mikey_p

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   by mikey_p 16y ago

   I can't describe how helpful this is for some of the open source projects that I contribute too. Sometimes it's hard enough getting folks to review patches, etc, but getting people to write docs is like pulling teeth at times. This makes it
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   by mikey_p 16y ago

   That'd be great if their Gmail app was more useful, it's in ability to configure what labels to sync (aka IMAP sub folders) is a big drag, and why I switch to K9 mail.
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   by mikey_p 16y ago

   I've seen as low as 64 and as high as 254. I tend to err on the side of spec vs. performance when it comes to this sort of thing.
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   by mikey_p 16y ago

   Disclaimer: I've read quite a bit of Postman's work: Amusing Ourselves to Death, The Disappearance of Childhood, How to Watch TV News, and part of Technopoly. I do agree with Postman's observation that much of our society is moving more tow
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   by mikey_p 16y ago

   I agree that it's not a perfect analogy, and perhaps shouldn't be taken as an analogy at all. That said, I don't think that means there's nothing to be learned from what did and didn't work. It's rather similar to how I like to reference De
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   by mikey_p 16y ago

   Generally Drupal doesn't use a class or similar OO construct to manage it's organization of individual modules. Some of the various sub systems of Drupal are moving to more traditional OO structure (such as the database abstraction layer) a
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   Fast Iterations: How Napoleon Managed the French Army(managingmetrics.com)

   51 points by mikey_p 16y ago|30 comments
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   by mikey_p 16y ago

   I've been wondering for some time why Netflix streaming is such a better deal than the cable company's on demand, Blockbuster online, Amazon Unbox, and so on. Now this makes much more sense. So far the best thing I've found about Netflix ha
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   by mikey_p 16y ago

   I've really enjoyed skimming through other users 'dotfiles' or similarly named repos. It's a great way to find some small tips or shortcuts to make my day to day work more efficient, etc, without reading a long blog post about why some tech
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    by mikey_p 16y ago

    I'd also add that their billing software can't keep things straight. I've had a couple of servers that I spun up for a demo at a meetup, that somehow ended up with the same name, this prevented me from deleting them, and tells me that their
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    by mikey_p 16y ago

    Here's some info on how it was built: http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/sep/27/drupal-interface... along with a Drupal module from the folks that developed it, for accessing and building sites/applications around the data: http://drup
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    by mikey_p 16y ago

    I'd recommend checking out Drupal Gardens by Acquia: http://www.drupalgardens.com/ It's hosted Drupal, similar to Wordpress.com but you can point your own domain at it for free, and you can do custom CSS for free. It's completely free for
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    by mikey_p 16y ago

    My wife has said for a long time that the main reason for a position to require a degree, is to demonstrate that the candidate has subjected themselves to the process and bureaucracy of an educational institution, which is often designed to
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    by mikey_p 16y ago

    Here's your sign: "7s of that was waiting on memcached." If memcache is slower than your DB, you're doing something wrong.
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    by mikey_p 16y ago

    Does MariaDB (and other MySQL variants) suffer from this issue?
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    by mikey_p 16y ago

    I've also heard this called a Cache Stampede, since it's commonly caused by the sudden invalidation of a cache, which was the case for this outage.