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by spudlyo 14y ago
What drives me crazy is that sometimes running youtube videos in full-screen mode under Chrome will sometimes initiate the Lion full-screen behavior, and sometimes it won't. If there is a rhyme or reason behind it, I don't know it.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
I work with clusters of hundreds of machines every day. When I watched the video I cringed, a lot. I can't imagine using a web app for this task. I thought there is no way in hell I'm ever going to enter in the hostnames of hundreds of ho
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Let me make sure I understand this. I'm going to pay you to help you to develop a commercial software service that allows me to run scripts in written in my favorite open source programming language connecting over my open source SSH clien
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Uber is amazing. It's one of my favorite pockets of the unevenly distributed future that I've come to rely on since moving to SF. Tracking the progress of my ride on my smartphone as it makes the usually less than 3 minute journey to me i
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Under OSX I used a tool called KeyRemap4MacBook which adds an item to the control panel that lets you reconfigure keys. I just tested it, you can can disable the escape key, but Ctrl-[ still works like you'd expect.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Unmap your escape key, that will force the habit. I did this when I moved my control and meta keys to the left thumb of my kinesis keyboard, and it helped train me not to hit the old keys.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
I made my editor choice over 20 years ago, before these things were even a glimmer in their creators eyes. The key sequences I use for editing are cast in stone into my muscle memory, and serve me in nearly every command-line tool I use, a
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by spudlyo 14y ago
In linux you want to use loadkeys(1).
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by spudlyo 14y ago
I started in the catalog department at Amazon in 1997, right as Glennf left. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that the desks were made out of doors. It just seemed like giant clunky desk to me. One thing I do remember dist
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Agreed. I don't miss having a phone on my desk at all .
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Wake me up when XBMC runs on it. A device that only plays cloud media is a total non-starter for me.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
When CERN presented their findings they used the Comic Sans font, so I guess you could say that Microsoft also played a role in discovery of the 'Higgs boson'. Ha! Maybe the EU geocities was rife with teenage girls using Verdana, and Europ
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by spudlyo 14y ago
These kinds of articles were much more important/interesting in the 90s when it wasn't clear that Linux was ever going to be adopted by business or become mainstream. For example in the late 90s when the Burlington Coat Factory started to
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by spudlyo 14y ago
To me it is reminiscent of the excel logo.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
They do this already, minus the analysis. I think the problem is this just isn't that big of a business.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
A touching film. I'm not sure the effect when it suddenly went to black-and-white and the camera got all jerky, out-of-focus really worked though. I really found it distracting, although I still enjoyed it overall.
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The Measured Man(theatlantic.com)
3 points by spudlyo 14y ago|0 comments
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Agreed. 1Password support would be the thing that would cause me to use Chrome exclusively on iOS. The machinations I have to go through now with 1Password on iOS are extremely frustrating.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
First of all, ext(2|3|4) and XFS filesystems honor fsync. That's what all the noise about Firefox and SQLite was all about. Secondly the HP RAID controllers I'm familiar with disable the drive write cache by default, and throw dire warning
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by spudlyo 14y ago
The transaction is actually written to disk twice. Once when it is written to the transaction log, and then again when a checkpoint happens and it's written to the underlying data blocks. Transaction log writes are sequential and fast, wr
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by spudlyo 14y ago
I think you may be missing the point. Most databases use transaction/redo logs, it has to do with how often the writes to the transaction log are flushed. With proper durability, the transaction log is flushed with every commit, not when
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by spudlyo 14y ago
For me, the take away from this article is that MemSQL's ACID compliance is half-assed at best, which is a much more damning criticism than using a flawed benchmarking methodology.
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MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQL(dom.as)
339 points by spudlyo 14y ago|138 comments
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by spudlyo 14y ago
I agree completely, and I think Nagios does a good job at state tracking, notification, and scheduling. The interface is a bit clunky, but with the nuvola makeover it's completely serviceable. Pair it with something like ganglia or cacti
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Monitoring systems that have to execute thousands of active checks every polling interval consume a bit of CPU. I've certainly seen high CPU usage and run queue depth on a busy Nagios server.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Anyone doing this at scale using Scribe/Flume with HDFS and Hive/Pig/MapReduce?
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by spudlyo 14y ago
This 'strike back' notion is not new. I remember in the mid-90s there was a silly commercial firewall product called the 'Sidewinder' that touted the ability to 'strike back' at attackers, which I believe launched a daemon that tried to tr
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by spudlyo 14y ago
Not a fan of RDS. It has all the same drawbacks of using an EBS partition for storage, but as far as I know you have no visibility (like await, iowat etc) to know when your storage subsystem starts to flake out. EBS removes a lot of Sysad
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by spudlyo 14y ago
This is not super fast in MySQL either, compared to the alternative of creating a temporary table with your 5000 values in it and doing a join on that.
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by spudlyo 14y ago
You don't worry about VACUUM with InnoDB, but that doesn't mean you never feel the pain of the cleanup of old row versions. See 'purge thread spiral of death' for more details.

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