Image via Wikipedia Our impulses are often contradictory – the shopaholic versus the wise spender, the exercise fiend versus the couch potato – but we can control which one prevails! The things you want now might not be so desirable in a month’s time. What I did not realise was how sharply it would bring into [...]

Image via Wikipedia It’s a largely unquestioned plank of what passes for self-help wisdom that you should cut “toxic people” out of your life. Get rid of losers and Energy Vampires; surround yourself, instead, with upbeat high-achievers who’ll motivate you to match their success. Know someone crippled by low self-esteem, convinced nobody likes her? Stop [...]

Great presentation and overview about Memory & Swap space management, Synchronous I/O, Filesystem and I/O Scheduler and some userfull commands and tools (iostat, mpstat, oprofile, System Tap, gdb) Linux performance tuning & stabilization tips (mysqlconf2010)View more presentations from Yoshinori Matsunobu

Yoshinori has done great job here! I was looking for some articles that would tell me how far can I push MySql on commodity server when stumbled onto this article. It’s a must read for all you sql guys(chicks for that matter) out there Most of high scale web applications use MySQL + memcached. Many [...]

Image via Wikipedia For me, the ability to see news-related links and commentary shared by people I follow, and whose opinions I respect, is infinitely more desirable than a service that picks things it thinks I will like via some algorithm, or even the RSS reader that I have fine-tuned but now spend very little [...]

These are my notes from this podcast. It’s great interview. Why he selected and continues to use WordPress As of June 2010 when the podcast was made, Mashable still wasn’t using Wordpress 3.0. They used some customizations on their install (like custom post types) that in new version od WP3.0 comes nativly supported. It takes them [...]

Great video and for the ears! Watch and listen – take 3 minutes break It’s funny I didn’t liked it first time I heard it…interesting. Anyway I’m enjoying this retro-life style videos. Enjoy.

It came to my ears yesterday that Facebook and partners announced new investment fund for “Social Innovation” worth $250 Million. Althought the news isn’t new (it happend somewhere last month) it got my attention becose of the participants. While the money is nice, the biggest benefit to being part of sFund is the direct access [...]

Over the years psychologists have compared one-sided and two-sided arguments to see which are the most persuasive in different contexts. So what did they found out? They found that across different types of persuasive messages and with varied audiences, was that two-sided arguments are more persuasive than their one-sided equivalents

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