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New comment by istvan__ in "MH17 Report"

istvan__ — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:41:13 +0000

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Ground_Forces#Army_A...

"Surface-to-air missile systems and complexes of division level are characterized by their long range and firepower and are equipped with surface-to-air missile complexes;S-300V,Osa, Buk, Buk-M1 and Tor."

2. No they did not need to do that, it was enough to park it closer to the zone

3. I am not sure what is this gibberish about, I did not mention anything about SBU or anybody else saying anything.

Thanks for the downvotes, even when you are obviously wrong. It is just showing how much HN lost its way.

New comment by istvan__ in "MH17 Report"

istvan__ — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:52:25 +0000

They had few seconds to shoot it down. They had to coordinate very well to achieve this.

New comment by istvan__ in "MH17 Report"

istvan__ — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:46:15 +0000

This still does not prove anything, it could have been the Ukraine military as well, they have (just like any other ex-Soviet country) plenty of BUK missiles.

New comment by istvan__ in "Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip"

istvan__ — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 01:26:20 +0000

Amazon for a long time (maybe even today) used IRC for 1:N communication. I personally like IRC over anything else, but I am probably just too old... :)

New comment by istvan__ in "AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services"

istvan__ — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:29:31 +0000

MongoDB really? You are comparing a software product to a multi-region global data service? This is just not a great comparison. If you build a distributed global data service on MongoDB you could compare that to DynamoDB.

New comment by istvan__ in "AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services"

istvan__ — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:03:47 +0000

Yes it is without a date range. 99.999% / year means something while 99.999% uptime does not mean anything by itself.

New comment by istvan__ in "Chariot Wins First Round of San Francisco's Private Transit Battle"

istvan__ — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 06:50:07 +0000

I know people live in this city and having a lower wage...

New comment by istvan__ in "Chariot Wins First Round of San Francisco's Private Transit Battle"

istvan__ — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 01:34:44 +0000

It does not help that some of their maintenance staff is on 200K/y salary. Last time I have checked their wages it was pretty obvious that some of the staff is overpaid greatly. I also know some anecdotal stories about how employees exploiting the company.

New comment by istvan__ in "Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit"

istvan__ — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 01:55:20 +0000

Yet it is terrible. Almost as bad as driving without a license plate so you hit and kill somebody you can flee the scene and nobody would be able to identify you. But that does not happen, right?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-laz-rear-license-plate...

New comment by istvan__ in "PayPal does not know how to detect fraud"

istvan__ — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 16:27:43 +0000

I found entire criminal networks operating on PayPal and Ebay, when I reported the case to them they refused to deal with the situation. Basically the criminals were selling software that appeared to be legal but the serial keys were stolen from the vendors. When somebody realized what is going on they sent an email saying if you rate us on Ebay 5 star we give you back the money.

Ebay was more than happy to let these guys operate on their platform, I have supplied them all the evidence but nothing happened.

New comment by istvan__ in "John Carmack's son's game in Racket"

istvan__ — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 23:41:26 +0000

I think if he was doing this for real (for profit) even than it would be questionable to target linux since its market penetration is pretty low while the effort to make you game running on linux is pretty big. I am saying this after spending some time trying to make a popular game running on linux. The lack of common API that _all_ of the linux distros support equally and easy to use for game developers does not help.

Valve stats on different platforms:

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

It shows an accumulated 0.89% market share for all the linux distros combined.

New comment by istvan__ in "Rark: A Racket language inspired by Arc"

istvan__ — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:33:15 +0000

Is there more information available on this one? I am not getting the concept of it...

New comment by istvan__ in "Help a friend skip Windows 10 and try GNU/Linux"

istvan__ — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 23:31:33 +0000

It like help a friend move from a Ferrari to a tractor that was put together 10 different vendors. I friend who is a mechanical engineer with 10 years experience in building cars might like it but my peers who's technological knowledge is limited would like to use a product that was put together by a professional product team. This is why I gave up trying to move my friends to Linux, it is simply not as well integrated as MacOS or Windows. They get several problems that they cannot solve alone and I much rather help them on where to change something in Windows or MacOS than in Linux. Again, I am a senior systems engineer with 18 years of experience using Linux and other unix clones, including using them as desktop.

New comment by istvan__ in "Social Justice Bullies: The Authoritarianism of Millennial Social Justice"

istvan__ — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:35:43 +0000

Stop doing exactly what? Please read this first: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you have something to discuss let me know, I would like to hear the other side too.

New comment by istvan__ in "Social Justice Bullies: The Authoritarianism of Millennial Social Justice"

istvan__ — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:34:06 +0000

I am shocked that HN has some of these guys.

Social Justice Bullies: The Authoritarianism of Millennial Social Justice

istvan__ — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 23:17:37 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@aristoNYC/social-justice-bullies-the-authoritarianism-of-millennial-social-justice-6bdb5ad3c9d3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9965182

Points: 14

# Comments: 6

New comment by istvan__ in "Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production"

istvan__ — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:11:27 +0000

I think the deployment is the weakest point of the Docker ecosystem.

The reason why I am using Docker is the forced honesty on the environment side, if your app runs on your laptop it does not mean it will run on the production boxes. If the Docker container runs on your laptop it gives you higher confidence that it will run on the production infra. No missing JARs, environment variables, misconfigured classpaths, etc.

New comment by istvan__ in "Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production"

istvan__ — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:30:42 +0000

This is exactly the problem here, just run Postgres on the host means that you have a hybrid setup, some of your services dockerized the rest are not. This is not appealing to some people. There are other services mostly in the heavy disk IO space that is not easy to move to Docker. It might be worth to call these out in the documents and save some time to sysadmins figuring this out the hard way. If you want to dockerize your application like a REST api or a simple Java app, that works perfectly and the advantages are obviously there though.

New comment by istvan__ in "Amazon Aurora Now Available"

istvan__ — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 06:35:17 +0000

It would have been extremely difficult because MySQL community edition is GPL and Amazon does not allow GPL code to be modified by the internal teams as far as I know. They might have changed their policy though...

New comment by istvan__ in "China stocks drop over 8%"

istvan__ — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:52:43 +0000

Welcome to the new HN.