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by ponnap 16y ago
It seems to work for me. CL-USER> (defvar *arch-enemy* nil) (defun pudding-eater (person) (cond ((eq person 'henry)(setf *arch-enemy* 'stupid-lisp-alien)'(curse you lisp alien - you ate my pudding))
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by ponnap 16y ago
Misleading title. Does not contain any 'story'.
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by ponnap 17y ago
"Most existing database clustering solutions rely on a shared disk storage to maintain their cluster state, as can be seen in the diagram below." In the case of RAC, although state is written to a file called 'voting disk', the actual stat
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by ponnap 17y ago
Actually most production databases tend not to use ASM's High or Normal redundancy because the software level redundancy provided by ASM tends to perform very badly when compared to a storage controller driven RAID. External redundancy is
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by ponnap 17y ago
There are lot of use cases wherein 'dedup' helps, and it could be done in a number of ways. For eg: Lets say there is a huge email attachment and it needs to be sent to everybody in the company. Instead of saving a copy of the attachment in
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by ponnap 17y ago
"While not intended for occupants to remain inside during a hurricane, the structure is designed to minimize catastrophic damage and preserve the homeowner’s investment, Mayne says. In case of a flood, the base of the house acts as a raft,
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by ponnap 17y ago
Mailinator.com already does something similar. It creates a random email ID on the fly and lets one use it too - to verify email IDs.
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EMC raises offer for Data Domain to $2.4 billion(reuters.com)
1 points by ponnap 17y ago|1 comments
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by ponnap 18y ago
I am not sure why your cell phone bill has not changed much over the past few years. However, a quick Google search returned these results, and this information seems to be at least two years old: http://in.rediff.com/money/2007/jan/10mobi
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by ponnap 18y ago
Most of the revenue generated by cell phone service providers through their walled gardens seems to be from voice and not data. It would be interesting to see how long these service providers would continue to be profitable given their decr
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by ponnap 18y ago
May be it exists in their coding guidelines? Although tablename.tablename_columnname sounds repetitive and verbose, it might in some cases be of help when one deals with too many tables and too many keys with the same name across tables.
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by ponnap 18y ago
How about taking the approach of Steve Blanks 'Customer development' about which, there was a thread a few days ago to figure out where one stands?
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by ponnap 18y ago
You could have all the money in the world and still make a product that nobody wants. Looks like a guaranteed path to failure.
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by ponnap 18y ago
"This is academic gobbledy gook.I felt like I was hearing a bad tech sales pitch flipping through this with all of its markitecture diagrams." Is there a reason why you thought so? Are you aware of a better way of doing this, according to y
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by ponnap 18y ago
True, and this is probably the reason for media obsession with celebrity related talk.
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by ponnap 18y ago
From the link above, it appears that they came up with an integration product that pretty much talks to all other systems at the customer site. Given this, I would speculate that the product probably does not deal with data that probably au
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by ponnap 18y ago
We've had them in my previous company. How different are they from the regular whiteboards? They probably look a lot cleaner than the white ones after years of usage. If the ink in the marker dries out, it is harder to read than it is to, f
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by ponnap 18y ago
Given that the question reads "how to learn computer programming in 8 months?", I'd say there is no definite carved out approach to get there. Individual mileage might vary. However, as most other people have already suggested, "quickly bui
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by ponnap 18y ago
This is a well known thing and pretty much everybody on HN is probably aware of this.