Hi Jane. After some deliberation I see that you are in fact correct. I apologize for the comment, and I encourage those with mod points to downvote GPP (my post):
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Thank you for demonstrating why using something other than Skype itself is not a feasible solution for the average user.
I see, thank you.
Wikipedia editors aren't allowed to "know stuff" about a topic. The No Original Research policy mandates that facts and information must be Verifiable in published Reliable Sources.
Thank you. That seems to explain why Bjork's dress has it's own wikipedia article.
A distinction that makes no difference. It's also always locally curved, for other definitions of "locally".
How should I mod this? It deserves a downvote, but it is not overrated (rated 0), not flamebait, nor a troll. It's not even redundant.
It's just plain wrong.
I meant to attach that comment to the grandparent. The comment to which I replied was the correct one.
How should I mod this? It deserves a downvote, but it is not flamebait, not overrated (rated 0) nor a troll. It's not even redundant.
It's just plain wrong.
I think If I am a developer, I know how to update my toolset just fine
I know developers who could not install the text editor that they edit PHP with. I'm not joking, and I have to deal with them regularly.
Go google for "php prepared statements in clause" and see how the very first result is a "solution" that is vulerable to SQL injection.
No worries on the search - I embedded the link to the slashdot stories AND quoted it above
I agree that the 24 bit counter was incomprehensible. Apparently it's a standard choice in MySQL, though, which explains why it's an issue - one can just pick 'mediumint' and bam - 24 bit integer.
I'm mystified as to why one would want to do that - does MySQL actually pack the integers in such a way as to use those extra 8 bits for something else? On a 32 bit machine you're going to need to either ignore (zero-pack) those extra 8 bits or else extract whatever you put there before every operation (addition, comparison, etc) that you do.
Anyways - those were good times
What does it mean to stream an application? Data can be streamed, but an application is interactive.
16 bits? Dude, that's ridiculous.
Ok, just so everyone else on slashdot will stop laughing at us I looked it up:
http://slashdot.org/story/06/1...
From TFS:
Last night we crossed over 16,777,216 comments in the database. The wise amongst you might note that this number is 2^24, or in MySQLese an unsigned mediumint. Unfortunately, like 5 years ago we changed our primary keys in the comment table to unsigned int (32 bits, or 4.1 billion) but neglected to change the index that handles parents. We're awesome! Fixing is a simple ALTER TABLE statement... but on a table that is 16 million rows long, our system will take 3+ hours to do it, during which time there can be no posting. So today, we're disabling threading and will enable it again later tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience. We shall flog ourselves appropriately. Update: 11/10 12:52 GMT by J : It's fixed.
There we go - a 24 bit index caused the crash
Wasn't it a 24 bit field, not a 32 bit field?
I remember thinking "24 bits? Really? What were they saving those last 8 bits for - the alpha value?"
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