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The Last McDonalds in Iceland(snotrahouse.com)
3 points by thamer 7y ago|1 comments
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by thamer 7y ago
Or just embrace modern hardware and use threads. This is the experience many people have running Redis in production with 21st-century hardware: https://twitter.com/rbranson/status/540565059337195520
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by thamer 7y ago
Pretty close… I'd say it is between burgundy and maroon, closer to burgundy but with a slight purple/violet tint that makes it not exactly burgundy. Edit: "maroon" can be confusing to French speakers since "marron&q
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by thamer 8y ago
In practice there's a bit more to it than what the article describes, especially for a distributed cache: you need to have the Promise auto-expire so that if the machine that's performing the backend read disappears the other read
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by thamer 8y ago
I have this one, and really like it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C40OG22/ref=oh_aui_sear... – it costs $10.99 and has anti-slip rubber on its surface. I also own another that has a completely smooth
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by thamer 8y ago
The new AirPods can be charged on Qi chargers, that are available on Amazon for $10. No one bought wireless charging AirPods because of AirPower.
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by thamer 8y ago
Yes it is, and I did this test again on its own after seeing the hematologist. But 23andme offers much more, and when I saw that they offered 50% off on DNA day I impulsively bought it.
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by thamer 8y ago
My father had Factor V Leiden[1], a mutation that increases blood clotting. He was hospitalized multiple times in his 30s, and died suddenly at age 50. After his first blood clot he was put on anti-coagulants and took them every day of his
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The front page of Hacker News the day Steve Jobs died(i.imgur.com)
4 points by thamer 8y ago|0 comments
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Opium Made Easy(michaelpollan.com)
1 points by thamer 8y ago|0 comments
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Housing: San Francisco Mid-Year Market Report(paragon-re.com)
1 points by thamer 8y ago|0 comments
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Drawing a map of distributed data systems(oreilly.com)
2 points by thamer 10y ago|0 comments
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by thamer 10y ago
I watched a version of this course a few weeks ago and it has cleared up a lot of things for me. Martin doesn't waste time on basic concepts and covers a lot of ground in 3 hours. It's probably the tutorial I learned the most from
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DataStax Raises $106M in New Pre-IPO Round, Chips Away at Oracle(blogs.wsj.com)
36 points by thamer 12y ago|16 comments
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by thamer 12y ago
Google's two-factor auth has several backup mechanisms: you can print a list of single-use codes[1] or use a backup phone[2]. [1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538?hl=en&top... [2] https
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by thamer 12y ago
See also Michael Bernstein's articles and talks on the subject, including the paper linked: http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/06/10/to-know-a-garbage-colle...
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Goat Simulator(goat-simulator.com)
5 points by thamer 13y ago|0 comments
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Asynchronous replication with failover (Redis)(aphyr.com)
4 points by thamer 13y ago|0 comments
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by thamer 14y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one'
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A Snitch’s Dilemma(nytimes.com)
2 points by thamer 14y ago|0 comments
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When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind(nytimes.com)
118 points by thamer 14y ago|24 comments
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Show HN: Week-end project, visualizing a full day in the London transport system(journal.batard.info)
1 points by thamer 14y ago|0 comments
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Hot Tech Boy of the Week: Zach Holman(social-proof.org)
1 points by thamer 15y ago|0 comments
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by thamer 15y ago
An ex-PornHub developer did an AMA a few months ago; they were using Redis as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kf4be/nsfw_iama_former...
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Flash Player sandboxing is coming to Firefox(blogs.adobe.com)
67 points by thamer 15y ago|29 comments
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by thamer 15y ago
Composite keys (multi-dimensional) and distributed counters were not in the Dynamo paper. They were added to Cassandra, which is indeed based partially on Dynamo.
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Thoughts on SimpleDB, DynamoDB and Cassandra(perfcap.blogspot.com)
13 points by thamer 15y ago|2 comments
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by thamer 15y ago
Cracking the code leads to this page: http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/soyoudidit.asp which in turn links to a job offer for "Cyber Security Specialists". Details of the job aside, the salary offered (£25,446 to £31,152) is incredibly low a
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Pleaseresize.me - A brief history of fluidity in webdesign(pleaseresize.me)
1 points by thamer 15y ago|0 comments
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by thamer 15y ago
You can, but maybe not from the web interface. I use s3cmd to upload files, and it sets the content-type just fine.

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