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by spudlyo 14y ago
I'm also a big fan of Marty Schwartz's, and I've learned a lot of great Blues licks and soloing techniques from him. Most recently I've been working on combining major and minor pentatonic licks and runs into my improvisations, and I'm lov
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Traditionally MySQL has been ahead of Postgres in terms of replication, but Postgres has made great strides in that department recently. Having said that, Postgres still doesn't support master-master or ring topologies, replication filterin
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by spudlyo 14y ago
I use job control pretty often, so ^Z is out for me. I use ^O as my screen escape key, which back in the way old days used to flush output, which was extremely handy at 300 baud.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Nesting terminal multiplexers is very good, I do it for exactly the use case you mentioned. Escaping your escape key is easy, with a little practice you won't even realize you're doing it. I have a shell function called 'go' that creates a
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by spudlyo 14y ago
yum install emacs-nox I worked for over 5 years as remote DBA/sysadmin and I must have installed emacs on hundreds of customer boxen. It never once was an issue.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Yeah, he's not talking about DBAs who work at Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, Wikipedia or Twitter. Just because half the Alexa top 10 uses MySQL in production doesn't mean it's not just used by non-technical noobs who don't know any better.
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I didn't even realize you had to scroll down. I saw some bouncy text and images with no navigation hints whatsoever. I clicked around, went ' eww ' and closed the tab. Once I figured out that you had to scroll down, I admit I found eff
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Let's not forget MySQL AB, which predates all of these companies.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Strap an HR monitor on your chest when you do your next weight lifting routine, have it estimate your calories burned. Spend the same amount of time doing cardio at > 70% of your age predicted HR max. I think you'll find it's not even
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by spudlyo 14y ago
I agree that walking is a great start, but your body will quickly adapt and unless you're walking up hills you're unlikely to get to aerobic HR levels.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Cardio machines are innocent enough, as they won’t actually make you any less fit, but maintaining cardiovascular fitness doesn’t really take much more than breathing uncomfortably hard for about 20 minutes, three times a week. And we all
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by spudlyo 14y ago
One thing that Notes did better than modern threaded comment systems or web forums was that it had a sequencer that would allow you to quickly jump to and read whatever new responses and/or notes that were created since the last time you re
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/* Pentium killer */ long main = 0xc8c70ff0;
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No, it's a GPLv3 clone of an nzbmatrix-esque site. Somewhat popular sites like nzb.su use it. It has a Sickbeard compatible API too.
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Feel free. http://newznab.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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by spudlyo 14y ago
To those of you trying to learn a new layout, I've found a good way to practice and increase speed is to compete with others online in a typing race game like: http://www.typeracer.com
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From the guidelines: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. My guess is that caludio believes that good hackers would not find this article interesting. I somewhat agree, as I feel that article adds little to what
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Oracle no longer publishing their test cases hardly constitutes "transforming MySQL into a 'free-open-sore, closed-outer-shell' RDBMS", moreover there is no evidence that folks are adopting PostgreSQL because they're afraid of MySQL vendor
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by spudlyo 14y ago
On my Mac every textbox has emacs thanks to OSX's NeXT heritage. On my Windows box every textbox has emacs thanks to XKeymacs[1]. That's one area where I think emacs users have a leg up on Vim users, our editing style can be configured to
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by spudlyo 14y ago
If anyone is interested in watching Jeremy's presentation online it can be found at: http://medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/1873920417001
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by spudlyo 14y ago
It might surprise you just how full featured and useful plain ole Linux top really is. I made a YouTube video based on a training session I did at my old job on how to configure top to show you a lot more interesting things than it does by
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by spudlyo 14y ago
How do you explain removing access to the source repository then? I can easily explain it, because it never happened. Access to the MySQL source repository on launchpad is available for anyone to browse. Oracle is occasionally lazy abou
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by spudlyo 14y ago
MariaDB ships with XtraDB, Percona's modified InnoDB engine. If you're planning on using InnoDB (which just about everyone is) the differences are pretty minor. The big difference is that MariaDB comes with the Aria storage engine, which i
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by spudlyo 14y ago
This test-case controversy was both discovered and ginned up by Monty and the MariaDB folks, who have much to gain by the rejection of Oracle's brand of MySQL and the promotion of MariaDB. While it may be part of some larger and sinister p
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by spudlyo 14y ago
I've been maintaining my Intel i7 based Hackintosh (currently running Lion) since May of 2009, and the only time I've really had any asspain was doing major OS upgrades. I went from Leopard to Snow Leopard, and then to Lion, and each time
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by spudlyo 14y ago
I hate how recruiters use a lot of words tell you absolutely nothing about the position and make up lies to make you feel like you're special. Below is a boiler-plate message I got from a lame tech recruiter, followed by my snarky respons
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Also houses infested with brown-recluse spiders, which are both terrifying and fascinating at the same time. http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/spider-man/Content?oid=21878...
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Why would I want a shell script to change my $CWD after the shell script exits? Maybe you wanted a script that would use shortcuts to take you to cumbersome directory paths? I enjoyed this article, even though some of it was review. I di
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Sadly as HN has become more popular it really ought to be renamed Larval Stage Hacker News . Recently some pretty bad articles have made the front page, like The 5-minute Guide to C Pointers which embarrassingly conflates arrays and poin
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Exactly. This controversy was both discovered and promoted by Monty, who has much to gain by the rejection of Oracle's brand of MySQL and the promotion of MariaDB. Having said that, I agree that this is a dick move by Oracle. It reminds

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