The disastrous Facebook redesign
September 19, 2008
Nobody likes the new Facebook. Here’s why.
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Thoughts on version control
September 18, 2008
I like bazaar. I don’t like git, because I don’t like giving people the ability to do partial commits.
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The fractious leap second debate
September 16, 2008
You might not have heard about it, but there’s a debate going on which threatens to redefine time as we measure it. I’m something of a time nerd; all the computers in our house are synchronized to atomic clocks, as are several of our regular clocks, my wristwatch, and my phone. The debate going on [...]
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Pride comes before a fall [updated]
September 8, 2008
Microsoft: “London Stock Exchange: Achieving Record Reliability Using Windows over Linux”. LSE: crashes and burns for an entire trading day.
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Java, JDBC and “memory leaks”
September 5, 2008
How to do a JDBC query–something which hardly anyone can get right, apparently.
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A wakeup call for commercial Linux
September 1, 2008
PC World is reporting on a survey showing that community-supported Linux is growing in business at the expense of RedHat and SuSE.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. I run systems using both free and commercial Linux distributions, and the free ones are consistently less of a pain to maintain.
One of the biggest factors is that [...]
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