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by dbarlett 13y ago
This is the sort of comment up with which I will put.
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by dbarlett 13y ago
You'd have to use fiber. Copper between buildings is susceptible to ground loops and one lightning strike frying the entire network.
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by dbarlett 13y ago
I think you meant cat schat.csv | cut -c1-4 | uniq | wc -l
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by dbarlett 13y ago
Seconding Dream Machine . Three more: The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood http://www.amazon.com/The-Information-History-Theory-Flood/d... Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe htt
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by dbarlett 13y ago
Example from real-world code I've written: if tag in tag_list: data[u"Tag"] = tag try: if i["DupilcateAssets"] is not None: # not a typo - misspelled in Dell SOAP response data[u"Erro
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by dbarlett 13y ago
I see it more as a way to stop relying on Akamai [1] for Terremark [2] Application Acceleration Services. [1] http://www.terremark.com/services/infrastructure-cloud-servi... [2] acquired in 2011 http://www.t
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by dbarlett 13y ago
There's also Depicted (dpxdt)[1] - more workflow, Python instead of Ruby. [1] https://github.com/bslatkin/dpxdt
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by dbarlett 13y ago
http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/
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by dbarlett 13y ago
Not the whole presentation, but some slides and better notes: http://gigaom.com/2013/11/15/how-amazon-is-building-substati...
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by dbarlett 13y ago
Bugjar [1] is similarly inspired by Turbo Pascal/C, but with a Tkinter GUI. [1] http://pybee.org/bugjar/
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by dbarlett 13y ago
I just ran those with Python 2.7 (ASCII and Unicode) and Python 3.2 (Unicode). "-".join(map(str, range(100))) was always the fastest, with ASCII (2.7) < Unicode (3.2) < Unicode (2.7). Makes sense, but worth keeping in mind w
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by dbarlett 13y ago
Another curious coincidence: http://rest.s3for.me/check/test.html returns x-amz-request-id and x-amz-id-2 headers. HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 20:37:05 GMT Server: Apache x-amz-request-id: 137
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by dbarlett 13y ago
CDMA is another option for stratum 1 http://www.endruntechnologies.com/gps-cdma.htm
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by dbarlett 13y ago
I highly recommend requesting a LexisNexis Risk Solutions Full File Disclosure [1] at least once a year. You have to mail in copies of an ID and proof of address, but I found signs of identity theft that didn't appear on other credit r
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by dbarlett 13y ago
https://github.com/dbarlett/KFC-Tour Now uses the the Concorde cutting-plane-based exact TSP solver. Edit: I really should have named the repo colonel-sanders.
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by dbarlett 13y ago
If you have a helicopter and a burning desire to visit all 478 KFC locations in California, give this to your pilot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22934979/CA_KFC_LK.jpg . I used the 2D Euclidean distance bet
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by dbarlett 13y ago
At last year's AWS Public Sector Summit, I watched a demo of Xceedium's access control appliance [1]. It's deployed as a jump host and acts like a DVR for SSH/RDP. The CAC crowd was very interested. [1] http:/&#x
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by dbarlett 13y ago
If you're crazy like me and run elasticsearch on Windows, I can't recommend elasticsearch-setup [1] highly enough. Combined with node discovery via the EC2 API [2], it's been rock-solid. [1] http://ruilopes.com&#x2
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by dbarlett 13y ago
The best (and bluntest) book I know of in this area is Career Warfare http://www.amazon.com/Career-Warfare-Building-Successful-Bat...
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by dbarlett 13y ago
Behold the Bioastronautics Data Book [1], featuring sections like "Generation and Composition of Flatus" [2] and "Buttock Areas and Thigh Dimensions" [3] and captions that start "Data obtained on two subjects in eje
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by dbarlett 13y ago
All plugins hosted on WordPress.org are GPLv2+ if not otherwise specified (see #2 on http://wordpress.org/plugins/about/guidelines/ ).
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What ISP do you have? Degraded streaming is widespread these days: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/why-yo...
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by dbarlett 13y ago
It's slightly misleading to call this "revolutionary" - another cricket bar project [1] was funded on Kickstarter last year and appears to be in full production [2]. [1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects&#x2
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by dbarlett 13y ago
Yes, although they usually quit early. 2012: Herman Cain (businessman) 2008: Alan Keyes (author/diplomat) 2004: Wesley Clark (Army General), Al Sharpton (reverend/civil rights activist)
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by dbarlett 13y ago
Consider an extremely simple codec that uses only (lossless) run-length encoding [1]. You have an image of a blue sky with a few white clouds. One of the rows might have pixels Blue-Blue-Blue-Blue-White-White. This would be encoded as 4Blue
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by dbarlett 13y ago
As oakwhiz pointed out, this is conceptually similar to delay-line memory [1]. At least it doesn't require 100○ F mercury. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
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by dbarlett 13y ago
https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.kk.org/cooltools/2013/07/font.j...
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by dbarlett 13y ago
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...
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by dbarlett 13y ago
Done even better in Ready Player One http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0307887448
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by dbarlett 13y ago
Timeline JS can pull data directly from a Google Spreadsheet and automatically embeds a YouTube player, Flickr thumbnail, Google Map, etc if you link the entry to it.

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