Hacker News: jeremycole

New comment by jeremycole in "A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms"

jeremycole — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 09:10:36 +0000

IMHO, this sounds like you're jealous that your friends A and C have a way of communicating (and keeping apprised of each others' situations better than you're able) that bypasses you. It's your choice to remain uninvolved (and I actually respect that quite a lot), but you can't reasonably be annoyed that others who are involved in it bypass you.

New comment by jeremycole in "Uber paid 20-year-old Florida man to keep data breach secret"

jeremycole — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 11:06:14 +0000

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2010/06/twitt...

New comment by jeremycole in "Why we lost Uber as a user"

jeremycole — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 06:48:20 +0000

My is a Swedish name, not a Finnish one, as Monty is a Swedish-speaking Finn. It's pronounced similar to "Myeuh", so "Myeuh Ess Kuh Ell".

New comment by jeremycole in "Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source"

jeremycole — Wed, 11 May 2016 01:00:13 +0000

Huh. Thanks for doing this. As a MySQL employee in the early days I used BitKeeper and fell in love with it and kept using it as long as I could. I mainly use Git these days, but frequently miss BitKeeper -- BK felt a lot more natural to me than Git ever has.

New comment by jeremycole in "Software error releases up to 3,200 inmates early"

jeremycole — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 09:14:10 +0000

"Inslee said the state is working to locate offenders released early who need to complete their sentences. Five have been returned to prison, according to Brown."

What can this possibly accomplish? Presumably these people were released, probably had no idea they were released early, and now have potentially settled into their life again. Returning them to prison can only do more harm than letting it go, and seems more spite than justice.

Making charts in SQL

jeremycole — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 05:25:42 +0000

Article URL: http://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/sql-multi-line-chart

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9386012

Points: 1

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New comment by jeremycole in "elgooG"

jeremycole — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 19:38:39 +0000

That's not how it works.

com. only serves the nameserver (NS) addresses for example.com., and if they are within the same domain, their IP addresses. It does not serve the rest of the records for example.com.

You can see this easily with e.g.:

dig -t any google.com. @a.gtld-servers.net.

vs.

dig -t any google.com. @ns1.google.com.

There is no real advantage of having it be 'www' coming from DNS...

There is a somewhat more modern problem which is that having a domain be a CNAME (the DNS equivalent of a by-name redirect) means it can't also have MX records and receive mail; the CNAME also ends up "redirecting" everything, including MX lookups. So if your web host offers yourdomain.someawesomehost.com and you decide to point yourdomain.com to it via CNAME, having you@yourdomain.com doesn't work unless yourdomain.someawesomehost.com is configured to receive mail for yourdomain.com.

New comment by jeremycole in "The new MacBook"

jeremycole — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 23:35:23 +0000

Eh, well, the alternative is perhaps that you buy a "new" app, install it on your device, and find that it's never updated anymore. Their current workflow allows you to get the last available version of an app you already own, which is what you want. You don't probably want to newly buy an app to find that the last version released that actually works on your device is years old.

New comment by jeremycole in "New Tesla battery could power your home, and maybe the electric grid too"

jeremycole — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 02:05:47 +0000

Er, geothermal doesn't "pull cold out of the ground", it pushes heat into it.

New comment by jeremycole in "Has Travel Become Another Exercise in Narcissism?"

jeremycole — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:08:38 +0000

I found this post interesting, but it was also funny because you maybe unknowingly became the guy who has traveled and thought it gave him some unique insight into the world. And you were compelled to share it unprompted with people who presumably don't care. ;)

New comment by jeremycole in "Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec"

jeremycole — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:08:42 +0000

Well, he wrote it, he marked it confidential, he is free to release it under different terms.

Nine years later, Citibank’s fraud department is still self-defeating

jeremycole — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 01:09:01 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.jcole.us/2014/10/06/nine-years-later-citibanks-fraud-department-is-still-self-defeating/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8419259

Points: 5

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Visualizing the impact of ordered vs. random index insertion in InnoDB

jeremycole — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:11:27 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.jcole.us/2014/10/02/visualizing-the-impact-of-ordered-vs-random-index-insertion-in-innodb/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8399803

Points: 1

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New comment by jeremycole in "Google Driverless Car – The Obstacle Detection Unit"

jeremycole — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:08:53 +0000

So just "carriage" then? :)

New comment by jeremycole in "Making MySQL Better at GitHub"

jeremycole — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 01:05:47 +0000

Yes, as well as Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook...

New comment by jeremycole in "Making MySQL Better at GitHub"

jeremycole — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 01:04:12 +0000

No, not really. MariaDB is completely dependent on Oracle and Percona. While they are doing some good work, they are by no means a complete and independent fork, nor do they have the resources to be.

MariaDB is also impacted by the lack of tests, they are absolutely not making replacements for all those tests, and they continue to pull code from upstream. So, same problem there.

New comment by jeremycole in "Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft"

jeremycole — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:51:17 +0000

What does persistency have to do with whether it's a memory or a hard drive? There are plenty of persistent memories.

New comment by jeremycole in "Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft"

jeremycole — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 10:34:54 +0000

This is clearly a memory, not a hard drive. Kind of expect better from HN...

New comment by jeremycole in "Bill Gates ALS Ice Bucket Challenge"

jeremycole — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:48:29 +0000

Good going, Bill, but the fake drawing and "welding" were a bit sad...

Stupid and dangerous in MySQL: SET GLOBAL sql_log_bin

jeremycole — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 08:53:52 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.jcole.us/2014/08/08/stupid-and-dangerous-set-global-sql_log_bin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8151990

Points: 2

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