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by sandfox 14y ago
Look at the top left of the white area of the page..
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by sandfox 14y ago
Ermm, doesn't both mariaDB and Percona use Percona's drop in replacement XtraDB to power innoDB instead by default? I think if you want to use innoDB (as in the original code) you have to explicitly enable it as a plugin.
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by sandfox 14y ago
Module name is slightly misleading... surely segment-client, node-segment or anything else would have been more appropriate. It's not really THE analytics library, or really an analytics library at all for nodejs.
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by sandfox 14y ago
<troll-feed> I asked, In the small sample I questioned, not a single f * was given. Now troll off somewhere else, or alternatively actually make a useful contribution to increasing opportunities and interest for women in tech. &#60
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by sandfox 14y ago
Very valid point, whilst some evils are necessary, I think it might be responsible of the author to point out the greater context of what he is doing and why so people don't start doing this willy-nilly. As a contrived example, an article a
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by sandfox 14y ago
That example is amongst the worst synthetic benchmarks I have seen in a while. Also it comes from someone who is associated with piwik. A PHP project that makes wordpress look tidy, well engineered and speedy. The more deeply nested the cal
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by sandfox 14y ago
I am a PHP developer (amongst other things), and incase you hadn't noticed we are frequently regarded by developers of other languages as being at the comedy/clown end of the development spectrum too often. I didn't say all PHP developers
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by sandfox 14y ago
Trollolol much? The religion of the author (is he even jewish? - I have no idea nor really care) seems fairly irrelevant here. In the context of the article the author is acting as a PHP developer. Therefore his actions will viewed as such
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by sandfox 14y ago
And this is another reason why everyone regards PHP developers as being a tinsy bit crap at developing software. It's a broken solution to a problem that shouldn't really be there. Ignoring why the race condition is happening, what is wron
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by sandfox 14y ago
Pray child, please explain further how you have come to this conclusion. I'm not sure I'm following you.
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by sandfox 14y ago
HA - pitfalls include needlessly using low level functionality when any number of hundreds of higher level (to varying degrees) frameworks and libraries that would abstract away most of these problems, and easily installed/found with compos
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by sandfox 14y ago
If only the App Store / iOS has a way to verify receipts that are installed with the app... http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Networ...
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by sandfox 14y ago
Seriously, what sort of argument is this... (Allow me to paraphrase) "PHP doesn't have annotations, so instead it has hacked up comments that stand in for annotations. I find these ugly because it's abusing comments/etc therefore the idea o
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by sandfox 14y ago
I call Hanlon's Razor (on part of this anyway). I suspect it's far more likely that it was a (stupid) business decisions on the password length/characters to reduce the number of times people would forget their paswords and initiate a passw
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by sandfox 14y ago
Will $framework be the new $language? Fairly apple and pears comparison and somewhat pointless.
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by sandfox 14y ago
12" too small...? There is a small amy of developers running off 11" MBAs out there. I guess usability depends on what IDE etc you are using though. EDIT-- It probably helps that the MBA has a higher pixel density screen and resolution.
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by sandfox 14y ago
Isn't Amazon S3 now running with a 5 terabyte limit now[1]? But still, shipping drives is far more sane than cross the t'interwebs for things of that size. [1] http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#How_much_data_can_I_store
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by sandfox 14y ago
Errmm, if you actually read the book properly you'll realise that the baby/mothers analogy applies to synchronous sets of work and workloads that cannot be broken down into parallel running tasks. Once architected to a suitable degree I'd i
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by sandfox 14y ago
When did everyones sense of humour suddenly die? I literally can't get enough of CoffeeScript however I still think this is pretty funny, so the rest of you should be able to get over yourselves and laugh.
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by sandfox 14y ago
I think the open source equivalent to this is well worth a mention: http://apis.io/ It's not quite the same feature set but was never designed to be and all the code is on github so you deploy your own if you so wished, https://github.c
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by sandfox 14y ago
Anyone else read the 2nd to last paragraph and giggle a bit: >to get the opportunity to work on projects that will accelerate innovation at a scale that’s just not possible at a startup. Since when have PayPal done anything innovative i
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by sandfox 14y ago
This seems a bit straw man. "Distributed systems suck because Developer B has to wait for Developer A to add stuff to System A so System B can have a new feature". What you have there is a totally different problem that is unrelated to bein
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by sandfox 14y ago
Route53 uses UltraDNS.
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by sandfox 14y ago
Thats sort of what some large storms can do - esp when they come with a large amount of electrical activity in them. You can easily suffer all kinds damage to power system that generators can't deal with.
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by sandfox 14y ago
Does everyone think the facebook stack is just built from PHP, there is a boatload of C etc too. Don't forget they have HipHop which makes thier PHP a little non-standard. Also they have a MASSIVE legacy codebase I presume so just swapping
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by sandfox 14y ago
What a stunningly pointless article. Author writes code to achieve non-useful-goal exactly the same way in 2 languages and discovers that one is faster than the other. Different languages have different methods of efficiently achieving a go
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by sandfox 14y ago
You might want to read this bit from that section: "The b element should be used as a last resort when no other element is more appropriate. In particular, headings should use the h1 to h6 elements, stress emphasis should use the em elemen
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by sandfox 14y ago
As chips / boards / etc cool, they move and contract and (massive generalisation) this causes mechanical wear . I'm sure someone more versed in such stuff can give a detailed explanation of what can happen. (there are lots more side effects
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by sandfox 14y ago
Hell yes, Although seriously, I wonder what the end difference in bugs and software related (hardware) crashes would be? And also the cost of development and speed with which updates could be released. (No i'm not really advocating it, but
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by sandfox 14y ago
2 people... I don't know exactly what the stats for that is, but I'm pretty sure it would be safer to fire warning shots and maybe kill someone, than fire at someone with the expressed intention of killing them. Also, why do warning shots

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