petrilli

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by petrilli 16y ago
I believe a summary is best stated as "See, we're doing something!" Doing something, and doing the right thing, are very different things, but one is simple, and the other requires thought and risk management. You can imagine which is rewar
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by petrilli 16y ago
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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by petrilli 16y ago
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems." Jamie Zawinski on alt.religion.emacs
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by petrilli 16y ago
<prepackaged food> may lead to chronic illness. Seems sane. The problem is that ramen isn't JUST crappy salty over-processed 100% artificially flavored desiccated food. In Japan, ramen is a real food.
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by petrilli 16y ago
It seems a bit disingenuous to say that Apple is "blocking" it. They may be working against it -- and probably are -- but blocking implies Apple has some magical veto. It might be hard to believe, but this sort of thing is pretty normal in
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To understand why the government can't secure anything, just look at this chart(wired.com)
4 points by petrilli 16y ago|0 comments
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by petrilli 16y ago
Obviously if he's coding, he's not a TRUE architect. :)
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by petrilli 16y ago
Which part of "no" is difficult to comprehend? I'd express it in one letter, but I've not figured out how yet.
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by petrilli 16y ago
The problem, as I've seen in a few big organizations, is that everyone thinks they need an "all singing, all dancing" piece of software (like SAP or Siebel, for example), which has 18-quadrillion knobs to adjust. The problem is, nobody has
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by petrilli 16y ago
Sadly, his consideration for where to go is probably "where am I least likely to be shot?"
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by petrilli 16y ago
I suspect he'd be happier with Cryptlib. It's a much saner toolkit, and already has most of a CA built in.
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by petrilli 16y ago
No, I didn't say there wasn't a place for "deeper analysis", but let's be real and not compare science with "literary criticism".
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by petrilli 16y ago
So basically you can be someone who provides insight to 99% of the population who doesn't want to delve into the neuroses of "film criticism", or you can be a self-important blowhard who seems to mostly talk to himself in the dark. Most "fi
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by petrilli 16y ago
Who knew CNN had Captain Obvious working for them?
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by petrilli 16y ago
My personal view is that Solaris is now, like Oracle's database products, officially irrelevant to the future. While they will continue to be purchased for large sums of money by people who must, like COBOL, they will not shape anyone's ide
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OpenSolaris is dead; and Solaris is officially irrelevant. (theregister.co.uk)
3 points by petrilli 16y ago|2 comments
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by petrilli 16y ago
People who argue that we need to kill infidels also are making comments consistent with their world-view, however it's hardly what most people would argue is "freedom".
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by petrilli 16y ago
You probably know, but the reason there are multiple passes is because once a page is typeset, you can't go back and "fix" it. TeX is very page-centric. So references, for example, aren't "knowable" until you've typeset all the pages. Then
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by petrilli 16y ago
Before people get too bent out of shape/excited, the data within the files is just people's names and counts as well as the URL to their profile. All of these profiles were already public.
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by petrilli 16y ago
The introduction of hstore actually lets you do this natively. I think it's partially that PostgreSQL people tend not to try and use the hammer as a screw driver, but maybe that's just me. Or maybe sometimes MySQL is a screw driver being us
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by petrilli 16y ago
A better question would be: who uses MySQL as anything but a glorified key-value store when reaching large sizes? I personally have been involved in trying to use MySQL as a "real database" in the 10-100TB range and let me tell you, it's no
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by petrilli 16y ago
That sounds like any other KV store then. One of the usefulnesses (wow that's actually a word) of Redis is that it has all the rich data types and operations that are atomic. At that point, if you're not going to use them, why not look at T
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by petrilli 16y ago
The brilliant Jon Postel was speaking of the implementation and design of open standards. Flash may be ubiquitous, but it would never be called a standard by anyone subscribing to the IETF rules-of-the-road. BTW, Apple also does not impleme