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by rbranson 16y ago
I agree with everything you say. Often there are other factors. It sounds like this is a consistent problem with OP though, and regardless of environment or lifestyle, he's still having issues.
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by rbranson 16y ago
While we all have a little bit of it in us: let's face it, nobody wants to work on a dull project, ADHD symptoms become so exasperated in these scenarios that they become debilitating and self-destructive. The brain turning to mush that OP
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by rbranson 16y ago
I second the ADHD check. This sounds like classic ADHD symptoms to me. Once you sort of reach that pinnacle you've been striving for, it's easy to lose the drive when you can relax and quit striving or when things are less challenging. You
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by rbranson 16y ago
1) Application connection pooling won't scale. In a scenario like FourSquare, there is likely a 4:1 ratio of app server to DB shard server. Further, connections don't necessarily equal load. 2) This sounds like a great way to create data in
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by rbranson 16y ago
You hit the nail on the head. It's ridiculous for them to expect you to hit the ground running with the network you've established while working for former employers, but then be unable to carry your network with you onto new employers. It'
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by rbranson 16y ago
Great points. Apple's primary interest was the transfer of control from AT&T to Apple. While there was some consumer-benefiting innovation (not hard when you're compared to AT&T), the primary beneficiary in this power grab was Apple
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by rbranson 16y ago
MongoDB is designed to help ease the pain of scaling, but what you're asking for is magic. If all the sudden a large amount of requests start coming through that overload a shard (think very popular users, like if several very popular users
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by rbranson 16y ago
This advice is best taken for server software where allocating memory and copying data would be considered a very expensive part of the pipeline. In the vast majority of scenarios, any I/O wait or mild to serious computation that has to be
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by rbranson 16y ago
I was a little unclear. My main point is that many of the things that made FreeBSD such a strong leader years ago are no longer weak points in Linux. I agree with you though otherwise. From a cleanliness, usability, and aesthetics point of
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by rbranson 16y ago
While reading this, I kept having flashbacks to PHP code written by lazy developers that didn't take the time to learn either PHP or MySQL very well. They would do things like use MySQL to format dates (paraphase: mysql_query("SELECT FORMAT
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by rbranson 16y ago
Honestly though, would MySQL or PostgreSQL really helped out in this situation? Sharded or not sharded, there's really not much one can do once a server (or set of replicating servers comprising the shard) starts to become overloaded. Incre
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by rbranson 16y ago
Most applications need to perform some computations with data that is read from the backing store. Even simple sorts and searches will vastly outweigh the cost of an extra memcpy. Honestly, an HTTP cache is sort of a perfect case for the wa
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by rbranson 16y ago
What would be the point of being able to spill to disk if you've got to keep everything in RAM? Simple serialization?
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by rbranson 16y ago
This is exactly how Varnish is setup. It's threads basically only exist for I/O reasons. It takes some serious fu to effectively mix event-driven and threaded programming.
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by rbranson 16y ago
... and if time is money you can also pay a consulting company a few hundred bucks to assess your hardware config and crank out a postgresql.conf that will run great. It's likely you'd have to do the same thing for DB2. An enterprise RDBMS
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by rbranson 16y ago
At least for servers, FreeBSD is more polished than mainstream Linux (RedHat, Debian, and ancestors), if you ask me. The ports system keeps far more up to date than the typical Linux packaging system and the releases seem to be on a somewha
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by rbranson 16y ago
I'm confused as to why this is being posted, the service has been available since 2008.
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by rbranson 16y ago
This is awesome info. Thanks!
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by rbranson 16y ago
Ah yes, our "free market" health care system.
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by rbranson 16y ago
The relation is like a futures contract to a commodity. You are just trading an abstract thing, not the commodity itself. CDOs are bonds created by the corporations that hold the assets, not assets themselves.
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by rbranson 16y ago
You realize that iOS is just a stripped down OS X right?
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by rbranson 16y ago
Yeah, the article was a bit disappointing. It ended up being a biased advertisement for Austrian economics, the most fantastic of them all.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Bootstrapping in "alternative" cities makes business sense. I work for a profitable startup in Memphis that's using consulting to finance our work on a core product. It's shockingly easy work, because the bar is VERY low outside of the majo
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by rbranson 16y ago
This recession is a cleansing for our economic culture. The old guard of white male management and business bloat is the demographic that is getting squeezed the hardest. They've treated the makers as "resources" and skimmed off the product
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by rbranson 16y ago
I totally agree, and there's no implication the law-breakers have any specific morality.
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by rbranson 16y ago
As cliche as it is, the old saying "If X is illegal, only law-breakers will use X" applies here.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Oracle is technically irrelevant because they aren't technically focused. They aren't even close. Their core product hasn't been gaining any steam for years and they're riding out that gravy train. They have to keep purchasing other compani
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by rbranson 16y ago
It doesn't imply it, it forecasts it.
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by rbranson 16y ago
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=perl,+php,+rails,+ruby&#38...
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by rbranson 16y ago
Kids -- this is why you only support POST/PUTs for writes, and if possible, require some kind of authenticity token. I guess this is what al3x was talking about when he meant that Twitter should hire a security expert.

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