simtel20

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by simtel20 12y ago
The aversion to human-readable timestamps is that he's using TAI to encode the timestamp so you don't e.g. get human-readable timestamps that have the same second twice after a leap second because the format is unambiguous in this
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by simtel20 12y ago
Wait, is the parent by any chance the same "Paul Robinson" in that thread? Or is this some crazy coincidence?
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by simtel20 12y ago
Simple processes that perform a well-defined job. Programs which can be easily modified by people other than the developer. Composable pieces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy . What is the unix way from
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by simtel20 12y ago
I don't think you are right to say "had to be compiled with". It could be compiled with SunOS cc, and the c compilers of other vendors that were crappy and out-of-date. It could also be compiled on the current gcc/egcs
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by simtel20 12y ago
Here's something I did for myself a long time ago: take some of the fundamental code like alloc.c, alloc_re.c, fmt_str.c and str_*.c, and start commenting it yourself. I found that it was so expressive and concise that after a short t
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by simtel20 12y ago
What is the purpose of acquiring the team if the project is not going to continue? Is the idea that the core cassandra database will add graphs as a datatype?
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by simtel20 12y ago
> how quickly a normally-slow-to-accept-new-things community I think you're referring to the sysadmin community - but I think the driver for this has been the search for deployment nirvana. Deployment is a much more fragmented fiel
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by simtel20 13y ago
Every time a market collapse is hanging over the finance world, they know their customers will do what a prior employer does/did: put support on 1 of 1000 servers. It's sad, but this wasn't at a .com rev3 company, this was an