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by julian37 15y ago
Hi Salvatore, many thanks for the reply, that does clarify the issue. So when sub-objects are only a few dozen per collection (per parent object) on average, storing them as JSON blobs allows Redis to "inline" them, yielding good memory usa
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by julian37 15y ago
Perfect timing as I'm planning to use Redis for the first time soon and this is going to be a great resource for best practices. Thanks, Antirez! Speaking of best practices, putting serialized objects into the database (as you're doing wit
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by julian37 15y ago
Sent over HTTP and generated on a remote machine, which could theoretically log it along with your IP. </paranoid> Alternate ways of generating strong passwords on your local box that I'm aware of: * Mac OS X users can launch Keycha
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by julian37 15y ago
Previous discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3055731
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by julian37 15y ago
GP is presumably referring to George Bernard Shaw's use of the term. "Reasonable people," wrote Shaw, "adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreason
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by julian37 15y ago
That's great to hear, thanks.
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by julian37 15y ago
Thanks for the pointer, I'll check it out.
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by julian37 15y ago
This looks amazing. @boucher, sounds like support for Canada and the UK is in the pipeline, how about other EU countries such as Germany? In the meantime, can somebody recommend a (vaguely) similar service in/for Germany, or otherwise an o
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by julian37 15y ago
try dropping the ORM (or find another one) Dropping or replacing the ORM is a big undertaking in anything but small toy projects. Better advice is to run a profiler and crank up the ORM's verbosity in order to determine the extent of over
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by julian37 15y ago
Agreed. I don't have Lion installed yet, but in SL I can enter "ä" by typing option-U, then A. The article makes it sound like the new behavior can be disabled so I'm hoping that means the current behavior, which I'm very happy with, stil
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by julian37 15y ago
I didn't think you were trying to make fun of the issue, but I have to admit that I replied because it bugged me a little that the topmost comment (which your GP comment is as I'm writing this) was about RMS's lack of humour. I'm not an RMS
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by julian37 15y ago
RMS doesn't strike me as a very cheerful person either, at least in email conversations, so it doesn't surprise me you're getting upvoted for this remark. That said, it doesn't surprise me either that as a person known for sticking to his p
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by julian37 15y ago
Minor nitpick, there is visible banding. It would look better with dithering applied. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_banding
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by julian37 15y ago
These are all good reasons to bring back vote counts (which, again, I'm in favor of) but only your point (2) is a reply to my question about this particular case. (1) and (3) would apply to any comment here on HN. I guess what I didn't tak
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by julian37 15y ago
Thanks for explaining your comment, that makes sense. I do think, however, that your parent's comment makes a point on its own merit, not sure it needs to be "me too'd" 127 times to be heard. It also gets a prominent position on the page
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by julian37 15y ago
Huh? So what if people upvote a comment with many votes... no harm done, right?
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by julian37 15y ago
Still doesn't answer the question: how much earlier is it executed? I would like to know.
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by julian37 15y ago
I'm all for bringing back vote counts, I do sorely miss them... but I have to ask, in this particular case, how would mankind be served if we knew that 127 more people agree with cstuder? Maybe I'm missing something, this is an honest ques
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by julian37 15y ago
Not sure if you mean it the way I read it, but that's a false dichotomy. Even if the penalty in question would have only been a single day in jail, or a $50 fine, it's still terribly wrong to rely on results produced by closed-source, non-
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by julian37 15y ago
Thanks for reminding me of Project Euler, great idea. I haven't heard about any of these books (I grew up in Germany) but I've forwarded the list to his parents. Cheers, much appreciated!
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by julian37 15y ago
Hi there, great ideas! I agree the hard way is the way to go, it's how I got started myself. Thanks for the suggestion re: physics lectures, sounds really good. Pygame is an awesome idea too, actually you've inspired me to put Ubuntu on an
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by julian37 15y ago
Of course, how could I forget about Khan academy. Good point, thanks!
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Ask HN: Fun challenges for a 9 year-old math whiz?
5 points by julian37 15y ago|9 comments
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by julian37 15y ago
Very interesting, thanks for the link! I don't feel like arguing with the father of the language and this story is already on its way out of the HN front page so I'll leave it at that. If anything it's comforting to know that such a core
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by julian37 15y ago
When people inquire about the len() function it is mainly because it is (or at least looks like) a global function rather than an object method. In short, people wonder why you have to call len(x) instead of x.len(). This is a valid conce
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Laser-made bike lane could save lives(smh.com.au)
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by julian37 15y ago
Haha, did you pick your nickname just so you can post stuff like that?
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by julian37 15y ago
The former isn't a very good reason: HTML/XML accept both double and single quotes, so "<p id='foo'>something</p>" would work equally well.
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by julian37 16y ago
Regarding programming with tables, see also Subtext: http://www.subtextual.org/
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by julian37 16y ago
An update has just been posted saying that Lady Gaga loves it, it was her manager who made the decision without consulting with her: http://alyankovic.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/gaga-update/

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