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> All critical servers use RAID 5.
Unfortunately RAID 5 (or any other flavor) is not a backup solution. It doesn't account for user error, RAID controller failure and numerous other scenarios.
It seems LavaBit had an interesting product, but this seems like a pretty critical design failure.
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My taste changed within just a couple of weeks. By the third or fourth week if I accidentally drank sweetened iced tea instead of unsweetened I would nearly spit it out due to the awful taste. I also cut out all artificial sweeteners, effectively eliminating any experience of sweetness from my diet. I think previously I had drunk so much Diet Coke and eaten so many sugary things that I had conditioned myself to need that sweet taste on a regular schedule. I think one thing that helped was that I started making tea using high-quality, whole-leaf teas from adagio.com. They have such interesting flavors, I find they don't need sugar.
I'm not sure I can speak to the work-related effects of not eating sugar since I was spending most of the time in the hospital with my friend. I can say that my overall mood became much more stable; there were no more mid-afternoon crashes and I genearlly found I had more energy. Being about 360 pounds at the time, this one dietary change was enough for me to lose 60 pounds over the next 12 months while still leading a mostly sedentary lifestyle.
Of course you shouldn't use merge --squash in that context. That doesn't mean you should never use merge --squash. You just shouldn't use it to rewrite public history. Do you have a local branch in which you fixed some bugs and which branch has not been pushed out to the world and would you like to use merge --squash to merge it into master? Go for it! But if that branch _has_ been pushed out to the world, just use a regular merge.
The fundamental practice the author is arguing against is rewriting public history. But instead of making that point, he makes these sensationalist, dogmatic assertions that rebase, merge --squash and commit --amend are evil and should never be used. Until the end of the article, where he finally admits that really what he (correctly) has a problem with is rewriting public history.
OK, fine. Just title the article "You shouldn't rewrite public history".
We've had a high profile site affected by these Fremont outages so I'm thinking the only real solution is to have VPSs at Linode, Slicehost and EC2 then load balance among them. Of course, then the question is, what do you do when the load balancer goes down?
Could this component be a fogbank (http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/11/what-fogbanks-co...) just discussed on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1928233)?
I think in general, as well as this particular case, it would be better to do
git fetch origin
It's gotta be SSL all the time.
Will _definitely try this out. Thanks!
I worked with a team that insisted on Pivotal Tracker and aside from its crashing my Fluid SSB every half hour or so, the text areas were way to small to type in comfortably. I found myself having to write the story in a text editor then pasting it in to PT. With that columnar layout, it just seemed like everything was cramped into spaces that were just way too small. Plus it doesn't track the history of a story. If it was assigned to Joe, then Larry, then Tom, there's no history of that chain of ownership.
Aren't green beans legumes?
To do this I:
1. Eliminated all artificial sweeteners. This meant quitting Diet Coke and using delicious local honey instead of Splenda in my tea.
2. After 2 or 3 weeks of no artificial sweeteners I stopped eating sugary foods. No more candy, doughnuts, cakes, or other sweet baked goods. I still allow myself honey in tea and whole fruit, but no fruit juices.
Four months later—and without further dietary changes or the addition of exercise—I've lost more than 30 pounds. I still eat bread, pasta, cheeseburgers, fried chicken, etc. But I eat less because I have less appetite, and I never have a craving for sweet things. A month after quitting sugar I took a bite of crème brûlée to see if my tastes had changed. This dessert, which I had always loved, now seemed so cloying I could barely swallow it. Interestingly, whole fruit now tastes so much better than it ever has, with just the right amount of natural sweetness.
More importantly, this relatively slow rate of weight loss feels sustainable. The dietary changes also feel permanent. I'm not on a weight-loss diet, I've made my diet more healthy.
My untested hypothesis is that I had been so used to the overwhelming sweetness of artificial sweeteners that my tastes were altered such that I always craved sweet. By eliminating the hyper-sweet stuff, my tastes changed enough that I could more easily take the further step of eliminating refined sugar. I imagine this has resulted in more stable blood sugar levels and a corresponding decrease in cravings and overall appetite.
I'd love to hear about others' experiences.
I predict shutting down HN for a few hours a day would make us even more addicted.
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
I just started watching them for fun the other day. They're really fascinating.
I also called AT&T to ensure the service was cancelled and to find out whether there would be any fees and they said there would not be. We'll see what happens if/when they send me a billing statement.
It's surprising because the 3GS and 2G always sound great. Never any hint of this hollow, echoey sound.