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811.
by spudlyo 15y ago
See also: backscatter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(e-mail)
812.
by spudlyo 15y ago
Connection sharing and terminal multiplexers aren't mutually exclusive. Let's say that in order to get to 4-5 hosts (which you run screen on) you have to jump through a certain SSH bastion host which you specify using the ProxyCommand direc
813.
by spudlyo 15y ago
MIT hackers back in the day had quite a lot of crossover with model train enthusiasts.
814.
by spudlyo 15y ago
Female humans are often referred to as women .
815.
by spudlyo 15y ago
The box is still my property, even though it is in somebody else's data center. My ISP has physical access, so it's not like it's uber secure, but there are a comforting number of hoops that they'd need to jump through to grovel through my
816.
by spudlyo 15y ago
It's not entirely painless, but I do it anyway because I can. A third party is never going to have access to my personal email, it's just not going to happen.
817.
by spudlyo 15y ago
Wow, I had no idea the ads were so huge and invasive. It made me wonder how much Ralph Lauren spent to have their ads take what seemed to be over 50% of the on-screen real estate.
818.
by spudlyo 15y ago
This seemed fishy to me, I did some digging and I found a posting on the zodiackillerfacts.com forums which debunks this forced "solution". It turns out that the 340 area code was not used for the Virgin Islands until 1997, which to me seem
819.
by spudlyo 15y ago
Perhaps it's not that different than how charismatic folks routinely get people to help them. I realize it's supposed to come off as a funny piece that reads like an online dating profile, but it does feel like pandering to me. I guess I
820.
by spudlyo 15y ago
I wasn't offended per se, but it did make me think a bit about sexual politics in the workplace. I know my technical soul mate is out there somewhere – it’s just a process of kissing enough geeky frogs to get to the geeky prince charming i
821.
by spudlyo 15y ago
MySQL is licensed under the GPL, and that isn't going to change. Oracle can't kill MySQL, nor can they force you to pay for it. I think your fears are unfounded.
822.
by spudlyo 15y ago
Mark didn't mention this in his article, but writes to the inode are only serialized in jfs/ext(2|3|4) if you are using direct I/O (i.e O_DIRECT) which for performance reasons MySQL ibdata files often are. This is why this problem does not
823.
by spudlyo 15y ago
Some MySQL vs PG tests done by Domas (of Facebook & Wikipedia fame) show some interesting differences between MySQL and PG for an in-memory read only test. I don't think there are any 50x differences though. http://dom.as/2010/11/08/r
824.
by spudlyo 15y ago
Using innodb o_direct will prevent linux from swapping out the mysql process. This is close, but not exactly true. Linux is loathe to discard buffer cache (even with swappiness at zero) it will often choose to swap out MySQL code/data in
825.
by spudlyo 15y ago
As someone who has been looking at resumes all week, I don't have a problem with this. This just means there are more excellent candidates for me to choose from. I tend to prefer candidates that are currently unemployed, because I feel the
826.
by spudlyo 15y ago
The version available via git from savannah.gnu.org has the old vertical split patch plus a number of more recent scrolling performance fixes. Thanks for your list of non-ideological reasons, better notifications sound pretty compelling.
827.
by spudlyo 15y ago
Vertical splitting screen has. Software architecture, perceived code quality, and BSD license are not features. I'm glad that there is competition in this space, but you tmux evangelists need to realize that there is a lot of work that nee
828.
by spudlyo 15y ago
How so? As far as I can tell, the only benefit it has over screen is faster vertically split windows.
829.
by spudlyo 15y ago
Heh, I get 'Illegal instruction' when I compile and run: long main = 0xc8c70ff0; That used to crash my old Pentium box.
830.
by spudlyo 15y ago
Ugh, you're bringing up bad memories for me. I was once bit badly by the require_once/realpath() problem. require_once("/foo/bar/baz/random/crap/foo.php"); The above requires 5 lstat(2) system calls thanks to realpath() and a typical WordP
831.
by spudlyo 15y ago
You're confusing InnoDB with MyISAM. InnoDB does redo log recovery like all grown up databases. MyISAM requires a lengthy fsck type operation.
832.
by spudlyo 16y ago
Thanks for sharing your experiences. This is why I read HN.
833.
by spudlyo 16y ago
Agreed. Mozilla may have helped change the browser landscape, but the Khan Academy could change the face of education in this country. Both worthy places to pour one's energy but I'd give the edge in excitement to KA.
834.
by spudlyo 16y ago
Shhh. You're spoiling everyone's fun. How can you expect me to get all worked up about a notice about a non-existent notice?
835.
by spudlyo 16y ago
Trying to use a tool like iostat against a shared, network provided block device to figure out what your level of service your database is getting from the filesystem below it is an exercise in frustration that will get you nowhere. This
836.
by spudlyo 16y ago
What makes this program so small is the Scrappy library from CPAN, which gets most of its muscle from Web::Scraper and WWW::Mechanize. I think you'll find if you try this program yourself, you're going to be spending a lot of time downloadi
837.
by spudlyo 16y ago
Those emacs style editing commands actually came from TECO in the 70s. Crazy that those editing commands are hardwired into my brain nearly 40 years later.
838.
by spudlyo 16y ago
Hopefully Varnish will support ESI and gzip compression soon.
839.
by spudlyo 16y ago
This is why Facebook spent so much time and energy working on HipHop. I'm sure they have many caching layers as well, but caching only gets you so far -- eventually you have to look at your code.
840.
by spudlyo 16y ago
The article wasn't clear on exactly what blueprint does, and I didn't know, so I did some digging in their README. "blueprint is DevStructure's workhorse tool that looks inside popular package managers, finds changes you made to configurati

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