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by harshaw 15y ago
Yeah, there are some counter-intuitive things you need to think about with baseboard heat and very cold temperatures in New England. Normally it is just fine and dandy to let your fancy thermostat drop the temps to the high 50s at night ex
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by harshaw 15y ago
I have a 26 mile commute each way. As a biking nut this is nice because I can get 100 miles in per week if I want although with child care issues 50 miles is more likely. I usually leave the car over night and bike home and back in the mo
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by harshaw 15y ago
While looking through the sample code I found this gem: static bool isVm() { return 1234567890123456789 % 2 > 0; } Funny enough in javascript 1234567890123456789 % 2 == 0.
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by harshaw 15y ago
Sure. Presumably Amazon has a test lab that replicates multiple zones :) Perhaps your point is that Amazon should make this test lab public so people can contribute to the QA effort? IIRC many of these datacenter failures start with a uti
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by harshaw 15y ago
In the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts we have government websites that are only "open" (meaning, you can perform transactions) during certain hours. Example: http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=elwdagencylanding&L=4&L0...
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Simulation tools to predict system failure? (aka AWS downtime)
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by harshaw 16y ago
<sigh> Occam's razor. Google seems to be committed to open source when ready.
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by harshaw 16y ago
What I find fascinating about node.js is that it is one of a long chain of products that represent the constant repackaging of old ideas - with better results. Twisted has been around for a long time and was the best (IMO) platform for buil
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by harshaw 16y ago
They make it sound like it is an honor to go to a developer conference. I guess. The only reason I was interested in going is that we are doing some complicated things with their APIs. I guess I am an old curmudgeon who would rather get
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by harshaw 16y ago
Marry someone making $$ in a different field. I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned more :) I'm married to a dentist but I know plenty of hacker types married to professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc). side note: it is very easy to ge
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by harshaw 16y ago
good :) No doubt once you are plugged in their engineering talent is top notch.
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by harshaw 16y ago
I did a bunch of work with Nokia back when I was working at Orange. We had a project to build push to talk software on Series 60 phones. Besides the idea that push to talk is a horrible idea, my job was to work with Nokia to make sure the
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by harshaw 16y ago
odd font choice. Makes it very hard to read on Windows with chrome. Just FYI font-family: anivers-1, anivers-2, sans-serif;
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by harshaw 16y ago
heck, your career options can narrow dramatically in your 30's. Especially if you have a startup background with titles like founder, CEO, etc.
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by harshaw 16y ago
A somewhat similar story: around the same time I was working on Numbler, a collaborative spreadsheet that I launched (unluckily) a couple of months before google spreadsheet went live. Numbler had some cool features that would enable you t
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by harshaw 16y ago
I concur. I once spent a couple of days in Tampere "attempting" to fix a couple of serious bugs between our app and the telephony layer on a S60 device. Never once did Nokia pair us up with a hard core device engineer - I honestly don't k
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by harshaw 16y ago
My parents are fiscally conservative "millionaires". They are 70 and 71 and may never need to tap their investments for operating cash (they can live off of pension + social security + misc income). My pet peeve is that I hope they spend