quantumf's comments

quantumf | 2 years ago | on: In 2024, please switch to Firefox

This extension alone is sufficient justification to shift to Firefox.

quantumf | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

Wow, what a great idea. This is incredibly fun.

quantumf | 8 years ago | on: Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web

This setting is not available in my Facebook video settings.

quantumf | 8 years ago | on: Principles of Sharding for Relational Databases

I think you're understating how tough it can be.

There are applications that

  * are mature and complex

  * with 100s of tables

  * serving millions of users

  * have to be broken into multiple micro-services

  * have developer resource constraints

So you're easily looking at a 1-2 year project, not 1-8 weeks.

You've also ignored some of the complexities, such as resharding (moving data between shards), which may significantly add to the cost of the project.

quantumf | 9 years ago | on: Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters

These perspectives are very negative. An alternative view is that there are tons of interesting problems and projects and applications to be worked on, and to some degree at least you get a say in which ones you work on.

quantumf | 9 years ago | on: Arrested by Undercover Officers After Trying to Sell His Laptop Online

USA has 93%. Both figures include plea bargains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate

quantumf | 10 years ago | on: Oracle finally launches Elastic Compute Cloud, 9 years after Amazon debuted EC2

This gets no comments? Oracle cloud engineers will be a little disappointed I'm sure.

quantumf | 11 years ago | on: Why Inequality Matters

So Gates wants heavy taxes on consumers, but no taxes on entrepreneurs and philanthropists. Interesting. I wonder which of these categories applies to Gates?

quantumf | 12 years ago | on: Bitcoin hash-rate exceeds total computing power of all the world’s computers

ASIC's consume very little power compared to a PC. One watt per gigahash is a rough value, although most promise quite a bit less. You'd need about 100 PC's, at 300W each, to produce a gigahash, using the assumptions in this article.

quantumf | 12 years ago | on: REST Client for Google Chrome

Typing the below

GET XUsername:ADMIN https://localhost:443/resources/myresource/1 HTTP/1.1 Host: target

gives an error in the REST: "Your request contains errors"

quantumf | 12 years ago | on: REST Client for Google Chrome

Could not figure out how to add request headers.