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narfz

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narfz··on Pixel smartphone camera review: At the top
What App can actually save a DNG for me?
narfz··on Scaling to 100M: MySQL Is a Better NoSQL
we did the same and then switched to the native UUID type. it eliminates the need for a unique index and we saw a drop in storage space by 1/2. it's totally worth converting UUID to the uuid field.

ALTER TABLE my_table ALTER COLUMN my_uuid TYPE uuid USING uuid::uuid;

narfz··on Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test
is there a bandwidth cap? i constantly get 160Mbps but i know for sure that our office line can do way more. speedtest.net is always close to 900Mbps. maybe speedtest.net has a endpoint within the ISP backbone and netflix not? or is the peering between AWS and my ISP?
narfz··on Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
is there a way to run the benchmark from CLI? i would like to run the benchmark on our servers to see if we can get an improvement.
narfz··on Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
i use the same approach. (https://twitter.com/beanieboi/status/546398095182163968)

it's not as elegant as hiding the HTML elements, you see some question marks on the page if safari couldn't load the resource. but overall i'm pretty pleased and it gets the job done.

narfz··on Introducing Paper
it's nice to see mike matas' again. i really felt in love with his UI skills

(http://mikematas.com)

narfz··on Memory Monitoring With LXC
there is a certain amount of overhead from Codeship, it's around 200-300M. the memory usage also includes all running services inside the build (eg. Postgres, MySQL, etc.)

i think most developer don't optimize their tests for minimal memory usage. we observed that C/C++/Java projects consume a bigger amount of memory during the compilation step.

narfz··on We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals
my guess it's about timezones and visa. having 3 hours between a coworker and you is not that of a big deal but having 9hours time difference can be quite cumbersome.