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   Setting up a Zotac ZBOX with XBMC as a home theater PC(pgrs.net)

   3 points by pgr0ss 15y ago|0 comments
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   by pgr0ss 15y ago

   You should read the Dynamo paper: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.h... The ring is first explained in Section 4.2 Partitioning Algorithm.
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   by pgr0ss 15y ago

   "I was released from federal prison on January 21, 2000, just 6 weeks ago."
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   by pgr0ss 15y ago

   Is the replica set failover really zero-downtime for you? In our usage, it seems like it takes a few seconds to elect a new primary during which time no writes can occur.
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   by pgr0ss 15y ago

   Squashing commits can fix up git history, but it does not address the bigger issues: refactoring, lack of builds, and having to deploy multiple branches to test features. The first two make it very hard to do any significant code reworking
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   by pgr0ss 15y ago

   I actually just wrote up a blog post as well about why I don't like feature branches: http://www.pgrs.net/2011/08/29/why-i-dont-like-feature-branc... My main reasons are that git history gets messy, builds don't run on feature branches (a
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   Why I don’t like feature branches(pgrs.net)

   4 points by pgr0ss 15y ago|0 comments
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   Useful unix tricks - part 4(pgrs.net)

   8 points by pgr0ss 15y ago|0 comments
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   by pgr0ss 15y ago

   Fastdev makes the Android Emulator usable: http://developer.appcelerator.com/blog/2011/05/titanium-mobi... After you suffer the initial emulator load, changes appear in the app by simply bouncing the app. It's one big win for Titanium.
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    by pgr0ss 15y ago

    If you don't version, you can only add to an API. You cannot change anything meaningful (or as simple as renaming a field). You wind up with APIs with multiple ways of getting the same or similar data in order to avoid breaking backwards co
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    How to migrate your blog from Mephisto to Wordpress(pgrs.net)

    5 points by pgr0ss 15y ago|0 comments
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    by pgr0ss 15y ago

    Nice pun!
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    by pgr0ss 15y ago

    http://anyvite.com
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    by pgr0ss 16y ago

    Here are a few extra tips: - "select relname, indexrelname, idx_scan from pg_stat_user_indexes" will show how many times an index is used, so you can remove unused indexes - you can create indexes without locking tables (ie, while your site
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    by pgr0ss 16y ago

    If you are sharing with other people, something like encfs would be better: http://www.arg0.net/encfsintro Encfs encrypts file by file, so you do not have to worry about multiple people editing (and possibly corrupting) one giant file.
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    by pgr0ss 16y ago

    Your syntax is definitely simpler. One reason we did it the way we did was to get compiler checking for operators. We've tried to follow idioms in different client libraries, and for the statically compiled languages, we've tried to make
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    A DSL in 5 Languages: Ruby, Python, PHP, C#, Java(braintreepaymentsolutions.com)

    60 points by pgr0ss 16y ago|51 comments
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    by pgr0ss 17y ago

    Thanks for writing redis-node-client! For pure proxies, there are definitely more appropriate tools. However, this gave me a chance to play with node.js. And I may develop it into a more full featured proxy. I haven't seen the new continu
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    by pgr0ss 17y ago

    You could still handle file uploads and other complex requests traditionally, and only use a queuing solution for the most important traffic. Then, at least part of the site would stay up during upgrades even if corners of the site went do
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    Node.js, redis, and resque(pgrs.net)

    28 points by pgr0ss 17y ago|5 comments