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by russss 17y ago
Agreed, the petitions site isn't terribly effective. The best thing a UK citizen can do is write to their MP, in their own words. You can do that on http://www.writetothem.com/
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by russss 17y ago
That's unlikely to be very useful since, to do transparent network failover, both VM hosts need to be on the same layer 2 network. And half the point of having geographically diverse sites is so they aren't on the same network.
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by russss 17y ago
Never heard of any of them, but then I don't code Lisp ;). I have to say that I'm only considering free, open source solutions in that spreadsheet.
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by russss 17y ago
Thanks, I updated that. I gave the docs a B+, but I haven't used Redis myself so it was only based on a quick look ;).
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by russss 17y ago
We made a start on this at the NoSQL meetup, the spreadsheet is here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ale_YaCwKEUVclVFVFlr... It covers a bit more than KV stores - it's basically all of the non-relational data stores. If anyone wa
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by russss 17y ago
I don't think this rumour is true. Larry and Sergei are famously indifferent about music, and I don't think they'd get into bed with the music industry. Google is working on a music-related service, but I don't think it'll involve streaming
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by russss 17y ago
...and even a backup service would delete your data if you stopped paying, right?
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by russss 17y ago
Hasn't it always been like this? The wording of that FAQ was almost identical back in Feb 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/20050207024116/http://www.flickr.... The following FAQ also seems to imply that even you won't be able to access yo
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by russss 17y ago
The Guardian has got this utterly wrong. The MCPS/PRS fee for on-demand streaming is absolutely the least of your worries. You also have to pay money directly to the labels for the right to stream the recordings, and this is massively highe
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by russss 17y ago
We use Slony to replicate read-only slaves for portions of our database (I wouldn't recommend it, Londiste is probably better), and Postgres warm standby for HA.
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by russss 17y ago
> 2) MySQL is used and proven to scale on very large installments (Yahoo, Facebook, Google - just to name a few). Postgre's usage is much lower (Skype and Reddit from those I know of) We use Postgres (as well as MySQL) extensively at La
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by russss 17y ago
This is either bad advice or bad satire. I'm fairly sure it's the latter.
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by russss 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon#United_Kingdom Today the monarch may only grant a pardon on the advice of the Justice Secretary (previously the Home Secretary) or the First Minister of Scotland (or the Defence Secretary in
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by russss 17y ago
I'm not sure there is any history of the UK government issuing posthumous pardons.
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by russss 17y ago
Not to mention the only way they support this is via FTP - and I'm not that keen on enabling an FTP server purely for Wordpress's needs, thank.
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by russss 17y ago
Good point, but I suspect even given the amount of money they've spent on development, and given the production runs on these things are tiny, they'll probably still beat Sun on total price. Hell, even if they only made one of the things th
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by russss 17y ago
The 7000 series is an incredibly cool system, and it's definitely giving NetApp/EMC a run for their money. That said, it's still really expensive if you're willing to go that extra mile and design your own system for your needs. And it's re
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by russss 17y ago
Well no, it's not an apples to oranges comparison because no hardware vendors offer a solution which is comparable to the one Backblaze have devised. That graph is simply comparing their solution to the closest commercial equivalents. It ju
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by russss 17y ago
It's worth noting that this article is from September 2004. 49.7 days is 2^32 milliseconds. Although this used to cause issues with Win98, they claimed to be using 2000, so it was probably an application-related bug rather than anything Mic
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by russss 17y ago
Greenspun's Tenth Rule ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_Tenth_Rule ): Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
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by russss 17y ago
Although this is a stunning trick which I will probably use myself, I think finding un-indexed queries is the wrong way of going about things. Sometimes queries are slow even if they do use indexes, so the best route is to find slow queries
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by russss 17y ago
Thanks. I spent 5 minutes staring at that title trying to make sense of it. I'm quite hung over.
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by russss 17y ago
I totally agree. I'd love this kind of thing in the UK.
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by russss 17y ago
I think it's interesting that so many people on HN recognize Les Paul - it shows how many hackers are music lovers as well, which is definitely a curious data point. RIP Les.
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by russss 17y ago
I don't agree; as the article mentions, GFS is used for hundreds of different tasks within Google which encompass a massive range of use patterns. It's a general-purpose system, even if it didn't start as such. It's no coincidence that the
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by russss 17y ago
Yeah, I especially like the part where the article quotes from Sethi's court filing as if it was the judge's ruling. The judge found Arrington/Techcrunch guilty of nothing. It looks like the author bought Sethi's lies about the case hook, l
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by russss 17y ago
I reckon a lot of Hadoop users would balk at calling it Enterprise Software, but sure ;). I think the criteria for using Hadoop is nothing to do with how many machines you have, and everything to do with how big you expect your data to grow
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by russss 17y ago
Gearman is a framework for quickly offloading computation of small jobs. It's especially useful for running background jobs from a web site, like e-mailing or image resizing. Hadoop is a clone of Google's distributed computing framework and
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by russss 17y ago
Postgres already has a asynchronous log shipping replication system similar to MySQL's, but the rub is that you can't read from the slave, so it's only good as a "warm standby" solution. Work was happening to make it possible to read from t
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by russss 17y ago
Most reasonable databases do this very quickly. Postgres specifically can hold a cache of a number of sequence values on a per-process basis so each insert doesn't have to acquire a global lock on the sequence. The disadvantage of this is

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