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by rbranson 16y ago
How do you propose to differentiate between multiple implementations of the same concept otherwise? It is nice that there is a "nokogiri" and "hpricot," unlike the PostgreSQL gems, which are called "postgres", "pg", and "postgres-ruby". The
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by rbranson 16y ago
The temporary lack of GNU tools and packages, both of which are entirely relieved by MacPorts, is FAR outweighed by working native commercial software (Photoshop, Office, VMware, etc) and the excellent hardware support. Try calling Lenovo w
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by rbranson 16y ago
Oh man, with that kind of macro "metaprogramming" (if it can be called that), you're bringing on a world of error message pain. It's almost not worth it.
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by rbranson 16y ago
I wouldn't be so sure that ELB's are actually failing whole IP addresses across availability zones. Given the current ELB architecture is heavily dependent on dynamic DNS resolution, I am pretty suspicious that they are using DNS for failov
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by rbranson 16y ago
Simple: distribute your application across two isolated datacenters. I'm not trying to downplay the complexity of doing this, as I fully understand the amount of effort required. If the cost of being down for an hour or two isn't significan
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by rbranson 16y ago
The best part of this whole thing is "NoCukes," an awesome jab at the NoSQL moniker.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Remember guys & gals: this can happen to you. I am a fanatical Linode customer, and they are, in general, an extremely rock solid service, but that doesn't alleviate my responsibility to ensure my application is available regardless of
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by rbranson 16y ago
This is the exception for sure. Word is that the problem is with the datacenter their boxes are in (Hurricane Electric). Of course, ultimately this could cause customer loss for them, so it becomes their issue.
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by rbranson 16y ago
This gets into deeply philosophical, unanswerable questions. If we didn't bring them into the world as food, would they have existed in the first place? Is is it better that they existed for a shorter period of time than not at all? Do the
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by rbranson 16y ago
They aren't QUITE free. ARIN charges yearly fee of $1,250 for a /40 of IPv6 space. Of course, that's theoretically 309 SEPTILLION addresses (2^88), as much as organization will currently need. $1,250 for up to a /20 of IPv4s, which is a pal
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by rbranson 16y ago
You're the only one taking it personally. It's worth taking into account the bias of the source for any material.
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by rbranson 16y ago
FYI: On Linux, you can do instant snapshots with LVM. This is pretty useful as it's possible to snapshot an InnoDB database as it's running without losing data.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Disclaimer: zerohedge is a bunch of hysterical Austrian economist nutcases.
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Massively Distributed Browser-based Javascript Map Reduce Framework. (github.com)
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Trie matches 10,000 strings against 9,720 patterns in 0.6s, in JavaScript(github.com)
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by rbranson 16y ago
I'd argue that btrfs is not a product, but part of their support for the Linux platform. Oracle has a big Linux install base, and the primary commercial competition for these types of installs this is Microsoft SQL Server. The more powerful
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by rbranson 16y ago
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. If they GPL ZFS, they end up risking a major reason people choose Solaris. ZFS is very much a "brand" among systems administrators. It took quite a while for Sun to convince people to put their precious
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by rbranson 16y ago
I doubt they'll make ZFS GPL. ZFS is a really big reason to use Solaris, and unless they plan on killing Solaris, Linux's paws need to remain off of ZFS. On the other side of things, Oracle has a LOT of Linux installations, and the features
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by rbranson 16y ago
Doesn't seem to amount to a hill of beans when it comes to sales figures though, does it?
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by rbranson 16y ago
Unfortunately those search queries are worse than "ballpark" figures as they're mostly based on keyword matching, not the amount of code the developer is writing in that language for that job. There are certain search queries that will alwa
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by rbranson 16y ago
I'm surprised you included Rails in that list. While there are quite a few Rails jobs, it pales in comparison to what's available for .NET and J2EE. Even PHP blows it away by pure number of jobs.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Right, that is super hot. Takes some VM calisthenics to pull it off, let alone expose it for frameworks to use.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Quite interesting. It does seems most of the advantages of Seaside are from using the Smalltalk environment. One thing is definitely clear: Ruby needs much stronger debugging support.
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by rbranson 16y ago
This article should be renamed to "beginners guide to multithreaded programming in Java."
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by rbranson 16y ago
I feel as though with all things, there is a balance. I know people who are addicted to "stuff" and always keep acquiring huge piles of things. There is an optimistic point of minimalism though. Ownership is a commitment that can pay divi
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by rbranson 16y ago
^^--- this guy used to be a seriously big deal within Amazon operations. Listen to him.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Yeah but "0wning" EC2 would most certainly get you charged criminally under a number of laws.
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by rbranson 16y ago
While this is disconcerting, I wouldn't make any business decisions based on such a claim. The idea that EC2 is "owned" without Amazon knowing about it is closing in on absurdity. I've worked directly with Amazon as an outside vendor and th
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by rbranson 16y ago
So get rid of it? They hold their value extraordinarily well.
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by rbranson 16y ago
The VAST majority of database transactions operate correctly in READ COMMITTED mode. A vanishingly small amount need REPEATABLE READ, and even fewer need SERIALIZABLE, which, in reality, is not actually truly serializable in any MVCC databa

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