dedward

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by dedward 16y ago
People in this situation usually end up there because that's the most debt they can tolerate - they are making payments but the psychological pressure from the debt and it's consequences keeps them from going further into debt (or from fixi
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by dedward 16y ago
Well, in most cases where there is socialized medicine, doctors decide on need, and groups of doctors decide on standards. politicians play no role.
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by dedward 16y ago
How the applicant seeks clarification is just as important as how he answers.. he's going to be presented with problems all the time. When I pop the open-ended technical questions, there really is no right or wrong answer - it's just there
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by dedward 16y ago
If you've only ever used Ubuntu and for only three years, then chances are you actually don't have a "pretty good idea" of how linux works. I don't mean that in any disrespectful way... but READ some books on unix. You shouldn't need to as
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by dedward 16y ago
It's an emergent behaviour of a complex system involving people and machines. What's fascinating is how this non-functional string/ad-hoc netowork beacon, whatever oyu want ot call it, with this specific name, has spread globally to every
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by dedward 16y ago
Nope - because people very rarely create ad-hoc networks these days - full infrastrucure-mode APs are everywhere - the only time people tend to select ad-hoc without realizing it tends to be he one called "Free Public Wifi" - it just happ
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by dedward 16y ago
WHere I live the govenrment is putting up big fences in the middle of the road to prevent jaywalking, because people sprint across roads at night, even the highway, and there are lots, lots, lots of car -vs- pedestrian accidents because of
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by dedward 16y ago
Two gripes. 1) If I hit Ctrl-D - it says " * Type qui[t] to quit." If you know what I want to do, DO IT.. don't argue with me. Why would you write special extra code that specifically recognizes what the user wants to do and then tell them
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by dedward 16y ago
Try a debugging proxy like fiddler or paros... infinitely handy as well, and more general purpose.
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by dedward 16y ago
It sounds like you need more in terms of actual application architecture & design - whether or not to offsite some of that capacity to AWS is purely a cost measure in the end. You will still ned to deal with systems and sysadmin tasks -
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by dedward 16y ago
Tunable concurrency control for the number of incoming requests would have been good - before they even hit mongo. Then you can just dial things down a bit (making customers wait a bit) and let the system recover, and tune things back to th
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by dedward 16y ago
IF your system is getting pounded with queries, and you suddenly have to page to serve those queries, the ability of your system to respond to queries and other operations goes WAY down, and the queries are just going to pile up, causing fu
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by dedward 16y ago
Stop thinking about it and set it up. There isn't anything to think about. Nagios (I like using it through groundwork) are certainly not overkill... it's thinking like that that is what gets you in trouble in the first place. Get that tool
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by dedward 16y ago
It doesn't mean the DB files have to be stored in a ramdisk or something like that - you just need enough ram so your working set can fit in ram. These new projects really seem a lot like re-hashing problems that have already been solved ov
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by dedward 16y ago
It can be entirely acceptable and preferred. Knowing your working set size and how your memory is being utilized is a critical part of any systems planning... and memory is one heck of a lot faster than disk, hands down, no debate there. N
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by dedward 16y ago
Perhaps it's just my own background that pushes me this way - but as soon as my deployment was growing ot eat up anything over about 60% of my available memory, I'd be looking at deploying more. Your high water mark for spinning up more no
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by dedward 16y ago
Don't know about them - but there seems to be a somewhat scary, hopefully brief, undercurrent out there where business (startups, corporations, whatever) think they can work solely with a few developers and some outsourced services - nobody
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by dedward 16y ago
That works great if your application was designed to scale horizontally, or if there is always a bigger server available.
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by dedward 16y ago
Interesting.... I may be the edge case, but in my experience, the tendency is usually for the boss to be more comfortable spending money for a solution that will solve the money than burning developer time on a project that may or may not f
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by dedward 16y ago
Is pipelining a well-defined behaviour now? I thought it was still pretty browser dependent. Obviously you need keep-alive for pipelining to work at all - but are you saying you could actually dump responses down a keep-alive connection wit
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by dedward 16y ago
That would just slow them down, no? I'm all for google to be a force pushing for adoption - pipelining is good - if google requiring it means people pay more attention to making their sites work with it, great. (I haven't read the spec - do
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by dedward 16y ago
I believe so yes - all the other details are just about stability and performance.
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by dedward 16y ago
Something most readers are probably already aware of, but I found this post interesting as I'd never considered what the acutal social, economic, political, etc, ramifications were for the world when this happens.... I'v previously always t
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by dedward 16y ago
It creates a new opportunity for the seller - those individual books were previously not available online. they were just sitting in a bookshop. Finding these books, then placing them online, and handling the shipping to the buyer is cert
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by dedward 16y ago
I find it highly unlikely, given the sheer number of books printed nowadays, that we'd end up anywhere near scenario number 2. Merchants could seize the opportunity here - if your store is full of resellers rather than the public, it's time
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by dedward 16y ago
If you're a good politician, that may help you push the right buttons - but unless you can show concrete business damage because of the choices made, you are still likely on the nasty end of the stick. Nobody cares whether the developers a
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by dedward 16y ago
Ugly code is not generally an ethical issue. Ethics are another matter entirely, and it really depends on your own reputation and how you want to protect it -vs- bringing home the bacon.
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by dedward 16y ago
You can try all the tricks in the book to do things the right way - but in the end, what really matters is who pays the bills. I'm not underestimating the value of good code, or the damage BAD code can do in the long run - but in the typi
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by dedward 16y ago
301 redirects as jacquesm siad. That will take care of the search engines, anyway, which is probably where most of your traffic is coming from. That said - you should also be analyzing your logs or whatnot to see where your traffic is reall
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by dedward 16y ago
He's not being tried for refusing to hand over the password - he's being held for contempt of court or similar, which can (and does) go on indefinitely. He's free to leave any time as soon as he hands over his password.

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