Perhaps they will.

The 10 year chart is pretty damning though:

http://www.tradingeconomics.co...

That's a lot of free money floating around.

> No evidence yet of an imminent recession

It does seem like the market will continue to inflate as long as the Fed continues to keep the interest rates at zero.

That certainly is tough on people on a fixed income or even just hoping for some return on a passbook savings account.

So he demo'd SQL Server:

> Russinovich also showed off a preview of SQL Server on Linux

But, interesting, seems like the Linux version is missing some features.

If you got $500 from writing a tech article, would you rather pay $200 of it in taxes or $2?

Also, doesn't Apple have a duty to shareholders to cough up as little in taxes as legally possible?

...in Another Bloody Century. He kind of pooh-poohs it as some of the other commenters here have done, saying that it plays a small part but is mostly an annoyance.

Seconded. It takes a while to get used to some of the fine details of Play, but it's very much worth it.

Best of luck, Rob, in whatever endeavor you end up undertaking.

I spent a bunch of time researching this and figuring out "how you get the most work out of programmers."

What it comes down to is that there are no shortcuts. Treating your programmers well is the best way to get the most work out of them. That doesn't mean pampering them, but 10 hour days are just going to hammer them if kept on for more than two weeks.

Here are the blog posts:

http://tersesystems.com/2007/08/16/getting-work-out-of-programmers-part-1

http://tersesystems.com/2007/08/20/getting-work-out-of-programmers-part-2

Good luck.

canrailsscale.com

I win!

For more information on this model:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASR-33_Teletype

Looks like it's a 32 bit app, not an x86_64 app. Not good if you're running a pure 64-bit environment.

> As a former Marine I'm afraid I'm going to have to "liberate" you

I think the nomenclature these days is that he's a target that needs to be "serviced".

Speaking of avoiding downtime, the recently published Web Operations is excellent. Lots of good anecdotes, advice, and procedures to make things better (RCA, 5 whys, etc). I've been doing devops stuff for a while and have picked up a lot from this book.

Hm, interesting, I haven't observed that. FWIW, I don't think you need to lock the tables if you're using innodb - you can dump the db with the 'single-transaction' option. I don't deny your experience... but I dunno.

Now, I have had problems with replication halting in odd ways and having to skip errors. That's annoying, indeed.

Anyhow, I'll happily leave MySQL behind and move to PostgreSQL any chance I get.