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by rb2k_ 13y ago
That's nice :) And just so people know without having to check the site: > git-annex users may sign up for our full featured offsite filesystem at a rate of 10 cents per GB, per month. An annual payment is required, and the minimum
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Where does one grab such a root data dump?
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Wasn't that the idea behind "bitcasa" ? -> https://www.bitcasa.com/
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
I think over here the really crazy ones (e.g. the ones that soil themselves in public) are usually in psychiatric care/detoxing. I'm quite happy to pay a tiny bit more taxes for a pee-less subway ride :) The few times I was in NY,
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
I have lived in Boston for a 7-8 months and I did notice quite a few homeless people. I always assumed that the american social system is just a bit too demeaning for people to actually use it. (e.g. having to present food stamps and thus s
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
As somebody from Germany, it's slightly entertaining to see that most comments in this thread have something to do with homeless people seeking shelter on public transport. I can see how this would be an implementational detail, but I
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
the driver doesn't seem to be threadsafe and just locks once I start using it in threads :(
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
It's fixed by now, but everything on http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/guides/drivers/ was wrong. The old driver e.g. took several arguments, the 1.6 one takes a hash. The old version basically looked exactl
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Seems the speed it really declines with the size of the inserted documents. My production data is a hash with 14-15 keys and string/int values of maybe 10 characters each When I loop and keep generating these documents: to_insert
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Just playing around a bit, even with soft durability, insertion speeds seem to be pretty slow (<100 inserts/s from ruby using bulk inserts on a i7 Macbook Pro with an SSD). Also: All the ruby driver doc seems wrong. 1.6 changed a lo
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
He's not the German Justice Minister. He's "the justice minister for the German state of Hesse".
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Apparently Multi User Chatrooms for Google talk: http://partychapp.appspot.com/
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
pip install pyyaml fixed it for me
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
> Terra is a simple, statically-typed, compiled language with manual memory management How is is like lua then?
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Performance optimizations in the FB recommendations plugin(phpied.com)
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
How come all the other countries that have regulated healthcare have costs that are usually at a fraction of the US? ( http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/10/health-costs-how... )
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Any comments on what people use to manage the chef cookbooks (and why)? Librarian or Berkshelf seem to be the two main contenders to make updating cookbooks similar to updating gems with bundler.
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by rb2k_ 13y ago
Just to spare people the copy/paste: all codes redeemed
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
I was talking about Message Authentication Codes rather than the Macintosh line of computers :)
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
I like HTTP APIs that use basic auth over SSL. Why? Because as the blogpost demonstrates nicely, curl is a wonderful tool to test, demo and debug things. As soon as you introduce e.g. MACs to the mix, you can forget about most unix-y comman
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
The main problem isn't the response, the problem is that on the initial request, the insecure password will be sent in plaintext.
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
> The problem is people also mine on dual core CPUs That would only be botnets though? You'd probably make more money walking around outside and and hoping to find quarters
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Another option would be to just use an existing mixing service: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mixing_service Those services always reminded me of David Chaum's Mix Networks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix_network )
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
> The API servers that we are able to push this load with cost a mere $90/month That would be about an EC2 m1.medium It would be interesting to see how much it costs to run the whole cluster. I'd also love to know which part of the redi
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Just because you barely see any feedback on these kind of posts, here are my 5 cents: I work there. It's a fun job with a great team. Lots of interesting problems, lots of learning, lots of really smart people.
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
The planet money podcast recently talked about this. One of the reasons: If you're "poor" and you spend 90% of your income on goods, you're getting taxed on 90% of your income. If you're "rich", you spend 10% of your income on goods and jus
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
You'd have to figure out where "basic necessities" stop. No taxes on a 10 million dollar house but the poor family buying a TV will have to pay?
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
The majority of applications don't do a lot of number crunching. I'd recommend Ruby because it's readable, it has a good tool ecosystem a great community and design decisions that please me. Python and Perl are just not what I'd like to see
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Most of your time is probably spent in I/O wait. For most applications, it's not that important to optimise the 5% waiting time as opposed to the 95% waiting time
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Coke Zero? Works for me, but I'm fine with the taste of aspartame

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