amock

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by amock 15y ago
What about inconsistencies with data outside the database? Things like credit card transactions or other external API calls that were recorded on the master but not the slave will be inconsistent with your slaves view of the world. Is the
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by amock 15y ago
How does it handle the possible inconsistency due to the asynchronous replication?
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by amock 15y ago
It seems like you'd be IO bound when scanning the array so using larger than machine precision integers shouldn't slow things down. Particularly since you know the number of bits you'll need beforehand.
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by amock 15y ago
According to http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/us... "Availability Zones are not the same across accounts."
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by amock 15y ago
Apple is an interesting company but not all Apple news is interesting. Articles about the three points you mention have a lot of potential, but this is not related to any of them except Apple being big, which is somewhat interesting on its
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by amock 15y ago
Selling every iPad 2 they could make is interesting, but I didn't know that after reading this. I asked because I didn't know why Apple's quarterly earnings are a big deal, not because I didn't think they could be.
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by amock 15y ago
What makes this interesting? They did well this quarter and they are going to do ok next quarter. Intel's earnings report yesterday was much more surprising, but still not particularly notable to anyone who isn't following Intel.
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by amock 15y ago
I must have misunderstood your first comment because I agree completely. I don't have any data about it, but I would think that any large tech company would be much more interested in having the best people than they would be in hiring onl
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by amock 15y ago
Why should you hire for diversity instead of just trying to hire the best? Isn't the goal to eliminate racial and ethnic discrimination rather than change its focus?
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by amock 16y ago
9.0 has asynchronous replication and 9.1 will have synchronous replication http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/warm-standby... .
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by amock 16y ago
Why do you think things wouldn't end up just as bad here if we suddenly had hundreds of millions of extremely poor people living here?
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by amock 16y ago
That looks interesting, but at least for the near future solutions like that aren't good for things you want other people to run without having to do a lot of work. That said, I'll definitely look into using that as I learn Clojure.
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by amock 16y ago
Previously discussed and killed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2426162
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by amock 16y ago
There's definitely some subjectivity and it comes down to what you want from a language and framework. I think Haskell is the best way to learn functional programming because it's pure, has a powerful type system and helpful community, and
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by amock 16y ago
At work I have to use Java, but in my spark time I use Haskell and Yesod.
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by amock 16y ago
One things WebOS excels at is multitasking. Cards and stacks in WebOS are a great way to have multiple items open. I used to have an iPad and sometimes I'd use it for web browsing since it has a much larger screen but I'd always miss how
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by amock 16y ago
I prefer WebOS.
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by amock 16y ago
EC2 has never been spare capacity: http://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-clo...
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by amock 16y ago
Almost everyone. 2^n/1000 is still far slower than n^2 for n >= 19.
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by amock 16y ago
Cutting social programs seems is in line with a moral obligation towards those less fortunate if it's a personal obligation. I know many people who dislike any kind of government welfare programs and many private organizations that do what
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by amock 16y ago
Just because it's not required to do the job doesn't mean a curious sysadmin shouldn't know the difference. The difference between symmetric and asymmetric encryption is a pretty basic part of cryptography and if you read about cryptograph
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by amock 16y ago
I meant deployments of software without an operating system other than Xen. Running an operating system on Xen means that you now have the Xen kernel and guest kernel that can have bugs.
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by amock 16y ago
Have you heard of any major deployments of software directly on top of Xen? I know that HaLVM ( http://halvm.org/wiki/ ) supports doing that but I haven't heard of any production uses for it. Some things, like stateless web servers, seem
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by amock 16y ago
I used to think that microkernels would eventually become the architecture of choice for desktops and it's nice to see that Hurd is still making progress in that direction. It seems like such an obvious reliability improvement to move as m
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by amock 16y ago
If you use enough bandwidth it's a good deal even for the reduced redundancy storage. Only having a web interface makes it a lot less simple than Dropbox, though.
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by amock 16y ago
How would this be useful to them? I don't think they care if their instances are on the same box or not. Also, how is what Heroku and PHP Fog arbitrage? They're just providing a service on top of another service; they don't even work wit
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by amock 16y ago
If you really only need this for a couple of days it might be a good idea to rent, but if you'd like some real hardware you can get 24 cores and 64GB of RAM for less than $3000. If you need to test regularly it might be worth it just to bu
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by amock 16y ago
Having the government decided which technologies can be used might have had some benefits here but it seems like there would be a lot less work on making technologies better and a lot more work on lobbying if that were the case.
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by amock 16y ago
Why does it matter that they're the only GSM provider? Why aren't other technologies competition?
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by amock 16y ago
Is this significant? I haven't used Node but the changelog makes it looks like there's nothing particularly interesting about this release.

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