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Writes in MongoDB are persisted before the server returns acknowledgement. For a typical replica set deployment, this additionally means replicated and made durable on disk for a m…

I think there's a meta argument encoded in the sampling bias discussion. That being: some people want to expose NPR as just another media center that produces watered down content …

The original patch/commit that Linus calls out: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6...

Despite not knowing anything about your dataset and insertion/deletion patterns, you may want to consider power of two allocation. It's a new feature in 2.2 that costs some additio…

13 men and 8 women for 21 total people. The article also mentioned on multiple occasions the small sample size.

N.B. I use the term employer throughout where it really can also mean manager or generally anyone responsible for figuring out what employees would value as compensation/perks. One…

In fairness to the rest of the article, in Listing 9 the author does protect the call to empty() with (the same) lock and also moves the condition inside of a while loop.

For what it's worth, I had used MySQL on a table with ~20 million rows and doing a count on an index would also be extremely slow. I put in triggers to do counts which worked perfe…

With an acquisition I went through, none of the unvested options (after acceleration) turned into anything (meaning those remaining shares were never issued/created). However the a…

I saw the line you edited out. I hope that means there was some minor mis-communication because as far as I can tell, we're on the same side of the fence!

A lot of the arguments I hear about why making jokes of women in computer fields is wrong is that these jokes make women (and some men) uncomfortable which is irreproachably wrong.…

Now I'm merely trying to raise awareness, not offer an argument, but there are alternate gravitational theories for galaxy rotation (that I believe are more elegant, but at the exp…

We're using tumblr for our blog if that offers any insight. Otherwise I'm not sure what could be causing this.

In Python: Importing urllib hangs zlib imports, but the compress and compressobj methods fail > import zlib > zlib.compress("askldas") Internal error: ReferenceError: _deflateInit_…

The reason a particle would have infinite energy as it approaches the speed of light is because its mass (relativistic mass) would also approach infinite. Thus the understood reaso…

2nd engineer, started right out of college. Was always being paid what I felt to be market value. Had ~2% in stock after a re-incentivizing due to a near bankruptcy after failing t…