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Open Source Means Never Being Stuck
Reflecting on the advantages of open source software in development, using a recent experience with the libvips library as an example. Faced with limitations I adapted and improved the library, significantly enhancing performance. Open source provides autonomy and opportunities for contributions, embodying freedom and progress.
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NetworkSolutions – is there any real point of them?
I have been a loyal user of NetworkSolutions for near on 10 years. At my usage peak I had well over a 100 domains managed through them. However, of late I have been slowly transferring blocks of them over to GoDaddy. Why? Simple. Their user interface is an abortion of Web2,0 magnitude. Too many upsells, too confusing, most importantly, it doesn’t work half the time! Couple all of that with…
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Free Yourself from Conventional Thinking
The first step is to consider the way you have always done business — and stop. Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure. An excellent piece on what it means to break away from the conventional wisdom and stop repeating the same tasks. If your company tells you that they will get it next year and this year it’s too late, then…
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patrickborn: Fractured Prune Donuts #lancaster #donuts #powerrings Lancaster, PA 3 out of 5 on the donut scale One of our chaps brought in 3 boxes of wonderful doughnuts which is just the sort of thing you need to power through the mornings worth of meetings. Development is not always cutting code.
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Dying Careers and their alternatives
http://education.yahoo.net/articles/careers_dead_by_2020.htm?kid=1LFZ5 Fascinating list this, particular when they advise that instead of going into semi-conductors you may want to look at Database Administration instead. Where is the relationship to semi-conductors? You may as well said “Sheep Herding” – which incidentally is my own pipe-dream should this computer game finish. Dying Careers and their alternatives
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Tumblr Engineering: Open Source – Memcache Top
mobocracy: We rely on memcache pretty heavily at Tumblr, with over 10TB of cache memory available across the stack. One of the things we’ve historically had a challenging time with at Tumblr is finding hot keys. A hot key is a memcache key getting dramatically more activity than other keys…. I do love a good scaling story. Hardware these days is so cheap that solutions such as a 10TB memory…
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