selenamarie

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by selenamarie 16y ago
Seems like a big story, but maybe we're all tired now.
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Wikileaks: Israeli Blockade Targeted Gaza Economy(npr.org)
4 points by selenamarie 16y ago|1 comments
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Android will use ext4 starting with Gingerbread(thunk.org)
3 points by selenamarie 16y ago|0 comments
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by selenamarie 16y ago
Esther Dyson is a technologist and VC who participated in the Personal Democracy Forum's symposium on Wikileaks this past weekend. Video archive of the panel is available: http://www.livestream.com/pdfleaks
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Wikileaks' Flawed Answer to a Flawed World(project-syndicate.org)
4 points by selenamarie 16y ago|1 comments
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by selenamarie 16y ago
The article was written by Professor Biella Coleman, an anthropologist and professor at NYU who studies hacker culture. She's written a lot about Anonymous, 4chan and /b/ and teaches a class on the anthropology of hackers at NYU.
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What it's like to participate in Anonymous actions(theatlantic.com)
48 points by selenamarie 16y ago|4 comments
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by selenamarie 16y ago
I've studied judo, karate and kung fu. My favorite was kung fu! Here's the school I attended: http://leungmartialarts.com/ I'd say finding a place to train with students I knew and got along with and an instructor I liked was the most imp
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by selenamarie 16y ago
Personally, I was surprised that licensing alone was swaying someone. But maybe the recent InnoDB fracas is changing that?
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Internal email on why a company moves away from MySQL(enterpriseirregulars.com)
4 points by selenamarie 16y ago|3 comments
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Dear Oracle: Get a clue(ianskerrett.wordpress.com)
4 points by selenamarie 16y ago|1 comments
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Finally, two new books on PostgreSQL 9.0(packtpub.com)
3 points by selenamarie 16y ago|0 comments
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Sketches from Software Craftsmanship North America(scna.softwarecraftsmanship.org)
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by selenamarie 16y ago
This is definitely true of Postgres, where backporting is relatively common (currently to 5 versions). Another cultural difference is that the narrative in our commit log has a pretty strong voice. That consistency is valued above individua
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by selenamarie 16y ago
Yes, PostgreSQL supports major version releases for five years so preserving the full history is critically important. Developers regularly back-patched bugfixes as far back as 7.4 (released November 2003, and just EOL'd this month).
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by selenamarie 16y ago
Peter notes in the LWN comments that committers use merging in their personal repos regularly. The restriction only applies to commits to the master. Many people share their individual repos and branches to git.postgresql.org (and GitHub).
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Ornamental sourcing: a definition(twitter.com)
1 points by selenamarie 16y ago|0 comments
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by selenamarie 16y ago
Although - for further clarification, PostgreSQL doesn't require 2x the total amount of disk to reclaim/reuse space under normal circumstances. As of version 8.1 (out since 2005), VACUUMing is an automatic function inside the server. (autov
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by selenamarie 16y ago
Might start with these: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Seattle We started a pdxhackathon night by telling all the local user groups about it, and a few of us meeting up at a bar every week. Worked great, and now we have 10+ people every Thu
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What's your favorite presentation tool?(opensourcebridge.org)
3 points by selenamarie 16y ago|0 comments