alexstaubo

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by alexstaubo 18y ago
> Ruby is palpably slower than everything. Try 1.9. It's usable today, and should be fully stable by January. Performance-wise, it's on par with Python.
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by alexstaubo 18y ago
After going through Courier New, Profont, Consolas, Monaco etc., my favourite programming font ended up being Panic Sans, which comes with Coda, a Mac IDE that I don't use. For developers whose point size of preference hovers closer to 12 p
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The state of browser-based HTML editors(affectioncode.wordpress.com)
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by alexstaubo 18y ago
Skip lists are one of my favourite data structures. They're slower than balanced trees, but ridiculously simple to implement.
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by alexstaubo 18y ago
Of course. Thanks.
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by alexstaubo 18y ago
PostgreSQL table partitioning has nothing to do with shards. They don't let you split a database across multiple machines. You can use them to split a single table across multiple disks (using tablespaces), but that's not the same thing.
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by alexstaubo 18y ago
Sharding is icky and hard because it strokes relational databases against the grain. It also, incidentally, goes against the conventions of most web frameworks, including Rails. Since there's no database that does it for you, you really hav
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by alexstaubo 18y ago
Seconding simonw's Yahoo recommendation. The API is great and the results are often as good as Google's. If you scrape Google searches, they will eventually block you.
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by alexstaubo 18y ago
You're welcome!
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by alexstaubo 18y ago
Part of the reason for there not being a "standard" setup is that there are tons of OODBs, and they are all implemented a little differently. Some of the major ones are Objectivity/DB, Versant, ObjectStore, GemStone (which comes in Smalltal