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@40K up until this fall (and 35K now), I would hardly say that is "being given away" prices.

When I taught Python to my kid and a few other kids that live around my house a coupl of years ago, Guido was gracious enough to sign these head-shots for me to give to each kids a…

Up until now Gitlab has been very unstable. 5.X promises to be much better on that front because they are replacing gitolite. The Gitlab gitolite synchronization is the cause of mo…

That's it!

A few weeks ago someone on HN posted a GREAT blog post that featured a grid that described each AWS tier. I can not find it for the life of me.

Whatever. I haven't been a 'coder' since 1994 yet I'm defiantly "technical". The teams I lead, AFAIK, don't question my contributions because I don't code. Nor are my designs less …

It seems like Google's DNS servers are always MANY hops away from me, no matter where I am. The ping times range from 8ms to 45ms. How is that faster than using a local DNS server?…

I have TONS of VHS tapes that I have been slowly digitizing over the pass 25 years. The issue I have ran up against is it is harder and harder to get VHS players. New models are al…

GoDaddy supports the bill because they love taking a contrary positions on an given issue. They see most of the industry taking X position on SOPA and so they take Y position. Corp…

The company I work for is, IT wise, very much like a lot of the startups represented here on HN. We have a ton of remote workers and local workers all armed with MacBook Pros and m…

Awesome explanation. Still, an SSD makes this all better. When I was using virtual memory on a Ubuntu server and put the swap partition on an SSD, everything worked great. On a rot…

Hmm... I still think its valid to interchangeably use "Virtual memory" and swap space. Swap space is just where your "virtual memory" lives, right?

I have a lot of friends using 'consumer grade' SSD for their DB workloads and the difference is night and day. This might be a horrible example but my one friend had a installation…

My point was that my application needed 166% more phyical memory than what I had at the time. Paging out to a normal "disk" was not even an option, the performance ranged incredibl…

I don't understand why SSD are not deployed in EVERY RMDBS server right now. They benefits are truly out of this world.

I have a lot of personal success stories with SSDs but here's my current favorite. A few months ago I had to help one of our scientists (the company is called 5AM Solutions.. they …

Anyone who uses "netcat" should give "socat" a look. It's been around a lot time and it is pretty much netcat on crack. I use it daily.

Since I posted this link last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1584998 .... I've put a few DBs on SSD (Postgresql and Filemaker Pro). The real-world performance on extreme…

I don't want to pile on here but as Linux desktop / server user since '92 I'll add my two cents: My main Linux workstations are a three year old QUAD core Shuttle XPC and a Dell bu…

Google will not allow it to be installed on my hacked Color Nook running CM7. Arg.

The problem is how Virgin Mobile implemented data with Android, not the phone itself. People who have the Samsung Android phone have the same issue. Search #vmdd (Virgin Mobile Dat…

If you want to get more use out of the raw data 23andMe produces from your DNA sequencing I encourage everyone to check out this free / GPL'd Firefox plugin my company created. htt…

Oh no.. universally, everyone thinks Skype 5 is a total cluster f.

Unfortunately, I echo many of the reservations of working at my local public library: can't make calls, horrible hours of operation, etc. I'll add one more thing: horrible network …