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The Big History Project - an online "nearly entire history of everything"(bighistoryproject.com)
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by gopalv 13y ago
tambrahmrage (well, India's oatmeal) covers mangalyaan http://tambrahmrage.tumblr.com/post/66074106804/mangalyaan
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by gopalv 13y ago
Xkcd said it best, this is going to make the best cross-word puzzle ever with the password hints and hashes :) https://xkcd.com/1286/ "Weather vane sword" and "sexy earlobes" indeed.
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by gopalv 13y ago
xpath is awesome, especially once you understand what an axis is. And that is what I've found most people who have trouble with it don't understand - like what exactly following-sibling or child means. I spent about 2 months writi
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by gopalv 13y ago
Depends on what you want to do. But I can tell you that this is sort of a pointless argument for a blogging platform I've found that the really important bit when writing read-heavy web-apps is good caching. The write-path could be wri
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by gopalv 13y ago
This still needs a particle accelerator sitting behind it to work - 60Mev electrons are accelerated 300 MeV/m by passing through something centimeters long. This will be useful for smaller X-rays, not particle science research. “I’d sa
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by gopalv 13y ago
This is really going to be more of a cache-flush issue, considering how quickly it will recover. Bouncing the front-end is likely to expose the backend (say, a php site) to the traffic load usually handled by varnish. This is likely to brin
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by gopalv 13y ago
I used exactly one module from CCAN in the past - failtest ( http://ccodearchive.net/info/failtest.html ). And that's a simple idea, done well (and helps me hit the usually untested code paths). If I had to still wo
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by gopalv 13y ago
Ideally, you can run both https:// and ssh:// on 443, with sslh. Everyone who's expecting to see HTTPS will see it on :443 as well.
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by gopalv 13y ago
More fun HAProxy bits include pinning a user persistently to one machine (which fails over when that machine fails a health-check) Particularly useful when you've got a web+mc combo in one machine which can get the most out of such a s
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by gopalv 13y ago
imgur succeeded because you could press arrow-keys and browse through their most-viral dumps.
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by gopalv 13y ago
I worked on that for almost a year. Also wrote an AS3 -> XHPROF tool which recompiled .swfs as a proxy service, in scala (which was doomed for that reason, once I quit). Fun times, indeed.
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by gopalv 13y ago
When I ran into this issue in EC2, it was mitigated by leaving cpu0 relatively idle. All apache processes were marked as taskset -c 1-7, the cpu steal and system load went down massively once that was in place.
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by gopalv 13y ago
The trouble is that all of the bandwidth available on ads is downstream bandwidth. And what you care about seems to be upstream bandwidth. Airtel, Reliance and ACT all have approx 1Mbit/s upstream for their most expensive plans. The la
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by gopalv 13y ago
I feel for you, but it's not the end yet. There are two important things you can do. 1) Looks like you wrote some cool code, so at least "github" it, so that you have a resume item & some cred when you want just a salary job. 2) Talk to
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by gopalv 13y ago
You know it's Serious when "TV Glitch" is available as a feature.
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by gopalv 13y ago
I walked up to him back-stage and said "Now, you owe me a coffee". He still owes me that coffee :) R.I.P toolz.
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by gopalv 14y ago
For the last 8 years, I've training myself like a Pavlovian dog. All I need to focus is my headphones and the song programmed with the mood I want. Many songs have come & disappeared in my playlist of "mind silence" but right now, if yo
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by gopalv 14y ago
Well, then go on - list your interests (or skills). And please don't pick a project that's desperate for people - It's a classic case of the mythical man month. Most of the time the core folks will find bringing up a new member up-to speed
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by gopalv 14y ago
Humility only works internally. Believing you can do anything often leads you find out it's only partly true. But believing you can't do anything is often true all the time. I blame my parents for misleading me there, but they meant well &#
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by gopalv 14y ago
The drop in capacity of electric batteries are well tested (in airplanes, for instance). What came up was two other hidden factors which were usually ignored (at least by one person - me). The heater systems for the gasoline cars run on par