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by duggan 15y ago
Makes sense for me, but I don't really have "documents" - not on the filesystem anyway. Definitely depends on your usage patterns :)
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by duggan 15y ago
Edit: there appears to be such a project, at least on the crawling side: http://www.commoncrawl.org/ I'd say there's a combination of factors, the first (and most important) being that Google is good enough for most people. You'd need to
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by duggan 15y ago
Have you investigated http://www.elasticsearch.org/ ? I'd really recommend reading up on the Solr (I notice you mention Solr in your first post) and ElasticSearch projects; these guys, along with Lucene, have collectively solved many of t
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by duggan 15y ago
Seems like a simpler alternative here is to disable Spotlight indexing on everything but Applications and System Preferences. First thing I do on a new Mac.
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by duggan 15y ago
No, by that logic, life is a human right , because I say the death penalty for stealing $1 worth of stuff is too large a punishment.
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by duggan 15y ago
Really, these are anecdotes, not evidence. And I think he chose his words carefully, he said median , not average . Of course - to paraphrase Greg Wilson[1] - if one were to go further and compare the "best" driver to the "worst" driver,
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by duggan 15y ago
Worth noting that "happy holidays" is not something used colloquially outside of America (to the best of my knowledge). Sure, we understand the context, but it's not something English speaking Europeans say to each other :) I'd be hesitant
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YSlow for Command Line(developer.yahoo.com)
6 points by duggan 15y ago|0 comments
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by duggan 15y ago
It's probably worth mentioning that the MBTI, at least the way it was explained when I did it, is meant to show a preference . The example that I was given was clasping your hands together. If you interlock your fingers to clasp your hands
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Dreaming it all up again (Ning's CTO moves on)(blog.diegodoval.com)
2 points by duggan 15y ago|0 comments
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by duggan 15y ago
This is the logical extension of the peek-a-boo fallacy. The moon doesn't stop being closer to the earth simply because you can't see it from a particular point on the Earth. About the only thing you can say is that if you were to proceed o
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by duggan 15y ago
Steve Yegge penned a similar discussion a few years back, "Have you ever legalized marijuana" - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali... A good read.
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by duggan 15y ago
It's not like Stripe don't want to come to Europe. In fact, they tried to start here: Actually, the first bank we ever talked to about @Stripe was Irish. They did everything short of laugh. https://twitter.com/#!/patrickc/status/1
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Light is not fast enough for high-speed stock trading(newscientist.com)
3 points by duggan 15y ago|0 comments
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by duggan 15y ago
So it's exactly like software then :)
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by duggan 15y ago
When he says "store their data since 1997" I believe he means "store data dating from 1997 on" - slight confusion in choice of wording!
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by duggan 15y ago
Presumably just Linus playing around with Github? There's been a mirror for some time - https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6 and https://github.com/mirrors/linux
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by duggan 15y ago
Just to bring some resolution to this, I received a response from Twitter today and, as I suspected, the namesquatting policy does not apply in my situation. Disappointing (since I have a small group of useless domains now, .com, .net and .
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by duggan 15y ago
Congrats to Eamon, Helgi, David and Noah at Orchestra (and EngineYard on getting a smart crew and good company) - interesting times ahead!
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by duggan 15y ago
We use portaudit - http://www.freshports.org/security/portaudit/ I'm sure there's something similar for Linux.
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by duggan 15y ago
I agree in principle, but I think there's scope for leeway (at least I hope there is in this case!). Case-by-case can be painful/time-consuming - I know, it's baked into the ethos of the company I work for - but it has its rewards. People h
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by duggan 15y ago
Spotted that, fingers crossed! Still worth being aware of if your case isn't quite open-and-shut, or you're planning a quick launch. I feel quite an eejit for letting it happen.
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by duggan 15y ago
I'm not sure how many man-hours were lost to fatfingering :wq as :Wq or :w as :W, but a simple alias has solved that particular bit of grief: cnoreabbrev Wq wq cnoreabbrev W w The rest of my .vimrc mostly belongs to the guy I cau
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Bots are crawling new domain registrations and namesquatting Twitter handles(rossduggan.ie)
66 points by duggan 15y ago|37 comments
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by duggan 15y ago
Groupon's modus operandi is that the business is (usually) making a loss or zero/negligible profit from the deal for the opportunity to generate future (post-groupon) business from those customers (or their friends). Spending no money at al
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by duggan 15y ago
I wonder if it's simply that it will require volume and curation like a lot of other free/cheap content? Book reviews are coming back, eh!
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by duggan 15y ago
Yeah, I don't believe for a second that this is a trait that belongs exclusively to engineers. Here's a thought: anyone in a position of "power" is susceptible to this dynamic; if "social" relationships were described as an equation, then p
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by duggan 15y ago
In other times and industries, this would be called unionization. In any case, one shouldn't need to demand respect, one should command it. The difference is that the former is impossible unless you equate fear with respect, the latter
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by duggan 15y ago
It's less that you can spread the blame around than it is that the blame is spread around a bit more. Tasks get broken up, redundancy gets built in. One of the most important goals for my "parent" company after we were acquired was to m
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by duggan 15y ago
This actually rings true with my own experience. Let me share an anecdote: Last year, we built a search service on EC2, which used SQS[1] and SNS[2] as a way of feeding data from our core architecture into the index. So, user creates/update

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