlier in the page more important. This page is odd because the false answer is presented first, so google fails to see it. It cou…

I'm no wizard, but in writing blog articles I've found ways to fool Google into believing me. The problem with their algorithms.... is that all that statistics in the world can't h…

You should remember that the early cloud unicorns are getting super low rates for their name clout as well. Their discounts are passed as extra costs to everyone else. So while it …

I believe the truth is somewhere in the middle. The hype will eventually die down and we'll see some kind of equilibrium. I've been experimenting with "cloud over" where I only use…

Google ran on desktop computers for a long time. If anything, the cloud is less reliable than individual machines once were. You have no control over when or why one of your VM's g…

I know it's a controversial opinion. And probably not even true in a lot of cases... but I'm glad it sounds like I'm out in left field. The echo chamber needs a devil's advocate an…

Possibly outgoing bandwidth. These costs are directly proportional to traffic and regularly 20-30x the unmetered rate for a colocated box

Running on rented hardware is the equivalent of a traditional product company renting all of their factories. Almost any company of reasonable size will want vertical integration o…

There is nothing hard about running hardware. The current VM trend gives you bare metal access. the only difference is you have to plug in your machines, and you get to look at the…

So everyone says the cloud is the future. I get it. But is this the truth, or what all the tech giants want people to believe? Don your foil hats for a moment and listen to me. All…

What? I've never run a parallel op on the GPU but I do on my CPU multiple times a day. GPU acceleration besides games is still extremely rare. You're grasping straws here. You're a…

I never understood this logic. Investors want unicorns but it's not like they're going to hate you for only giving them a 5x ROI. Most startups either fail or become small business…

I will never take startup advice from investors. They care about your company and their money, not you. Of course they're going to tell you not to worry about giving more of the co…

You can mix the hash with a salt that the attacker doesn't and cannot ever know. This is pretty standard and prevents the leak of timing from revealing anything about the hash. The…