Trolls on IRC
[17:15] siIent left the room (quit: Connection reset by peer). [17:18] Bigblah: LoSs sounds like the generic internet troll [17:18] LoSs: ;_; [17:18] Bigblah: oh crap I thought you quit [17:18]...
View ArticleSome more IRC quotes
As I don't really feel like writing about my latest adventures, even though most of them might very well be of interest to my readers, I'll just post some interesting quotes from IRC instead. We all...
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[yorhel@serio ~]$ uptime 09:34:14 up 1001 days, 7:41, 6 users, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00
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What used to be two stored procedures (of which one was recursive), two temporary VIEWs and several subqueries in PostgreSQL 8.3, has now been reduced to one, simple and elegant query in 8.4. Thanks to...
View ArticleTrying out microblogging
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View ArticleDebian and derivatives
I don't get it. I honestly. Don't. Get it. This time I'm talking about the practice of splitting libraries into a separate package for run-time files (the .so's, usually), and one for build-time files...
View ArticleUnprofessionalism at hosting companies
It never ceases to surprise me how some hosting companies really don't have their act together. I've had rather bad experiences with various companies in the past, so what I'm describing here isn't...
View ArticleHash substring collisions
In my never-ending quest to figure out how to make things faster and more efficient, I've been playing around with an (arguably) terrible idea. A common scenario: You have to uniquely identify some...
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