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by ajdecon 15y ago
OP's throwaway account is named " techmanager12345", and in the comments says, "Ouch! Sorry to hear that the world is tough there! I have never heard from anyone in media, I tend to only know about engineering/tech type jobs."
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Facebook settlement will make all future privacy changes "opt-in"(arstechnica.com)
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Why Microsoft authorized a $9 Windows Phone jailbreak(arstechnica.com)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
I typically use a TiddlyWiki (supports tagging of entries) stored on Dropbox.
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by ajdecon 15y ago
I'm not typically a Ruby/Rails programmer, but this seems to me like a different take on good advice I was given a while back: "Whenever possible, build libraries, not apps." If my code does anything at all which might be decoupled from thi
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Google offers "premier" support for App Engine—just don't call on weekends(arstechnica.com)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
This article came at an excellent time: I've recently been setting up test deployments of both Puppet and Chef for potential HPC use, and this article confirms a lot of my impressions. In particular, that Puppet has much better documentati
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IPad vs. Kindle Fire: Early impressions and a few predictions(radar.oreilly.com)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
The company I work for, R Systems ( http://www.rsystemsinc.com/ ), basically does this. We own and admin several medium-sized compute clusters (200-500 node clusters) which are rented out to customers who need a lot of compute on a temporar
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South Korea NIS admits to "packet tapping" Gmail(english.hani.co.kr)
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Deep Inside Intel’s ‘Ivy Bridge’ Chip | insideHPC.com(insidehpc.com)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Awesome idea, I'm in. Time to go get Strang...
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AMD's Bulldozer processors now shipping; in servers by end of month(arstechnica.com)
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Internet Archive starts backing up digital books on paper(arstechnica.com)
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A Firsthand Examination of the Google+ Profile Reporting Process(gewalker.blogspot.com)
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How the FBI investigates the hacktivities of Anonymous(arstechnica.com)
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What processor should I buy? Intel's crazy pricing makes my head hurt(arstechnica.com)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
I haven't used AirBnB, but was considering using them in the near future for travel, and possibly to try to reduce losses on my bachelor pad (until I hit the end of my lease). While the current incident doesn't make me feel unsafe in those
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Well, but all that needs to happen to be caught without savings is for shit to happen twice in close succession, with the first problem depleting your savings. If you have a major medical or other expense, and then you lose your job less t
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A note to Google recruiters (and on Google hiring practices)(infotrope.net)
232 points by ajdecon 15y ago|140 comments
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by ajdecon 15y ago
The key, for me, is forging and maintaining relationships with other people. I spend a lot of time with my girlfriend, which is the best thing ever. I hang out with a few close friends. When I can commit to decent blocks of free time, I
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by ajdecon 15y ago
Dreamhost for my personal site (and a host of other sites), Linode VPS for dev and experimentation.
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by ajdecon 15y ago
It's not exactly the same system, but... ICC (Supermicro) 1042G-T with 48 cores (4x 12-core Opteron 6174, 2.2 GHz), 128 GB RAM, 2x 3TB SATA disk and 40 Gb/s QDR Infiniband, $10.6k. Subtract $300 if you'd rather have 10GbE instead of the IB.
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by ajdecon 15y ago
We've got some servers similar to this in one of our compute clusters. Four 12-core AMD Magny-Cours processors, 128 GB RAM... they are a thing of beauty, let me tell you. Actually very good for certain bioinformatics codes, especially wir
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by ajdecon 15y ago
(Disclaimer: my background is in materials physics, and it may be different in other fields. But I doubt it.) Unfortunately there is very little direct incentive for research scientists to write or publish clean, readable code: - There
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by ajdecon 15y ago
The only meaningful answer for me is "Linux server (via ssh)". I do primarily HPC-related work, and it's almost never useful for me to work on a machine that isn't at least connected to my compute cluster. I suppose I could compile and te
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by ajdecon 15y ago
OK, fine. We won't run out of oil, it will just be prohibitively expensive, especially for fuel applications. (I've always thought it was a shame to burn such an interesting chemical feedstock anyway.)
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by ajdecon 15y ago
From some posts on the Google+ discussion forum ( https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/?h... ): Google+ will likely have an 18+ requirement throughout the Limited Field Trial as they are still building the safety featur
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by ajdecon 15y ago
I really like the idea that there won't be "one social service to rule them all": I know that Facebook and Twitter serve different purposes for me, and I'm also occasionally active on niche social services like LinkedIn and Goodreads. But
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by ajdecon 15y ago
If anyone has an invite to spare... ajdecon@gmail.com

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