Tesco Hudl 2 review: a lot of tablet for the money
wow, an actually quite-good cheapo Android tablet from Tesco for UKP65 of Clubcard vouchers, recommended by conoro. Good for the kids
[KAFKA-1555] provide strong consistency with reasonable availability
Major improvements for Kafka consistency coming in 0.8.2; replication to multiple in-sync replicas, controlled by a new “min.isr” setting
(tags: kafka replication cap consistency streams)
Falsehoods programmers believe about time
I have repeatedly been confounded to discover just how many mistakes in both test and application code stem from misunderstandings or misconceptions about time. By this I mean both the interesting way in which computers handle time, and the fundamental gotchas inherent in how we humans have constructed our calendar — daylight savings being just the tip of the iceberg. In fact I have seen so many of these misconceptions crop up in other people’s (and my own) programs that I thought it would be worthwhile to collect a list of the more common problems here.
See also the follow-up: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time-wisdom (via Marc)(tags: via:marcomorain time dates timezones coding gotchas calendar bugs)