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Comment: Re:It seems like bcache could do the same thing (Score 1) 201

by LukeCrawford (#36311134) Attached to: OCZ Couples SSD, Mechanical Storage On a PCIe Card
yeah, the advantage of bcache is that it will automatically cache the stuff you use often (which yes, can be a disadvantage, too) - I'm just thinking for something like a database server (not that I'd use bcache in a prod database server until it was more stable and until it supported mirroring the SSD) you have large files where parts of the file need caching and other parts of the file don't. A block cache helps with that more than manually symlinking files.

Comment: hours are a poor measure of productivity. (Score 1) 997

by LukeCrawford (#34870318) Attached to: Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible?

Probably the best programmer I know outright states that he can't productively code for more than four hours a day; but he gets more done in those four hours than most people can do in a week.

If you outright tell people to work for 10-11 hours a day, first your good programmers will all leave. Next, those who can't immediately get better jobs will take long lunches, show up a little late and leave a little early. If you enforce time in-seat somehow, you will have more and more people spending time on slashdot or facebook.

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Why Facebook Won't Stop Invading Your Privacy 219

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the up-and-to-the-right dept.
GMGruman writes "Every few weeks, it seems, Facebook is caught again violating users' privacy. A code error there, rogue business partners there. The truth, as InfoWorld's Bill Snyder explains, is that Facebook will keep on violating your privacy, no matter what its policies say, what promises it makes, or how shocked it claims to be at the latest incident. The reason is simple: Selling personal information on its users is how it makes money, and Facebook is above all a business."

Comment: the interesting thing from an authors perspective (Score 1) 437

by LukeCrawford (#33683880) Attached to: E-Books Are Only 6% of Printed Book Sales

is that while my co-author and I split 15% of the wholesale price (about half the cover price) on physical books, we get something closer to 50% of any ebook sales... and, I think, if the ebook was bought direct from the publisher, that's 50% of what was paid. So even though e-book sales are a pretty small portion of total book sales, on the last statement I got from my publisher, ebook sales comprised a rather large portion of the money actually paid to me.

Comment: oh man, bad news for chevy (Score 2, Informative) 384

by LukeCrawford (#33064900) Attached to: Chevy Volt Not Green Enough For California

I've you've ever been to the sf bay area during rush hour, most commuters would give their left nut for the ability to drive in HOV lanes. This will be /huge/ - the volt, with it's integrated range extending gas engine seems like a better idea than the all-electric leaf, but the market value of a HOV sticker, even without the rebates has got to be five or ten grand.

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