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Re:Spain's Bailout Is Already Doomed on Monday June 11, 2012 @05:50PM (#4097241)
What's with the "This being Europe" being repeated over and over?
Re:Loading half a billion rows into MySQL on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @07:51PM (#4071612)
Writes still take locks. The isolation level is called Read-uncommitted for a reason.
Re:Loading half a billion rows into MySQL on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @05:15PM (#4070931)
I fail to see why setting the transaction isolation level to read uncommitted would make any difference to the data load process.
Re:The State of Jay-Z's Empire on Saturday November 26, 2011 @01:18PM (#3280323)
From October 29, 2010.
Re:Vim: From Essentials to Mastery on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @06:10AM (#3021391)
True.

It seems that this was from a presentation at StrangeLoop 2011 (never heard of it before) that occured from 18 to 20 of September (https://thestrangeloop.com/news/11/01/27/strange-loop-2011) -- it ended yesterday!

Recordings will be available (http://groups.google.com/group/cascalog-user/msg/d357e51cbbb...), I just hope I remember to come back and check for them.

There are some other slide decks available from the conference (http://lanyrd.com/2011/strange-loop/coverage/); some other presentations seem interesting.

There is also another awesome slide deck (this time with annotations) from another presentation from Bill Odom, regarding key mappings: http://billodom.com/talks/vim-key-mapping.pdf

Re:Vim Cheat Sheet - For Programmers By Programmers on Friday September 09, 2011 @06:28AM (#2977587)
You can press the tab key in Vim to get command auto completion.

For example, :colo<tab> completes to :colorscheme.

Re:Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8 on Friday September 09, 2011 @06:18AM (#2977572)
If hibernation didn't use compression, there was no need for CPU involvement due to DMA. Since there would be no CPU involvement, being multi-core enabled wouldn't be of help.
Re:VIM shortcuts and tips on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @06:43AM (#2969071)
Verbatim copy of http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips.

...and I don't think mentioning the source makes it right.

Re:What every programmer should know about time on Monday July 04, 2011 @05:00AM (#2725897)
There is no need to save the home location with the time.

If you save the UTC date of the event, the localized date for some timezone can be extrapolated from it.

Re:SQL Performance checklist: Avoid index filter predicates. on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @05:18PM (#2444246)
That doesn't seem more helpful to me... it's just making the worst case worser.

In a situation which other queries would benefit from the id1, id2 order, and it wouldn't pay off creating another index, using a index seek instead a table scan is way better.

Re:How to prolong lithium-based batteries on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @05:40PM (#2417100)
- Charge frequently and don't allow full discharges (Li-ion batteries don't have memory);

- Keep batteries at temperatures lower than 30ºC;

- Charge with voltages lower than 4.1V/cell.

Re:Using Python generators for real work [pdf] on Sunday January 23, 2011 @05:53PM (#2133559)
There is an updated version of this talk:

    http://www.dabeaz.com/generators-uk/index.html
Also, more interesting talks from the same author:

    http://www.dabeaz.com/talks.html
Re:eBooks compiled from top StackOverflow topics/answers on Sunday January 23, 2011 @03:26PM (#2133239)
Thanks!
Re:How LG Described its Windows 7 Phone to Anandtech on Sunday December 05, 2010 @07:32PM (#1973274)
It's refreshing to read such sincere and bullshit-free description from a manufacturer.
Re:Why did Microsoft invest so much in F#? on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @10:00AM (#1886601)
I wasn't knocking .NET; I had the idea that coding something in C# or F# would result in the same IL output, which, after reading MichaelGG's reply, I realized was completely wrong...

Regarding Python speed, I know it's pretty slow, especially the IronPython implementation.

Re:Why did Microsoft invest so much in F#? on Monday November 08, 2010 @04:48PM (#1884149)
FAST? It's still .NET. Regarding you example, I'd much rather write

  value = dict.get('foo', 'default')
in IronPython.
Re:An unusual highschool graduation speech. on Friday August 27, 2010 @05:24PM (#1640331)
You deserve more credit for this.
Re:Tcpcrypt on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @02:34PM (#1612024)
You haven't read the site, have you?

> If, however, a Tcpcrypt connection is successful and any attackers that exist are passive, then Tcpcrypt guarantees privacy.

Re:Vim 7.3 released on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @08:32AM (#1610908)
It means that you can now write plugins for Vim using Python 3. It's worth noting that you could already write Vim plugins with Python 2.x.
Re:HTML5 Boilerplate on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @05:30AM (#1610672)
Blog spam, yay!
Re:Consoul (Lasse Gjertsen 2009) on Sunday August 15, 2010 @04:46PM (#1605892)
You may recognize the author from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9698TqtY4A
Re:A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods on Friday August 13, 2010 @04:23PM (#1602154)
I've always found one particular guide to choosing charts[1] way undervalued and undermentioned :)

[1] - http://www.flickr.com/photos/amit-agarwal/3196386402/

Re:The Beauty of LaTeX on Thursday August 12, 2010 @06:12AM (#1597696)
I'm guessing it's related to the parent post.

WYSIWYGWYLEAFTS - What You See Is What You Get Whenever You Leave Everything Alone For Two Seconds

Re:Acrobatic RC helicopter on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @06:45PM (#1596460)
Freakin' awesome!!!
Re:Letting Go on Monday July 26, 2010 @07:10AM (#1547646)
Heh, looking at the title, my first thought was this was about the Go language.

It wasn't, so I closed the tab.

Re:-2000 lines of code on Sunday July 25, 2010 @07:33PM (#1546616)
It's not that funny...
Re:Ask HN: Food hacks for eating well? on Sunday July 25, 2010 @07:00PM (#1546564)
http://nutritiondata.self.com/topics/glycemic-index#values

I'd say average. Bananas don't have an high GI either, it seems.

Re:A second look at SCons performance on Thursday July 22, 2010 @02:56PM (#1539171)
Re:Are Designer Sunglasses Worth the Price? on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @03:47AM (#1534625)
How is this Hacker News?

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