damienkatz

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by damienkatz 18y ago
MySQL replication is pretty broken too. It was one of the biggest problem ares while I worked their, tons of customer issues with it, slaves constantly getting out of sync with masters. I think it's fundamentally because the lack of ACID ma
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by damienkatz 18y ago
I was rejected with CouchDB a couple of years ago. I was bad at presenting it, and it was probably the wrong time anyway.
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by damienkatz 18y ago
You must be a blast at parties.
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by damienkatz 18y ago
> Boston area feels old, expensive, somewhat dilapidated, miserable in the winter I lived in the Boston area for about 7 years, and I can't help but agree with you. It's got it's upsides, but overall it's just not that nice there.
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by damienkatz 18y ago
Set it free. If it crashes the program, it was yours all along.
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by damienkatz 18y ago
It's about fast scale-out. If you are getting that kind of sustained traffic, then you can likely pay for the conventional hosting. The problem is what happens when you have normal trafic but get spikes? The NY Times links to your startup o
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by damienkatz 18y ago
Unfortunately, it's not guaranteed to return, ever. It's a psuedo-random generator, it can (though not real likely) get stuck in a cycle of buckets it checking, the worst case time complexity O(∞). Even if it uses a real random generator, I
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by damienkatz 18y ago
I had no idea what your site or product page did until I found this link, then it instantly made sense. http://www.s3mer.com/tour.php I suggest you change your homepage to be a lot more like the tour page.
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by damienkatz 18y ago
Wifi debugging tool. Something that can tell me why the hell my signal drops 30 seconds every 10 minutes, etc.
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by damienkatz 18y ago
The real devil in compilers is the optimization. It's one thing to take some code and expand it out correctly to lower level code, it's quite another to transform it into compact, efficient AND correct low level code. And often there are no
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by damienkatz 18y ago
I see, but if it's a timer problem then with libevent you can roll your own timer queue optimized for your workload. The libevent core is small and well designed (but not well documented), integrating custom timer mechanisms is actually pre
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by damienkatz 18y ago
This article seems a bit over the top. I implemented the MySQL interface to libevent for mysql 6.0, and we got really good performance numbers vs. thread per connection: http://krow.livejournal.com/572937.html I've spent a fair amount of
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by damienkatz 18y ago
Why not money orders?
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by damienkatz 18y ago
> My standard of proof is whether the proposed language change will make the source of a real program shorter Short != Clear. Brevity is a false economy, I think you are pushing for the wrong goal.
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by damienkatz 18y ago
The best way to learn any language is to build stuff. Build something you think is cool. Allow yourself to suck at it and do everything wrong. Then build it again, or build something else cool.
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by damienkatz 18y ago
If you halted R&D, your customers would flock to competitors who are still developing their product lines. It would be more like 5 years before it's effectively dead.
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by damienkatz 18y ago
I think the point is there are no harmful metrics to collect, but there are useless ones. However you don't know which ones are useless until you've collected them for while, so just collect them now and worry about their utility later.
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by damienkatz 18y ago
The XBox still has not made a profit. MS has turned the corner where they aren't still losing money on every unit, but it looks unlikely they'll ever recover their losses on this generation console (the last generation was a money loser too
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by damienkatz 19y ago
Yes, those things need to be pointed out. I don't want people to think that Erlang is a miracle productivly booster. It's not. The productivity gains are only there in certain application domains, and of course it also require good librarie
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by damienkatz 19y ago
> Why don't you wait till you have more data before wasting all our time with stuff like this? What's the rush? I used the opportunity of your reliability failure to make a larger point about reliable software. I admit was deliberately
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by damienkatz 19y ago
Confirming bias? Maybe. Link bait? Definitely. But you say it likes it's a bad thing. Do you think I don't have a valid point? Are you not debugging a memory leak in a production Lisp app? With Lisp you can put together a site in a few hour
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by damienkatz 19y ago
What's it doing is abusing a useful social system where lost articles are returned to owners. It's not guerilla marketing, it's spamming.