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by wheels 14y ago
Biggest lesson from the days where I was the only technical person in our company: Get a monitoring system in place that you trust. Then get a second, completely independent one in place that you trust. Then also get on-machine monitoring
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by wheels 14y ago
Amazon has been doing this in parts of Germany since 2009. The results haven't been nearly as dramatic as the article predicts. As others have indicated, the limiting factor isn't so much speed of delivery as the inclination to physically
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by wheels 14y ago
"Small talk" is commonly used as a loan phrase in modern German. One might as well say that American English has no word for the first year of school. "Quatschen" is also pretty close to the meaning of "small talk" (with a slightly more n
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by wheels 14y ago
> Not a great experience if i have to go to command line every time i change a byte. That's why, as was already mentioned, you generate them on the fly during development and generate them statically for production. That way you chan
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Start-up attempts to convert Prof Hawking's brainwaves into speech(bbc.com)
9 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 14y ago
I don't see how that mitigates the issue at all. The case I'm talking about is when your primaries totally bite the dust. It's obvious that a backup system shouldn't be in the same physical location as the primary system. The issue I'm re
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by wheels 14y ago
Will those changes also finally speed up client restores? The extremely slow restores are one of those things that remain terrifying as a customer. We've had to consider moving to a different backup system for disaster recovery. Tarsnap c
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by wheels 14y ago
The title is incorrect -- the original was, "Leadership, Strategy and Qt". Nokia has not at this point fired the Qt team. They fired the folks in the Ulm office. Those are not the guys that formerly worked for Trolltech (in Oslo, Brisban
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by wheels 14y ago
Here's the web cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hawaii....
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Venice's Struggle Against the Water(spiegel.de)
7 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 14y ago
Your analysis is overly dismissive of genres that you presumably don't like. Simplistic pop songs aren't a new phenomenon; they were just as present in the 60s as they are now. We just don't listen to them anymore as they haven't stood th
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by wheels 14y ago
Unfortunately your explanation doesn't hold water if you consider other instruments. C major / A minor are even easier on piano. (C major and A minor are relative keys – they contains the same notes, just with a different note emphasiz
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by wheels 14y ago
Huh? The flakiness of a standard uplink will have you down for 44 hours a year? On what planet? With our non-AWS hosting providers we tend to see 2-4 hours of network issues per year . Heroku's uptime also hasn't historically been anyw
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by wheels 14y ago
Honestly, that's pious bullshit. It's the thing people keep saying every time Heroku gets mentioned is that it'd do better than you would yourself for availability, but you'd have to be borderline incompetent to have as much downtime with
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Interview with Wolfgang Beltracchi: Confessions of a Genius Art Forger(spiegel.de)
3 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 14y ago
There are lots of rocket companies, some outside of the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_com... To be honest, I don't really get the hubbub about this launch. It's a business innovation, not a scientific one.
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U.S. Women in Computing: Why Isn't It Getting Better?(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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Google 'infringed' Oracle's Java in split trial result(bbc.co.uk)
12 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 14y ago
Am I the only one that's tired of the absolutist arguments without any substantive evidence that seem to plague social news sites? We have no idea if Y Combinator's "No Idea" thing is good or bad. I suspect YC doesn't know either and once
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From Gay To Pay: How Fab.com Became The Hottest Online Retailer(forbes.com)
2 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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Some insight into how Instagram secured a $1bn valuation(theequitykicker.com)
2 points by wheels 14y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
People overestimate the difficulty in learning different alphabets (and the assumed difficulty of the languages which use them). I'm on vacation in Israel this week and learned the Hebrew alphabet with standard flash cards in 2 hours (incid
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by wheels 15y ago
> if you live in a dense city with poor traffic flow, and that accounts for a tiny percentage of the world population That's false. Most of the world's population now lives in cities. Deciding what percentage of those fall below the
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Hot Job Market for Computer Science Graduates(cacm.acm.org)
4 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
The original article(s) were better (and Spiegel translated them to English and put them up on its International section): http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,827877,00... http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,15
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by wheels 15y ago
> These are endeavors normally left to nation states. The logical conclusion of that is feudalism, and I think with more or less the same consequences. Basically: • You'll get some good kings and some bad kings • Some will be into ex
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by wheels 15y ago
Another annoyance: with the latest batch of reporting regulations for accounts of US citizens, many foreign banks won't let US citizens open up investment accounts since it's not worth it to them to deal with the reporting. (Presumably th
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How open is your internet? An interactive map(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
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Don’t Try To “Pull An Instagram.” Here’s Why …(bothsidesofthetable.com)
146 points by wheels 15y ago|17 comments
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'We Read Best on Paper': Cultural Resistance Hobbles German E-Book Market(spiegel.de)
6 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments

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