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They just start sampling your data, the feature doesn't stop working.

When you buy premium, you get the unsampled data (and a person to call on the phone)

"(which it should already be)."

No, why should domains be required to attached to an individual person?

Dumping the entire database to disk on every write? I can't imagine more than 1 qps.

JUnit4 kind of helps with ExpectedExceptions. try-catch doesn't usually have a good reason to exist in unit tests.

libfaac is a safe aac default, but aacplus works MUCH better at the the 8 - 16 kbps range, which seams to be a stated goal of this page. It turns on SBR+PS and has ffmpeg support.

If any Dropbox people are reading this, can you comment on what criteria you used to pick the audio codec?

Are there ANY hardware manufactures that know how to write software? It seems like both firmware and hardware were an afterthought to almost any piece of computer hardware I have seen.

4096 is a good goal, but there is a much more obvious benefit at 1024 since it would fit within the IPv6 1280 MTU (i.e. a single packet). I recall hearing stories that the Google Homepage had to fit within 512 bytes for IPv4's 576 MTU.

Your mind fills in the gaps. What makes a picture NSFW is what it makes people think, not so much what it actually is.

The interesting effect of bubbling is not so much that people appear naked, but that the original picture, containing clothed people (typically bikinis), appear naked.

Is this even news? Pick any Wikipedia article at random that has more than one author. It isn't hard to find run on sentences and verb tense mismatches.

Does anyone seriously think that the difficulty with parallelizing code is the amount of boilerplate? The real problem is synchronizing multiple threads; being too lenient means deadlocks; being too strict means under utilization. The map() function doesn't really help with either of those.

In addition, it looks like you are unfairly picking on Java. The producer consumer model presented isn't anywhere near what a competent programmer would do. Building your consumer from within a method called Producer? Calling isinstance (or instanceof) to check if the "poison pill" is put in the queue? These are the signs of a crappy programmer, not a crappy language.

The language. Really the problem with SQL is the API. I like having a relational database, but SQL strings are a really crummy way of writing to it.

If you were to say "programming languages today are deficient in X, Myrddin fixes that!", what would X be? From the looks of it, it appears to be nothing. The syntax looks palatable and I like the lack of header files. That said, why would I be better off investing the time to learn your new language? (amongst the myriad other languages)

The "I'm doing this and I don't give a damn about you" attitude I think has at least some merit. If the lead programmer is good, its better if he/she can say no. If there is a correlation between being an asshole and being successful I haven't seen it.