timtrueman

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by timtrueman 18y ago
Yeah I second that; Sun has amazing engineering. I got to dig around in the kernel code for Solaris during my operating systems class and holy crap their scheduler is well designed.
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by timtrueman 18y ago
What about Yahoo!'s stake in Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan?
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by timtrueman 18y ago
Ahh I've definitely thought about that but I don't think I have the balls for it. It would be so much faster, though...
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by timtrueman 18y ago
I envy Denmark: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/opinion/10friedman1.html It's tough to ride a bicycle to work with so many cars; It's dangerous when the sidewalks are small and crumbling, and there are no bike lanes. The problem is ever
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by timtrueman 18y ago
Can anyone with experience with both SVN and Git comment on the pros/cons of branching and merging (this is something I do often in Perforce). Which would you use based on this one issue?
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by timtrueman 18y ago
I actually found the entry on the Intel SSD rather exciting. I found it on Amazon but it seems like it's either not shipping yet or just started...couldn't find it on Newegg.
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by timtrueman 18y ago
"4 gigabit ethernet uplinks from each rack to the core (unfortunately a misconfiguration, we usually do 8 uplinks)" Whoops!
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by timtrueman 18y ago
"Objects of this size would be expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere every few months on average but this is the first time such an event has been predicted ahead of time." That's pretty significant/awesome.
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by timtrueman 18y ago
The one thing this article doesn't mention that really surprises me is when it will ship. No speculation, nothing even to say they have no clue. Only Cnet seemed to admit to not knowing anything. I guess that's what we get for having a non-
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by timtrueman 18y ago
The point of having a backend queue is that on very large scale systems an easy way to boost the "speed" of your site is never do synchronous writes (writes being loosely defined as anything that needs to be changed or executed, examples: i
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by timtrueman 18y ago
Another lesson in "Why it's a great idea to keep capital around to invest during the bad times" or "How to buy GE at a 42% discount" from Mr. Buffett.
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by timtrueman 18y ago
Right, I actually did read that far. I'm just trying to illustrate unless he defines it in a way the excludes cases like that, I'm not sure you can call it a law...a generalization with exceptions, maybe. As his law is written, the cell pho
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by timtrueman 18y ago
I know a few people that carry two cell phones... It's a technicality but you can have more than 100% market penetration. Does that count? "Luxembourg racked up 158 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, closely followed by Lithuania (127) an
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by timtrueman 18y ago
I can see it now, synchronized space shuttles in the space olympics ( http://www.hulu.com/watch/34464/saturday-night-live-digital-... )
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by timtrueman 18y ago
Microsoft just bought back stock with its cash. How about a down-payment on our national debt?
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by timtrueman 18y ago
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Formula 1 yet. Next season will see the introduction of the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS). Basically it's 40kg flywheel capable of storing 60kW of energy recovered from braking that will allow for 6.
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by timtrueman 18y ago
I think that what software you use has little to do with scaling a huge site. The biggest obstacle is how your data is organized and accessed. This is different for every application. If you can't get the data schema right then what softwar
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by timtrueman 18y ago
Delicious support would really help make up my mind...
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by timtrueman 18y ago
I recommend using the WebKit inspector, it is actually pretty comparable to Firebug (and in Chrome). *edit: whoops I hadn't refreshed for a while and I didn't realize this was already answered.
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Ask HN: What top-level domains do you register?
1 points by timtrueman 18y ago|1 comments
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by timtrueman 18y ago
I would use Spring and Ibatis.
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by timtrueman 18y ago
I'm just guessing, but 4hoursearch.com is probably much more available and/or cheaper than yuil.com, as well as being easier to remember than sampullara.appspot.com/yuil/. Just guessin'.
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by timtrueman 18y ago
And the source code is available for download...
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Yuil is now 4hoursearch.com(4hoursearch.com)
16 points by timtrueman 18y ago|8 comments
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by timtrueman 19y ago
Holy shit this is inspiring.