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by robbyt 13y ago
There are things you should do differently in densely populated areas like NYC. Flying consumer drones around without any permission or training is just not a good idea.
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by robbyt 15y ago
Github is really great, but I'm a cynic. Indeed, why _would_ anyone want to DDoS github? How can we believe Github that the outages were due to a DDoS? They're smart people, aren't they using solid load balancesrs that can mitigate DDoS att
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by robbyt 15y ago
Google's Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-r0zoo9...
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by robbyt 15y ago
Depending on your schema, Solr will be much faster than Psql's full text search. Solr's faceted searching is much faster than table JOINs. But IMHO, the main advantage to use Solr for search instead of Postgres is the query API.
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by robbyt 16y ago
The Posix-Breaking Party that the author describes could be implemented by using any COW file system for the backing store. For example, the new SCSI Unmap support in ZFS: http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2011/03/comstar-and-scsi-unmap.h...
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by robbyt 16y ago
My advice is to just have reasonable deadlines and milestones, and let him work as often as it takes to hit those goals. If that means crunch-time occasionally, so be it.
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by robbyt 16y ago
Install Dropbox and symlink to your server's webroot, share a project folder for your application code. Makes your live 'deployment' instant as file->save.
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by robbyt 16y ago
Does anyone know what UNIX even is anymore? Does UNIX=BSD? So does that mean Microsoft could sell Linux, since Linux!=BSD?
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by robbyt 16y ago
Also, salary greatly depends on which city you're located in.
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by robbyt 16y ago
Joyent uses Dell, because Sun hardware turned to crap in the past 5 years, as confirmed to me personally by Ben Rockwood.