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by nickzoic 13y ago
> But it is expressly not a benchmark of database servers. Oh, okay, cool. I'd misinterpreted it as being a kind of a "full stack" test. I didn't look at any of the "fortunes" examples, either, as it happe
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by nickzoic 13y ago
There's another Tornado using MySQL, at 17.8%. According to their README.md, the tests: * Access a database table or collection named "World" that is known to contain 10,000 rows/entries. * Query for a single r
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Lots of people have asked "Why not Nginx? Why not thttpd?" ... but if all you want to host is static files, why not AWS S3 or similar CDN?
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by nickzoic 13y ago
This is odd, because every time I've been in a building when a fire alarm went off, people by and large got up and got out. Okay, so they generally brought their coffee with them, and sometimes their laptops. Maybe it was because the
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Also "Tiny Wings" (for iOS) and there was one called "fishy fishy" or something like that for PC.
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Sure, but in practice, starting each sentence on a new line isn't difficult and works great with standard 'diff'. I actually quite like it for proofreading, since fragments and run-on sentences jump out at you.
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by nickzoic 13y ago
You see, on the one hand I think this is kind of admirable. Yay, I type my markdown over here and I can instantly see the bits I got wrong over there . But I also can't help thinking, if you're going to all that effort why not
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Get your CV ready ...
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Yep, brilliant for 5 year olds and the "Pocket Edition" tablet interface is a lot easier for young kids to handle than the mouse-keyboard version on the PC. Plus the world is smaller, which makes it a lot harder to get hopelessly lost. PS:
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Dark chocolate perhaps? FWIW I think the best thing about the existence of blogs is learning from others' successes and mistakes. The stories of the successes sometimes come off as self-indulgent, the stories of the mistakes sometimes come
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Thanks! I just cut-and-pasted it, didn't think to check whether the quote had made it through unmolested.
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Agreed re: minecraft, which is fantastic, but Plants vs. Zombies is actually a really good game too. I like to think of the planting sunflowers mechanic as the kids' first introduction to compound interest. If the kids are really excited a
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Portal worked great on Wine / Linux for me right up to (what I think is) the last level, when the frame rate suddenly plummeted to barely playable. Now it's out for native Linux I'll have to see if the same thing happens.
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Personally, I suspect the Right Way to do this is for W3C to standardize a special input field something like: <input type="passhash"/> which looks like a normal password entry field but automatically does some clever hashi
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Do you mean doing things (in jQuery) like: $('<div id="' + identifier + '">' + some_text + '</div>'); If so, consider doing: $('<div>').attr('id', identifier).text(some_text); which handles escaping
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Wow. Thanks for saving me umpteen bucks over the last few years.
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Nifty. Since you're here, can I suggest that you work out a way to differentiate between "0 stars" and "unreviewed"?
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Using a GET for this is okay, because `kill` is idempotent.
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Read the actual rules in the graphic in the article. The "knives" they are talking about are the tiniest little scrapers, first class cutlery would be more dangerous. For example, the Leatherman Wave is too long (by 7mm) too broad (by 1mm)
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by nickzoic 13y ago
first name, birthdate, country/region code to allow for regional variations. Would make a nice exercise in fuzzy decision processes, but I suspect it isn't a great idea: you'd be better off leaving that field as "unknown" by default and wri
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by nickzoic 13y ago
* Wordpress.com plus $30/year to remove ads? * wordpress on a AWS microinstance (free for the first year, 'bout $100/yr after that)? * Cheapie shared host like asmallorange.com (better than you'd expect for $35/year) * Static blog tool (pel
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Or you could just improve the text rendering engine of a normal HTML browser to do better typesetting. That'd make your HTML2.0 content look nice too! It isn't like using TeX is any guarantee of niceness: http://www.ieee.org/documents/TRAN
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by nickzoic 14y ago
So, once the modified clone(s) start to get a foothold in the market, release a new version of the OS which checks for the existence of the copyrighted marker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_ProDOS#Unlicensed_Apple_I...
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by nickzoic 14y ago
As well as a real "APPLE ][", we had a clone which displayed "GALAGA" on boot, bought from Singapore I think. It was otherwise identical to the real one, including the rest of the EPROM image. So there really were clones "Stolen from Appl
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by nickzoic 14y ago
I like it as a concept, but I was hoping for some kind of ratcheting mechanism ... a little pin in a zig-zag groove so that the eighth time you stand up it releases and the legs fall off.
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by nickzoic 14y ago
Two UPSes. Although I've got a good war story on that one too, I had a machine with redundant PSUs emit a stream of smoke from one of the PSUs. It was happily up and serving while smoking out the machine room until the operator (rather sen
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by nickzoic 14y ago
shrug If you want it to actually work , all the time , go with dual hotpluggable PSUs on everything every time. And two separate UPSs. If the cheapest router Cisco has with dual PSUs is a 39xx, well, I guess that's what you need. Of co
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by nickzoic 14y ago
> You can approximate URL dependencies by checking the > Last-Modified header via curl -I. ... or better, use the '-z' option. counties.zip: curl -o counties.zip -z counties.zip 'http://whatever.zip'
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by nickzoic 14y ago
I've used Make in a similar context: building documents. Raw simulation results (.log) -> Processed for plotting (.plot) -> Ugly Fig files (.x.fig) -> Pretty Fig files (.fig) -> EPS files (.eps) -> The final do
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by nickzoic 14y ago
... or use an editor with syntax highlighting for Makefiles.

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