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mcos

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About mcos

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    The biggest problem with the spaces vs tabs debate is that editor presentation is still tightly coupled to file persistence. Imagine an abstraction layer created so that developers…

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    This is great. I wonder if there's a way to package it up for an e-reader, or as a PDF?

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    This is a great move. Unfortunately it's still in Microsoft Word format and there's no license associated with it. Would love to see this somewhere like GitHub, where it could be f…

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    I'd like to give this a go, but I don't have a twitter account. How do you see this working for those developers without a social media presence?

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    Techcrunched: http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/01/steam-gauge-gauges-the-size...

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    You could read all the responses into a Queue-type structure and then populate the database in the background.

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    Unfortunately, if you're using an Intel-based Mac, the Mac versions of applications are limited to Power-PC machines.

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    Thanks, I've already tried that. My main issue is EBS performance when writing the dump file to disk. The backups themselves don't impact on database performace much, but writing u…

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    Just this week I was looking for a better solution that would back up my RDS database to S3. I'm currently using mysqldump, but the RDS instance size has grown extremely large and …

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    If you've seen the movie, I'd highly recommend "Moneyball" the book too. It goes into a lot of great detail that the movie doesn't deal with.