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mathnode··on Another Xcode Version, Another Example of Crappy Apple QA
Hacker News != Ranter News. Take it to the $VENDOR support forums.
mathnode··on MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA Released, Delivers 1 Billion Queries per Minute
As a MySQL, Oracle and Clustrix DBA this is very sexy news. Here is the extra info on the benchmark http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com/2012/02/105bn-qpm-using-m...

But no info on what disk setup they used. But for every instance node there was a storage node.

mathnode··on XFS: the filesystem of the future?
SGI was munging Terabytes of data before Windows had the "hi-color icons" tickbox.
mathnode··on Spaniards prototype ARM-GPU hybrid supercomputer
It looks delicious, I have been hanging on to my core2quad for nearly 4 years. Can't wait to switch over to an ARM box.
mathnode··on Thoughts on Python 3
Blender is using Python 3.

I'll go and sit back down in my corner.

mathnode··on [dead]
Benefits.
mathnode··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)
Please note you must be able to work weekdays in our London office.
mathnode··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)
London, UK

Photobox (www.photobox.com). Looking for a MySQL DBA of moderate to high-level experience.

We also need talented developers with Javascript and/or Perl skills. richard.bensley@photobox.com

mathnode··on OpenShift vs CloudFoundry
I remember when useful information was not in a binary format, and had easy to read bullet points.
mathnode··on Why Apple built Final Cut Pro X
What? Shake was THE node based compositing app!

There is a massive difference to Motion and the highend compositing apps like Shake, Nuke, Fusion, Softimage(Illusion+Matador=FXTree), Houdini(COPS), Flame, Toxik(Autodesk Composite). After Effects and Combustion are time-line based like Motion, but Motion doesn't begin to compare to them. Even Blender has fantastic compositing tools.

Shake was serious business. It's last well known big project was 'The Dark Knight' which Framestore CFC mangled a 64bit wrapper around it to better manage the 8k-frame workload. Shake was ported to Intel, then killed off, with no intention to take it to 64bit. I don't think you can buy the source code anymore.

mathnode··on Why Apple built Final Cut Pro X
Shake was the king. But now the industries have Nuke. The king is dead long live the king!
mathnode··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)
Photobox London are looking for Front End developers: http://www.photobox.co.uk/content/jobs
mathnode··on LibreOffice And OpenOffice Will Not Merge
They could still have purchased Sun as a whole, and left Sun Hardware operate on it's own until End of Life, or sell it off to another hardware vendor like IBM or HP.
mathnode··on What if I knew I'd die in 35 days?
You still have time to finish Portal 2.
mathnode··on In your opinion did Mark Zuckerberg deserve "Person of the Year"?
No, Assange dide.
mathnode··on How would you store 500TB of stuff you don't need everyday?
Massive Array of Idle Disks. Speak to your favourite SGI or IBM sales rep!
mathnode··on Poll: iPhone or Android
I have an Android. But voted iPhone. Very much looking forward to my upgrade!
mathnode··on [dead]
Quite a poor quality post. A table showing origins for the none standard or none GNU Coreutils would have been helpful. htop for example is not (by default) available on Solaris or Mac OS.
mathnode··on Judge gives Sony access to PS3 hacker's PayPal records
Every monetary trading system creates an audit trail. If the ruling is given to give access to an email account, the place of hosting is irrelevant. Unless you were to delete your mail server, which would probably only incriminate you further.
mathnode··on Ask HN: Getting started with Python for web development
I found this quite handy: http://docs.python.org/howto/webservers.html

I am a cgibin kind of person.

mathnode··on How to DOS a developer
It's similiar to my dating tactic: "Want to go for a drink with me?" "Want to go for a drink with me?" "Want to go for a drink with me?" "Want to go for a drink with me?" "Want to go for a drink with me?" "Want to go for a drink with me?" "FINE YES!"
mathnode··on Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code
KITTEH!
mathnode··on Final Cut Pro update will be the “biggest overhaul” since the original
Premiere boasts 64bit and GPU acceleration. Legacy GUI issues aside on Final Cuts behalf, the fact is premiere is fast. And now with Smoke on Mac for the more serious editors (looking to invest in extra hardware required for realtime 1080p/2k/4k/... editing), Apple have a lot to catch up on. Digital Domain and The Foundry saw Apple Shake into a shallow grave and nailed every nail into the coffin with Nuke.

Shake and Final Cut were purchased by Apple to bolster macs in the media market. It's disgraceful shame they let Shake die.

mathnode··on Poll: How old are you?
25 and not allowed to vote! DISCRIMINATION!
mathnode··on Why Dropbox Succeeded and Syncplicity Didn’t
sinkplisitie is harderer to spell.
mathnode··on The first stable release LibreOffice 3.3
Libr?
mathnode··on The first stable release LibreOffice 3.3
There is no reasonable justification for any individual, institution, or business to be using the newer MS office file formats.
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