jvdongen

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by jvdongen 15y ago
1. while true, PG has other features (e.g. partial indexes) which can make a big difference as well. Completely depends on the scenario. Sometime mysql will 'win', sometimes PG. No real reason to pick one over the other, unless you know tha
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by jvdongen 15y ago
"I'm having a really hard time refraining from writing a really snarky "Switch to MySQL" type response, not because I think that MySQL outperforms PostgreSQL, but because there is always somebody on every MySQL article discussion who does t
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by jvdongen 15y ago
You are correct in that that appears to be the main point of the article. However, the analogy is unfair. Airports are in relative short supply, so once you've taken the train, your stuck on it for quite a bit. Migrating away from an ORM or
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by jvdongen 15y ago
You (and the article) would be correct if the ORM/no ORM was a black and white affair. However, as others already pointed out in this thread, it is not. It is perfectly viable to use an ORM as the basis and gradually switch to 'raw' sql if
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by jvdongen 15y ago
For my multi-lingual-content-needs I work with a main table which only has the non-translatable data items and a subtable which contains the translatable content, one row per language per row from the main table. Then I do a join to get a s
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by jvdongen 15y ago
... currently typing on a MBP with a clearly visible #, @, \ and | all reachable by merely using shift. Is this only an issue with a US keyboard layout perhaps (I've a Dutch layout)?
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by jvdongen 15y ago
How that exactly works is a bit too long a topic for a comment here (try google - "public key encryption", "X.509" and "certificate authority" are some relevant search terms if you're interested). However what I'd like to point out is that
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by jvdongen 15y ago
If, as the article implies, the same user gets the same identifier across all KISSmetrics customers they ARE (implicitly) sharing customer activity between customers. As the article states, customer A and B could simple put the information
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by jvdongen 15y ago
To some extend I agree - but if it wasn't for this benchmark AND the follow-up, my SSL cipher list would definitively not be the first (or second, or third) item I'd check in case of mysterious web server slowness ... Now it is. I've learne
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by jvdongen 15y ago
Maybe because that's part of postgresql since 9.0 (async, sync replication coming with 9.1)?
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by jvdongen 15y ago
You could use something like grinder ( http://grinder.sourceforge.net/ ) to create a loadtest scenario which you can use to establish a baseline before a change and run after a change to assess impact. True loadtesting requires quite a bit
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by jvdongen 15y ago
The car/fuel analogy is a bad one. High-test fuel only makes sense if the engine in which you intend to burn it is designed to actually make use of its qualities to reach higher efficiencies (e.g. a higher compression ratio). If not, you're
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by jvdongen 16y ago
Implementing two factor auth on linux is actually fairly easy. We use a 15-odd line pam_script script that for ssh logins: - checks to see if there is a authentication code in a hidden file in your homedir - if not it validates the password
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by jvdongen 16y ago
While it is a nice idea, I do not see any practical applications. It requires a receiver who is a) knowledgeable enough to decrypt it using something like openssl and b) have access to the actual private key. If that's the case it is highly
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by jvdongen 16y ago
Funny how the page containing the terms of service for ryanair is titled 'copywrite' :)
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by jvdongen 16y ago
Also good to take into account is that Chernobyl and TMI and Fukushima are installations from the 1970's or early 1980's. And even for those old birds the stats seem fairly favorable. But as long as emotions fueled by scare-mongering have t
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by jvdongen 16y ago
Except that storing the passwords in encrypted form in a keychain is explicitly meant to shield them from prying eyes even in the event the hardware falls in the wrong hands. You may get at the file, you just can't get at the data. At least
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by jvdongen 16y ago
[EDIT: never mind, missed this response, similar in style but 2h earlier ... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2197064 ] May be I'm missing something, but it seems to me that there is a way to have your cake and eat it too in this case.
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by jvdongen 16y ago
Bit of a negative sentiment - pity. Beautiful is a rather subjective thing. It looks not too shabby and there is the core api if you want to make it look really different. The big thing to me is - it is here NOW, it seems to work in the hod
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by jvdongen 16y ago
I'm a noob regarding investing, so bear with me if I use incorrect terms or kick open doors that are already open etc. but if my interpretation of this graph is correct, it also offers some guidelines for investing in funds (not individual
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by jvdongen 16y ago
Exception in the way that we suspected that if there would be a european country where eating outdoors would be more common than a home cooked meal, it would be France. But that was mostly based on observations during business trips to Fran
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by jvdongen 16y ago
That definitively plays a role I think. Though that does not explain why the "bad food" seems to have won. It is easy enough to make great tasting food with high quality ingredients. Granted, that would not be cheap - but then again, we don
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by jvdongen 16y ago
Interesting data point - discussing this over dinner made us arrive at France as the only suspected exception in Europe, but apparently it's not. Did Tony indicate what initiated the change?
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by jvdongen 16y ago
I frequently read this kind of articles on the web, and every time I'm amazed by it. Preparing food yourself is the rule in my corner of the world (the Netherlands) - going out for dinner an exception. And up until a few years ago you'd be