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Re:Clang vs. GCC – code coverage checking on Saturday April 02, 2016 @02:04PM (#11412519)
A good way to represent a branch coverage miss.
Re:A Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Rides in AWS Redshift on Saturday February 13, 2016 @11:44PM (#11097168)
+1
Re:Live from Amazon's 'amazing' new device event on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @01:37PM (#7911426)
The best live blog so far.
AWS's offering which is software based - http://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/
This is like comparing apples and oranges. What technique do you use for benchmarking?
Not sure how one can achieve ACID on distributed system without limiting scalability. In addition, these system are limited by the CAP theorem. Therefore it is bound to have problems, would be interesting to read the high level architecture.
Re:The first Bitcoin post on HN on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @10:53AM (#6761961)
How many people had the slightest clue that books would be replaced by Kindles, CDs by iPODs, tablets selling as much as laptops. The comments show that people underestimated the impact bitcoin would make.

I still believe its just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Bitcoin.

Re:Amazon WorkSpaces on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @02:41PM (#6727868)
Sunray as a service!
Re:Amazon WorkSpaces on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @02:35PM (#6727814)
As per http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/details/, the workspace bundles provide the Windows 7 Experience to users (provided by Windows Server 2008 R2).
Re:Million Lines of Code - Infographic on Monday October 28, 2013 @02:51PM (#6628974)
Not sure how they measure the lines of code. Are comments, headers, etc included or is it just the the code flow?