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rombdn

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About rombdn

Technical consultant from Paris, France. http://www.rombdn.com http://github.com/rombdn

rbeaudon [at] gmail

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    > What it doesn't have is any major character questioning the state that they are living under - but then looking around today, sometimes that seems pretty accurate as well. One sc…

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    Comment #6171900

    Not the first distortion but the first 'fuzz'. Distortion is created by amp saturation at high levels while fuzz is created trough transistors which produce nearly square waves ( h…

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    Comment #6171831

    Another accidental discovery of distorted guitar sound was made by Dave Davies of the Kinks in 1964, who says he sliced is amp with a razor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Davi…

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    Comment #6171794

    Reverse reverb was also used by Jimmy Page on several Led Zeppelin tracks ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_echo )

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    Comment #5869654

    A Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett is usually for me a good way to step back from everyday life and work. It's funny, there are many references to scientific and nerd culture and…

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    Comment #5485059

    1. I disagree, on many ERP the DB is totally overloaded and the middleware is sleeping (and/or easier to scale). I think this is the kind of case where the ideal architecture parad…

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    Comment #5485047

    I agree - on the majority of entreprise system (ERP) I have worked this was the case. I can confirm that GROUP BY are huge performance killers and sometimes the simplest solution i…

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    Comment #5455281

    Very interesting! But isn't there a disavantage for node.js considering it's single threaded? Did you cluster it to use every core on the box ? ( http://stackoverflow.com/a/8685968…