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Take a break from the tech news racket and spend some time reading something else — this article from the BBC on rare earth elements, perhaps; very interesting. Permalink.
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In the past, I have linked to tales of grandiose exploits in the world of Eve Online . Outside of those short articles and a few videos though, the game has remained a black box, of sorts, whose inner-workings I failed to understand. With this great article from Polygon, however, Tracey Lien gives us an in-depth and fascinating look at the mechanics, politics, and strategy behind this truly massive multilayer online role playing game, an..
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Over the past week, Ben Thompson has posted a three-part series discussing the business of news, how that field relates to journalism and newspapers, and — by extension — the future of this profession and that industry. I have been a long-time fan of Ben’s work, and these three articles are truly exceptional: insightful, fascinating, and — what’s more — remarkably timely given the current state of news organizations. If you read nothing els..
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I absolutely agree with Sid here: basically, he wrote the article I did in A Few Thoughts on Sponsorships the day before I published mine. You know what they say: great minds think alike. Permalink.
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PostgreSQL 9.4 - Looking up (with JSONB and logical decoding)
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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12 years ago
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Just a few weeks back I wrote a article discussing many of the things that were likely to miss making the 9.4 PostgreSQL release . Since that post a few weeks ago the landscape has already changed, and much more for the positive. The lesson here, is never count Postgres out . As Bruce discussed in a recent interview , Postgres is slow and steady, but much like the turtle can win the race. So onto the actual features: JSONB JS....
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PostgreSQL 9.4 - Looking up (with JSONB and logical decoding)
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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12 years ago
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Just a few weeks back I wrote a article discussing many of the things that were likely to miss making the 9.4 PostgreSQL release . Since that post a few weeks ago the landscape has already changed, and much more for the positive. The lesson here, is never count Postgres out . As Bruce discussed in a recent interview , Postgres is slow and steady, but much like the turtle can win the race. So onto the actual features: JSONB JS....
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Puppet is missing a number of much-needed features. That’s the bad news. The good news is that I’ve been able to write some of these as modules that don’t need to change the Puppet core! This is an article about one of these features. Posit : It’s not possible to apply all of your Puppet manifests in a single run. I believe that this holds true for the current implementation of Puppet. Most manifests can, do and should apply comple..
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Puppet is missing a number of much-needed features. That’s the bad news. The good news is that I’ve been able to write some of these as modules that don’t need to change the Puppet core! This is an article about one of these features. Posit : It’s not possible to apply all of your Puppet manifests in a single run. I believe that this holds true for the current implementation of Puppet. Most manifests can, do and should apply comple..
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If need the same functionality in two projects, you should reuse code between them, right? Or should you? For as long as there has been a profession of software engineering, we have tried to achieve more reuse. But reuse has both a benefit and a cost. Too often, the cost is forgotten. In this article, I examine the economics of reuse. True story: One of the earliest projects to embrace object-oriented programming in the 1990s did so with th..
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But here’s the rub. Programming, like writing, painting, and music, is chiefly a creative endeavor not a technical one. Practice with any technology or language is useful as a means of learning tools and techniques, but it will not make you a substantially better programmer. via How to be a sane programmer
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Earlier, I linked to an article from The Typist where he expressed dissatisfaction with the majority of “follow your passion” articles, and then went on to recommend some truly great advice with regards to that trite mantra from Bradley Voytek : “don’t follow your passions, follow your competencies, and you might just find you enjoy doing something you’re good at.” When linking to The Typist and, by extension, Bradley’s articles, I con....
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Great one-two punch from Sid O’Neill and Linus Edwards dealing with significance and its corollary, futility. I often find myself stuck between these two warring factions, fighting with another side of me that questions whether I should spend my time watching TV instead of writing, or writing instead of staying an extra hour in the gym, or working out instead of working more, or working more instead of spending more time with my family ..
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