last updated at 2008-07-02 18:45
whirring rubber fingers strip them down to the skin
mattb: proxying four mysql servers doesn't give 4x throughput, sadly. but it's still early days and there are lots of other architectural patterns enabled by the proxy that aren't just about linear scaling (eg read/write splitting).
mattb: "quit your day job", organised by people like Jeff Veen who did.
edd: sounds like a pyramid scheme to me. quit your day job, and charge other people to quit theirs!
edd: sounds like a pyramid scheme to me. quit your day job, and charge other people to quit theirs!
edd: Looking first ruins it of course. Makes it all about "which 3 books will make me seem cool/erudite/deep whatever"
edd: Especially lose points for reading in a foreign language.
edd: Especially lose points for reading in a foreign language.
edd: this one's particularly nice, leading to the possibility of everybody sending everything ten times
spli: graffiti found in the toilets of london
edd: This is pretty terrifying, looking at the three-children costs.
clurr: i like the way a bird feeder is considered an essential
clurr: mind you, i'm sure there are plenty of other people who'd question some of my essentials
clurr: i like the way a bird feeder is considered an essential
clurr: mind you, i'm sure there are plenty of other people who'd question some of my essentials
dv: by Joss Wheadon