offmessage

# old database must be idle (no held open connections or write transactions)
sudo -u postgres createdb newdatabase -T olddatabase

ndarville

Business Models

Advertising

Models	Examples
Display ads	Yahoo!
Search ads	Google

rgs

Falsehoods programmers believe about prices

1. You can store a price in a floating point variable.
2. All currencies are subdivided in 1/100th units (like US dollar/cents, euro/eurocents etc.).
3. All currencies are subdivided in decimal units (like dinar/fils)
4. All currencies currently in circulation are subdivided in decimal units. (to exclude shillings, pennies) (counter-example: MGA)
5. All currencies are subdivided. (counter-examples: KRW, COP, JPY... Or subdivisions can be deprecated.)
6. Prices can't have more precision than the smaller sub-unit of the currency. (e.g. gas prices)
7. For any currency you can have a price of 1. (ZWL)
8. Every country has its own currency. (EUR is the best example, but also Franc CFA, etc.)

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

donis

country,native_name
Afghanistan,افغانستان
Albania,Shqipëria
Algeria,الجزائر
American Samoa,Amerika Sāmoa
Andorra,Andorra
Angola,Angola
Anguilla,Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda,Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina,Argentina