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If there is ever a better example as to why Steve Balmer is bad for Microsoft:
It’s always dangerous when a company starts requiring their employees to become ‘yes men’ and employees start fearing their own jobs if they disagree or don’t show the same level of enthusiasm.
Has been a while since I last posted. I actually have a number of drafts just waiting to be completed, but I spotted this today and found it very interesting. My home country certainly doesn’t look to be in a good spot.
Using Google Maps to illustrate the effects of global warming: http://flood.firetree.net/
I know a lot of you are Google fans. I think they do a lot of neat things and are one of the more interesting companies, in terms of technology and they contribute a lot to the progress in the tech world. But ChromeOS really has me scratching my head. We all know that the [...]
As if the world needed a catastrophic event to show us of the pitfalls of cloud computing, Microsoft messed up royally by losing data (contacts, calendars, pictures, etc) for hundreds of thousands of Sidekick users and I’m surprised something of this magnitude didn’t happen sooner.
Ouch, though… ouch…
The effects of this will continue to ripple for [...]
Here’s one ‘feature’ that I bumped into and scratched my head over for a while, until it occurred to me what was happening. It appears that, if you are using replication, when you enable replication only on select databases (instead of all databases and excluding what you don’t want to replicate), you are running the [...]
Went to see District 9 today and it was awesome. I can only best describe it as a curious mix between a thought-provoking sci-fi and a (gruesome and) satisfying action flick. Peter Jackson, Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell have really managed to pull off a believable parallel universe, in which aliens have inexplicably stumbled across Earth and [...]
Just a quick post:
Here are some beautiful art cards. They are by Corinna Jasmine.
If you like her artwork, you will be able to find her work at her (soon to be opened) Etsy shop.
Just a quick post on an interesting image I stumbled upon today. It really brings into perspective what the slowest part of a computer system is and where your optimizations should be focused on if you want efficiency. Since it’s a large, but thin image, I couldn’t thumbnail it, so you will find it in [...]
Hypothetical:
So, your website has been gaining traffic and the code has gotten more and more complex and things are starting to slow down. You’ve exhausted the most obvious tweaks, like optimizing a bit of your code (there’s only so much this can do to help), your database queries (a usual source of bottlenecks) and deployed [...]
Since, at my company, we have built and are scaling our architecture, we often have to add and reformat servers. In addition, we use Debian pretty much exclusively. Generally, I am quite happy with the quality of Dell’s PowerEdge series. I won’t speak to their desktop workstations, but their servers are quite powerful, stable (haven’t [...]