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From the kickstarter page, Plug can only do 30 Mb/s, which is ~4 MB/s and likely not enough to stream Bluray ISO. A fast enough processor is essential for NAS.

tl;dr: Netflix kills slow performing AWS machines due to resource contention

On the other end, you have hipster developers who need Git on production systems because that's the only tool they know.

On Gentoo, you would just create /etc/conf.d/memcached.xxx and then symlink /etc/init.d/memcached.xxx to /etc/init.d/memcached.

Relevant ChangeLog entry:

  14 Jan 2005; Lisa Seelye <lisa@gentoo.org>

  +metadata.xml, +files/1.1.12/conf, +files/1.1.12/init, +memcached-1.1.12_rc1.ebuild:

  Add 1.1.12-rc1 and retool the conf/init scripts to take advantage of the new
  -P (pidfile) option. The default behavior is to save the pidfile in
  /var/run/memcached/memcached-PORT.pid. This, it seems would make it easier
  for people to have multiple instances of memcached running (simply rename
  /etc/init.d/memcached to /etc/init.d/memcached.instance and the conf.d file
  accordingly.

Also, PhantomJS works fine in this case because the binary in the tarball is statically compiled. You can find a whole lot of qt stuffs inside PhantomJS source repository. There ain't no such thing as "truly headless".

Chrome for Business looks like a solid and proper upgrade path, but it does require a semi-progressive IT team.

The web hosting business has always been cut-throat, where price cutting and overselling are the norm. And since we started to have fast enough CPUs several years ago, the price has been dropping ever faster, as the CPUs continue to work after the initial costs have been recouped. For example, nowadays there are a lot of deals for dedicated servers with Xeon L5420, a quad core 2.5Ghz processor released in Q1 2008, before EC2 went public.

The sad part about EC2 is that it doesn't shy away from overselling while keeping the same high price. The micro instance with its meager CPU allocation would be the poster child of overselling. There are some naive crowds here who believe EC2 doesn't oversell. Well, just ask Netflix: http://blog.sciencelogic.com/netflix-steals-time-in-the-clou...

As shown by codegeek, the 6 questions here can be answered without needing sub-query. Maybe we can add something like "List employees who are not working alone in their department"

From http://owncloud.org/support/calendars/

> The calendar needs your current position for detecting your timezone. Without the correct timezone there will be a time offset between the events in owncloud and your desktop calendar you synchronise with owncloud. You can also set the timezone manually in the personal settings.

After reading the article, it seems like the author hasn't looked too hard into self-hosted solutions.

After all, developers are rather susceptible to the "don't tell me I can't do that" behavior.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/630803/associating-enums-...

The new enum library does more without introducing new syntax, and I think that's a good thing.

This is why in Gnome, all tab bars are on top, including in the terminal. Consistency for the sake of consistency.

http://www106.pair.com/rhp/free-software-ui.html

Excerpt:

> On hearing that preferences have a cost, some people get upset that we're going to remove every preference, or that their favorite one is gone, or whatever.

Sometimes I think the problem with Gnome is that the cost for them to do anything is just too high, due to bad architecture. Thus they always opt to do less. This is in contrast with KDE's approach, where they strive to improve the architecture, so that it is easier to do more.

You may want to check out this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2036416/

It is a story about Giddens Ko, who grew up despising Grade A students, then became somewhat of a Grade A student himself. He went on to become the most successful Chinese author / director.

No, I use ORM because I love SQL. ORM doesn't replace SQL. ORM helps to generate the exact SQL I want with much less code.

I have seen application with thousands of stored procedures, most of them boilerplates, and only supports one particular flavor of RDBMS. I have seen too much hand-crafted SQL in the form of "@param_xxx IS NULL OR field_xxx = @param_xxx".

I used to think that Tom Kyte was right, that everything should be in stored procedures. Now, I am thankful for ORM (more specifically, SQLAlchemy).

Now, what can I do to see all changes I have made so far?

I have done this many times with subversion (svn diff) and mercurial (hg diff). Git's index just get in the way.

> The experience taught me that sometimes (perhaps often) we don't make choices based on our explicit preferences. Instead, we have a gut feeling about what we want, and we go through a process of mental gymnastics, applying all kinds of justifications to manipulate the criteria. That ways, we can get what we really want, but at the same time keep up the appearance -- to ourselves and to others -- that we are acting in accordance with our rational and well-reasoned preferences.

Simply replace all occurrence of "we" with "mercurial/git fanboys" based on your own preferences ;)

> Q. Did the Bamboo router degrade?

> A. Yes. Our older router was built and designed during the early years of Heroku to support the Aspen and later the Bamboo stack. These stacks did not support concurrent backends, and thus the router was designed with a per-app global request queue. This worked as designed originally, but then degraded slowly over the course of the next two years.

From Adam's message on Feb 17th, 2011 (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/heroku/8...):

> You're correct, the routing mesh does not behave in quite the way described by the docs. We're working on evolving away from the global backlog concept in order to provide better support for different concurrency models, and the docs are no longer accurate. The current behavior is not ideal, but we're on our way to a new model which we'll document fully once it's done.

It looks like random load balancing was already the expected behavior 2 years ago? The "slow degradation" part seems a bit dishonest to me.

Scroll down and look for Circadian rhythm.

> One of the biggest problems I’ve discovered is that sleep is such an over talked topic. We get the general idea that we know all about it: how much we need of it, how it impacts us and why this or that happens when we sleep. Once I took a step back to really think about where our knowledge about sleep comes from, I realized that nearly all of it is based on hear-say or what my mom told me when I was in elementary school.

I was merely quoting some well-known wisdom (among Chinese) (but not well-followed) from an old book [1] written based on actual clinical experiences. And it also happens to support fakeer's suggestion. If that's not up to some scientific standards, at least it is one step above "hear-say" and "what my mom told me", don't you think?

This is such a complicated subject, and I doubt there has been any concrete study that can conclusively prove anything. For me, the point of the article is to provoke exactly this kind of discussion.

[1] That's what the wikipedia article is about.