jonburs

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Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store(nytimes.com)
89 points by jonburs 16y ago|55 comments
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For Google's AdWords, relevance takes time(news.cnet.com)
1 points by jonburs 16y ago|0 comments
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Finite formula found for partition numbers(blogs.plos.org)
4 points by jonburs 16y ago|0 comments
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by jonburs 16y ago
RDS pricing appears competitive to Heroku's dedicated databases. It's hard to compare them directly since RDS separates instance type, on-demand and reserved instances, provisioned storage, replication (crossing availability zone boundaries
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by jonburs 16y ago
From what I can gather the current beta version only supports Java (i.e., war packaged) apps, but the intention is to support other kinds of application containers in the future. Conceivably one could use jython or quercos to deploy python
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Facebook to alter policy on sharing address and mobile phone number(developers.facebook.com)
7 points by jonburs 16y ago|2 comments
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Development and testing of the Stuxnet worm(nytimes.com)
137 points by jonburs 16y ago|78 comments
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by jonburs 16y ago
Inflation during that time period was one of the highest on record for the US -- see ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/cpi/cpiai.txt. CPI June 1977: 60.7 $13 million CPI June 1983: 99.5 $21.3 million
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by jonburs 16y ago
Are those figures adjusted for inflation?
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by jonburs 16y ago
This happened to Foursquare, and resulted in a lengthy outage. See http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user/browse_thread/th... for the full details (including why recovery took so long).
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by jonburs 16y ago
You'd need a pretty hefty support library to add the JVM-provided features Scala relies on. Garbage collection is obviously a major one, but there are also the pieces of the standard Java libraries that Scala builds on top of (though I'm no
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Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan(nytimes.com)
17 points by jonburs 16y ago|13 comments
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by jonburs 16y ago
Wouldn't there be sodium in the chicken broth (and likely the tofu as well)?
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by jonburs 16y ago
FB asked for and received a waiver from the SEC for their restricted stock plan: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2008/tc200... Basically since the restricted stock holders are employees that didn't directly invest money
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by jonburs 16y ago
I imagine it's a poor attempt to be gender-neutral. Alternating genders between successive examples might have worked better. (The Silence of the Lambs alternative formulation, probably not.)
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by jonburs 16y ago
TC is one of the now-days rare RSS feeds that includes the full article content; because of this I rarely have any need to click through to the full article.
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Path of Go (game)(research.microsoft.com)
3 points by jonburs 16y ago|0 comments
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by jonburs 16y ago
That would happen if your router is providing DHCP services (common) and returning itself as the DNS server. A good reason for that configuration is so that you can resolve the names of other computers on your local network. If that's the c
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by jonburs 16y ago
The traceroute family doesn't show DNS info; they show intermediate routers on the path the the resolved destination address. The early servers are the local routers in your ISP's topology, not the DNS server used to resolve the destination
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by jonburs 16y ago
The overload may be due to the caching behavior of Google DNS; if it's not submitting new queries to Apple's DNS then the latter would have no opportunity to balance the traffic. Conceivably caching behavior could also throw off geolocation
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by jonburs 16y ago
The headline seems a bit inaccurate. Blumenthal is currently Connecticut's Attorney General, and while he was elected to the Senate in Nov he doesn't yet speak for the US government (and often times that terminology is used to refer to acti
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by jonburs 16y ago
The micro instance was fronting the render farm. As far as I can tell the article doesn't specify the instance types in use for any of the other components.
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by jonburs 16y ago
Does it matter if those threads are waiting on various IO objects? Some are likely waiting for file system notifications (e.g., you modified something in your dropbox folder on your mac); others network notifications (modifications on other
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ControlJS: New module for delayed javascript loading and execution(stevesouders.com)
3 points by jonburs 16y ago|0 comments