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by gxti 16y ago
This is already on the front page here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1490284 And a follow-up here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492344
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by gxti 16y ago
Every time someone brings up "exclusionary language" or calls a word sexist, I roll my eyes and long for feminists to collectively declare victory and leave the field so humanity as a whole can move on. Young women aren't put off by the phr
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by gxti 16y ago
Bigger numbers take much longer to crunch.
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by gxti 16y ago
It's a debugging feature. It scratched a particular itch that a particular developer had at the time that they wrote it. If it weren't there at all, would this blog post still have been written?
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by gxti 16y ago
txpostgres implements psycopg's async interface for Twisted, which uses a similar eventloop/callback model: http://git.wulczer.org/?p=txpostgres.git Not that "unnecessarily complicated", but Twisted is a lot more mature with respect to co
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by gxti 16y ago
Trees do dissolve. Forest fires are the most elegant way -- the reaction liberates much of the carbon and all of the oxygen into gasses including CO2, and the cycle is complete. Bacteria that break down the rotting remains of a dead tree al
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by gxti 16y ago
Bah! Not only is slow shipping disturbingly cheap, but it's like Christmas when it finally shows up because you completely forgot that you'd bought anything!
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by gxti 16y ago
FUN FACT: (and you probably already know this but many do not): "fsync = off" is postgresql-ese for "please destroy all my data". Don't do it. Ever. The 9.0 docs are finally improving the language here to indicate that you must not set fsy
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by gxti 16y ago
Thanks for correcting me, I've never used google apps so I'd never noticed you could register domains there. Personally I'd still register my own domains elsewhere as I've had bad experiences with combined registration and hosting, and even
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by gxti 16y ago
To clarify: * Google isn't a domain registrar. If they were then one would hope that google.com would be registered under them, not markmonitor.com (a popular corporate registrar) * The server hostname is a subdomain of amazonaws.com and do
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by gxti 16y ago
Loads instantly here, but is completely blank with javascript blocked. That's how you know he's a true professional.
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by gxti 16y ago
If anyone is still reading this thread, I made a chart overnight using a better corpus: http://partiallystapled.com/~gxti/misc/2010/06/25-shootout.p... http://partiallystapled.com/~gxti/misc/2010/06/25-linux-2.6....
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by gxti 16y ago
It segfaulted at the end, after taking 7m28s. I don't know how big the result was because it got truncated to 35 bytes.
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by gxti 16y ago
I don't think they mean that one exchange was DoSing another. Quotes within a single exchange are disseminated immediately to all interested parties -- if one party was spamming thousands of quotes at a stock, that stream would be repeated
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by gxti 16y ago
The scary part was that you could watch it unfold: http://partiallystapled.com/~gxti/charts/2010/05/06-spread.p... When you can see the spread like that then something has gone terribly wrong. As I read it, that spread is between NYSE on
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by gxti 16y ago
I've found that on many types of data, xz -2 is twice as fast and compresses better than gzip -9. Of course gzip -1 kicks the pants off xz but there's absolutely no reason to use gzip at its higher levels, nor to use bzip2 at all. And if
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by gxti 16y ago
Is Yahoo actually a registrar, or did they simply register the domain on his behalf? If the former then yes they would be compelled to let him transfer it elsewhere. If the latter then Yahoo technically owns the domain and can do with it as
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by gxti 16y ago
Agreed, I've been using Consolas on linux for quite a while and can find no fault with it.
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by gxti 16y ago
thinkorswim is an excellent broker for this specifically -- they not only have an excellent options trading platform, but you can sign up for free and papertrade with a 15m delay. It's all Java-based so it works great on Linux. That said, d
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by gxti 16y ago
> The whole system can become unresponsive from the load of a single process. Two cores is great if you have only one CPU-hogging thread, but as soon as a multithreaded app gets thrown in you have the same problem again -- more runnable
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by gxti 16y ago
There's definitely a significant confusion of terminology here. FTA: > The syntax itself is unimportant (some languages use foreach, others for i in l, etc…), what really matters is that iterators are gone. The final example "for i in l
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by gxti 16y ago
The original post is obvious and not worthy of nearly so many words, but yours is damn interesting. I have a thing for infrastructure, I guess.
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by gxti 16y ago
SQLite is so hardcore about being totally unbreakable that they have a section in their documentation dedicated to explaining all the horrible things the OS has to do just to get it to fail: http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html#how_to_corr
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by gxti 16y ago
Mercurial has http://bitbucket.org/ -- not nearly as popular but a tad less cluttered IMHO.
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by gxti 16y ago
It's not that complicated, people are just too proud of their ignorance to bother learning (OP excepted since he went to the trouble of asking).
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by gxti 16y ago
For one, it doesn't affect their pricing. If they're confident that the price will go up, then collecting some more money on lending fees is just icing on the cake. For two, it helps to understand who actually owns shares. Most individuals
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by gxti 16y ago
As pointed out by others here already, SQL may not be the optimal fit for every scenario at large scales but it will nearly always work at smaller scales, and I can't imagine that you're already trying to write the next amazon.com. So in ot
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by gxti 16y ago
Can Arrington and Calacanis fight to the death already? I've been following HN now for less than a week and I'm already sick of their shenanigans.
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by gxti 16y ago
Matt Taibbi has already proven that he can't tell a short sale from a hole in the ground. Perhaps Rolling Stone isn't the best place to be learning about markets. cf.: http://www.businessinsider.com/john-carney-matt-taibbi-falls...
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by gxti 16y ago
Market pricing appears random, but it is not because of a random number generator deciding when to go up and when to go down. It appears random because prices actively resist the formation of patterns, and a chart with no pattern by definit

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