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by fendale 17y ago
I recently upgraded my Virgin Media 10Mbps broadband to 20Mbps to get a price reduction, and to be honest, I don't notice it being one bit faster. I seem to get about 3 - 4Mbps max download speed, which is what I got before. Maybe there is
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by fendale 17y ago
I needed something to do some code reviews in my day job and threw this little app together in the evenings over the past month or two. I have held back on releasing it, as I am not really satisfied with it yet, especially the 'website' ar
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Ask HN: Review my app - peer code review app (codereviewapp.com)
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by fendale 17y ago
Yea, well Rails was born out of Basecamp - certainly an impressive achievement.
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by fendale 17y ago
Definately a good talk, and really inspires me to try and finally get something built and released in my spare 10 hours a week. I have been messing around with various projects over the last year or two, but it takes a long time to get any
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by fendale 17y ago
Was mentioned on this page somewhere that average scores are calculated asynchronously, so there will be a lag.
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by fendale 17y ago
I'd go as far to say most girls around my age are attractive in some way or another, so 5% seems exceptionally fussy!
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by fendale 17y ago
prgmr.com is very cheap and has worked well for me for the last month (which is when I signed up)
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by fendale 17y ago
I haven't looked at the code, but it may be by scrolling the window so it goes out of view and then setting up the fixed menus etc. I am totally guessing based on the comment in the article that if you double tap the top of the screen it br
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by fendale 17y ago
If it hadn't been from 43folders,which I know is Merlin Manns site I wouldn't have clicked through. He has some good stuff on there, especially inboxzero.
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by fendale 17y ago
I don't need to send many letters ... I haven't sent one for about a year now. So for my annual letter sending needs I'd easily pay above the odds, being that I still don't own a printer or stamps! I bet there are many people like me, but I
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by fendale 17y ago
You know, I came up with this idea ages ago, and did exactly nothing about it. I think it came about because I needed to mail a single letter and had no printer, no envelopes and no stamps ... surely there must be many more like me! Would
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by fendale 17y ago
Great reply ... I had a look at Chunkhost, but it looks like they are in beta only right now, and I am not in the USA :-( Looks slightly better value than Linode - a bit more generous on the RAM and disk side.
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by fendale 17y ago
I was actually thinking of signing up for one of your VPS'es, but it seems you're at capacity at the moment - any idea when there will be more space?
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by fendale 17y ago
Some of these servers seem very cheap when compared to Linode or Slicehost ... I wonder what the catch is? Not so good support? Response to failure? Eg picking one at random - celeron processor, 2GB ram, 500GB disk - 25 euro a month. Or
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by fendale 17y ago
You know I think you are correct when I think about it actually.
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by fendale 17y ago
I have often though this in work project emails to a much smaller audience (under 20 people). If I get one person replying back to me asking to clarify something, then I have failed in some way or another in my explanation, so I always rea
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by fendale 17y ago
Cheers for the info. I will get round to upgrading eventually then, but I reckon I will give it a few months until any compatibility issues are ironed out!
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by fendale 17y ago
Yes, 3km swim sets 4 or 5 times a week. Doesn't seem to help mesleep at all. It does make me knackered, but sleep is still elusive!
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by fendale 17y ago
I wonder how its going to work. If you have Leopard and your hard disk dies - do you have to install Leopard and then upgrade to Snow Leopard (which would be a pain), or will the upgrade allow a clean install onto a blank hard disk? Still
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by fendale 17y ago
No, but surely they have a better chance of tracking that person down than Seth does, especially if they are asking him for a favour. It certainly wouldn't hurt to spend 15 minutes trying, or as others have said, say you will try. The mai
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by fendale 17y ago
Just checked it, and I cannot see them on Console, only the Net tab (Firefox 3.0.12, firebug 1.4). Perhaps its different in Firefox 3.5
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by fendale 17y ago
That could easily have been me yelling at it last week. Took me ages to find the Ajax post requests were now in the 'net' section instead of console!
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by fendale 17y ago
I think he is trying to imply you cannot catch up. Doing that lost hours work consumes another hour and so on. The only way to catch up is to extend your working day by an hour.
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by fendale 17y ago
> Besides seeing my housemates in Palo Alto I had no social life. If you can look at yourself and say that, its time to sort out the social thing immediately IMHO. No project, success or amount of money is going to make you happier tha
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by fendale 17y ago
Also consider that if you have a 100M row table and the column has only 4 values, but those values are highly skewed (ie 3 values are 99% of the rows, 4th is 1%), then a function index on the skewed column can be very useful: create f
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by fendale 17y ago
If you have a table that you basically always query by primary key, then Oracle offers a 'Hash Cluster table' which uses a hash instead of an index locate the data. It generally makes PK looks up very fast, but it has downsides. 1. You nee
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by fendale 17y ago
Well, certainly in Oracle, it can use an index on a like if it is structured: where col like 'str%' However, doing where col like '%str' Means it cannot use any index. So in the example given, it would be able to use an in
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by fendale 17y ago
> It happens with large RDBMS systems anyways after about 5GB of data, same type of scalability decisions have to be made. I work every day with a > 4TB database and its all on 1 machine (a very big machine) with some very fast SAN.
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by fendale 17y ago
I would say all drugs have side effects and should be avoided. If you are always procrastinating on your studies, maybe it's because you just are not very interested in what you are studying? Getting through a 3 or 4 year degree you have l

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