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by jpitz 14y ago
Autocommit omits the begin/commit pair. This is 'implicit' transaction mode. There is no way to turn off transactions in postgres. The performance savings comes from the roundtrip latency of the BEGIN TRANSACTION / COMMIT packets. "Wo
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by jpitz 14y ago
I dislike the auto-sales chat.
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by jpitz 14y ago
I agree, and I misspoke on the point which you corrected me on.
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by jpitz 14y ago
"Idempotent means that the function can be composed multiple times with no effect." Close, but not quite. The first application may have an effect. The second application and so on may not. For example, the HTTP spec defines GET as idempote
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by jpitz 14y ago
If you have the means to cook outdoors: http://www.amazon.com/King-Kooker-24WC-Heavy-Duty-Portable/d...
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by jpitz 14y ago
Be a pedant all you wish, but please don't call this bolt-action rifle an assault rifle, and please don't assume that the majority of hunters use assault rifles.
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by jpitz 14y ago
"Using queues also exposes you to the noisy-neighbor syndrome. If you have 25 jobs on the queue, all consisting of the same resource-intensive work, your queue could get bogged down while less intensive processing is blocked. Queues represe
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by jpitz 14y ago
Actually, the OSI has approved two of Microsoft's licenses. http://opensource.org/node/207
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by jpitz 14y ago
Look at the Pro Audio USB Monitor space - Alesis and Samson have good sounding powered nearfield speakers that are cheap by audiophile standards. edit Samson not Samsung
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by jpitz 14y ago
FTFA: Only after all the water is either absorbed into the rice or evaporated, the temperature in the pot rises above 100 degrees Celsius and the thermostat signals that the rice is cooked. The rice cooker then switches from “Cook” mode to
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by jpitz 14y ago
Despite his attire, Crusher was not a redshirt: http://gamerjargon2.wikispaces.com/red+shirt
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by jpitz 14y ago
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html Numbers 6 and 7 both apply, et the least. Why does the appellation bother you so?
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by jpitz 14y ago
The article didn't claim that FORTRAN or C are required for these calculations. Rather, It lamented that the prevailing attitude of Lisp practitioners was to eschew the knowledge behind those calculations.
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by jpitz 14y ago
Ugh. No. This uses a multi-column natural key. I have a tendency to avoid synthetic keys when I can.
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by jpitz 14y ago
My telemetry table is >2B rows and growing. 5B is starting to worry me; .5B, not so much. This is even backed by ( not much ) spinning rust.
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by jpitz 14y ago
Lots of crashing upon photo capture on my vintage droid. I have the sdk, so give me a yell if I can help debug.
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by jpitz 14y ago
He says he's going to add Eclipse.
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by jpitz 14y ago
I don't know. Index-only scans bring a level of feature parity with Oracle. Range types / range exclusion constraints introduce features that no other DBMS has - and solves a messy, hard problem that you pretty much have to hand-code for ea
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by jpitz 14y ago
>SQL Server has been MVCC for seven years You're technically correct, which is the best kind of correct to be. Still, there are nuances: snapshot isolation is not the default, and not many people are aware of it, much less use it. So fa
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by jpitz 14y ago
That particular use-case is such an anti-pattern in SQL Server ( because SQL Server isn't or hasn't until recently been MVCC ) that Microsoft added Service Broker to the product. It isn't nearly the anti-pattern, at least for many loads, in
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by jpitz 14y ago
Loops immediately brought to mind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
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by jpitz 14y ago
Well, more like VMS.
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by jpitz 14y ago
I wrote one once, though not ram based, based on a lucene index, about 6 years ago, that crawled a subversion repository and presented a web query interface. It was a quick project to write. These days, git grep is hard to beat.
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by jpitz 15y ago
Greg Smith's PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance [1] Cary Milsap's Optimizing Oracle Performance [2], and - a pale third, Davidson and Ford's Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views [3] The first 2 are bottom-up, structured
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by jpitz 15y ago
Here's what I clicked: We have a test suite that tests a few critical things We are happy with the amount of testing we do Here's what I would have clicked, if present: We have a test suite that test a lot of things, but probably only repre
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by jpitz 15y ago
> Or only burning coal at night. Coal power is a base load technology. Spin up time for a coal plant is too long for it to work well for night time use only. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load_power_plant
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by jpitz 15y ago
If I could just marry something like this to DataGraph. Sigh.
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by jpitz 15y ago
I came here to say just this. I've had similar experiences, and have loaned my 7506's out to sound engineers on the road when their cans broke. As pro audio gear, they're also designed to be repairable. Having spent a few dollars on replace
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by jpitz 15y ago
Thats a problem you have a lot better chance of solving before you lose an SSH key than after.
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by jpitz 15y ago
Project Eueler, mentioned here many times, is a great set of problems to use while exploring a new language. http://projecteuler.net/

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