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by crb 13y ago
I've got on the mailing list of a London recruiter who have been spamming me for over two years. They run under at least two company names, and haven't stopped e-mailing me though they've told me they would do so twice. They have a REC (UK
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by crb 13y ago
The biggest plus about Google Apps Script is it runs on .google.com, which means you can do things like set calendar appointments, programmatically access Gmail etc, with the user's authentication cookies. The biggest minus about Google App
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by crb 13y ago
He used OPENSTEP on a Thinkpad, including during a Macworld Expo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhhFQ-3w5tE
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by crb 13y ago
When your units of networking concern are "availability zones" (i.e. data centers) rather than just switches, wouldn't network failures now be more common than server failures?
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by crb 14y ago
I have only had time to have a quick look at the source code, but it doesn't seem to be in any way related to Jabber/XMPP. With that in mind, perhaps the name is a bit confusing?
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Margaret Thatcher May Have Helped Invent Soft-Serve Ice Cream(theatlantic.com)
1 points by crb 14y ago|0 comments
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by crb 14y ago
The deprecation policy says they must give you a year's notice (or April 2015, whichever is longer) before deprecating any part of App Engine that isn't experimental: http://googleappengine.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/app-engine-and... Django
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by crb 14y ago
Yet another great post from François Beaufort introducing an upcoming feature being developed in Chromium. I wonder - does François work for Google, or is he just a watcher on the repositories?
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by crb 14y ago
Two reasons come to mind: * the failure rate of an EBS volume (assuming a bug-free EBS software stack!) should be less than any one spinning disk * these machines don't have disk space set aside for copying the root volumes to them from S
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by crb 14y ago
Does Varnish run on all four machines on the off chance they will claim the IP, or does it come up when needed? When a machine becomes the Varnish server, does it stop being an Apache server? What port do you run Apache on?
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by crb 14y ago
Actual job description: "Siri Writer/Editor", at https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?job=25650673&openJobId=... . Erik Wolpaw, anyone?
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Google Apps/Gmail incident report for December 10th outage(static.googleusercontent.com)
2 points by crb 14y ago|0 comments
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by crb 14y ago
There is now an post for this outage on the Google Apps Status Dashboard: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1... "We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail. We will provide more information shortly.
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by crb 14y ago
This is an automated way to do what was previously "copy and paste a Google Docs link into an e-mail". Yes, you can change the file. If it's in native Google format (e.g. a Google Doc, not an uploaded/stored Word .doc file) you have a revi
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by crb 14y ago
Are you not meant to have a work permit to work while in another country, even if you’re being paid (and paying tax) in another?
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by crb 14y ago
Fortune Magazine asked five of its writers for things like best device, best acquisition, best news blog, etc. One of those writers picked the Chromebook. The others picked the iPad Mini, Samsung Galaxy S3, MacBook Pro Retina 15", and Amazo
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by crb 14y ago
Here's one I would like. Shuffle, but with an awareness of sets of songs that should be played together. For example, if shuffle ever hits on "Brain Damage" from Dark Side Of The Moon, it should always proceed to "Eclipse" before resuming a
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by crb 14y ago
One of the more interesting findings from the most recent AWS outages is that Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), the best-practice way to handle multi-AZ deployment, has a dependency on EBS. I know from various talks that Netflix try not to use
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by crb 14y ago
This sort of ad replacement is one of the ways Kim Dotcom intends to keep himself in his mansion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4576834
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by crb 14y ago
Some context, for those who, like myself, didn't recognise it: It's celebrating the 107th anniversary of the publication of an American comic strip. It ran between 1905 and 1927. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo
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by crb 14y ago
I left. I'm in London now. It's easy to find out why, even in the context of the article. You see what the rest of the world has, and want to take part. Want to work on building a Boeing 777? You can't do it in New Zealand. Sure, you c
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by crb 14y ago
Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j622EyPX6lM
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by crb 14y ago
This is an article about Microsoft's "Metro" design language, so named until a couple of weeks ago, when a large Microsoft retail partner (Metro AG) asked Microsoft to rename it. It has since been renamed "Windows 8-style UI". I hoped this
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by crb 14y ago
John, I have a question for you. I didn't know you worked at Cloudflare, so I looked up the "people" page last night, and I'm intrigued that while there are many "engineers", you are the only "programmer". I assume you got to choose your t
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by crb 14y ago
Today's status update ( http://status.aws.amazon.com/ ) indicates partial ELB failure, still unresolved: Jun 30, 12:15 AM PDT [..] Elastic Load Balancers were also impacted by this event. ELBs are still experiencing delays in provisioning
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by crb 14y ago
I had to dig to find it, but it seems to be this one: https://twitter.com/HBO/status/210390531623227392
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by crb 14y ago
Do you mean the 45 degree map view? I'd never heard of that myself, but apparently it's quite old: http://google-latlong.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/changing-your-p... If you mean something else, can you link to a screenshot?
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by crb 14y ago
This article is from 2009, and while many of the points it makes are still valid, there is at least one that isn't: > As a result, it ONLY makes sense to consider a dedicated instance for a machine that will be running 24 hours a day, 7
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by crb 14y ago
London, UK — Stoneburn: http://www.stoneburn.com/ Stoneburn are a Google Apps, Google Enterprise Search and Amazon Web Services consultancy. We're looking for junior administration & deployment staff - our ultimate hires would be a ye
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by crb 15y ago
Here is a good "cheat sheet" for how to do X in Y (where X and Y are in PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby): http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting It doesn't cover idioms like Tom's post, but helps me remember the basic syntax changes when jumping be

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