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   by gourneau 12y ago

   Props for hosting Eagleman's shortstory http://deathswitch.com/deathswitch.pdf
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   by gourneau 12y ago

   Anyone have suggestions for better servers? I wonder if Rockstore would work well with the backblaze case. Maybe some of the OCP cases would work. Anyone played with those?
3. 123.▲
   by gourneau 12y ago

   Clarification: InfluxDB only crashed on me when I requested a lot of data without chunking. With chunking I didn't have any problems. I like InfluxDB and still use it.
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   by gourneau 12y ago

   I have used http://influxdb.com/ , I have used it with a few million records. Getting the data out is a bit slow because it goes over HTTP. Also make your InfluxDB library of choice can deal with HTTP chunking. I found that
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   by gourneau 12y ago

   A bit of a tangent, but I actually shipped 0install on a system I built a few years back. It was intended to be a way to help users manage plugins. 0install is a really fantastic idea. However, the lack of packages and community eventually
6. 126.▲
   by gourneau 12y ago

   Pu238 is also in very short supply these days http://www.wired.com/2013/09/plutonium-238-problem/all/
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   Turn your PostgreSQL queries into Charts(github.com)

   3 points by gourneau 12y ago|0 comments
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   by gourneau 12y ago

   This is one of the many reasons that the Ambition (YC) team is in Chattanooga. I am from Tennessee myself. Chattanooga is a nice place. You can literally buy a home ( http://bit.ly/1tvb9ta ) for what folks in SF send on rent
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   by gourneau 12y ago

   Never forget Code Hero: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Hero
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    by gourneau 12y ago

    YUI still has the best data grid around IMO. Thanks y'all.
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    by gourneau 12y ago

    Hey y'all hackers. If any of you want to work on this type of science in the bay area, my startup Synthego wants to talk to you. Contact me at josh@synthego.com if you are interested.
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    by gourneau 12y ago

    Project Tuva has a great series of lectures Feynman gave around that time http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/
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    by gourneau 12y ago

    I hope this becomes reality. I would use it, I would also be happy to pay about twice the price y'all are asking.
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    by gourneau 12y ago

    I have had Aline Lerner reach out to me as a recruiter before. She is one of the best. She worked hard to find great matches.
15. 135.▲
    by gourneau 12y ago

    Dang, I want those interactive plots with IPython notebooks
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    RatticDB – A open source password management service written with Django(rattic.org)

    2 points by gourneau 12y ago|0 comments
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    by gourneau 12y ago

    ProTip: I just called AT&T today and asked when my contact ended, because I was considering going to T-Mobile. A few minutes later they offered me the approximately the service for half the cost.
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    by gourneau 12y ago

    The fine folks at Facebook are recording all the talks with their fancy AV setup. I expect the talks will be on on http://pyvideo.org within the week.
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    by gourneau 12y ago

    This was my favorite talk from PyData SV 2014 http://pydata.org/sv2014/abstracts/#194
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    by gourneau 12y ago

    This is super nice, I have been looking for a modern Nagios to monitor a few clusters.
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    by gourneau 13y ago

    Yeah thanks! Here is a little zapier zap to send email alerts when new videos are posted http://zpr.io/Hkyh :)
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    by gourneau 13y ago

    I was not able to go this year, but one of the perks of my job is paid trips to cons. It is worth asking for most reasonable employers will say yes.
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    by gourneau 13y ago

    Please do the "Scientific Visualizations with Blender" talk!
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    by gourneau 13y ago

    My car is worth less than a Boosted board :(
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    by gourneau 13y ago

    I am wanting to get this running on my BBB black. Hopefully it won't be that hard. It looks like mostly Python code, and a mountain of dependencies.
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    by gourneau 13y ago

    One of my favorite short stories of all time is titled Death Switch, written by David Eagleman. It is about this idea extrapolated, well worth a read : http://deathswitch.com/deathswitch.pdf
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    by gourneau 13y ago

    This is awesome, I want one. Until then, for folks that can afford there are some really great ~$50 usb microscope web cams. I have this one http://j.mp/usbmicroscope , it is UVC compliant and works on Ubuntu/OS X/
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    by gourneau 13y ago

    For my use it is just arbitrary. SimpleCV does have the ability to calibrate cameras, which should give you what you want.
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    by gourneau 13y ago

    Check out this beard length detector I wrote in 22 lines of Python with SimpleCV http://labs.radiantmachines.com/beard/
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    by gourneau 13y ago

    If any one is looking to get into BioTech Ion Torrent is always hiring good engineers. We are looking for folks that know Python, C++, CUDA.