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by jbarham 16y ago
> Is it acceptable/preferred to store your entire db in RAM? If you can fit your db into RAM that's the ideal, but of course you also have to have a reliable, persistent backup. The best current compromise is probably PCI based SSD dri
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by jbarham 16y ago
How can you blame the retail investor for having stop-loss orders to lock in profits and praise some HFT's for "fixing" the flash crash by buying at the bottom when it was other HFT's that precipitated the flash crash to begin with?! Maybe
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by jbarham 16y ago
It's all very well to say that the market "self corrected" unless you lost a bundle w/ stop-loss orders that were triggered on the down-spike.
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by jbarham 16y ago
Given that the writer says he works up to 80 hours a week and "with diligence, someone working alone can make $1,000 per week" (i.e., ~$50k annually) I wouldn't call that a "quick buck". I've also donated a lot of used technical books to th
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by jbarham 16y ago
Been a while since you re-installed Windows?
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by jbarham 16y ago
I can second this. I bought the 500 GB version (currently $115 on Amazon). Boot times and launch times for common applications are much faster compared to a standard drive, but you also have the capacity of a standard drive. If you have a
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by jbarham 16y ago
> Never underestimate how much people like speed. That's one of the main reasons I like Go. It's been explicitly designed to enable fast compilation, and even at this early stage its compilers are very fast.
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by jbarham 16y ago
Thanks for clarifying your role at 37signals, which I think illustrates the importance of the non-technical but still crucial skills that make a business successful. We programmers are IMO too prone to over-emphasize the importance of codi
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by jbarham 16y ago
FWIW Jason Fried, one of the original founders of 37signals, still doesn't know how to program ( http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2540-no-more-drive-by-teachin... ) but that obviously hasn't prevented the company from being a success. But th
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by jbarham 16y ago
> Nobody’s going to pay Google $25 a year to store their music in a cloud. I'd pay that to be rid of iTunes.
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by jbarham 16y ago
It's hard to figure out what problems a board like this solves. If you want a cheap file server just buy an Atom board w/ a passive heat-sink. If you want to play around w/ "physical computing" and drive sensors, the Arduino ecosystem is
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by jbarham 16y ago
The email that DHH got is essentially spam since he is obviously not looking for a job. I've gotten my previous two jobs via "technical recruiters". If you expect them to hack on operating systems in their spare time you'll probably be dis
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by jbarham 16y ago
My guess is that DHH is primarily annoyed that the spammy email started by addressing him as "Dave".
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by jbarham 16y ago
> People don't suddenly become vile and dangerous at 49° N. A fair number of people north of that line think that about a lot of the people immediately south of that line... I'm speaking somewhat facetiously as a Canadian, but the degr
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by jbarham 16y ago
> I still don't quite understand what the value-add of mint is though. For me personally it meant I could throw out MS Money but still track where my money is going w/ much less effort. Mint is pretty good about correctly categorizing
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by jbarham 16y ago
> ...high speed rail, which has its own problems Oceans come to mind.
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by jbarham 16y ago
"Good fences make good neighbors." What's true at the local level is also true at a national level.
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by jbarham 16y ago
> Actually, teaching a child a trade is probably less harmful to his character than sending him to the average public school. This is not a new idea. It's called apprenticeship and was once widespread in e.g. Europe. Why it's less com
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by jbarham 16y ago
1. Read code written by master programmers (e.g., http://golang.org/src/ , http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/ ) to learn how it's done and to keep you humble. ;) But beware the opposite danger of becoming disillusioned whe
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by jbarham 16y ago
> Allow any doctor in a country with reasonably competent medical standards to practice in the United States. The malpractice lawyers will love this one. But put another way, is there any country that claims it has a surplus of doctors?
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by jbarham 16y ago
Speaking of JavaScript, O'Reilly's Ebook Deal of the Day for today is the guide to Google's Closure JavaScript suite for $15. See http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449381875/ and use the discount code DDSDF. (I am not affiliated w/ O'Reill
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by jbarham 16y ago
> No word yet on whether or not you can use Unicode. You should be able to use UTF-8 since it doesn't include embedded nulls.
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by jbarham 16y ago
Given that most JPEG images are generated by digital cameras, I don't think WebP will get any traction until Canon, Nikon et al support WebP natively. And hopefully attaching metadata to WebP images will be saner than it is for JPEGs.
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by jbarham 16y ago
WebP uses the same color model as WebM which "works exclusively with an 8-bit YUV 4:2:0 image format" so seems like WebP will not be HDR capable, which is a pity.
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by jbarham 16y ago
If you just need a QR code just generate it directly and skip the shortener using e.g. http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ . You can also generate QR codes using the Google Charts API.
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by jbarham 16y ago
How is FreeType intrinsically better than the Windows font renderer? Microsoft has the advantage of subpixel font rendering (aka ClearType) although admittedly that because it's patented ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering#Pa
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by jbarham 16y ago
> I am getting tired of the way that Ubuntu is focusing so much on getting its fonts right FWIW I tried to install Ubuntu on my wife's laptop and the main thing that made her go back to Windows was the look of the fonts . So I think C
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by jbarham 16y ago
> What makes those two think they're special? Are they ex-military and therefore trained to react violently when people sneak up behind them? ;) EDIT: My ex-CEO tells a story of a former employee and Vietnam vet who warned him not to su
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by jbarham 16y ago
This entire article is ridiculous. Even if were true, it wouldn't be interesting as very few smartphone users know what OS kernel their phones run, and fewer still care. And even as a developer you won't get very far trying to develop appl
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by jbarham 16y ago
> I have no problems at all with them not supporting XP. Keep in mind that many (most?) large businesses (aka "the enterprise") are still running XP so MS is only continuing the pain by not making IE9 XP compatible. This is particularl

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