tuxmentat

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   by tuxmentat 13y ago

   Actually, I find that ironically the cars is probably the most readily understood complex machine out there - at least here in US. Most people have very good grasp on the basic principles, usage and surprisingly in-depth knowledge of the in
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   by tuxmentat 13y ago

   WP-Cache was in place, but HN hammered the server anyway. Typically it is not an issue but "dat traffic spike" was more or less way too much for the poor linode to handle: http://i.imgur.com/3jPD0iB.png I think Wo
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   by tuxmentat 15y ago

   Exactly. That's more or less the sentiment in the conclusion to the article: "If you are using Emacs, keep using it. Hell, if you are using Java you should probably keep using Eclipse. Similarly you probably shouldn’t ditch Visual Studio an
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   by tuxmentat 15y ago

   Yup. You guys hammered it to pieces. WP-Cache is nothing faced with HN traffic. When the dust settles I'm going to try installing Ngnix proxy to do more aggressive caching.