houk | 2 years ago | on: The lifesaving sled dog Balto had genes unlike those of dog breeds today
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houk | 9 years ago | on: Deep in New Zealand
houk | 9 years ago | on: Western Digital unveiled its SanDisk 1TB SDXC card prototype
http://sirsql.net/content/2015/02/12/fusionio-and-the-go-fas...
houk | 11 years ago | on: Could we reboot a modern civilization without fossil fuels?
houk | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: MySQL Tuning for Performance Suggestions/Help
houk | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?
houk | 11 years ago | on: Fail2ban security update
houk | 12 years ago | on: How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system
Almost every time I've even been involved with or ran any medium/large mail infrastructures (200K active mailboxes) I've always found Dovecot to be a better choice.
houk | 12 years ago | on: Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients
houk | 12 years ago | on: Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients
You can't tell me you have confidence that this randomly won't happen again in the future? It's shattered mine.
houk | 12 years ago | on: Linux-Kernel Archive: RIP - dead harddisk
On top of that I pay for Backblaze, just for a little bit more protection.
houk | 12 years ago | on: U.S. government spied on Brazil's Petrobras oil firm
houk | 12 years ago | on: CTL-C: Re-imagined IaaS with Docker Containers
houk | 12 years ago | on: How a sysadmin can become a programmer
houk | 13 years ago | on: My beef with gittip
This way a number of people can make individual small payments that will add up.
houk | 13 years ago | on: Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously
That quote is based on the (false) premise that privacy is there to conceal illegal/shady activities. It puts you in one of two groups; You're either guilty of something and have a reason to hide it, or you're not guilty and have no reason to hide anything. It doesn't include the possibility that you might not be guilty of something but may still want to keep something hidden. I'll give you an example. You might NOT want to give your phone number when you register on some social website because you don't want that data used for marketting purposes.
houk | 14 years ago | on: Any book recommendations for Back End Infrastructure
There's no one book telling you "this is how you should do blah". You have to research. You'll notice those books deal with scaling websites to millions of users but I always found the lesson they teach/preach to be really important.
Anyway, once you start covering those topics a lot you notice patterns and hopefully you can start to incorporate that sort of thinking into your own development.
One thing to remember. Good design/engineering is about simplicity and elegance. Those are two beautiful things.
houk | 15 years ago | on: Solarized - Color scheme for vim, mutt, terminal emulators
What's your terminal setup like?
houk | 15 years ago | on: How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick
I was the same. I hated peas, carrots, sweet potato, that sort of thing. A few years ago I was at a friends place and she grew all her own produce. It was the first time I had ever tasted fresh vegetables. Oh wow.
If (in Australia) the major super markets that advertise "We're the fresh food people" I'm sure more people would be enjoying something other than lollies (candy). As it stands at the moment any vegetable you buy from our two major players (coles and woolworths) are terrible.
Eating better? http://robbwolf.com/ try him.
Do you happen to have a source on that? I don't recall that being mentioned in the books I've read so I'm rather curious.