theospears

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Why Frames Tilt Forward (2015)(chcollins.com)
131 points by theospears 3y ago|48 comments
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by theospears 5y ago
I was responsible for maintaining some large glusterfs clusters built on top of these drives, and they certainly added excitement to the experience. 1) At one point we were experiencing disk failures often enough that we wrote a cronjob to
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by theospears 5y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Asana We have an in house system (LunaDb) which is a little like this. There's a tech talk available about how it works at https://blog.asana.com/2015/10/asana-tech-talk-reactive-quer...
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Curating Commits, or how Git works and why [video](blog.asana.com)
6 points by theospears 9y ago|0 comments
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by theospears 15y ago
Google have a few options here: 1. Attempt to detect these scam +1 votes, and either ignore them or penalise the targetted sites (although the latter is risky as it can be exploited to destroy the ranking of competitors) 2. Focus on encoura
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by theospears 16y ago
Some acronyms in the article I had to look up: RMB: Remnibi, the currency of china. Individual denominations are 1 yuán = 10 jiǎo = 100 fēn GFC: Great Financial Crisis
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by theospears 16y ago
Personally, I don't enjoy receiving anything electronic or gadget related as a present - I have a reasonable idea of what is available and if there is something I want I'll buy it for myself. I'd love to be given a voucher paying for me to
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by theospears 16y ago
Disclaimer: I have watched the video but not tried the product, so some of these observations may not apply to the the product itself. Overall, this looks like a great product. I know a number of people who find Google Website Optimizer com
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by theospears 16y ago
TinEye ( http://www.tineye.com ): a 'reverse image search'. You upload or link to an image and it finds you other copies of that image on the web. This is something you absolutely can't do via google, and is surprisingly useful, for example