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Coding Horror has been updated @ 12:59 am, Jul 02/09
We recently upgraded our database server to 48 GB of memory -- because hardware is cheap, and programmers are expensive. Imagine our surprise, then, when we rebooted the server and saw only 32...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 06:01 am, Jun 30/09
In programming, abstractions are powerful things: Joel Spolsky has an article in which he states All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. This is overly dogmatic - for...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 12:59 am, Jun 25/09
The original iPhone was for suckers hard-core gadget enthusiasts only. But as I predicted, 12 months later, the iPhone 3G rectified all the shortcomings of the first version. And now, with the...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 12:59 am, Jun 24/09
In My Scaling Hero, I described the amazing scaling story of plentyoffish.com. It's impressive by any measure, but also particularly relevant to us because we're on the Microsoft stack, too. I...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 12:59 am, Jun 22/09
Remember The Problem of the Unfinished Game? And the almost 2,500 comments those two posts generated? I know, I like to pretend it didn't happen, either. Some objected to the way I asked the...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 12:59 am, Jun 18/09
In my previous post, Url Shorteners: Destroying the Web Since 2002, I mentioned that one of the "features" of the new generation of URL shortening services is to frame the target content. Digg...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 04:08 am, Jun 16/09
Is anyone else as sick as I am of all the mainstream news coverage on Twitter? Don't get me wrong, I'm a Twitter fan, and I've been a user since 2006. To me, it's a form of public instant...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 12:59 am, Jun 12/09
In Why Isn't My Encryption.. Encrypting? we learned that your encryption is only as good as your understanding of the encryption code. And that the best encryption of all is no encryption,...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 12:59 am, Jun 09/09
If you've followed my blog for any length of time, you know that I am a total regular expression fanboy. It's almost embarrassing how much I love the damn things. I'm pretty sure my teammates...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 12:59 am, Jun 08/09
Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS is fascinating reading. Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 12:59 am, Jun 04/09
Everybody loves BitTorrent. And rightfully so. With BitTorrent, you also start by placing your large file on a central server. But once the downloading begins, something magical happens: as...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 06:33 am, Jun 02/09
Emrah Diril recently asked me this via email: Steve Yegge mentioned in the comments of his last post that he gets quite a bit of hate directed his way. Fake51: you underestimate the ability...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 05:26 am, Jun 01/09
One of my all time favorite blog entries is a truly epic tale of dating gone wrong that culminates in the strangest reference to P=NP you'll probably ever encounter. Joey: So you really did...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 12:59 am, May 29/09
It's pop quiz time! Put away your notes, and let's begin. a) Do you own this book?* b) Do you know who this man is? c) Does this FAQ look familiar to you? 3) OUR LITTLE FRIEND, THE...
Coding Horror has been updated @ 12:59 am, May 27/09
I've always been leery of RAID on the desktop. But on the server, RAID is a definite must: "RAID" is now used as an umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that can divide and replicate...
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