aarghh | 7 years ago | on: A Brief History of High Availability
Banks and telcos both had database systems that had zero downtime in 20 years, in some case. Tandem Non-Stop was very real - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NonStop_(server_computers)
aarghh's comments
aarghh | 7 years ago | on: Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)
Microsoft
aarghh | 8 years ago | on: Divided by DNA: The uneasy relationship between archaeology and ancient genomics
Fascinating read. For a slightly deeper view of one of the more politicized controversies see: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/how-genetics-is-set...!
aarghh | 8 years ago | on: Brian Aldiss has died
I would contend that the genre has moved on in a stylistic sense, but is still pretty robust:
Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach trilogy, Finch); Ann Leckie (The Imperial Radch trilogy); China Miéville (Embassytown)
are three I can think of immediately.
aarghh | 9 years ago | on: Resilient cooperators stabilize long-run cooperation in Prisoner’s Dilemma
The most hopeful thing I have seen all week. On a slightly whimsical note, are you familiar with the legend of Lamed Vavniks from the Talmud? From the wikipedia article: "It is said that at all times there are 36 special people in the world, and that were it not for them, all of them, if even one of them was missing, the world would come to an end."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzadikim_Nistarim
aarghh | 9 years ago | on: Our Mistakes – Clover Food Lab
Sharing this because I found it interesting that a company is public about mistakes it has made/is making.
aarghh | 9 years ago | on: The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments
Speaking of window managers - is there a successor/branch of scwm (Scheme Constrained Window Manager) that is being maintained currently? I loved how that worked...
aarghh | 9 years ago | on: Mathematicians Are Overselling the Idea That “Math Is Everywhere”
Hmm - a counterargument would be to substitute "literacy for "mathematics" in the argument; literacy was elitist in its core historically (and still is in certain societies, unfortunately) - does that imply that learning to read is irrelevant for most people?
aarghh | 10 years ago | on: What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
Indeed - what I enjoyed and got out of this article is a fairly easy correlation to what separated good teams that I have been on from bad ones. I had classified the difference as "camaraderie" - but the idea of psychological safety is a little more useful. Camaraderie is the superficial outcome, while psychological safety is the enabler.
aarghh | 11 years ago | on: Uber cab driver accused of sexually assaulting woman in Delhi
OP here - I edited the title after submission to respond to that comment.
aarghh | 13 years ago | on: 52 Hertz: The Loneliest Whale in the World
Brought Ray Bradbury's "The Foghorn" to mind - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_Horn
aarghh | 13 years ago | on: Indus Valley Civilization’s Collapse Explained
Michel Danino's "Lost River: On the Trail Of The Saraswati" is a pretty good survey of this view of climate change and eastward migration. http://www.amazon.com/Lost-River-The-Trail-Sarasvati/dp/0143...
Edit: Edited for spelling
aarghh | 13 years ago | on: Why cheap customers cost more
It may be a good idea to make it clearer in your post that what you're stating is a reasoned hypothesis, and that testing it would be useful. It seems a reasonable claim, but absent validation the tone of the post seems too definite to me.
aarghh | 14 years ago | on: Selling a 300-Year-Old Cello
WNYC interviewed Elena Deblanco today - very poignant:
http://www.wnyc.org/npr_articles/2012/jan/15/daughter-auctio...
aarghh | 14 years ago | on: Verizon 4G LTE is down, nationwide outage confirmed
That is a good guess - the Home Subscriber Server is the authentication server in an LTE network. Short of this or a PCRF (Policy Server), I cannot think of any other single element that could bring the network down. Routing (as identified by another reply) could be an issue, but I would assume that 3G and 4G data use the same core network.
aarghh | 14 years ago | on: Eliezer Yudkowsky: Is That Your True Rejection?
Any statement which manages to leave out a reasonable self-identification that about 1/6 of the world's population - Asian Indian - would use, is a little suspect.
aarghh | 14 years ago | on: Nicholas Taleb: The Great Bank Robbery
You make the assumption that their re-investment is necessarily in the US economy.
aarghh | 14 years ago | on: My wife's and my holiday weekend project: A database of intro books
Seems to fail when you enter an empty string.
aarghh | 14 years ago | on: Save Bistro Elan
This is Kepler's all over again.
aarghh | 15 years ago | on: Cisco's CEO internal memo leaked
Cisco has instituted boards and committees for everything in the last few years. Besides layoffs and a re-prioritization, this memo also calls out the lack of speed and accountability that has resulted; I believe this is an indication that those structures are also going to be changed.