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They just start sampling your data, the feature doesn't stop working. When you buy premium, you get the unsampled data (and a person to call on the phone)

"(which it should already be)." No, why should domains be required to attached to an individual person?

Dumping the entire database to disk on every write? I can't imagine more than 1 qps.

+1 to short and sweet incremental change lists. VLC / Firefox used to be this way until /someone/ deemed those not worthy. You can still get to the VLC changes which ware way more …

JUnit4 kind of helps with ExpectedExceptions. try-catch doesn't usually have a good reason to exist in unit tests.

libfaac is a safe aac default, but aacplus works MUCH better at the the 8 - 16 kbps range, which seams to be a stated goal of this page. It turns on SBR+PS and has ffmpeg support. …

Are there ANY hardware manufactures that know how to write software? It seems like both firmware and hardware were an afterthought to almost any piece of computer hardware I have s…

4096 is a good goal, but there is a much more obvious benefit at 1024 since it would fit within the IPv6 1280 MTU (i.e. a single packet). I recall hearing stories that the Google H…

Your mind fills in the gaps. What makes a picture NSFW is what it makes people think, not so much what it actually is.

The interesting effect of bubbling is not so much that people appear naked, but that the original picture, containing clothed people (typically bikinis), appear naked.

Is this even news? Pick any Wikipedia article at random that has more than one author. It isn't hard to find run on sentences and verb tense mismatches.

Does anyone seriously think that the difficulty with parallelizing code is the amount of boilerplate? The real problem is synchronizing multiple threads; being too lenient means de…

The language. Really the problem with SQL is the API. I like having a relational database, but SQL strings are a really crummy way of writing to it.

If you were to say "programming languages today are deficient in X, Myrddin fixes that!", what would X be? From the looks of it, it appears to be nothing. The syntax looks palatabl…

The "I'm doing this and I don't give a damn about you" attitude I think has at least some merit. If the lead programmer is good, its better if he/she can say no. If there is a corr…

Cox does something similar but bypasses the the DNS records and just slipstreams in a response. I noticed Cox would redirect javascript requests to their own HTTP server and put in…

100 and 120, at least in my brief experience. Coworkers start expecting 100% output from you, which means you are going to get a lesser review for putting out 80%. That they don't …

I thought the segmented stack was the key to having hundreds of thousands of userland threads. It seems pretty farfetched (though not impossible) that realloc'ing the entire thread…

Its more link-baity this way. Instead of knowing what the article is about before clicking on it, you are now forced to waste an extra 10 seconds.

By the common understanding of alpha, pre alpha means its not really ready to demo.

Its deeply troublesome when these kinds of comments come up for two reasons: first and lesser: its wrong; secondly: its inconspicuously wrong. Processor speeds double approximately…

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

It doesn't even stop at audio cable. Ever seen those "High quality HDMI cables? The bits on THOSE wires are purer than any other 1s and 0s. There is real money to be made in sellin…

If you are summing up the whole experience rather than the audioformat, then you really don't have anything comparable. If one format really is better (and even that is subjective)…

Its painful sometimes to read audiophile forums. Often you'll see people claim that FLAC audio doesn't sound as good as raw PCM. Some people seem so proud of their ignorance that t…