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by timf 16y ago
I interact with women in technology enough for it to not be surprising. At conferences and meetings when people act strangely meeting my technical and capable female colleagues, it suggests to me that the person is inexperienced rather than
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by timf 16y ago
This post is not actually about a "booth babe problem", it's making the point that they are a red herring in discussions about women and technology. "It’s about the reaction of men to a technically competent woman, no matter what she’s wea
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Python tools for penetration testers(dirk-loss.de)
1 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
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by timf 16y ago
Werner Vogels says S3 is designed "for 99.999999999% durability." That is eleven nines . (From http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/05/amazon_s3_reduce... ) EBS volumes have a theoretical "annual failure rate (AFR) of between 0.1% –
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by timf 16y ago
S3 is like a giant RAID device to me, similar caveats apply from the "RAID is not a proper backup" arguments. There is not protection against deletions (malicious or accidental), writing over a file with a corrupted file, etc. Further, the
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PEP 3148 Accepted: futures – execute computations asynchronously(jessenoller.com)
5 points by timf 16y ago|2 comments
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PyTables 2.2: entering the multi-core age(mail.python.org)
4 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
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by timf 16y ago
Looks like there are a wide array of opinions about what causes inflation (let alone deliberate inflation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation#Causes
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by timf 16y ago
Sorry I did not mean to imply US is the only one, just a normally hot topic.
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by timf 16y ago
"The building up of unsustainable debt loads is a commonplace in history. There are several standard means of resolving the problem: execute the lenders, exile them, default outright or simply renegotiate to achieve partial default and low
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by timf 16y ago
There are 10+ HN submissions of this by now, here are ones with comments to check out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782171 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357390 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1439939
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by timf 16y ago
In 2.7, print is still the print statement by default: http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/functions.html#print
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Python newthreading - simplified threads, path to eliminate GIL(mail.python.org)
80 points by timf 16y ago|18 comments
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RFC for 3 weeks: National Strategy for Trusted Identities(nstic.ideascale.com)
3 points by timf 16y ago|1 comments
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by timf 16y ago
This is what I was going on, I checked that man page, incredulously...
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by timf 16y ago
A second long sleep on every read or write? If this was actually happening, it sounds like it could create unheard of performance issues for any significant transfer. Or was this not noticed because all the major frameworks like cherrypy a
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PyFilesystem 0.3 released(willmcgugan.com)
93 points by timf 16y ago|7 comments
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by timf 16y ago
I've edited mine before if I notice there is cruft like campaign trackers, etc., to get to the canonical URL (i.e., I made a mistake submitting). I am not "accusing" you of anything, I am wondering why the dupe detector does not work. It'
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by timf 16y ago
Dupe detection just isn't what it used to be, this is from today as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1444641 (The URLs of each entry look the same to me, is exact dupe detection broken? Perhaps this URL was edited post-submission
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by timf 16y ago
There are comments about this in (at least) two other places: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357390 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782171
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How much of the U.S. will Starbucks' free Wi-Fi cover? As it turns out, a lot.(blog.chanduthota.com)
2 points by timf 16y ago|1 comments
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SeaMicro drops an atom bomb on the server industry(venturebeat.com)
260 points by timf 16y ago|109 comments
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Perspectives on SeaMicro's Innovative Intel Atom Server(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
17 points by timf 16y ago|11 comments
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by timf 16y ago
I would say pick one language to begin with and spend about a year trying out beginner material, building small things, and learning how to find information for yourself online. I suggest Python, check out these resources: http://wiki.pyth
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DOE Releases Raw Data on Oil Spill(energy.gov)
1 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
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by timf 16y ago
Yeah, but that is different. It will not persist past one use while I am working, it will not be usable across unix processes.
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by timf 16y ago
PostgresSQL and Redis. A local SQLite database installed under "/dev/shm/" (i.e., really in RAM) is nice while programming.
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Amazon CloudFront: HTTPS Access, Another Edge Location (NYC), Price Reduction(aws.typepad.com)
11 points by timf 16y ago|0 comments
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by timf 16y ago
> jetty too. You must mean Derby..
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by timf 16y ago
Or the auction does occur, someone bids all of their money, and the next turn that person goes bankrupt (making the game take, what, 5 seconds?)

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