September 2010
4 posts
http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2010/09/28/mysql-swap... →
Article discusses how Linux handles memory in a NUMA system especially when you’ve a single process (like mysqld) trying to take up 90% of the physical memory on the box.
http://www.tokyohackerspace.org/akihabara/ →
Hacker heaven - video tour of interesting shops in the Akihabara district of Tokyo
http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/05/the-tar-pipe.ht... →
Fascinating 10 minute tour of everything that goes on in Unix when you type (cd src && tar -cf - .) | (cd dest && tar -xpf -) in a bash terminal.
http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-st... →
Yossi Kreinin writes about his experiences with the Forth programming language and concludes that he wasn’t able to ever scale Forth to solve a real-life problem. I tried to teach myself Factor, a Forth-inspired modern stack language. I quickly came to the same conclusion. The simplicity of implementing a naive interpreter for a stack language was very exciting but unlike when I learnt...