3amOpsGuy

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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
I never read any of the "M" banks books but i read a few of his regular ones when i was a teenager. I remember thinking at the time, the wasp factory was a book i'd not forget, yet i can only vaguely recall the plot and some events! Espedai
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
I believe one of the guys behind this is Misko Hevery (of AngularJS). He's test-driven mad (which is a good thing IMO). I've been meaning to try Testacular / Karma out just because of the pedigree.
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
What else would you say is good about Cassandra? I find the datamodel inflexible and often hard to work with for real world use cases. I think the tooling is immature and the hector API leaves me feeling depressed (pycassa and astyanx are q
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
The fact that broken English is effective for recall, at least in some circumstances, totally fascinates me. I'd love to capitalise on the idea somehow, just because its so counter intuitive I think. Although i fully appreciate it's not eff
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Yeah exactly, although its being met with slightly noisy press coverage which is counterproductive past a certain point. Ideally the time spent on this blog post shouldnt have been needed. I guess there's still a positive to the weirdly ove
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
I don't buy it. >> reason to grant license to drugs of questionable medical benefit in order to reward big pharma and its generous support of the political process through campaign contributions Is a fair (although not proven) inter
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Ben Goldacre makes a strong case for not using placebo. If there's already a widely used alternative, surely they should test against the best currently available treatment, instead of testing against nothing (placebo). The more concerning
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
You know, sometimes the simpler solutions work best. I like this one. I'm sitting here contrasting this against my normal approach* and the approach here is: 1) easier to explain to others 2) self documenting 3) just as effect
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
>> I do wish people understood why having relying only on even 2-week-old backups is unacceptable Yes, but i'm not convinced you see that this is EXACTLY what you are exposing yourself to. What if next time it's a (nasty) bug in git
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Yep and even if we do account for this, say by asserting a table lock or escalating isolation level, we can still run into problems in the case that there are triggers defined. There is no direct substitute in PostgreSQL, but there are case
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
>> ... the backups were ... But what you describe, is necessarily not a backup. EDIT: redundant text removed
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
A delete followed by an insert in the one transaction - break into batches for a huge table? That's really simplistic but I don't know the use case.
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
>> if you have backups of the relevant data They didn't have that, or at least not recent enough backups. Synching rather than snapshotting. It's a subtle difference (sync permits delete).
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
It's the docs are poor, the actual procedure is very easy. Eg. if you installed php on apache, your process may be to apt-get or build from source a mod_php then get the relevant LoadModule line into your apache config. For python you'd do
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
I think you might miss the point here, in the same way as the KDE SAs did. What folks tend to consider the meat of ops work, often boils to a big ole boring checklist. The problem is that you shouldn't just elect to skip a whole big section
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Where's the "who cares" comment for me to upvote. Really, it's apple, they've peaked already. Show me the new cool thing . Please don't read this as a suggestion apple is dead, it's anything but dead, in the same way Microsoft is.
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Always happy to see more tools like this - the bigger the toolbox, the easier our lives are. Of the various approaches I've had to depend on in recent memory, from perl scripts querying a central Db right through to eye wateringly expensive
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
It's one of those never ending tradeoffs. The premise of the parent comment strikes a chord with me. We necessarily can't do terse and readable. To be terse enough we need to encode. Encode is just another way to say obfuscate, in this cont
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Really impressed with the aesthetics, especially for such a quick turnaround. Had a peek under the covers and it appears to be well done there too. Top marks in my book.
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
"Tech old-timers like myself fondly remember Windows NT and all it stood for" This is just rose tinted glasses really. Remember all the "there must be a better way" conversations that were rampant in the NT3/4 eras. If you're in any doubt,
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
doesnt bother shaking head in dismay, just wanders off
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
>> Eh, they're just logos shakes head in dismay and wanders off
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
The designmodo logo is quite debian-esque. Maybe too close to debian's i'd think. EDIT: https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7d9027189b18855f5f2ddeb7d...
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Whoever down-voted you was a dick, there's still more decent folk than dicks though, just ignore it. And, have some karma back, good point for discussion above.
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Would the probability not be less in this case? In general, less moving parts = less chance of outage. E.g. if a device is rated for 300,000 hours MTBF and you have 2 of them, their individual MTBF remains the same, but your chance of exper
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
What happens when one of the fully loaded 1 million connection nodes goes bang? That's potentially a million users getting a poor experience. Re-establishing a million connections at once is going to be hard on the network - the million wer
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
I still have the dead tree version and I reckon it's a great book.
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
>> digital motor Just another way of saying brushless.
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
Excel Xlerator, that's the one i was thinking of with my meek "high airflow traditional driers".
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by 3amOpsGuy 14y ago
The airblade hand driers are the only hand driers I've used that thoroughly dry your hands in a reasonable time frame. Even high air flow traditional driers don't come close to airblade driers. They do depend on blowing from both sides of y

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