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by dstorrs 16y ago
So, if I'm reading this right, a release of MySQL that came out only a year ago and is still of development quality finally has ACID compliance by default? Or has there been a production-grade release since then? EDIT: My mistake. Appare
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by dstorrs 16y ago
It's a design decision. MySQL chose "fast defaults". PostgreSQL chose "safe defaults". If you want the other choice, use the other database.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
One thing they did not mention is that this solves the primary problem with orbital crowbars (fictionally called "Rods from God", "Thor", KEWs, and various other things). You could drop a kinetic warhead (basically a crowbar) from orbit to
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by dstorrs 16y ago
They mention this in the article, where they talk about extending an aerial out past the plasma sheath. They then say "this allows communication until the aerial ablates."
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Thank you for this, it's much appreciated. It is my belief that geek culture is relatively gender blind but it is definitely true that there seem to be fewer girl geeks than guy geeks. I wish more women had engaged with computers so positi
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Thanks very much for this. When I posted my question, I considered adding a paragraph to the effect of "I know the obvious stuff such as 'do something that interests her already and show her how the computer can enhance / simplify / empowe
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Thanks Pamela. That plays well with my own skills, since I'm a web developer myself, so I'm glad to hear a qualified person so that it's a reasonable strategy.
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Ask HN: Best way to introduce a young girl to computers?
35 points by dstorrs 16y ago|19 comments
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by dstorrs 16y ago
sri was the founder of the Catalyst project, but was later asked to step down from that role by the other Catalyst core developers based on non-resolvable differences of opinion on how the project should develop.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
1] Set up a reminder saying "Read EmacsWiki" in gCal for a specific time every day. Have it send you an SMS. 2] When you get the reminder, spend 10 minutes reading http://www.emacswiki.org/ Find just one thing that interests you. 3] M
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Let's see...incredible food, 24/7 nightlife, culture like nowhere else in the world, one of the largest and richest parks in the country, probably the best public transportation system in the country, a hell of a lot of convenience (drop-
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by dstorrs 16y ago
I looked at this and found myself thinking "wow...I REALLY hope patio11 sees this!" :>
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Ok, granted, this is cool. And I see a lot of utility for space launch and other applications, so I support the research. My question: does it actually have practical utility as a weapon of war for the modern US Navy? This seems like fig
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by dstorrs 16y ago
> If you don't ask for money for what you do, then you are saying that what you do is worthless. "Um, what?" --Every open source developer, ever.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Well, I've been freelancing for the better part of 15 years now. Mostly as a web developer.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Down for me too, so I'm only responding to your comment. >[using a DB join means that] the query takes almost a second This is, at best, an overgeneralization and at worst outright FUD. I don't know what sort of data or database engine
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by dstorrs 16y ago
I take your point but unshift is still correct. One of the reasons PHP has a reputation for being insecure is because there are so many tutorials lying around that show the wrong way to do it. When newbies Google for solutions, they copy
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by dstorrs 16y ago
My takeaways from this are: 1] MySQL supports more replication options, whereas PostgreSQL focuses on the ones that 95% of users will care about and does not implement the rest. 2] MySQL's replication has several failure modes that can lead
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by dstorrs 16y ago
THANK YOU. I found this book horrifically tedious, and everyone I talk to apparently thinks it's the Greatest Story Evvvaaaarrr1!!!11!! It's nice to know that I'm not completely alone on this.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
If you dig space opera then yes: Honor Harrington is your woman. The first few books are excellent. Once she gets promoted past the point where she can really be a ship captain, the stories turn political and start to drag a bit. Weber e
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Personally, I found it a bit fluffy. It pretty much boils down to: "Data startups need three bodies (hustler, designer, prodineer). Talk to customers early. Here are the levels of knowledge: 1) data, 2) charts, 3) reports, 4) actionable
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Also, Hiroshima was built mostly out of wood and paper -- supposedly, the fires killed a huge number of people who weren't killed directly by the bomb.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
>You've somehow managed to bring two logical fallacies in the same sentence — the straw man and the false dichotomy. You're misreading. I presented two possibilities, but nowhere did I claim that they were the only two possibilities --
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"Gun Thumball" : UK toy promotes school discussion of guns(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by dstorrs 16y ago|0 comments
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Google-funded startup builds search engine + API for predicting the future(technologyreview.com)
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Cell phones let touchscreens know who you are(technologyreview.com)
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by dstorrs 16y ago
> Unix solved [the problem of rainbow tables] in the nineteen seventies. > incremental crackers [were used to] harvest thousands of passwords [and] forced Unix systems in the 1990's to adopt "shadowed" password files. As someone who
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Great story. As a developer-but-not-sysadmin, it's interesting to read how someone more knowledgeable does this sort of analysis and remediation.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Ok, this guy wins major Awesome Dad points. That costume is amazing.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Ok. I'm not actually that wedded to the order you do the two operations in. I think there is some value in writing tests first, so that you can verify they fail (before the code is written) and then work (once it is complete). But I thin

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