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Gonsaluon Spain's Bailout Is Already Doomed

What's with the "This being Europe" being repeated over and over?

Gonsaluon Loading half a billion rows into MySQL

Writes still take locks. The isolation level is called Read-uncommitted for a reason.

Gonsaluon Loading half a billion rows into MySQL

I fail to see why setting the transaction isolation level to read uncommitted would make any difference to the data load process.

Gonsaluon The State of Jay-Z's Empire

From October 29, 2010.

Gonsaluon Vim: From Essentials to Mastery

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

Gonsaluon Vim Cheat Sheet - For Programmers By Programmers

You can press the tab key in Vim to get command auto completion.

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

Gonsaluon Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8

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.

Gonsaluon VIM shortcuts and tips

Verbatim copy of http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips.

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

Gonsaluon What every programmer should know about time

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.

Gonsaluon SQL Performance checklist: Avoid index filter predicates.

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.

Gonsaluon How to prolong lithium-based batteries

- 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.

Gonsaluon Using Python generators for real work [pdf]

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

Gonsaluon eBooks compiled from top StackOverflow topics/answers

Thanks!

Gonsaluon Ever wonder what Google's Russian office looks like? Look Here

Original: http://zyalt.livejournal.com/329189.html

Gonsaluon How LG Described its Windows 7 Phone to Anandtech

It's refreshing to read such sincere and bullshit-free description from a manufacturer.

Gonsaluon Why did Microsoft invest so much in F#?

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.

Gonsaluon Why did Microsoft invest so much in F#?

FAST? It's still .NET. Regarding you example, I'd much rather write