Archive for 2008/12
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Stack Overflow is a Time Machine
-- Dec. 26, 2008, 10:05 p.m.
I've been using [stackoverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/) a bit lately, and there are definitely some smart people there. A lot of what I find reminds me of darker times, though. For example, just about every time anything about revision control comes up, for example, people talk about how awesome this new subversion thing is.  I've been using DVCS for almost ...
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Simple Named Job Deduplication
-- Dec. 6, 2008, 8:48 p.m.
## Our Problem We would like content on our web site available in our search engine as soon after the save as possible. Our search engine is decentralized in that every front-end has a copy of the search index and searches locally. This architecture allows searches to scale quite horizontally, but does so at the cost of simple index updates. ...