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by skorgu 17y ago
Plus it has the added benefit that if you design your architecture with queues as your distribution primitive you can scale across multiple machines pretty easily. There's a mostly drop-in interface [1] to AMQP that mimics the native Python
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by skorgu 17y ago
Very nice! Added to my bag of tricks along with M-Lab[1]. [1] http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools
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by skorgu 17y ago
I like the semantics of a pipe-oriented flow. Combined with a sandbox[1] and you could accept arbitrary code from customers/clients/whatever. [1] http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html
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by skorgu 17y ago
Still awesome though. Reading the source is a great way to pick up idiomatic perl too.
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by skorgu 17y ago
Well said!
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by skorgu 17y ago
Here's where I see the fundamental difference between Microsoft and Google: Google has a conference, well known to all and sundry. Google plans a big reveal. Microsoft plans a big reveal to steal some thunder. Normal PR all around. But look
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by skorgu 17y ago
Your conversational partners are substantially more polite than mine :) It's not even remotely uncommon for people in my circle to leave an IM or even a group chat in the middle. We all have dozens of things going on at any given time and i
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by skorgu 17y ago
I don't follow your logic at all. I frequently have essentially real-time conversations via email. If someone steps away the conversation doesn't 'end' it just reverts to a slower pace. Gmail with its conversation-oriented view is already c
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by skorgu 17y ago
The slashdot story doesn't seem to be referring to Sound of Traffic but both links are great, thanks!
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by skorgu 17y ago
Reminds me of Peep [1] which would generate a nature-like soundscape based on network traffic, theoretically leading to problems 'sounding wrong'. There's a slashdot story [2] on another project that used music instead of nature sounds but
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by skorgu 17y ago
CGI is filthy, sure. But being able to run your filthy hack of a config file parser on an unpatched HPUX box from circa 30,000 BC with no changes? That's cool. Maybe not cool on the same axis as Rails and Twitter but cool nonetheless.
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by skorgu 17y ago
I don't like perl, for one reason or another we never got along. I respect the hell out of it though. Perl is so far from dead it's achieved complete success and become invisible. A large amount of infrastructure at my workplace is writte
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by skorgu 17y ago
Michael has far more tolerance than I, I don't think I would have continued the conversation after: Sure, I make fun of you guys, because I’m trying to entertain people.
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by skorgu 17y ago
Many sites perceive that accepting payment through paypal dilutes their brand. Whether this is valid or not is open to argument of course. I've never had a problem with paypal (or ebay for that matter) but I use both sparingly. Most of my p
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by skorgu 17y ago
Please don't do this here.
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by skorgu 17y ago
It comes roughly close with something like "empire state building height + average human height" but yeah, that's quite odd. Edit: And hitting "Show details" for a breakdown.
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by skorgu 17y ago
They're missing the one feature I found killer: Unit parsing in math. Doing something like "sixteen miles per hour in km/ns * 14 hogsheads per parsec" Just Works in Alpha[1], it fails miserably in Google. Sure you can make it work with pare
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by skorgu 17y ago
I've built a few toy apps that use json as intermediate formats and I've found JsonPath to be pretty effective at building ad-hoc queries. I wrapped it in a thin layer of python for command line use if anyone is interested. Syntax and the r
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by skorgu 17y ago
The article doesn't address it but what effect does this have on hardware visibility to the guest? (How) can Windows still get unfettered access to e.g. the video chipset or other expansion devices?
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by skorgu 17y ago
I'll consider it cosmic interest on my loan of Larry Wall's karma.
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by skorgu 17y ago
It's more a framework for building a database system IMO; you do what you need to do in views.
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by skorgu 17y ago
It's odd. People understand instinctively that the best way for computer programs to communicate with each other is for each of the them to be strict in what they emit, and liberal in what they accept. The odd thing is that people themselve
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by skorgu 17y ago
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by skorgu 17y ago
Not here (Going out through AT&T).
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by skorgu 17y ago
Don't forget BOSH.
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by skorgu 17y ago
They seemed more concerned about user interface decisions and whether it would be launching at IO than the actual technology behind it. I suppose that's a valid angle, it's just not one that appeals to me. And yes, they were quite rude.
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by skorgu 17y ago
That intelligence is nearly guaranteed to emerge from sufficiently complex systems.
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by skorgu 17y ago
This is the way I'd like to see things move. You pay tuition, the university handles the licensing and distribution. Of course it would probably raise prices or reduce availability for those outside a school.
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by skorgu 17y ago
<AOL> This is basically my system. I never hit anything but the all-items feed and I'm pretty strict about leaving zero unread before I navigate away so I can't just pop in for a quick read unless I've got at least 15 minutes to kil
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by skorgu 17y ago
Already posted to Metafilter two years ago (along with, frankly, an extremely unproductive debate in the comments): http://www.metafilter.com/64034/The-Waw-effect

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