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by alfiejohn_ 14y ago
Already on the market - YubiKey.
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by alfiejohn_ 14y ago
Maybe it's just me but I only trust computers I control. If you don't have root on a box, consider it pwn3d with keyloggers listening to every juicy password you type. Take that as your friend's laptop, a library computer or even your paren
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by alfiejohn_ 14y ago
Nice. I'm not interested in joining a startup, but meeting local fellow geeks for coffee or lunch to shoot the breeze would be awesome... kind of like a GeekGrindr :) A ChessGrindr would also be another cool idea!
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by alfiejohn_ 14y ago
MySQL is a good example of distributed teams working in the real world
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
Attach photos to a resume? Is this a common thing to do in the US?
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
There's a complete chapter in The Art of Unx Programming about the importance of being textual: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/textualitychapter.html
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
Melbourne, Australia or Olso, Norway. Opera Software is looking for a System Administrator / System Developer. Opera Software is seeking a talented, engaged System Administrator who thrives in an international product development and produc
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How Kaggle wants to turn Rockstar Programmers into the next Roger Federer
4 points by alfiejohn_ 15y ago|1 comments
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
The Australian equivalent (DSD) did a challenge like this last month. Same deal - x86 assembly to decrypt a message and reveal a secret URL. They too had no tracking.
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
Here's the Australian equivalent: https://plus.google.com/103685227755333384561/posts/VasNhJpVFA4 Although not as tough as GCHQs
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
Hey Alan :) What's the minimum requirements of setting up a shell Delaware LLC? Surely citizenship wouldn't be one of them.
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[pdf] Instead of working, read this article (on procrastination)(claritynow.com.au)
1 points by alfiejohn_ 15y ago|0 comments
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
Clicking on a couple of posts, or going to the verification link in my sign up email, I get: "System error. Please re-try your action. If you continue to get this error, please contact the Administrator." Edit: it looks like it doesn
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
Surely this is just a honeypot?
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
I've found that my local Perl Mongers was a great place to meet like minded people - http://www.pm.org/ for your closest one :)
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
It's not just newspapers who push PR pieces. This also applies to the web (Techcrunch and Wired comes to mind).
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
You are obviously not married
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
Bridge to Engine Room: We need more DIVs
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
That isn't a ring topology or based on a timer?
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
The video can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk-2XE00fqY And the Q&A after the talk is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDcsM8n72OU Funny that they both managed to be close to 15 minutes on the dot and I did
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
If you don't understand proofs, don't read any more maths books until you've read "Prove It": http://www.amazon.com/How-Prove-Structured-Daniel-Velleman/dp/0521675995 Even though you'll learn to read and write rigorous proofs with th
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
You're kind of in an active-passive multi-master setup which is find for now but as replication queries increase between the two nodes, you might start to see load issues. You're going to have to drop in a third machine and a decision is go
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
The two must have books for MySQL admin and discuss MySQL's built in replication, what problems you'll encounter, how to tune etc. - High Performance MySQL (Schwartz et al) - MySQL High Availability (Bell et al) I think using MySQL
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
There's nothing stopping you from having standby relays, active relays etc. You are free to create a topology of your choosing with minimal restrictions.
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
Ok. It's now on GitHub if anyone is interesting in following: https://github.com/alfie/MySQL--Replication
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
I think spydum's comment is what you're looking for. These are things that can and do happen, and you have to plan for it. Designing your applications and infrastructure with eventual consistency in mind can do wonders for both performance
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
Having a single master is sometimes not viable in some situations. But yes, eventual consistency can be both a blessing and a curse. But if you can design your system to take this into account, it's pretty easy to scale out and everything J
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
I can't remember specifically, but I think we evaluated Tungsten Replicator and at the time it didn't do multi-master replication.
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by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
Toby will be uploading the talk to Vimeo when he weekly upload limit gets reset. We talked a bit about how race conditions are a part of life with multi-master replication, and the ways to best avoid it. When you know your data, you know wh
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MySQL::Replication - peer-to-peer based, multi-master replication for MySQL(lists.mysql.com)
69 points by alfiejohn_ 15y ago|20 comments

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