markwillis82

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by markwillis82 12y ago
Sounds interesting. Only problem is your site is quite difficult to use on a mobile. Will bookmark and view later on a desktop though.
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Show HN: MODX Private Package Providers and Resource Preview(extras.io)
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Recover a MySQL Galera Cluster(percona.com)
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by markwillis82 12y ago
Running 6 days a week training for marathons. The high from endorphins puts me in the right mood. 3 hour run on a Sunday evening gets you ready for the Monday morning
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New managed service levels at Rackspace(rackspace.co.uk)
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by markwillis82 13y ago
I only have 50 karma, however I have been here for quite some time. I don't normally comment but now that all my comments will be pending it makes my comments on new stories less likely to appear. Unless they get more coverage and land
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by markwillis82 13y ago
I've already got this set up. Looks like New Relic are going to be monitoring all the things! Soon
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by markwillis82 13y ago
This is such a shame. Having used the OSM data to generate our own tiles. It takes a lot of time and resource to manage them well (let alone updating the OSM data) I understand it must be tough to provide such a service at low cost. Hopeful
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IPXE boot images at Rackspace cloud servers(boot.rackspace.com)
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by markwillis82 13y ago
I try to stay away from databases run by other companies, for this reason. Seems to be safer to run my own and block access than the convenience of db as a service. Obviously if you don't have the experience in this, your susceptible t
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by markwillis82 13y ago
Maybe a new language and data model? Could anyone suggest things like Hadoop or other big data bits I could get my teeth into?
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by markwillis82 13y ago
Scala looks interesting especially with Lift. Would be good to play with larger datasets too.
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by markwillis82 13y ago
I want to get into something completely new, which is why I was looking at c++. But getting into the bare bones c could also be interesting.
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Ask HN: learn a language for 2014
6 points by markwillis82 13y ago|12 comments
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Use bcache to speed up SATA drives (Linux)(linux.com)
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by markwillis82 13y ago
Hopefully it will remain here - unchanged forever: https://web.archive.org/web/20131105002953/http://www.micros...
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by markwillis82 13y ago
We scale based on load, so rather then having dedicated boxes being unused during quiet times we can scale our infrastructure down and then up when we need to. Going to a hybrid platform maybe in the future
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by markwillis82 13y ago
Having used rackspace for the past 5 years, I'm happy to see some more performance machines in the cloud. We have quite a CPU intensive infrastructure so will be benchmarking the new performance servers against themselves to see if it
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Rackspace Heat - Autoscale and Orchestration(developer.rackspace.com)
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MODXpo speakers announced(modx.com)
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Rackspace will now migrate you to their cloud(rackspace.com)
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by markwillis82 13y ago
I read alot of articles on HN that involve startup culture and work-life balance. I felt that this article is a reminder that children need as much time with dads as possible. I'll be the first to put my hands up and say I need to work
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Google bomb is back: Miserable Failure(google.co.uk)
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by markwillis82 13y ago
Just refused geolocation and got stuck in a "user denied geolocation" loop had to kill safari to get off site
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by markwillis82 13y ago
I've had 3 kids and juggling work, family and hobbies is a challenge. I tend not to think about work out of hours (unless overtime / something crashes during the night) I work on my hobbies 2/3 nights a week (about 6-9 hours
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by markwillis82 13y ago
My pet project at the moment is programmatic battleships. Write your own client - play against other users running automatic games and see how we'll your client fairs up in the leaderboard
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Sendgrid down (again)(support.sendgrid.com)
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Github update - no more private keys(github.com)
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Leaflet 0.5 Released with retina markers(leafletjs.com)
2 points by markwillis82 14y ago|0 comments