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x0n··on Ask HN: What DB to use for huge time series?
So many people suggesting relational databases or just plain "big data" solutions. Time series databases tend to have quite unique features like interpolation of data (i.e. you can query a specific datapoint at a specific date and time for a value, and you will get an interpolated value if there is no specific sample for that data point.)

Anyway, no one has mentioned RRD tool yet: http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/

"RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. RRDtool can be easily integrated in shell scripts, perl, python, ruby, lua or tcl applications."

x0n··on How Internet Explorer cost a website a month's salary
Slashdot moron clickbait. TL;DR Newsflash: idiot doesn't test his website on known buggy legacy browsers and pays the price. And this happened how long ago? Five years ago?
x0n··on I found a bug in the .NET framework and fixed it by hand-altering the DLL
I did the same for the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet in PowerShell 3.0: http://nivot.org/blog/post/2013/05/07/PowerShell-Masochistic...
x0n··on I Broke My Phone’s Screen, and It Was Awesome
I did this myself for my Nokia Lumia 920. Same fault - the glass cracked but the digitizer and display were fine. Hair dryer, tweezers and a ton of patience. It took me four hours though, but it was a complete success.

If you're planning on doing this yourself, don't be tempted to buy an unbranded replacement - they may be fakes or poor quality reproductions (not gorilla glass, digitizer inaccurate, etc.) - My phone was a developer device but I replaced the screen with an AT&T branded one. The branded screens are usually genuine.

x0n··on The .NET Native Tool-Chain
Yep, I asked the question live and the answer was that dynamic code would use an interpreter where AOT was not feasible.
x0n··on Hypercard – Way Too Early
Yep, I wrote a few apps in WML. Here's someone back in 2000, (fourteen years ago now... wow) making the connection between WML and HyperCard:

http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/columns/mar2000/mobdev05.html

x0n··on Monty Hall problem explained visually
I have a much easier explanation than this: By offering you the switch, the host has given you two doors to open - it's irrelevant that he opened one for you - so, it comes down to picking one door (the one you're on) or two doors (of which he has opened one for you, again, irrelevant - the effect is the same) ergo, it's 1/3 or 2/3.
x0n··on Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
I blame the llamas.
x0n··on A crossword based on the Adobe password leak
Hmm, rendering is broken. Missing grid lines, misaligned; unusable. I presume this is CDN issues?
x0n··on Facebook first level interview for Linux admin position
That's a good first level interview I guess. I'm a .NET programmer and I knew all but one (but I am also a full stack dev, so it's probably normal that I would know these things.)
x0n··on Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
Unfortunately this looks like to me like a really incongruous terminal font one would see on a computer screen in the 80s. I wish he would qualify his goals by explaining what he didn't like about all of the other fonts he listed.
x0n··on Help Put Objective-C Back in the Top 10 This Weekend
The guy is a commercial obj-c developer, with one or more books on obj-c. It's in his personal interest to do so.
x0n··on Help Put Objective-C Back in the Top 10 This Weekend
The blog post appears to be asking people to fork projects with the sole purpose to bump the stats on github. If it's not on the charts, there's a reason. If someone wants to fork a project, they need a goal other than promoting obj-c. Let's not turn github into a fork graveyard (like sourceforge has become.)
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