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751.
by timf 17y ago
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048873
752.
Google Docs FS implementation (FUSE)(code.google.com)
5 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
753.
Evolving Firefox Extensions(toolness.com)
2 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
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Rackspace vs. EC2: Performance Analysis(thebitsource.com)
53 points by timf 17y ago|18 comments
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AWS working on higher level orchestration?(us-amazon.icims.com)
3 points by timf 17y ago|1 comments
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A personal jet that will fit inside your garage(golfhotelwhiskey.com)
3 points by timf 17y ago|1 comments
757.
by timf 17y ago
As I am in severe 'back of the envelope' mode, I did not investigate that claim. But I think they refer to footnote 21 for the estimate: http://people.csail.mit.edu/tromer/papers/factorest.pdf
758.
by timf 17y ago
Only 2000 compute years of a single AMD 2.2GHz were reported to be used. Using the rough estimate of 9GFlops for that chip, the current top supercomputer (that we know of) is very roughly 200,000 times as powerful. The paper estimates 1024
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The rare "roll cloud"(apod.nasa.gov)
14 points by timf 17y ago|2 comments
760.
Flash on Nexus One(youtube.com)
8 points by timf 17y ago|7 comments
761.
by timf 17y ago
" it's not like I can do actual operations logged in as the other users, just viewing. " If you can see the user's "saved" feed (i.e., what submissions they voted for), I would say that is a privacy issue. That is currently not public info
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Skiff e-Reader(geektonic.com)
1 points by timf 17y ago|1 comments
763.
Characterizing Systems using the CAP theorem(javathink.blogspot.com)
2 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
764.
by timf 17y ago
Great observation. > Facebook should allow you to 'friend' a business That has the same connotations to me, how about "follow"
765.
You Should Waste 50% of Your Time(measuringmeasures.blogspot.com)
69 points by timf 17y ago|10 comments
766.
Pbzip2, how do I love thee?(scalability.org)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
767.
by timf 17y ago
> more than timf's flash-based ones. Clarification: I only submitted this link, found the announcement via twitter: http://twitter.com/tlossen/status/6708121340
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Realtime charts of EC2 spot prices(cloudexchange.org)
63 points by timf 17y ago|19 comments
769.
Marketing genius (on iPhone)(jonoscript.wordpress.com)
2 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
770.
Dave Beazley's Python Concurrency Workshop (Reprise)(dabeaz.com)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
771.
Google backs world's fastest Internet cable(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
772.
by timf 17y ago
"The simplest way to know the current status of your Spot Instances is to monitor your Spot requests and running instances via the AWS Management Console or Amazon EC2 API." Hmm. Since this new feature can actively terminate instances,
773.
by timf 17y ago
Not sure about this in the context of that histappend stuff, but bash can do that normally: use HISTIGNORE and "&". Here is my HISTIGNORE: export HISTIGNORE="&:ls:ls -la" That will ignore duplicates, "ls", and "ls -la" That'
774.
by timf 17y ago
Considering the number of shells I have open, that would be very weird. A coherent "local" history is very useful not just for the up key but also for referring to history items by number (like "!123"). My solution for my laptop has helped
775.
SaaS Vendors Should Learn The Art Of Security - Dropbox Issue(cloudave.com)
4 points by timf 17y ago|7 comments
776.
Enumerating Dropbox Resources (account # exposure)(neohaxor.org)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
777.
by timf 17y ago
Assuming a good portion of the streams analyzed were from CDNs, this is the second time recently I've seen Limelight get a great rating from a significant study (I can't find the other one offhand).
778.
Cylindrical datacenter(youtube.com)
2 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
779.
by timf 17y ago
The link is to the source code. If you'd rather understand what this does by seeing example output (without running it), see: http://git-wt-commit.rubyforge.org/#git-wtf
780.
by timf 17y ago
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974642

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