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by _wmd 12y ago
Great to see some competition to the official (and slightly unloved) implementation, especially since you're working on accelerated binary protocol, which the official implementation lacks (at least last I checked!). One thing I'd
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by _wmd 12y ago
Yes thank you, I was reminded by the 4th sentence of the article. If you continue reading all the way to the 5th sentence, you'll discover that deal has not yet been finalized.
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by _wmd 12y ago
Woah, talk about fickle.. The future of manufacturing is going to be standard platforms with high customization around them. Common components and then customized wrappings, if you will. The reason is that consumers are pretty
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by _wmd 12y ago
It's probably more to do with personality type than intelligence or anything else. It takes an extremely thick skin to handle the regular patch review slating dished out by most of the core team.. I simply don't want to deal with
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by _wmd 12y ago
That describes basically 99% of the commenting here Would suggest instead simply removing the concept of 'dead' entirely. It's always possible to downvote a bad comment, and from experience on other sites, moderation of any s
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by _wmd 12y ago
SQLite 4 will have one storage engine record for each table row, just as it was in SQLite 3. Fundamentally, there is little difference in how SQLite stores data in the storage engine as compared to, say, Postgres, except that Postgres'
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by _wmd 12y ago
I'm perplexed how you arrived at this conclusion from the linked document.. every major DBMS with a "fully functional ALTER" has a key/value store underneath it, as did SQLite 3, as does PostgreSQL and MySQL, as does.. T
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by _wmd 12y ago
This is only part of the story - LMDB lacks a WAL because it uses shadow paging, which is a complementary technique with totally different characteristics more suited to read-optimized loads. Similarly "not too fast for write-intensive
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by _wmd 12y ago
It's worth nothing that if this approach becomes popular, it raises the bar for running code from Windows on top of Mono without any changes, although this often never worked anyway except for simpler apps with few deps At least for me
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by _wmd 12y ago
Any Google<->NSA articles seem to get penalized, either automatically based on keyword or some other means. Watch the front page, this link will fairly predictably be pushed down within half an hour. Note this has nothing to do with s
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by _wmd 12y ago
Far too little detail in this post.. e.g. how was the application handling the curl callbacks? I fixed one app that used repeated strcat() calls (which was never correct.. it was also handling binary data) Would be nice if OP profiled his n
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by _wmd 12y ago
Yep, but unless you train your team up on using Mou or just reading raw markdown, you can't actually browse or publish to the wiki ("use or mutate state"), and again the usability is horrible so nobody will do it. Usability i
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by _wmd 12y ago
Gitlab is a non-starter since it requires developers who can barely manage to use Git to also run their own servers. If that weren't the case, then we'd just have another GitHub-lookalike. I'm old enough to remember when self
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by _wmd 13y ago
I prefer Skype since although it has always been a huge CPU hog, its UI is perfect for beginners (i.e. family) and in the decade I've used it, I've never once been cross-sold some pointless feature the parent company are currently
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by _wmd 13y ago
Gitweb mirror, if you're interested in the changes rather than dramatic commit messages: http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/openbsd-src/log/lib/li...
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by _wmd 13y ago
There's little paradoxical about it.. if you link against 20 DLLs, that turns into 20 directory lookups and then random paging potentially across the entire drive, whereas a .EXE is more likely to appear contiguously on the drive, and
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by _wmd 13y ago
Microsoft have been making their source code available to academia to study for at least a decade.
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by _wmd 13y ago
If you substitute "ActiveX" for "Native Client", this almost describes one of the new kids
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by _wmd 13y ago
That's because both thoroughly understand the difference between a standard, and picking a random implementation that all other browsers would need to inherit (which was exactly what WebSQL would have led to). Instead we got a kickass
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by _wmd 13y ago
It wouldn't be fair to mention this without mentioning of the 3 fixes landed since that repo was created, 2 are for cross-browser compatibility bugs.. That aside, I love how this negativity only seems to stick to Microsoft when every o
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by _wmd 13y ago
As a terminally gullible person, even I have doubts the Apache bureaucracy could really be this incredibly stupid. April fools?
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by _wmd 13y ago
Assuming their translation step is as cheap as they claim (single pass rewrite/substitute missing hardware for software macros), it's conceivable that there isn't much value in persistently caching the result. In that case, e
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by _wmd 13y ago
IIRC Google gave up on non-ECC RAM a long time ago, so this is only partially true (ECC RAM constrains motherboard chipset and CPU family (e.g. Core i7 and suchlike don't support it))
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by _wmd 13y ago
Except for that one small time in Europe when they "accidentally" captured live traffic en masse.. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/05/17/google-admits-s...
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by _wmd 13y ago
Cue damage control explaining the indiscernibly subtle difference between what Google does and what these evil, spammy scraper sites are doing
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by _wmd 13y ago
A slightly less overloaded summary might be "users must trust their identity provider", which is true of every authentication scheme I'm aware of except for perhaps PGP, which itself is a usability nightmare for 99% of the pl
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by _wmd 13y ago
I wonder how long upstart will survive in Ubuntu after the next Debian stable
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by _wmd 13y ago
You keep saying I'm wrong, because in future docker/containers might work in a different way to how they work today, and will be used in a way entirely different to how people use them today (and utterly contrary to how docker has
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by _wmd 13y ago
Look, I'm really glad that you're excited for docker, but name dropping companies running the risk of exposing their machines does not magically invalidate the specific examples I gave. In fact I've really no idea what purpos
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by _wmd 13y ago
Unfortunately Docker prevents hosting environments from employing some of the most potent security mitigations added to Linux recently. You cannot treat a docker container like a virtual machine – code running in the container has almost un

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