It's a poor craftsman who blames *only* his tools, without trying to find
better ones. It's no better for a craftsman to ignore the effects a tool
has on the product.
I have yet to find a hardware design toolchain that isn't maddening in at
least half a hundred ways. Even the free / open source
On 01/08/2010 05:21 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> Anyone who blames bad code on the language has a far bigger problem
> than the language they're using.
>
> (Since we're inciting to riot.)
>
Yeah, no sense throwing rationality into a good flamefest.
A wise man told me long ago, "It's a poor craftsma
While we're debating which language is best, I thought I'd share this
pictorial argument:
http://www.bootup.io/img/auximg/developers-as-seen-by.jpg
plus, an update for haskell
http://i.imgur.com/hF6mS.jpg
update for C# / .net
http://jakemcgraw.com/imgs/langs.jpg
Greg Rundlett
nbpt 978-225-8302
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Kevin D. Clark
wrote:
> The way that I try to design protocols and systems is to assume that
> the entity at other end of the connection might be some infinitely bad
> thing that is looking to take down the system.
Indeed. That's a hallmark of good design. Any
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
wrote:
> (:flame
> "Well, `bad' is not necessarily as *ingrained* into those
> other languages (or DBs) or their cultures")
Anyone who blames bad code on the language has a far bigger problem
than the language they're using.
(Since we'
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 16:03 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> Stephen Ryan writes:
> >
> > On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 10:50 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
> > >
> > > That being said, I can only hope for the quick, and painful demise of
> > > both MySql and PHP.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Paul - who is trapp
Stephen Ryan writes:
>
> On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 10:50 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
> >
> > That being said, I can only hope for the quick, and painful demise of
> > both MySql and PHP.
> >
> > --
> > Paul - who is trapped in a company with close to 1 million MySql
> > databases being accessed by rea
Ben Scott writes:
> While still true, there are cases where it's less cut-and-dry: In
> other protocols, I've seen clients do the equivalent of "repeated
> malloc without free". Of course, the server should place limits on
> resources a client can allocate, but some people consider that kind o
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Kevin D. Clark
wrote:
> 4: If some particular client exacerbates this problem, this
> is interesting, but the root cause is still that the
> server is buggy.
While still true, there are cases where it's less cut-and-dry: In
other protocols, I've seen clie
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Stephen Ryan wrote:
>> Paul - who is trapped in a company with close to 1 million MySql
>> databases being accessed by really bad PHP code.
>
> ...because having close to 1 million {PostgreSQL, Interbase, CouchDB,
> SQLite} databases being accessed by really bad {J
I installed pdns and pdns-recursor just the other day on my Ubuntu
9-04 system. I did not configure or use the system, leaving that for
another day.
Today, there were upgrades available, so I attempted an upgrade,
however the upgrade failed due to the fact that I had pdns-recursor
3.1.7-2 install
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> How is 2-party video conferencing different from Ekiga/Skype Internet
> phone calls with video?
I have no idea. I've never worked with any kind of "live video"
telecomm, other than a brief stint with MSN Messenger for another
customer.
Sk
Paul Lussier writes:
> Openfire docs don't seem to have a lot of information on performance
> tuning, does anyone here have any experience with tuning this thing for
> use in large environments with lots of users ?
I don't have too many helpful things to say here except:
1: It sounds like you'r
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 10:50 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
.
> That being said, I can only hope for the quick, and painful demise of
> both MySql and PHP.
>
> --
> Paul - who is trapped in a company with close to 1 million MySql
> databases being accessed by really bad PHP code.
...because havi
"Jon 'maddog' Hall" writes:
> On the other hand, I wonder how many government installations are
> running MySQL at this pointnot that it would or should influence
> anything.
Most MediaWiki installs use MySql by default.
Most WordPress installs use MySql by default.
Most Joomla installs use
Ed Robbins writes:
> From a Java perspective, have you utilized any of the JMX tools to
> connect to it while it's running to view it's vitals? You can also
> force it to dump it's heap and then analyze it to see what's using all
> of the memory, that may be helpful in determining what the culpr
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 17:54 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> Requirements:
>
> R1. Two parties only. (Not a "big table" meeting.)
How is 2-party video conferencing different from Ekiga/Skype Internet
phone calls with video?
--
Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp
DLSLUG/GNHLUG library
http://dlslug.org/library.ht
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've been asked to look into video conferencing.
>
> Requirements:
>
> R1. Two parties only. (Not a "big table" meeting.)
> R2. Completely in-house. No big server in the sky coordinating or
> routing traffic. Everything has to stay b
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