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

by ksp (#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.
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Journal Journal: uptime-project

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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
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Submission + - The NSFW HTML Attribute

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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")."

Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins 262

Posted by CmdrTaco from the this-is-never-good dept.
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.

Timely Book On Bird Flu 174

Posted by kdawson from the take-care-out-there dept.
Lifelongactivist writes, "A new free book about bird flu has been published by Michael Greger, M.D., the US Humane Society's director of public health and animal agriculture. Bird Flu: a Virus of Our Own Hatching (the site contains the entire book text) tells why modern industrialized agricultural methods, including factory farming, antibiotics misuse, and the use of animal refuse as a food source (!) for chickens and other livestock, have led to a staggering increase in the number of 'zoonotic' diseases that can leap from animals to people, and make a bird flu pandemic likely. The book discusses in practical terms what you can do to prevent infection and what to do if you do catch the disease. The book is especially timely given yesterday's news that a new, vaccine-resistant variant of H5N1 has been detected in China."
Update: 10/31 19:44 GMT by KD : Corrected to read "vaccine-resistant."

Comment Re:of ALL TIME? (Score 1) 497

by ksp (#15412794) Attached to: The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
When your local phone switch upgraded to DTMF, you could usually open the phone and jumper it from pulse to tone. Cradle dialling was fun for me too, and probably still works most places, but I ended up with lots of misdialled numbers.

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