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IMHO, this sounds like you're jealous that your friends A and C have a way of communicating (and keeping apprised of each others' situations better than you're able) that bypasses you. It's your choice to remain uninvolved (and I actually respect that quite a lot), but you can't reasonably be annoyed that others who are involved in it bypass you.

My is a Swedish name, not a Finnish one, as Monty is a Swedish-speaking Finn. It's pronounced similar to "Myeuh", so "Myeuh Ess Kuh Ell".

Huh. Thanks for doing this. As a MySQL employee in the early days I used BitKeeper and fell in love with it and kept using it as long as I could. I mainly use Git these days, but frequently miss BitKeeper -- BK felt a lot more natural to me than Git ever has.

"Inslee said the state is working to locate offenders released early who need to complete their sentences. Five have been returned to prison, according to Brown."

What can this possibly accomplish? Presumably these people were released, probably had no idea they were released early, and now have potentially settled into their life again. Returning them to prison can only do more harm than letting it go, and seems more spite than justice.

That's not how it works.

com. only serves the nameserver (NS) addresses for example.com., and if they are within the same domain, their IP addresses. It does not serve the rest of the records for example.com.

You can see this easily with e.g.:

dig -t any google.com. @a.gtld-servers.net.

vs.

dig -t any google.com. @ns1.google.com.

There is no real advantage of having it be 'www' coming from DNS...

There is a somewhat more modern problem which is that having a domain be a CNAME (the DNS equivalent of a by-name redirect) means it can't also have MX records and receive mail; the CNAME also ends up "redirecting" everything, including MX lookups. So if your web host offers yourdomain.someawesomehost.com and you decide to point yourdomain.com to it via CNAME, having you@yourdomain.com doesn't work unless yourdomain.someawesomehost.com is configured to receive mail for yourdomain.com.

Eh, well, the alternative is perhaps that you buy a "new" app, install it on your device, and find that it's never updated anymore. Their current workflow allows you to get the last available version of an app you already own, which is what you want. You don't probably want to newly buy an app to find that the last version released that actually works on your device is years old.

Er, geothermal doesn't "pull cold out of the ground", it pushes heat into it.

I found this post interesting, but it was also funny because you maybe unknowingly became the guy who has traveled and thought it gave him some unique insight into the world. And you were compelled to share it unprompted with people who presumably don't care. ;)

Well, he wrote it, he marked it confidential, he is free to release it under different terms.

So just "carriage" then? :)

Yes, as well as Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook...

No, not really. MariaDB is completely dependent on Oracle and Percona. While they are doing some good work, they are by no means a complete and independent fork, nor do they have the resources to be.

MariaDB is also impacted by the lack of tests, they are absolutely not making replacements for all those tests, and they continue to pull code from upstream. So, same problem there.

What does persistency have to do with whether it's a memory or a hard drive? There are plenty of persistent memories.

This is clearly a memory, not a hard drive. Kind of expect better from HN...

Good going, Bill, but the fake drawing and "welding" were a bit sad...

Aside from what others mentioned, cost of living and quality of life are great. The weather is great (4 distinct seasons and very predictable). Reno has just about everything you could want, but very little sprawl and almost no traffic.

(Of course, I am hoping as things expand and grow this all remains true.)

Seems like your search uses OR, not AND. So adding more ingredients broadens the search rather than narrowing it. That seems kind of useless... adding just a handful of ingredients would end up matching basically all recipes.

There is an easy and practical solution to this whole problem: If Verizon doesn't like the amount of bandwidth their customers use watching Netflix, they can always choose to block Netflix completely on their network, and inform their customers that they've done so. It would be honest, clean, fair, etc. Customers would be paying for exactly what they are getting, everyone could be happy with the arrangement.

Of course there would be a massive revolt of their customers if they did so. Because their customers WANT Netflix. So instead, Verizon will try very hard to make it "sorta" work and blame Netflix while trying to get money from them.

If Comcast doesn't like the amount of bandwidth their customers use watching Netflix, they always have the option to notify their customers and null-route or otherwise stop Netflix from working at all. However while it "works" but sucks they appear to be doing their jobs while their customers blame Netflix for sucking while largely being unaware that it's actually Comcast that sucks.

It never claimed that those experts were working in the customer's best interest, though. ;)

What's up with the weird coding standards? Include files named infinisql_*.h and #line statements... strange.

twimg.com seems to be hijacked

Yes, IMHO it comes from this: What would be on the news if he was a terrorist and they find out that he actually set off the explosives detector before doing his deed? So basically their response is more about fear of embarrassment (to an extreme) than actual effectiveness.

That article actually says "PDMI aims to replace the ubiquitous iPod cradle connector".

They made so much more work for themselves in redacting by scanning at a slight angle...

That's pretty silly, as any serious installation is generally using innodb_file_per_table, and thus not really subject to this problem.

Nonetheless, it's a lot more complicated than it would seem to "just reclaim the space".

You should really consider that at no time would Monty himself have received a wire transfer for a billion dollars. This "Monty got a billion dollars, what more does he want?!" thing is repeated all the time, but it's just not true. The MySQL companies were bought by Sun for a billion dollars, but Monty did not own 100% of the companies (or even close) -- MySQL was substantially owned by a bunch of VC companies and other executives, all of which got the lion's share of the money.

Since tax records in Finland are public, you can see how much Monty made from this acquisition (approximately) here:

http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art-1288338449921.html

(Ulf Michael Widenius income for 2008, ~16.8M EUR)

Yeah, seems like Google is parsing the query as ((the c programming) language). It manages to map "the c programming" to the book fuzzily, and then is telling you the language of that book, which it denotes by "Original language".

Awkward.

Secrecy is keeping it this way. Every startup wants to believe that their thing, or their idea, is the most amazing thing on planet earth, and they hide it away and don't let others touch it.