1. 19 March 2006

    Getting out of hand

    1027 days ago

    So I’ve got a rails app up that is handling bigger datasets then I’d imagined it would. It’s not doing so well and now I need to go through and optimize things. Ugh. But check this out:

    
[kjell@ambrose:~/Sites/quizzer] % cat production.log | wc -l
 1541890

    That’s a 1.5 million line logfile. Again, Ugh. At least people are using and mostly liking my system. Too bad it looks like it’s ridiculously inefficient. But ah, the joy of computers. Just think about that – it comes close to blowing your mind.

  2. 29 March 2005

    1381 days ago

    Return of the Mac

    Paul Graham on why macs kick ass these days.

    And open and good is what Macs are again, finally. The intervening years have created a situation that is, as far as I know, without precedent: Apple is popular at the low end and the high end, but not in the middle. My seventy year old mother has a Mac laptop. My friends with PhDs in computer science have Mac laptops. [2] And yet Apple’s overall market share is still small.
    Though unprecedented, I predict this situation is also temporary.

    via Kjell Olsen1381 days ago

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