cowmixtoo
Joined 16 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
@40K up until this fall (and 35K now), I would hardly say that is "being given away" prices.
Comment · 13 years ago
When I taught Python to my kid and a few other kids that live around my house a coupl of years ago, Guido was gracious enough to sign these head-shots for me to give to each kids as their graduation present.
https://plus.google.com/photos/108306457281321389001/albums/...
Comment · 13 years ago
Up until now Gitlab has been very unstable. 5.X promises to be much better on that front because they are replacing gitolite. The Gitlab <-> gitolite synchronization is the cause of most of my grief.
Comment · 14 years ago
That's it!
Comment · 14 years ago
Whatever.
I haven't been a 'coder' since 1994 yet I'm defiantly "technical". The teams I lead, AFAIK, don't question my contributions because I don't code. Nor are my designs less valid.
In fact, my years of involvement on the operations side of the house sometimes make my choice 'technical' choices more informed than what straight coders cook up.
Again, phooey.
Comment · 14 years ago
It seems like Google's DNS servers are always MANY hops away from me, no matter where I am. The ping times range from 8ms to 45ms.
How is that faster than using a local DNS server?
Comment · 14 years ago
I have TONS of VHS tapes that I have been slowly digitizing over the pass 25 years. The issue I have ran up against is it is harder and harder to get VHS players. New models are almost non-existent so you have to troll Craigslist or eBay for used equipment.
Also, the market for good digitizing hardware is drying up too.
The moral, hurry up and digitize now before the equipment use for this purpose drys up.
Comment · 15 years ago
GoDaddy supports the bill because they love taking a contrary positions on an given issue. They see most of the industry taking X position on SOPA and so they take Y position. Corporate wise, they just seem to get off on it.
Comment · 15 years ago
Awesome explanation.
Still, an SSD makes this all better. When I was using virtual memory on a Ubuntu server and put the swap partition on an SSD, everything worked great. On a rotating platter, not so much.
Comment · 15 years ago
Hmm... I still think its valid to interchangeably use "Virtual memory" and swap space. Swap space is just where your "virtual memory" lives, right?
Comment · 15 years ago
I have a lot of friends using 'consumer grade' SSD for their DB workloads and the difference is night and day.
This might be a horrible example but my one friend had a installation of FileMaker Pro running on a completely tricked out XServer (RAID with 15K SAS drives). With 250 concurrent users he was completely max out on CPU and many queries took minutes to complete.
When he moved to a 256GB SSD his CPU load now never goes above 20% and not one query takes more than five seconds, period.
Also, please reference my old HN post from over a year ago.
Comment · 15 years ago
My point was that my application needed 166% more phyical memory than what I had at the time.
Paging out to a normal "disk" was not even an option, the performance ranged incredibly horrible to completely unusable.
Paging out to SSD was not only usable, it was only a percentage slower than 'real' RAM.
I think that's amazing. Having the option to use SSD as memory in a pinch is a great 'win'.
Comment · 15 years ago
I don't understand why SSD are not deployed in EVERY RMDBS server right now. They benefits are truly out of this world.