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   by wulczer 16y ago

   Sounds fun if you do it for your home network, but profesionally you'll quickly appreciate embracing a more dull pattern of calling database machines db01, db02, etc, preproduction machines preprod01, preprod02, etc. And the sysadmin that w
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   by wulczer 16y ago

   At least in PostgreSQL you can use binary parameters: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/libpq-exec.html Of course that does not help if you construct the entire query string as text before sending it to the server, which is how SQ
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   by wulczer 16y ago

   Absolutely. The web application should be logging to the database as an unpriviledged user. Seems that by now most people have learned that running web services as root is a bad idea, but they still forget that they should also have an unpr
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   by wulczer 16y ago

   Or even: ~$ for x in colo{,u}r.com; do echo $x; dig +short $x; done
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   by wulczer 16y ago

   Elite hackers from jokes?
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   by wulczer 16y ago

   Come on, there are lots of self-deprecating Lisp jokes, my favourite being: An elite hacker broke into a government system and found the code of a secret NASA project. He tried to download it, but the sysadmins noticed the intrusion and eve
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   by wulczer 16y ago

   You can't always reply on the compiler inlining your function, and AFAIK there's no portable way of forcing inlining.
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   by wulczer 16y ago

   Just think about the availability constraints such service needs to comply with. I can't remember a bit.ly outage, and an outage would make half the Internet unhappy. Same for spam filtering, automatic reporting using the "+" links etc. At
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   by wulczer 16y ago

   Shouldn't the first example read: george.roar(); // displays: "George, the lion ROARS!!!"
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    I had success with @safetymail.info
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    There's a section in the Postgres docs about fsync and lying hard drives: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/wal-reliabil... There's also a Postgres contrib module called pg_test_fsync that tests various fsync modes on your h
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    Ouch, we'll take a look, we saw that issue earlier and though it's been fixed. Thanks!
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    Fix'd!
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    You're right, we should separate the tech blog from the normal blog. We'll definitely work on the theme as well, we've been concentrating on the main page to be honest.
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    Yeah, we realize real time is not strictly necessary for many people. For the ones who need it, it's a killer feature, for the ones who don't, a nice-to-have. The game-changing point is that we're always gathering data at the same pace, e
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    Daaaaarn, that's what you get for trying to add links to the tweets while drunk on excitement after the launch. Fixed, the ones responsible executed, working on putting the links back ;)
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    They're mockups, but we'll try to make the HTML to match. Our designer is, to be honest, 80% part of the success. The other 20% is the one doing the HTML. And I just code here...
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    Thanks. Sure, I'll tweet you the link shortly.
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    Check out our startup - a dashboard for your online apps. The difference we're trying to make is based on the following: * strong emphasis on real time * continuous data gathering, regardless of whether you're connected * good visua
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    Show HN: ducksboard, a real time dashboard using websockets(ducksboard.com)

    41 points by wulczer 16y ago|25 comments
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    Nuclear Power Plant Locations and Global Seismic Activity(maptd.com)

    7 points by wulczer 16y ago|0 comments
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    Sounds useful for early deployment stages, but later on you really should tag the code you deploy and perhaps include the tag in your application headers (or in the page footer, or somewhere). And even better, build packages after tagging i
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    Common misconception. Great programmers write clean code and document their work. I loathe engineers who produce complex, unreadable code and have enough nerve to call that "cool". A great programmer knows when to refrain from saving two li
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    See the answers to this question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2251940
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    Even though the comment could be more civil and less aggressive, it does point out the phrase from the article that struck me most. Jumping from people with less economical stability who don't advance because they "spend the bulk of their t
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    Another service that seems to do the same thing, and IMHO looks more serious: http://www.ghostery.com/
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    I would also appreciate if there was even a shortest FAQ somewhere, so I can at least know what to expect before I sign in.
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    > Another change is that you can now hide the Google Buzz tab from your profile. Slowly admitting that Google Buzz was a complete failure...
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    I did Linda in the university, during the Concurrent Programming course. It was lots of fun, even though we never actually wrote a line of code in any place other than the blackboard... It is sad that the model did not take off.
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    by wulczer 16y ago

    Apart from being a image disaster, I don't think that would actually work. A hiring strategy for Google (and one I believe they're following, judging by the calls my friends are getting) is combing places like development mailing lists or o