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I think in a lot of ways this is related to the relative overpowering of desktop computers for daily use. It's been true for years now that computers are highly overpowered for wha…

The JVM has been around for a while now. It's stable, mature, and fast. Lots of languages have started to get ported over to the JVM, and things like Scala exist to make the JVM a …

So I'm looking to put together a suite of tools put together some metrics of page load performance for my company's sites. I already know about: * www.webpagetest.org * www.yottaa.…

Can't this entire site be replaced with: YES

A quote from this really stuck out for me: "So, senior coders earn their higher reputation by providing more answers, not by having answers of (significantly) higher quality." A lo…

Thanks for the resources guys. It sounds like I need at least a couple of index funds to be adequately diversified, and the books that have been mentioned here have been mentioned …

So, I'm average joe programmer. I contribute to 401k, and I have a high yield savings account for very short term stuff. I would like to start investing in something that will be u…

I didn't notice anything either. I had to go and read the rest of the comments here to see what was actually supposed to happen. Although, these comments did serve as a remindeer f…

Poker is an easy way to make a lot of money

My opinion/sense is that Postgres is better in every way, except replication. Which ironically makes it far worse than mysql since you can't easily use it for huge datasets.

"The definitive guide to dealing with Huge MySQL databases"

Just my opinion. I went to some random school that nobody here is going to know of or care about, and I had a blast at school. College should be a place to have fun at. Realistical…