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Not really disagreeing with your sentiment, but he laid it out nicely in the "Defining the Hot Path" section. That is honestly the most valuable lesson a newer programmer could take away from this gist.

Vagrant 2.0 9 years ago

Just wanted to drop a note to say thanks for your nicely done ansible recipes.

Snakisms 9 years ago

Something I don't get to say every day: Nihilism made me smile.

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I did enjoy Slackware as a learning experience all those years ago, but nowadays I like to spend more time building things and less time futzing with the OS.

My primary professional OS progression went something like:

Slackware -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> OS X.

As with the author, I'm pretty sure I'm done with OS X. If I want to go back to Linux, what is the best path? Mint? Back to Ubuntu? Something new?

Both of these positions on the subject are needlessly binary. I often find it the case that, even though I erect careful boundaries between work and non-work, when I leave a problem on my desk, I will continue to ruminate about a solution throughout the weekend, say. Similarly, I will Strategically avoid email when I'm recharging. I don't think it's so easy to boil down as black and white.

It's not a Postgres variant at all. Postgres is emulated as an interface to the columnar ParAccel database underneath. ParAccel does neat things (compiles your SQL into a program that it runs to answer the question, for instance) and really rips if you can order your data on good keys up front (and then use those keys in your query, of course).

Source: I helped build a very high speed network data analytical tool on top of ParAccel (before it was bought by Amazon and rolled into redshift).

Year 2038 problem 13 years ago

Right, but just because you have a data type that can handle a date that far in the future does not imply that you have fixed your OS and supporting software to be able to handle the day when the system time rolls over.

I guess this explains why their booth was empty at PyCon this year.

(Though I think they may have had an empty booth at previous PyCons...)

The OP doesn't want to enable the bad uses of Tor, nor do they want to get into legal trouble for it. It's demonstrated that by running a Tor exit node, you are at a high risk of the former and at least some risk for the latter. Both carry significant costs. By not running a Tor exit node, you eliminate these risks to yourself.

The risk that your neighbor will use your knife to kill someone is far lower by comparison. Additionally, the risk that there is a legal threat should they choose to do so is also quite low.

Deep Emo Shit 14 years ago

Meta: I clicked through to this link without pause but then I noticed the tld. Is that enough to get you blocked on corporate networks?

And on the flip side, can you get in trouble for visting it?