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841.
by timf 17y ago
> don't see why you couldn't use this system for expressing requirements regarding licenses People do just that: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/techpaper/licenses.html I would not say it is "complex" but ultra flexible. You will not
842.
by timf 17y ago
Instead of SQS it uses RabbitMQ. I don't know about it's limits but since a serious RabbitMQ installation can handle something like millions of messages per second I assume the limits you will hit are in the persistence solution on celeryd
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by timf 17y ago
Celery supports scheduled tasks (including recurring ones like cron): http://ask.github.com/celery/introduction.html It was originally written in the context of Django but it is a general purpose Python library now.
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Loic Le Meur - predictions for the future of Twitter(loiclemeur.com)
1 points by timf 17y ago|1 comments
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Emotion Markup Language(w3.org)
3 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
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by timf 17y ago
Yeah the 2 hours plus their "skills and creativity." One of the examples she liked the best was a team that sold their class presentation slot to a company that wanted to pitch to business students.
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by timf 17y ago
Since it's a video, I will risk ruining the 'surprise' for you since it's hard to scan a video. She says the most successful teams didn't really use the $5 because it was a limitation, they broke out of the standard "framing" of the proble
848.
by timf 17y ago
odesk or rentacoder?
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Students Help Ford Bring [Web 2.0] to Cars(wired.com)
1 points by timf 17y ago|1 comments
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by timf 17y ago
I was not all that impressed until I saw the size of the original source code, dang.
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Crowdsourcing Your Product Name(softwarebyrob.com)
4 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
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Amazon PayPhrase(amazon.com)
3 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
853.
by timf 17y ago
I have set up a system with the people I talk to frequently. The person who initiated the call originally is the one responsible for calling back if there was a connection problem. Done.
854.
by timf 17y ago
BEA LiquidVM has been doing this for several years. Don't know what happened to it after Oracle acquired BEA...
855.
On the "DNA is a code" metaphor(morsdei.wordpress.com)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
856.
I/O Performance Challenges at Leadership Scale(mcs.anl.gov)
2 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
857.
The Space Elevator Games (sponsored by NASA)(spaceelevatorgames.org)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
858.
by timf 17y ago
http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/
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1 TB of Memory in 1 Minute with 1 Command(alestic.com)
16 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
860.
by timf 17y ago
ah, I just thought the "uninteresting" part was the mug and spatial points was some HN greasemonkey feature you had...
861.
by timf 17y ago
spatial points?
862.
by timf 17y ago
I agree RDS is on the lower end of novelty and excitement... And once you have VMs and a network, what could be considered truly new? Was EBS new? We can create a clustered filesystem with GNBD exports without Amazon's help, too.
863.
by timf 17y ago
Oh, I agree. There are nice unlimited (NIC saturation at least) deals for both inbound and outbound, you'd be insane to use EC2 for this level of traffic.
864.
by timf 17y ago
If you get up to the point where they start charging you .10 outbound, you have already transferred 150TB and been charged $17900 (1st 10TB @ .17 = $1700; next 40TB @ .13 = $5200; next 100TB @ .11 = $11000)
865.
by timf 17y ago
While it does run as an instance (looks like you don't get shell access), they provide new native API calls for adding and removing nodes on demand, and they will maintain the stack and backups for you. And in the future, API calls for aut
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by timf 17y ago
> $.10 / G That is the inbound price, the outbound price (where you will more likely have an issue) is .17/GB
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by timf 17y ago
Except that on Slicehost you get 400GB of transfer which would cost $68 more on EC2 (outbound).
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Amazon Relational Database Service(aws.amazon.com)
181 points by timf 17y ago|66 comments
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by timf 17y ago
> I think "messages without a recipient" have been around for quite a while, and we call them broadcast messages. Yeah or any number of pubsub, queue based messaging systems. What twitter has is millions of users all in one place wit
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New JVM options and Scala iteration performance(blog.juma.me.uk)
21 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments

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