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  1. RTFA more closely on The Google Search Server · · Score: 1
    http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2523&p= 4
    The mini allows for 100,000 documents/URLs to be stored in a collection, and AnandTech contains approximately 40,000 articles, news and blog entries.

    When we first set up the Mini, we told it to start in each of the website's sections (for example, http://www.anandtech.com/it/) and in the web news area. The Mini considers any unique URL string to be a unique document, which makes sense (but is a bit surprising the first time that you run an index).

    After four hours of indexing, the Mini had managed to reach its document limit and we had to improvise... A word to the wise: don't let the Mini crawl your entire site without keeping a close eye on it.

    In other words, spidering the entire site led to the Mini wasting space on stuff other than the ~40k articles they really wanted indexed and running into its 100k limit.
  2. your problem is similar to DMCA proponents on Defeating Captcha · · Score: 1

    you say, "textual tests would do just as well."

    DMCA advocates say, "content protection can stop bad guys without inconveniencing good guys."

    Both are flat-out wrong in the real world.

    The good news is, you have a potentially bright career ahead of you in politics.

  3. another thing that's not overrated on The Impact of Planescape Torment · · Score: 1

    paragraphs.

    paragraphs are good.

    (capitalization is optional, however. :)

  4. Wow, dude. Chill. on A Piece of CherryPy for CGI Programmers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're "running like 20 wiki and 5 custom web apps and a few WordPress installations" on your server then you shouldn't be intimidated by the 2 or 3 lines it takes to forward requests to the CherryPy server.

    Get a grip.

  5. eh... no need for perl here on Quake 3: Arena Source GPL'ed · · Score: 5, Informative

    find lcc/src | xargs dos2unix

    that's all you need

  6. sure, pedant on PHP 5 Objects, Patterns and Practice · · Score: 2, Informative

    but just about everyone refers to that book as, well, The Gang of Four.

    it's like the Dragon Book, but that's probably before your time.

    sorry to burst your bubble...

  7. No, there isn't. on Perl 6 Now by Scott Walters · · Score: 1, Troll

    Python gives you the power and expressiveness of perl, but with actual design principles behind it.

    Perl vs Python is sort of like MySQL vs PostgreSQL: each of the former was once useful, but now there's an alternative that is so much better, why handicap yourself? /one of many former perl users since moved to python

  8. Actually, the best analogy is on Xbox360 Pricing, 2 Models at Launch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "just like the PS2 HDD"

    nobody developed for it because nobody had it, and nobody bought it because nobody developped for it.

    it's possible that 360+HDD will be worth developing for if MS can get enough people to buy it early enough... good luck.

  9. Re:Will this make it easier to give back? on BitTorrent for Content Providers · · Score: 1

    so, for someone with no BT experience --

    care to give idiotproof instructions to seed, say, debian?

  10. in-depth? on An Inside Look at eBay Security · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Wow. Isn't Monday morning a bit early to be hitting the crack pipe that hard?

    Sample "in-depth" response for those who didn't RTFA:

    How does eBay weed out unscrupulous sellers on your site?
    MacGibbon: We have zero tolerance for wrongdoing and are committed to making eBay as safe as possible for our members. We also work closely with law enforcement agencies to help them to bring offenders to justice.
  11. aolserver on Why I Hate the Apache Web Server · · Score: 1

    no, it's not by aol (nee naviserver; renamed when aol bought it)

    it's quite slick and doesn't have many if any of the problems listed in TFA ...and obviously it scales like crazy; aol eats their dogfood

  12. technology bittorrent was derived from? on Online Backup Solutions? · · Score: 1

    What would that be?

  13. yeah, like the ads-if-you-don't-pay feature on The Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    those firefox bastards, always ripping off opera...

    on a more serious note, didn't omniweb have tabbed browsing blah blah blah before Opera?

  14. look at the context on James Gosling on Java · · Score: 1

    Jython's competition is Groovy. Groovy doesn't even have a stable DESIGN, let alone implementation.

  15. Well, if you work for Sun on James Gosling on Java · · Score: 1

    How long were /. types calling OpenSolaris vaporware? :P You of all people should know that lack of public release does not equate lack of progress.

    At least with Jython you can check the cvs log and see that commits are indeed happening.

  16. Exactly on James Gosling on Java · · Score: 1

    If you're a typical corporate CTO, you know that you will have no shortage of either Java or .NET developers for the next 10 years or so, which means those are going to be the most important candidates for just about any project you're considering.

  17. In java's defense on James Gosling on Java · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nobody writes Java with Vim or even Emacs JDE for very long. The productivity increase a real IDE like Eclipse provides is phenomenal. System.out.println is 6 or so characters of typing with code completion. (But the real win is being able to do things like say "show me all the places my constructor is invoked." Text searching isn't good enough when you have a million-line project.)

  18. What is with java people and groovy? on James Gosling on Java · · Score: 1

    Jython has been stable for years now, and is a much better-designed language than groovy appears likely to become. Where'sthe love?

  19. Re:"JSP in a very light manner" on How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL · · Score: 1

    Oh, man.

    Comparing Trails to a real lightweight kit says "I'm a fanboy and I don't know what I'm talking about."

    Bye.

  20. "JSP in a very light manner" on How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL · · Score: 1

    is only light relative to even heavier Java solutions. :-|

    Invariably people who sing the JSP praises have no significant experience with a real lightweight toolkit (Spyce, CherryPy, RoR, ...)

    But that's okay, because doing things the hard way builds testosterone.

  21. Most comments to this review on How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL · · Score: 4, Insightful
    will be either "wooo! php rocks!" or "php sucks, use a Real Man's language like java."

    Which is sad, because as much as PHP sucks, J2EE solutions suck just as badly in different ways. (That's another article.)

  22. Right on! on Next-Gen Console CPUs Not Up to Hype · · Score: 1

    Because so much of the console market is just dying to spend an extra $500 for a PPE, after the $500 for a good PC GPU.

    As a PS2 and XBox owner (but not a PC gaming rig), let me say: no, thanks.

  23. Wow, I wonder why nobody thought of that on Linspire To Run Windows Games · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe it's because having to save all your work, rebooting, rebooting again when your game is done, and restoring all your applications to the right state is a HUGE WASTE OF TIME.

    Right now, for instance, I have 12 applications open, only a few of which have entirely satisfactory auto-restore-after-shutdown functionality.

  24. I can second grandparent's experience on How Amazon and Google are taking eBay's Business · · Score: 1

    I've also gotten the "sorry, the scammer's account has no funds, so you'll just have to suck it up" line.

  25. Re:Yep lost my job in March 2005 on Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S. · · Score: 3, Funny
    No work for me, even though I write some grotesquely long and complex code.
    Maybe there's your problem...