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by spidaman 16y ago
Hrm, that one loads fine... but fulltextrssfeed.com/www.sfgate.com/rss/feeds/blogs/sfgate/offtherecord/index_rss2.xml fails with "unable to retrieve full-text content" and fulltextrssfeed.com/www.kqed.org/rss/arts.xml fails with "Unable to
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by spidaman 16y ago
Does this work for anybody? I've plugged in 3 feeds, one was "unable to retrieve full-text content" (an sfgate.com feed) and the other two returned nothing at all in the preview (one a feed from kqed.org, the other an older wordpress blog).
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by spidaman 16y ago
The bubble isn't in tech startups, the bubble is in big VC's herd mentality chasing dumb valuations on the big social media companies that haven't IPO'd. Investors throwing money at those funds are fools.
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by spidaman 16y ago
A big difference between private schools and urban public schools is the level of parent involvement. I've seen both up close and personal. It's not just involvement in school functions but involvement in their kid's education before and af
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by spidaman 16y ago
Ouch, I'm not a DBA nor advocating for hint support in PostgreSQL but were I either, I'd take Josh's broad brush of "old", "lazy" and "ignorant" unkindly. PostgreSQL is indeed an awesome technology, I'm using it again after several years of
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by spidaman 16y ago
I take casual carpool from the east bay into San Francisco on a regular basis (and on the rare occasions I need to drive in, I always pick up carpoolers). What I've observed is that the higher the price of gas, the more riders are available
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by spidaman 16y ago
I just got the email, too. I hate a lot of their interfaces and services (download pages, source browsing, search, mailing lists... lots of lame) but I'm glad they're jumping on the problem proactively.
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by spidaman 16y ago
Nice to hear about this change Matt. "Fuckin' efreedom..." is an oft heard missive around our office, godspeed in ranking them and their ilk down.
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by spidaman 16y ago
Using hadoop for batch processing and cassandra to serve real time data are among my tools of choice. chef_cluster looks like a nice bag of tools for setting up and managing a scale-free computing infrastructure.
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Big Data Compute Cluster using Chef, Hadoop & Cassandra in the AWS cloud(github.com)
2 points by spidaman 16y ago|1 comments
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by spidaman 16y ago
I led a counter case where a rewrite was very successful. There had been a major component of the architecture that just approached the problem wrong at its inception. Changes that one would have thought should take a few hours or day to ma
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by spidaman 16y ago
Sure, just don't judge a book by it's... I don't know what, if any, magic Qwiki has cooking but I think the OP is excessively harsh. My point was that a lot of startups have needed a big round to go to the next level from a limited proof of
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by spidaman 16y ago
The author needs to get a grip, a lot of technology bootstraps on top wikipedia with a capacity to scale from there. Powerset unveiled their natural language search on the wikipedia corpus and were acquired by Microsoft for $100M a few mont
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by spidaman 16y ago
Filo was a total hacker, reportedly still is. At least into the late 90's, he was active on the FreeBSD mailing lists with encyclopedic knowledge of SCSI card and NIC drivers and assorted other hardware and FreeBSD stuff. He was oft found s
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KUSF Moves to Online Only Format(usfca.edu)
2 points by spidaman 16y ago|0 comments
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by spidaman 16y ago
Regarding "It seems safe to say, then -- no big surprise -- that aside from considering a phone's manufacturer, going with a higher profile, top-of-the-line device will improve your odds of receiving regular OS upgrades..." The Epic 4g has
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by spidaman 16y ago
Some galaxy S handsets have Froyo (see http://pages.samsung.com/ca/froyo/English/?pid=ca_home_subba... ) others don't, like my Epic 4g. Is it really politics or QA challenges; no official word has been forthcoming.
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Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1(forum.xda-developers.com)
284 points by spidaman 16y ago|94 comments
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by spidaman 16y ago
I agree that debunked pseudo-science should needs to be called out as such. However, I'd rather Salon re-publish the article bookended by the counter-evidence rather than take the article down and have the URL return an HTTP 410 (Gone) erro
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Correcting our record(salon.com)
2 points by spidaman 16y ago|1 comments
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by spidaman 16y ago
Yea, I was also hoping for something insightful about Scala adoption. Doh! As far as premature optimizations, if they're truly premature and moderate/high effort then yea, you're usually better off getting things working quickly first. But
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by spidaman 16y ago
Google has proven to be very effective data collectors (see "What they know" stuff from WSJ e.g. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870330970457541... ) - it may on the one hand be surprising they don't use this data more effecti
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by spidaman 16y ago
Yea, I knew the post would be vacuous when I hit "tyranny", but I guess the flourishes makes good HN bait to speak in sweeping terms like that. There's little about on-disk consistency and data loss risks, scale characteristics yet there's
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by spidaman 16y ago
Initially, it won't speed you up. Developing the right provisioning formula requires some investment of time but I think it's time you get back many times over because you don't need to follow a bunch of manual steps and making changes to t
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by spidaman 16y ago
Seems like the comments here on HN are talking about pair programming far more than Mark's OP. The top line of his post was that he prefers to work alone, that the arguments and social overhead of collaborative development have made him unh
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by spidaman 16y ago
Having inherited code developed by lone wolves a few times, I have come to believe that healthy code is like healthy DNA; it needs a variety of contributors. Yes, it can be difficult at times. It can involve struggles but I have no sympathy
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by spidaman 16y ago
There's a big difference between the cost to install and operate and the cost to scale. If your hardware utilization characteristics are easy to calibrate for and capacity requirements are predictably steady, you can certainly optimize your
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by spidaman 16y ago
Once I got up and running with sbt, I really took to it. You only need to be concerned about the net when you add a dependency that you want it to resolve by fetching remotely. If you want alternative web frameworks, I think scalatra looks
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by spidaman 16y ago
Stuxnet is a worm that targets net-isolated computers running Siemens control systems propagated by USB drives. All things old are new again, this time with sneakernet viruses.
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Iran Fights Strong Virus Attacking Computers(nytimes.com)
3 points by spidaman 16y ago|1 comments

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