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by nicktelford 14y ago
> 3. MongoDB is the de facto choice for NoSQL applications The point of "NoSQL" systems are to use the most appropriate solution for the problem instead of a one-size-fits-all solution, which was the tradition when relational systems we
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by nicktelford 14y ago
Couldn't agree more. I read somewhere (I forget where): "You don't need to learn Category Theory in order to learn Haskell. Learn Haskell, and you'll develop an intuition for Category Theory as a side-effect." I think the best "Monad tutori
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There are line breaks at a fixed interval so that it wraps at 80 chars. I imagine that makes up the other ~300KB. Edit: Line-breaks do indeed make up the bulk of the overhead, but it's also an HTML page so there's some boilerplate markup at
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by nicktelford 14y ago
You might be interested in the Nix package manager: http://nixos.org/nix/ Among the raft of interesting ideas it brings to the table is application sand-boxing; many versions of a shared library can be installed with dependent apps linkin
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by nicktelford 14y ago
The re-enforcement of the fallacy that FP shuns mutable state really put me off this article.
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by nicktelford 14y ago
Thank you for this; C++ is exactly the language that I should have referenced. It's a for-bearer for what PHP is to become.
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by nicktelford 14y ago
It strikes me that several of the languages that gained popularity at the turn of the century are having a bit of an identity crisis in the face of their increasing irrelevance. This is especially evident in PHP, but I'm beginning to feel t
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by nicktelford 14y ago
Because the domain name doesn't need to be fully-qualified; it can just be a machine name on the local network. To illustrate this: "user@localhost" is a valid email address. All these overly complex regular expressions miss a major point:
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by nicktelford 14y ago
I'd surmise that the main reason leap years continue to break systems is that new software is developed within the time between leap years that fail to account for them. Date/time handling is notoriously difficult to get right, and leap yea
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by nicktelford 14y ago
From what I've heard the majority of the problems we saw this time around were caused by a deadlock in NTP in a number of Linux kernels (2.6.21 until 3.3 I think , although that might be wrong). [source: http://www.mail-archive.com/git-co
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I build High Availability Platforms so Cloud is not for me(blog.networksaremadeofstring.co.uk)
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by nicktelford 15y ago
> If two entities can't communicate, they can't synchronize state, so one (or both) of them have to quit acting like they have a consistent view of the data. With the exception of quantum entanglement, of course.
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Human males 'won't go extinct'(bbc.co.uk)
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by nicktelford 15y ago
This sounds like a CP system to me. There's nothing wrong with that btw, I don't know why people are so reluctant to admit this. AP systems have some useful properties, but they're also (typically) more difficult to reason about. The "hiccu
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by nicktelford 15y ago
And the Spanish Inquisition.
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by nicktelford 15y ago
And off-by-one errors.
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by nicktelford 15y ago
I honestly can't think of anything worse for consumers. By purchasing the content producers they would own the entire supply chain (from production to delivery), purchasing (nearly) every content producer would make them a monopoly both hor
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by nicktelford 15y ago
I didn't know about this matching. Awesome. Now I'm even more annoyed that our servers are all CentOS :(
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The biggest advantage is when removing packages; its dependency resolution is (supposedly) much better so it's able to find and remove orphan packages more accurately without hosing your system. It's also got a much friendlier set of comman
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by nicktelford 15y ago
I can't believe there are Debian/Ubuntu folks still not using "aptitude". Or that it's not installed by default.
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by nicktelford 15y ago
I find it somewhat ironic that DRM, SOPA and all the other various techniques designed to prevent copyright infringement are being championed by the politicians of a country who's attitude towards firearms control is "guns don't kill people
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by nicktelford 15y ago
Your primary argument seems to be that in the event a "replication event" fails, the data is lost forever - this is simply not true. I the event a replica is unavailable for a write, the co-ordinator stores that write itself and delivers it