Andys

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by Andys 18y ago
Isn't it enough money to just pay for the phone calls? See the headlines now - NSA offers free VOIP service - no payment necessary, no advertising, just the fact that you have to be OK with them listening in on your calls.
932.
by Andys 18y ago
The Telstra phones stream the Foxtel content digitally over NextG if I'm not mistaken?
933.
by Andys 18y ago
The most useful thing I got from the article was that the web is not really used much for commercial trade of child porn. The traders have gone on to much more sophisticated methods such as renting out encrypted remote access to virtual ma
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by Andys 18y ago
I'm just not sure thats the case. IPv6 has too much of a 'design by committee' feel to it, which usually means it falls over as a standard in Internet land.
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by Andys 18y ago
I believe pgpool also deals with timestamps properly. Secondly, no one is forcing you to use SERIAL datatypes - the table locking is there for backwards compatibility. SERIAL is not the best performance choice for replicated servers, and t
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by Andys 18y ago
I feel like we could have just added another byte to IPv4. It would have been a very simple hack, which makes it more likely to succeed. Also I love the way I can remember IP addresses off by heart right now - that is almost impossible wit
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by Andys 18y ago
This is a really good idea, but sounds like a pain to set up.
938.
by Andys 18y ago
When I was using pgpool2, it dealt with schema changes seamlessly - you connect to the proxy and issue your table updates, and it all just works.
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by Andys 18y ago
I've used pgpool2 in (lightly loaded) production. It is quite amazing and works as advertised. True multi-master for updates, and load balancing for reads. I don't know why it doesn't receive more attention. It is, however, very fiddly to
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by Andys 18y ago
That makes sense, but surely trying to keep to an unenforceable law that clearly is being flouted (eg. pot) everywhere undermines the legal system even more.
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by Andys 18y ago
Some people I know who have tried both legal anti-depressants and illegal drugs, and I can't see the difference, other than the legal one is patented. They both have pretty similar effects including fairly strong addiction.
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by Andys 18y ago
It doesn't scale, either
943.
by Andys 18y ago
"it's still a bit weird and passive-aggresive" I think this is because he became emotional due to the attachment of Capistrano to his personal identity. It was his "baby", after all. So it wasn't just a professional moving on but a person
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by Andys 18y ago
Well said! I wish there was a way to quantify that greater cost.
945.
by Andys 18y ago
The information about the Hanalei Surfboard House was the most interesting thing I've ever gotten out of TechCruch for years.
946.
by Andys 18y ago
Whats the problem? pigz works as advertised for me. Almost a 4x speed increase on a 4 core system, assuming your storage I/O can keep up.
947.
by Andys 18y ago
This is the exact approach taken by pigz (Parallel GZIP) - http://www.zlib.net/pigz/
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by Andys 18y ago
Because with this video Microsoft isn't showing that they are solving any real, actual problems in people's lives. To me, the suckage is that its all just gimmicks: the marketing department tricking people into buying things they don't real
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by Andys 18y ago
This seems to be the holy grail for designing a new database: something with the reliable scalability of a cloud hash DB with the front of a regular SQL. IMO it'll never have a regular SQL front-end but would require additional instruction
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by Andys 18y ago
You could just dump your current DB and restore it to the new one hosted at EC2, then point your application to the new one.
951.
by Andys 18y ago
Some of the Garmin units come with a wire that hooks into your car that allows for "dead reckoning" by watching your speed and braking pattern, so it can keep up with you when you're going through an area with no reception.
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by Andys 18y ago
I had a top of the line Garmin model which quickly noticed when you ignored a direction, and re-calculated the route in less then a second. Until it got stolen.
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by Andys 18y ago
I know I wouldn't enjoy working on something like IMVU because it seems so childish. I also probably wouldn't waste my time making a deployment system or unit testing it. I might joke about it in person over a beer, which is perhaps the an
955.
by Andys 18y ago
Thats 99 dollars more than a kid has or is able to spend.
956.
by Andys 18y ago
Indeed, how do you bring up your own kids to have a small identity? I get the feeling that children growing into adults have an innate need to find identity, and if you have an identity vacuum at home they'll find it elsewhere.
957.
by Andys 18y ago
Anyone could always buy point to point IP links with lower contention ratios, but this is the first time I've seen a company (Akamai) with enough of them internationally to have a serious attempt to have full Internet coverage.
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by Andys 18y ago
So to cut a long story short, there are now two Internets. Or many Internets, if you like. There's the default basic one, which is the slowest and laggiest "consumer grade" Internet. Then you can pay more to a company like Akamai to have
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by Andys 18y ago
ARC doesn't scale!
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by Andys 18y ago
I view it as, above all else, a failure of education. People can't teach their children what money really is, if they themselves don't understand fiat currency and the power that the central banks have to expand and contract money supply.

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