jemfinch

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by jemfinch 16y ago
You're missing a fundamental difference between degraded service and being out of service: if an overloaded server handles its maximum number of clients but doesn't crash, then you have time to bring up additional servers to share the load.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
This has absolutely nothing to do with the thundering herd problem. Why are you linking to seemingly random Wikipedia articles? The GP's question is valid: there's no reason why server software should crash when overloaded instead of sim
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Your question is answered in the link itself. Did you read it?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Doesn't Varnish handle many times more concurrent clients than apache does, at significantly lower system load? It could just be pure optimization.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Bugs have been found in all of these packages. How much are you willing to gamble that there are no more bugs in them?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> non-broken software doesn't need them In my experience, there's no such thing as non-broken software.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Most uses of non-greedy matching can be replaced with faster, clearer, and more precise inverted character classes, in my experience.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Aren't cottonmouths just a non-descript black color?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Actually, I don't think any are poisonous. Many are venomous, though.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Yahoo doesn't have search anymore. They subcontract to Bing. Besides, using delicious data would be far too open to SEO abuse.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
When pg implements proper hyperlinking that doesn't clutter up my text with an ugly URL, I'll stop using a shortener. I understand the positives and negatives of using a shortener, but the positive impact on readability seems to outweigh t
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Their "Chaos Monkey" approach reminds me of an excellent paper on "Crash Only Software": http://goo.gl/dqDII The best way to test the uncommon case is to make it more common.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
One benefit of snow is that it protects from a lot of the things that would ordinarily cause a flat.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
What's sketchy about trying to leverage unexpected popularity for the benefit of the American Cancer Society?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Fraud is deception with the intent of gain. By contract he already had the right to her $600, so he didn't deceive her for gain, but for equity. The woman would have difficulty establishing that she suffered consequent damages (an essenti
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Burglars and those without concern for legality can already easily and cheaply get bumpkeys. Making them illegal only keeps law-abiding citizens from getting them and using them legally.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
What crime did he commit? He made a verbal offer to buy goods at a certain price, and then backed out. Did his word constitute a verbal contract? Those are notoriously difficult (read: impossible) to prove in court. Whether or not what h
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by jemfinch 16y ago
> for only a bit more money than a professional charges to put a key in the lock and tap it with a little hammer for ten seconds. In America, people without locksmith licenses can't legally buy bumpkeys, sadly. If I had a problem that
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by jemfinch 16y ago
If you use ubuntu, it's an option in the "Keyboard" preferences pane. There are several other ways, but the one I've found most reliable is xmodmap: https://github.com/jemfinch/config/blob/master/.xmodmap (first three lines) Put that in
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by jemfinch 16y ago
It may not be necessary, but a competent developer should be able to do it in their sleep with one hand tied behind their back. If a candidate finds it difficult to do so, that's a really bad sign that they'll find the necessary things dif
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Yes, it's hard. Unnecessarily hard, which is why I hate when I have to do it. The complexity of web development is not intrinsic to the problem, but an extrinsic reality imposed by widely differing implementations of a number of overengi
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by jemfinch 16y ago
The STL is by far the best thought-out algorithm and data structure library I've ever used. I miss it frequently when programming in Python, but in many cases where having optimal algorithms and data structures actually matters, the quanti
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by jemfinch 16y ago
"Firefox doesn’t need to privilege any particular website or application, while Google’s Chrome is “tied to their commercial purposes,” he said." Ironically the Mozilla Foundation's primary (practically sole?) source of income is derived fr
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Do you actually get charged more in merchant fees for that specific card? I thought the charges for Visa were the same for all Visa cards.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
I doubt his home computers are any less weakly protected than Evernote's servers.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
"Sandboxing" is the term you're looking for.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
What does "shrill" mean in the context of writing?
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by jemfinch 16y ago
My ethical equation is simple: "Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation." I surely hope
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by jemfinch 16y ago
A straw man is when someone doesn't argue against a given claim, but argues against a different claim that's easier to defeat. An anecdote cannot be a straw man, and the OP was obviously replying to the claim made by the article.
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by jemfinch 16y ago
Everyone should watch that talk. It's the most compelling I've yet seen for the relevance of applicative programming. I was not convinced, but I was closer than I've ever been to being convinced.

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