Andys

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by Andys 14y ago
Re your first point - this is a problem for PostgreSQL also.
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by Andys 14y ago
One more revision, in fact. Ivy Bridge's 4K display support enabled the 15" macbook pro to exist with discrete GPU switching. Haswell will be faster enough to ditch the discrete GPU.
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by Andys 14y ago
I got the impression because I didn't see any discussion about the handling of bringing new slaves online (other than how to make it fast). Do you pause one of the slaves to get a consistent dump?
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by Andys 14y ago
My quick reading of this is that its suited for databases that don't change much (or at all) once the data is inserted, and not as much for apps that need to keep strong ACID compliance with guaranteed referential integrity.
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by Andys 14y ago
But SSDs that cost the same as a 15K disk do not have anywhere near the life time of the spinning disk due to write endurance limits. So load half a billion rows but don't update it too often!
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by Andys 14y ago
You've just described Rails Camp. I'm off to the next Rails Camp Australia in a couple of weeks: Friday afternoon to Monday morning in the beautiful Gold Coast hinterland. Anything goes - hacking, coffee, beer, exercise, partying or sleepi
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by Andys 14y ago
Sorry -- I assumed too much knowledge. Cloud Foundry is really not at the point where it can replace Heroku. Its 80% of the way there, but every needs a different part of the last few % so you can expect to have to add to it based on what
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by Andys 14y ago
My opinions: CloudFoundry - overblown, complex design. very heavy making it hard to test and contribute Openshift - too redhat-centric
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by Andys 14y ago
What people are waiting for is a set of tools that lets them run their own "mini Heroku" across multiple IaaS providers. I should be able to glue together my own cloud-based load balancer, deploying my app to webservers on different contine
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by Andys 14y ago
Great, but I was hoping for access to libc so I could see if the new string/popcnt/rand instructions are being used with -march=corei7
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by Andys 14y ago
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/intel_gpu_top... While running this page on Firefox on Ubuntu it showed: render busy 7% bitstream busy 0% blitter busy 10% Vertex Shader Invocations: 1520152/sec Pixel S
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by Andys 14y ago
They are taking a huge risk with this investment. With the mining reward set to automatically halve in 2013, and the currency still in its infancy, its a bold move. And despite dropping 6 figures on the hardware it barely a percent of the
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by Andys 14y ago
Using the excess heat for household hot water and space heating is a great idea.
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by Andys 15y ago
Nice try, Nvidia. This article is some fact and the rest FUD. "If you currently have access to MIC chips and have been testing real applications, I would love to hear from you" The information that was used to judge Intel's soluti
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by Andys 15y ago
This is a really convincing article that makes me want to set up a double blind test for myself with my own equipment. In my own tests I believed that I couldn't tell the difference between 16/44 and 24/96 on high quality loudspeakers, but
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by Andys 15y ago
You're probably safe. Most data centres have controlled humidity and anti-static flooring
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by Andys 15y ago
An alternative might be the TP-link TL-WR703N: a wireless router available on ebay for about $30 delivered. It has a MIPS CPU, has built in 802.11b/g/n, 1 ethernet port, a USB port, and runs at low power off a USB jack (5V). It can be flas
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by Andys 15y ago
Is there a market for this? I don't know of any "fair trade" electronics makers, that claim to produce good ethically.
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by Andys 15y ago
Does anyone know of any countries which have no geographical, strategic, or mining resources of interest to the big world powers, which also accept immigration?
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by Andys 15y ago
Just use the keyboard instead. Takes longer to learn the shortcuts, but you'll be more productive.
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by Andys 15y ago
We're using QR codes instead of Bar codes for document management. The codes hold more information and being square instead of rectangular, look more discrete.
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by Andys 15y ago
It means we can fund space exploration using MPAA and RIAA funds. They can look for aliens making infringing copies.
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by Andys 15y ago
PCs will never be perfect. Huge compromises have had to be made all over the hardware and software, to give us the cheap, ubiquitous computing power which drives the Internet.
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by Andys 15y ago
Hardware improvements necessarily move slower than software, especially when carrying the complex historical baggage of out-of-order execution of x86. To be fair, things are improving. eg. The latest Intel CPUs no longer need aligned memo
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by Andys 15y ago
"Beautiful" is subjective. At 10mm thick, this is basically the "smartwatch" equivalent of James Bond's chunky LED watch from Live and Let Die (1973). And it only works through your existing smart phone, so its a 300 euro toy that saves yo
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by Andys 15y ago
So whats the startup opportunity here? A mobile app that lets good cops anonymously dob in bad cops?
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by Andys 15y ago
And all the BSDs.
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by Andys 15y ago
This. is why Itanium server revenue has exceeded entire AMD server revenue in recent years.
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by Andys 15y ago
Android market has had at least one FLAC player for at least 2 years now
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by Andys 15y ago
The US government doesn't take kindly on organisations threatening its monopoly on causing deaths of informers and collaborators.

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