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by dbarlett 13y ago
Changelog: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.6
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It's called a feedback loop. http://www.dirigodev.com/content/email-feedback-loops/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_Reporting_Format https://tools.ietf.org/html/
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by dbarlett 13y ago
I haven't read that one, but enjoyed Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight http://web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/
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by dbarlett 13y ago
It's worth noting that Nicholas Johnson, author of the book Big Dead Place [1] and editor of bigdeadplace.com, committed suicide [2] in 2012. He had just been rejected [3] from another contract in Antarctica. [1] http://ww
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by dbarlett 13y ago
Two solutions: pull-mode playbooks [1] and fireball mode [2] (temporary ØMQ daemon). [1] http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/playbooks2.html#pull-mode-p... [2] http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/playboo
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I think it was http://trafficplanet.com/topic/2372-successful-negative-seo-... (Comment by trevin https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5701104 )
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by dbarlett 13y ago
Yes, if you disable the use of relay and tracker servers. See page 8 of http://btsync.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/BitTorrentS...
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Even better - with some creative "cloud cartography"[1], you have a 40% chance of launching a VM on the same physical host as your target. [1] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6460/2011sp/papers/clou...
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The Pixar Touch ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Pixar-Touch-ebook/dp/B0010SKT0M/ ) is a great book about Catmull and Pixar.
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Short answer ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool... ) that gave me an aha moment after my first FP class: Without understanding functional programming, you can't invent MapReduce, the algorithm that makes
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by dbarlett 13y ago
SAS 70/SSAE 16, runway, ARPU
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The key phrase is getting a sociology degree . While racking up $100K in debt for a Petroleum Engineering degree [1] arguably isn't necessary , it's much more defensible. [1] http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2013/04/29/and-the-highest-paid-..
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"The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" (PageRank) http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/361/ "A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes" (Huffman Coding) http://www.ic.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/fg121/Source-
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by dbarlett 13y ago
Now in beta for Win 7+ ( http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ ). Slower than Git Extensions, but has some nice features.
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by dbarlett 14y ago
Pinterest replaced Celery and RabbitMQ [1] with their fork of pyres [2], presumably because it's 1/100th the codebase but does what they need to. [1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/4/15/scaling-pinterest-... [2] https://github.com/
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by dbarlett 14y ago
You may know the author, Robert Krulwich [1], as co-host of the insufferable Radiolab [2]. He's made a career out of "explaining" science like this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Krulwich [2] http://www.radiolab.org/
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Great case study on a U.S. Navy motion simulator that still uses Unibus cards (via a PCI PDP-11 emulator and modern chassis): http://www.migrationspecialties.com/pdf/MSDD.pdf
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by dbarlett 14y ago
The Ekirch book referred to is At Day's Close: Night in Times Past [1]. It covers much more than sleep patterns. We think of night as merely the absence of daylight, but in the past it was seen as a different world. [1] http://www.amazon
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Exactly. Interesting piece by a former Amazon employee: http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2012/11/28/amazon-and-margins "If you have bigger lungs than your competitor, all things being equal, force them to compete in a contest where oxygen is
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Wolfram|Alpha Handwritten Knowledge Engine: http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/04/01/introducing-the-wolf...
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by dbarlett 14y ago
Imgur upload via Snail Mail: http://imgur.com/blog/2013/04/01/upload-via-snail-mail/
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by dbarlett 14y ago
Atlassian JIRA Jr. http://www.atlassian.com/jirajr
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by dbarlett 14y ago
INTERCAL on Interstates http://www.intercaloninterstates.org/ Stackoverflow rolls out "Chat with an expert" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5470570
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For anyone interested in optimizing S3 performance, I recommend Jim Sorenson's "Building Scalable Applications on Amazon S3" from re:Invent. http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/building-scalabl... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y
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by dbarlett 14y ago
The elasticsearch talk ( http://pyvideo.org/video/1784/elasticsearch-part-1-indexing-... ) is fantastic. Can't wait for part 2.
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In the same vein is J.C.R. Licklider and Robert W. Taylor's "The Computer as a Communication Device" from 1968 [1]: "future version of this system will make it possible for each participant, on his own TV screen, to thumb through the speake
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patio11's list of Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
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by dbarlett 14y ago
I have high hopes for Ops School ( https://ops-school.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ ).
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by dbarlett 14y ago
I was in the same position - too many distinct environments for bash/Fabric, too little time to learn Chef/Puppet/CFEngine. Ansible [1] seems like a good compromise: you get the simplicity (runs over SSH) and host targeting of Fabric with t
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by dbarlett 14y ago
Previous thread on SpaceX costs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3857904

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