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by spudlyo 16y ago
You can always type control-[ in lieu of escape.
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by spudlyo 16y ago
Varnish, the reverse proxy, has been my favorite new-to-me technology of 2010. It sits in front of Apache and caches static content (or anything really) based on rules you define in the Varnish Configuration Language (VCL). Varnish is cool
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Ask HN: How did your plans for 2010 work out?
2 points by spudlyo 16y ago|1 comments
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by spudlyo 16y ago
This whole affair feels like a cyberpunk action thriller. It's a bit spooky that it's real.
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by spudlyo 16y ago
I thought about that too, but I speculate that the clean versions from Siemens wouldn't come from the factory ready to run an Iranian nuke plant -- you'd think that code would all be developed by the engineers who run the plant. All of tha
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by spudlyo 16y ago
Stuxnet is harder to get rid of than that because it has a rootkit that targets Siemens PLCs. The Windows PC is simply the vector to get it there. You can reformat and reinstall your Windows PCs all you like, but your SCADA systems will s
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Tabs versus Spaces: An Eternal Holy War. (2000)(jwz.org)
1 points by spudlyo 16y ago|0 comments
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by spudlyo 16y ago
Ideas are a dime a dozen.
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by spudlyo 16y ago
I was working at my first programming gig, writing a hypertext display engine (WIN16 app ugh) for a prototype Boeing 777 seat-back display.
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by spudlyo 16y ago
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
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by spudlyo 16y ago
Although it doesn't do so without complaint. I wish you could suppress that warning.
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by spudlyo 16y ago
Are neutrality and hostility mutually exclusive?
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by spudlyo 16y ago
After reading this I realize that I still vote up comments I agree with rather than comments that add value to the discussion. Why is it so hard to change your behavior in this regard?
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by spudlyo 16y ago
Yes. Over the last five years I've supported replication on hundreds of servers, powering sites you've probably used. I've had to clean up after crashes with unsynched binlogs, writes that completed partially on master, corrupted relay lo
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by spudlyo 16y ago
You win. Your sweeping generalizations, personal anecdotes, and FUD have won me over. Bravo .
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by spudlyo 16y ago
1. This is the first release of baked in replication for PostgreSQL. MySQL has had years to evolve their approach and to fix bugs. That's not to say either system is perfect, but their relative maturity seems obvious. 2. No. It's widely
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by spudlyo 16y ago
1. I don't pretend to know what 95% of users will care about. 2. MySQL writes the timestamp for NOW() into the binlog so provided your master and slave are in the same timezone, it's replication safe. Functions like UUID() and RAND() wil
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by spudlyo 16y ago
I get LinkedIn In-Mail from both Facebook and Google recruiters periodically. It's nice to feel wanted, and I get a certain enjoyment out of politely rejecting google recruiters. This is a lot more fun than subjecting myself to their grue
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by spudlyo 16y ago
The write performance with LVM is terrible. LVM snapshots on read slaves or during times when you have sufficient write capacity work as advertised.
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by spudlyo 16y ago
Since the hot standby can't serve read requests and is synchronous, I assume something like DRBD is being used on the block level to replicate the data to a separate AZ. I assume AMZN has adequate interconnect bandwidth between their AZs.
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by spudlyo 16y ago
This was pretty painful. Their backups were too old, so it was necessary to do InnoDB data recovery rather than a straight-forward restore from backup. Since InnoDB table spaces never shrink, 80G of their truncated data was still all avail
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by spudlyo 16y ago
Oh I see. Some are and some aren't. I guess transcription is something the site's community helps out with.
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by spudlyo 16y ago
This is a good idea, but transcription for me is a must. Reading the handwritten (sometimes typed) scans of the prisoners writing is just too irritating for me, a person who increasingly relies on Readability to read just about anything
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by spudlyo 16y ago
Slang adjectives like cool ("That's real cool") tend to explode all over the language. They are applied to everything, lose their original force, and quickly die. I've often marveled at cool's longevity -- unlike the adjective sick (pop
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by spudlyo 16y ago
No. That's why make(1) exists. You do usually have to compile everything once though.
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by spudlyo 16y ago
It just makes it more complicated. You have lock and snap all of the volumes at once. The ec2-consistent-snapshot tool makes this easier to manage.
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by spudlyo 16y ago
Of course. Most dieters don't have access to a ventilated hood indirect colorimeter, so they have to rely on a method for estimating their BMR. What I'm saying is that the difference between their measured BMR and estimated BMR (using eith
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by spudlyo 16y ago
The Harris-Benedict equations are generally accepted as empirically corroborated and reliable predictors of weight change as a function of daily caloric intake.
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by spudlyo 16y ago
There are a number of confounding variables here that the article forgot to mention, which most likely played a larger part in his weight loss than any calorie counting. I disagree completely. Stress and metabolism are minor factors comp
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by spudlyo 16y ago
His premise: That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most -- not the nutritional value of the food. This should not be a startling revelation. Mind you we're speaking simply of weight loss, not "healthy eating" or "goo

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