morganpyne

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by morganpyne 14y ago
It is slightly surreal for me to see somebody posting here with my name and such different perspectives to mine on the topics being discussed. I have to double-take each time I read one of your comments and see the poster name. Greetings fr
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by morganpyne 14y ago
Since we manage our servers with Puppet, we use hiera-gpg to securely store sensitive information in encrypted form in git. Puppet then safely deploys these files to our servers and our application deployment process (Capistrano) symlinks/c
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by morganpyne 14y ago
This looks like a scaled up version of this experiment that has been on youtube for about 5 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1TMZASCR-I (only 5 metronomes in that one, but I remember being fascinated when I first saw the effect)
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by morganpyne 14y ago
Congratulations to the 80/20 folks, and a great acquisition for Square. I had the pleasure of working with Andrew in the past on a couple of projects and he's both a very talented & productive designer, and a very nice guy.
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by morganpyne 14y ago
I watched the Anthony Griffiths movie he referred to a while ago and it is heartbreaking. I'm normally a very reserved person who's partner is convinced my tear ducts dried up from lack of use years ago, but watching Anthony tell his story
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by morganpyne 14y ago
This is exactly the mechanism that pt-online-schema-change from Percona uses. http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.1/pt-online-sch...
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by morganpyne 14y ago
Thanks. I had only installed the JRE. When I installed the JDK it showed up in there for me too.
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by morganpyne 14y ago
Does anybody know how to integrate this into OSX so that it is known to the Java Preferences app ? (/Applicatons/Utilities/Java Preferences.app)
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by morganpyne 14y ago
Sounds like you should give New Relic a try so :-) Although unfortunately their pro plan is a little more than $25/month
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by morganpyne 14y ago
Heh, perhaps some Joyent staff may have something to contribute to this conversation. They offered a "lifetime" hosting deal with shell access a while ago for a one-off fee, and I have heard that this is becoming a bit of a millstone for th
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by morganpyne 14y ago
Thanks for the clarifications. And the work :-)
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by morganpyne 14y ago
Is there any overlap between the work done in Gizzard and the other popular MySQL forks (Percona, MariaDB, Drizzle) or are each of these solving different (incompatible) problems?
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by morganpyne 14y ago
Certainly the UK seems to have taken a giant leap in this direction recently (unless this is a misguided April fool article): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745 I think you are deluding yourself though if you believe that most
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Compass/SASS Mixins for Simple Retina Images on Websites(blog.joelambert.co.uk)
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Well done and congrats. Glad we nabbed you for a visit to New Zealand before you got lost in work again. Good luck in your new job.
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Thanks for the information. Looks like the app needs to support it too, using a custom URL syntax.
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Never heard of this until now, so was very interested to see the list of enhancements that they have made to nginx. Some of them look quite useful e.g. the logging enhancements and Input body filter support. This feature caught my eye: - Co
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Well, taking a consistent snapshot for backups is easier when it's in a single source. I know there are ways around this (ZFS!) and not everyone needs synced backups to the millisecond but it can complicate backups (or more to the point - r
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Simple reliable replication has been a huge differentiator for a long time; enough so to put up with a lot of the other faults of MySQL. Have not revisited Postgres replication in a long time but I have seen that it has been worked on. Anyo
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Guilty as charged for immediately assuming that the problems of the MySQL family apply to other databases. Thank you for pointing out that PostgreSQL does not necessarily have all the same limitations.
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Interesting. As you have probably guessed by now, I'm not a Rails developer and therefore did not know this. I was surprised to read about this after your comment and find that Active Record went the lowest common denominator route with thi
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by morganpyne 15y ago
There is another problem unmentioned in this article with his simple table modification example... When you modify a table the DB needs to write the entire table to disk, locking it all the time. Depending on how much data is in the table a
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by morganpyne 15y ago
How does this deal with foreign key references? I thought that if you rename a table the FK references from other tables will still point at the renamed table? Discussion here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/rename-table.html The
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by morganpyne 15y ago
re (3): I have used the headless webkit engine to render high quality PDFs from HTML in the past. It's free. See: https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Setting your max clients to 220 on that setup is a terrible idea. You will probably cause the machine to start swapping as there is insufficient memory for each PHP process. It will grind to a slow halt. You should calculate your MaxClients
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I believe that the game itself is HTML5, and only the audio portion is flash-based.
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Beautiful work as usual. The entropy visualisations in particular stuck out for me, and I can imagine how useful it is to be able to see this kind of information at a glance while dissecting malware.
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Thank you, I had not seen your fork and modifications before. Will check them out!
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I have found Facebook's xhprof extension to be a a very useful extension for profiling also https://github.com/facebook/xhprof . Unlike the one above, it doesn't require any code changes (it's a C-based PECL extension), and can easily be s
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Hah! For years when I played the piano, I held my hands like I now type; relatively flat fingered and straight wristed. It never affected my ability to play anything complicated and the only real problem was that my piano teacher insisted t

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