riobard

76 ms·

541.
by riobard 15y ago
They should call it “backend workers” instead. Backend “subscribers” (think ”workers” please) don't use PUB/SUB because then the same message will be delivered to every worker. You hardly want that behavior to process web requests. PUSH s
542.
by riobard 15y ago
This is great news, but does anyone have any idea how to get IPv4-over-IPv6 tunnels to work? I'm in an all-IPv6 network, but unless all websites automatically work flawlessly after Jun 6, 2012, I still need to access IPv4 resources. I have
543.
by riobard 15y ago
I was using the one-message-per-file approach, but keeping millions of small files in a filesystem is quite a challenge: I have to worry about available inodes, and listing/manipulating these files takes minutes!
544.
by riobard 15y ago
A side question: what's the best way to build an email message store which stores millions of messages (and adding tens of thousands on average each day) on disk so that it can support: 1) Fast looking up messages sent/received by a particu
545.
by riobard 15y ago
Sure. I'm not addressing the non-geeky part of the problem :)
546.
by riobard 15y ago
Actually I've tried Calepin before creating my own solution. Calepin is 99% of what I need, but the last 1%, that Calepin requires me to click the "Publish" on their site every time, drives me nuts. I just want to save the Markdown file and
547.
by riobard 15y ago
Disadvantages: Not for the non-geeky. You can only post from a computer where you have your static site generator set up Not necessarily. I have a very simple static site generator (basically a single Python script, plus a few dependencie
548.
by riobard 15y ago
The thinking might be along the line: if you need to use Hadoop at all, you are probably already using Java anyway to maximize single machine performance.
549.
by riobard 15y ago
That's why we should use feature-detection instead of browser/version-detection for web development.
550.
by riobard 15y ago
I guess it's because sockets are not files?
551.
by riobard 15y ago
Perhaps it is also influenced by Python? Come on, not everyone on Earth loves Ruby's syntax. I was turned off by the endless 'end's.
552.
by riobard 15y ago
Unfortunately they already did. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Tao for the details. Long stories short: Yahoo's Hong Kong arm gave private emails to the Chinese government which resulted a guy being jailed for 10 years. You'd better
553.
by riobard 15y ago
No, not just Europeans. Canadians will have to pay the same price for the device and power adapter, plus $14 import duties. I thought NAFTA should eliminate the difference, but it turned out not to be the case. Other good things for geeks
554.
by riobard 15y ago
You'll love this if you use Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipkfnchcgalnafehpg...
555.
by riobard 15y ago
It sure is. We are currently using Postmark to send notifications to our users. Postmark does not allow bulk emails like newsletters, and our user count is way beyond the ceiling of Newsberry (Postmark's bulk sending service). Yes, we could
556.
by riobard 15y ago
Mathematically, yes, but since he's rendering an actual bitmap, “high-resolution“ is appropriate.
557.
by riobard 15y ago
Compiling speed is slightly improved in Scala 2.9. Using sbt will reduce the time too. It's not as fast as Go, though.
558.
by riobard 15y ago
Hmm, burning a bootable ISO image to a USB stick seems more reasonable from time to time.
559.
by riobard 15y ago
Bingo!
560.
by riobard 15y ago
Windows actually have great Chinese translations. They are not official, and some of them are really stupid (but funny!), e.g.: Windows 3.2 -> Win32 -> 瘟32 Windows 95 -> Win95 -> 瘟95 Windows XP -> XP -> 叉屁 Windows 7
561.
by riobard 15y ago
FYI, Subway (赛百味, Sai Bai Wei) would mean "better than other 100 flavors" in Chinese, which isn't true at all: for most Chinese, subways are not that tasty. But the name is great!
562.
by riobard 15y ago
Unfortunately the pronunciation of "Bing" in English is more often the same as the last one in Chinese, and frankly none of the characters you listed above, maybe except 冰 (means ice) and 饼 (means cake), has any good implications at all, le
563.
by riobard 15y ago
Virtual shared folder is rather flaky for me on OS X. It magically disappears and reappears in Linux guests.
564.
by riobard 15y ago
Anyone knows the difference in performance between QEMU and Virtualbox both running on OS X?
565.
by riobard 15y ago
Let's face it: SSH into an VM and write code there is not an enjoyable experience. Yes I can do a proper deployment into the VM right after I make a minor change in color of the 10px square box located at the bottom of the page, but it's re
566.
by riobard 15y ago
The Thunderbolt 27" iMac can do. It uses Light Ridge chipset, which can power two DisplayPort links. It has two Thunderbolt ports on its back.
567.
by riobard 15y ago
I think the more important news for many is that the overage for outbound traffic is the save price as pre-paid plan, so you could lower your plan (e.g. going from Linode 1024 with 400GB to Linode 512 with 200GB). Serving static pages shoul
568.
by riobard 15y ago
Oops, sorry, I neglected that. I was talking about GAE Python runtime.
569.
by riobard 15y ago
How much RAM does a web server need waiting for socket I/O? Not a lot. For most typical web apps, an instance of web frontend consumes a small fraction of the system's total memory. You could fit a surprisingly lot of such instances into a
570.
by riobard 15y ago
The single most import reason that I like GAE is that it used to charge based on CPU usage, so that I could carefully optimize my web apps to reduce costs. This is also why I think cloud computing is a good thing: shared resources are gener

More ›