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Magnetic fields light up 'GPS neurons', scientists say(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by sauravc 14y ago|0 comments
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by sauravc 14y ago
We've been logging all of our analytics data in JSON for years now.
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by sauravc 15y ago
Rise4Fail? Really? So basically since the book's cover is ugly the story must be a fail? Obviously that's the case. Brilliant researchers always have great looking websites, right? http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/
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by sauravc 15y ago
Disclaimer: I used to work in a incubation group that was under MSR. Although there's plenty to gripe about at Microsoft, MSR is not one of them. It's a shining example of an awesome research group. (It probably employs more computer sc
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by sauravc 15y ago
Totally agree.
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by sauravc 15y ago
Most of the html content will be pushed out by Varnish. PHP just generates the most popular pages once before Varnish takes over. As for pushing out videos, I doubt they're using PHP readfile(). They're probably serving it out of a CDN.
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by sauravc 15y ago
It turns out the author of the article used to work at Apple in customer service. (According to his Google+ page https://plus.google.com/112301869379652563135/about ) But he makes no mention of this in an article that speaks largely about
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by sauravc 15y ago
http://peteandcarol.com/msft.htm
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by sauravc 15y ago
So is Ubuntu a new OS since it has it's own window manager?
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by sauravc 15y ago
WRONG. That's like saying all software is proprietary. While some prominent genetically modified organisms sold by Monsanto are sterile and patented, it doesn't mean all GMO's are or have to be.
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by sauravc 15y ago
EBS volumes are analogous to hard drives. They're reliable... until they fail. So keep backups. This is easily done with EBS snapshots, (which are persisted to S3).
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by sauravc 15y ago
The main point is convenience. Limos are shared resources, but no one complains about not having access to their glove box when riding in one, because they're so awesomely convenient and the level of service is spectacular. This is where c