mattparlane

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by mattparlane 8y ago
I'm still in charge of a production system serving around 2,000 small to medium websites from a 2-machine MongoDB cluster. It's been running on MongoDB since around 2010 and we have NEVER had any issues. I accept that the unacknow
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by mattparlane 8y ago
Great read, thanks for posting. To me, one thing that's not being discussed much is that Europeans only settled in New Zealand around 200 years ago, pretty short in the history of humanity. You could ask the Maori people how they feel
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by mattparlane 8y ago
Update: http://articles.os2voice.org/category/voice/17-new-web-brows... They've raised $12,650 and think it will take around 18 months.
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by mattparlane 8y ago
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by mattparlane 9y ago
Cafe in Chiang Rai, Thailand: $ ping -n 1.1.1.1 round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 16.696/18.643/22.571/2.056 ms $ ping -n 8.8.8.8 round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 38.410/45.6
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by mattparlane 9y ago
Correct, I'm living in Thailand currently and the local bananas all look very much like Gros Michels. They taste great to me and are super cheap, very good joules per money.
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by mattparlane 9y ago
Can you really spin one of these up on demand? That obviously means that they have machines of that size (or greater) sitting idle, waiting for someone to use them. That's mind-boggling.
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by mattparlane 9y ago
There's also Aerial America by the Smithsonian Channel. They're one hour narrated documentaries with exclusively aerial footage. One per state (they combined the Dakotas). I'm not even American and I bought the whole set on b
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Google Wave: Up and Running(bookdepository.com)
5 points by mattparlane 9y ago|1 comments
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by mattparlane 9y ago
Why the use of a placebo in a trial involving babies? Surely they would be immune to any placebo effect?
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by mattparlane 9y ago
If you are interested in learning /music/ and not just learning the /guitar/, I would strongly encourage you to start on the piano. I started on the piano and moved to the guitar later, and I've now realised that th
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by mattparlane 9y ago
How did they decide what is West Antarctica and what is East Antarctica? Isn't it all North Antarctica?
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by mattparlane 9y ago
That's why they didn't say "Iff I don't pay for the product [...]"
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by mattparlane 9y ago
The org is called Destiny Rescue -- https://www.destinyrescue.org/ We've rescued just over 2,000 children since we first started in 2011. I've been involved for about a year now. There are all sorts of roles avail
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by mattparlane 9y ago
I'm from New Zealand and I'm currently living in Thailand volunteering for an anti human trafficking organisation, rescuing children from the sex trade. I was thrown in the deep end and had to quickly become a Salesforce administr
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by mattparlane 10y ago
VGA port? In 2017?
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by mattparlane 10y ago
(2014)
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by mattparlane 10y ago
They don't mention this, but I believe this can cause extinction of mosquitoes within an area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique
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by mattparlane 10y ago
To me, the problem is that all this kid really did is hike up the bid price of competitive keywords, therefore earning more money for Google. I have the same issue with them giving away money for trials, or giving thousands to non-profits.
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Ruby Deoptimization Engine(github.com)
2 points by mattparlane 10y ago|0 comments
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American devotion to religion is waning(ucl.ac.uk)
9 points by mattparlane 11y ago|3 comments
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Using HTTPS properly(textplain.wordpress.com)
1 points by mattparlane 11y ago|0 comments
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by mattparlane 11y ago
Would filtering based on the bogon list fix this? Is the bogon list still a thing?
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NGINX Open Source 1.9.5 Released with HTTP/2 Support(nginx.com)
1 points by mattparlane 11y ago|0 comments
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by mattparlane 11y ago
From here [0]: "The highest level of abstraction is the SQL layer (currently not implemented)" [0] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach#architecture
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An open letter to Matz on Ruby type systems(tonyarcieri.com)
6 points by mattparlane 11y ago|0 comments
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HTTP/2: The Long-Awaited Sequel(blogs.msdn.com)
142 points by mattparlane 12y ago|71 comments
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by mattparlane 12y ago
What worries me about this is that the commit that fixes it [0] doesn't include any tests. Is that normal in crypto? If I committed a fix to a show-stopper bug without any tests at my day job I'd feel very amateur. [0] http:&#x2F
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by mattparlane 13y ago
So, the current Debian/Ubuntu package is called docker-lxc -- is that name going to change now that Docker doesn't (necessarily) have anything to do with LXC?
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by mattparlane 13y ago
This line: [ [3,2,1].reduce(Math.pow), [].reduce(Math.pow)] ] has an extra "]".

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