cowmixtoo

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by cowmixtoo 13y ago
@40K up until this fall (and 35K now), I would hardly say that is "being given away" prices.
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by cowmixtoo 13y 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.c
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by cowmixtoo 14y 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.
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by cowmixtoo 14y ago
That's it!
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Ask HN: Where is that blog post that describes each AWS tier?
24 points by cowmixtoo 14y ago|3 comments
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by cowmixtoo 14y 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 si
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by cowmixtoo 15y 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?
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by cowmixtoo 15y 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 fo
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by cowmixtoo 15y 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.
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Ask HN: Startups - how are you tracking IT assets?
1 points by cowmixtoo 15y ago|0 comments
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by cowmixtoo 15y 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.
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by cowmixtoo 15y 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?
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by cowmixtoo 15y 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 XServe
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by cowmixtoo 15y 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
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by cowmixtoo 15y ago
I don't understand why SSD are not deployed in EVERY RMDBS server right now. They benefits are truly out of this world.
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by cowmixtoo 15y ago
I have a lot of personal success stories with SSDs but here's my current favorite. A few months ago I had to help one of our scientists (the company is called 5AM Solutions.. they the awesome) run a bioinformatic job written in Perl and R.
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Ask HN: Where should my startup open its first bank account? (U.S. based)
2 points by cowmixtoo 15y ago|1 comments
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by cowmixtoo 15y ago
Anyone who uses "netcat" should give "socat" a look. It's been around a lot time and it is pretty much netcat on crack. I use it daily.
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by cowmixtoo 15y ago
Since I posted this link last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1584998 .... I've put a few DBs on SSD (Postgresql and Filemaker Pro). The real-world performance on extreme concurrent usage was been insane, ie something like a or
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by cowmixtoo 15y ago
I don't want to pile on here but as Linux desktop / server user since '92 I'll add my two cents: My main Linux workstations are a three year old QUAD core Shuttle XPC and a Dell business workstation. I religiously upgrade to each Ubuntu di
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by cowmixtoo 15y ago
Google will not allow it to be installed on my hacked Color Nook running CM7. Arg.
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by cowmixtoo 16y ago
The problem is how Virgin Mobile implemented data with Android, not the phone itself. People who have the Samsung Android phone have the same issue. Search #vmdd (Virgin Mobile Data Down) on Twitter and follow the fun.
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by cowmixtoo 16y ago
If you want to get more use out of the raw data 23andMe produces from your DNA sequencing I encourage everyone to check out this free / GPL'd Firefox plugin my company created. http://www.snptips.com/
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by cowmixtoo 16y ago
Oh no.. universally, everyone thinks Skype 5 is a total cluster f.
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by cowmixtoo 16y ago
Unfortunately, I echo many of the reservations of working at my local public library: can't make calls, horrible hours of operation, etc. I'll add one more thing: horrible network filtering.
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by cowmixtoo 16y ago
"The Day the Universe Changed" is online too! Awesome.
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by cowmixtoo 16y ago
I'm going to sound like a broken record but I don't understand why bcfg2 isn't more popular. If anything, I'm going to 'port' this post to an bcfg2 example.
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by cowmixtoo 16y ago
I don't understand why more people don't use bcfg2. Its awesome for this purpose (and I think better than puppet or chef.)
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by cowmixtoo 16y ago
My wife and I just finished getting rid of two file cabinets worth of papers using this MFP: http://www.okidata.com/mkt/html/nf/MFP.php?sku=b4545series The pdf's it created were pretty small and the result of the project fits into a very
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by cowmixtoo 16y ago
mattblalock: My business mentor / great friend died a little over a year ago and its been very hard to adjust. There really isn't anything to say that will help except for it will take time to adjust and move on. In my case I was "lucky" be

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