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Comment Re:93% of Programmers Think You're Wrong (Score 1) 572

by ksp on Monday January 11, 2010 @05:59PM (#30729570) Attached to: Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics

I've read it, and it's OK if you have statistics-phobia. There are lots of great books that cover software performance, how to measure it and describe the results. For any relational database, I recommend "Forecasting Oracle Performance". Covers Oracle, but you could use the theory on other brands as well. For statistics in general (and with less cartoons), "Statistics Without Tears" is a classic - a gentle introduction to the subject.

When you deal with intense multi-user such as web applications and relational databases, I feel just like Zed Shaw sometimes... People seriously need to grasp basic statistics.

Comment XP-dev (Score 1) 305

by ksp on Friday November 20, 2009 @07:54AM (#30169820) Attached to: Synchronize Data Between Linux, OS X, and Windows?

Strange nobody mentioned this service:
http://www.xp-dev.com/

Subversion repository, 200MB free (should be enough for a few personal files) and lots more if you pay.
HTTPS support for SVN for paying customers.

Lots of extra stuff (bug tracking, wiki etc) if you are a developer.

No affilitation, just a happy customer!

Journal Journal: 16-qubit Quantum Computer Successfully Demonstrated

Journal by PoliTech on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @12:46AM

D-Wave held a Quantum Computer demo today at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. The actual Quantum Computer itself is located back at the company's British Columbia HQ. headquarters.

D-Wave qubits in the era of Quantum Computing

Journal Journal: uptime-project

Journal by spotlight2k3 on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @10:44PM

http://en.uptime-project.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=1435 Dear Uptime-Community, After the last very successful 5 years with about 1.7 million data records and more than 20000 active users, we would like to say "thank you" to everyone who helped the project grow to what it is right now. +++ We are very sad to say it, but we decided to close down the Uptime-Project on the 1st of March 2007. +++ Surely this wasn't an easy de

Submission + - The NSFW HTML Attribute

Submitted by

phaln

on Friday December 29, 2006 @12:36AM

phaln writes: "Over at The Frosty Mug Revolution, PJ Doland makes a compelling case for a new HTML attribute in the spirit of the highly-regarded 'nofollow' attribute promoted by Google — the NSFW attribute (rel="nsfw")."

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