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by rbranson 16y ago
Further extrapolating, m2.2xlarge has 8 pretty powerful 2.66GHz Nehalem Xeon cores, so that's 320 cores, or roughly 3.2 million "rows" (whatever that is) per second per core. Nothing to laugh at, but certainly not a revelation.
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by rbranson 16y ago
They hired her away from the runaway success of.... _AUTODESK_.
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by rbranson 16y ago
The same argument he uses to advocate query hints rests on a situation actually much more likely to occur because of query hint use. Your assumptions can't use runtime statistics or cost configuration to alter a query plan.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Not to be overly pedantic, but a piece of core functionality like this seems like it would really need some basic automated tests, even if they were just running the API through it's paces. The thorough documentation is awesome though!
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by rbranson 16y ago
Yeah that's what I get for being in the OOP world for the daily grind. I think a C API is still definitely for the best. Perhaps a nice shortcut API for this would be something like: response_complete(200, body, response_header("Conte
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by rbranson 16y ago
This is neat. Honestly, in addition, I'd like to see something like Rack for C. The "gateway interfaces" for C are too implementation-specific (CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, web server extensions/modules, etc). It would be something more abstract tha
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by rbranson 16y ago
Uh, no... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability
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by rbranson 16y ago
Like how SSH agent forwarding can allow you to hop from box to box with the SSH keys loaded onto your local machine's SSH agent? Found that one a few months ago, made me reflect on what I've been doing in life the past 10 years not thorough
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by rbranson 16y ago
^^^ these guys, they have a cool project, and he forgot to mention EC2.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Most of these jobs and companies would still exist without Microsoft. They would just be using and/or building around someone else's software and/or platform.
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by rbranson 16y ago
^^^ this. Sprockets is a good way to do this if you're using Rails. If you don't need something quite as sophisticated, Rails has built-in asset caching that will combine your JS and CSS files into a single file automatically by just puttin
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by rbranson 16y ago
That's only even a problem if they target you. Danger comes when they can target everyone simultaneously and use automated means to find those who match their profile as enemies of an agenda.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Yes, but that's largely useless unless they target you. If they target you, it's likely they have the means to decrypt your traffic. They also have many other means if you are targeted. The real danger would come if they didn't have to targ
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by rbranson 16y ago
So? This isn't the equivalent to papers secured in your household, it's data sent over someone else's network. I'm not a huge fan, but saying it's the same as the government walking into your house and examining all your documents is ridicu
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by rbranson 16y ago
All of the T-Mo 3G phones are 850/1700/1900/2100.
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by rbranson 16y ago
I'd argue that the way Apple got into the iPad market was extremely different from the iPod. Apple's iPod play was very low key and niche at the time. The iPad, in contrast, is a mass market product Apple waited for the timing to be just pe
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by rbranson 16y ago
The problem is that many in the US have been brainwashed into believing their house IS an investment and this justifies purchasing above their means, because "at least I'm not throwing the money away in rent."
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by rbranson 16y ago
Housing is not an investment, it's an expense. To compare another investment, if you were to save $200/mo away into an investment account bearing 9.0% (like an S&P index fund), this would amount to $368,894 after 30 years. The whole tim
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by rbranson 16y ago
Outside of property tax increases (at least in the State of Tennessee), the landlord can't increase rent on you if you've got a lease contract. Things are much stricter in many other states.
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by rbranson 16y ago
This isn't entirely true. Amazon.com uses EC2 in addition to dedicated servers. http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/1516269/Amaz...
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by rbranson 16y ago
I wrote a gigantic direct reasoning post in response to this, but I think a gigantic anecdotal analogy will work better. In the state of Tennessee, where I live, there is currently a debate about repealing some laws that regulate the sale o
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by rbranson 16y ago
It is good at web scale.
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by rbranson 16y ago
RTFM'ing myself in public. While it's a great step forward, the whole thing sounds pretty immature at this point. It'll be a good day when this stuff matures and MongoDB has fsync:true and --journal by default, much to the chagrin of sensat
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by rbranson 16y ago
Relativity theory isn't patentable as there is no business model which could commercialize it. Patents were originally intended as a way to encourage innovation because they created a give and take relationship between private interests and
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by rbranson 16y ago
Starting to get excited once again about MongoDB. I was kind of down about it after having some issues with real world implementations. Considering journaling is something I would never have thought would have made it in, I wonder if they w
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by rbranson 16y ago
1. You are mostly right, but in genuine US style, the other events surrounding the convention have sort of grown to become larger than the convention itself. It's likely they were selling these at some kind of event or area not directly aff
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by rbranson 16y ago
Doesn't virtualization make this sort of thing obsolete? If your performance requirements are modest enough to work on a micro server, wouldn't they work in a virtualized environment? It seems like it'd be cheaper (software does the work ha
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by rbranson 16y ago
I don't have a strong use-case for JRuby in this particular case, so I'll just continue to use YARV. There are some Java libraries I've been tempted to use, but it's not crucial at this point. It's not implementing message passing that's th
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by rbranson 16y ago
Will a stable implementation of fork() ever exist? I know JRuby provides threads, and that is great, but I have existing code that's using fork() + message-passing I don't care to rewrite it using shared memory and threads.
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by rbranson 16y ago
The SD card issue might be confusing, but it would be even more confusing if it installed apps on the SD card by default. Switching SD cards and having apps die and/or disappear would he quite confusing. I don't know if there is a feasible

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