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I don't believe they idled their factories. In fact, there was an article about how they had to find parking for all their newly assembled airplanes while they were grounded: http:…

The NYT just did an article about how employers will skip over potential hires that have bad credit, especially in a time of high unemployment when they have the option of being ch…

Parts were shot in Pittsburgh, LA, Manhattan, and London. The Freedom Tower under construction was obviously visible in some skyline shots. In one scene Batman and Bane were fighti…

It was sitting on the ground at the end of the table where you collect your belongings and repack your laptop. I showed it to TSA agent and went on my way.

I flew yesterday and found a rifle bullet+cartridge on the "secure" side of the TSA checkpoint. Yet somehow the gift-wrapped paperbacks in my checked luggage were deemed suspicious…

The jobs manufacturing iPhone/iPad/iPod aren't coming back, but I could see Apple bringing the manufacturing of computers (especially desktops) to the US. For one, the computers ha…

Because most users have a relatively fixed base load, and buying reserved instances for that base load lets you save lots of money. The ideal setup would look like: reserved instan…

They are doing that with the Bay Bridge: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/business/global/26bridge.h...

Yeah, I used to demonstrate this my typing "Americ" and then touching down directly over the 's'. Even though I pressed the 's', it was the 'a' that appeared. You could clearly see…

I worked on a project that implemented a task queue using a database table. Workers would SELECT FOR UPDATE a couple of rows, mark themselves as owners, commit the change, and then…

Humans are very easy to train compared to robots, and aren't that expensive. I'd imagine each facility is laid out slightly differently, with different generations of hardware. To …

Uhh, Safari? Safari is the number one browser on one of my (non-technical) websites, primarily because of mobile traffic (iPhone and iPad).

If we are sharing anecdotes: both my condo building and office building have reserved spots for charging electric cars. However, I'm not a fan because they were both installe by go…

A believe many people enjoy movies and don't want to pirate them (I am one of them). They won't pirate and don't want to abstain from movies, so the only option is to provide a cre…

Exactly, compare this to SimpleDB. SimpleDB started out with an advanced query language that let query and filter your results in all sorts of ways. And guess what? SimpleDB is sti…

I'm running a bunch of t1.micros for different websites, now I have to pay twice as much to get an ELB for each to use v6? And I still can't SSH over v6. Amazon needs to stop prete…

Try searching for [poison control] or [suicide]. Both of those bring up one boxes with phone numbers to call. Those probably help save a couple lives per day. Sure, you could call …

If anyone cares, I found out what the problem was. Chrome updated to a new version of the web socket standard back in version 15 or so. I wasn't aware of the change and so didn't u…

Heh. Well, mine wasn't completely arbitrary. If I remember correctly I was trying to trade off server CPU usage with memory usage. One chunk at a time is buffered on the server, so…

I made almost exactly the same thing a few months ago: http://www.transfury.com/ The server is written in node.js and it uses socket.io to do the transfers. I think it only works i…

That sounds like some of the posts on this blog: http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/ Also, related to source control but not Git, a few years ago Google had a tech talk about writ…

Ha! I love that they are using Hipster Ipsum: http://developer.android.com/design/static/content/ui_overvi... http://hipsteripsum.me/

My major take away from the MG Sieler post was that Rubin deleted a tweeted, which makes it look like he's trying to hide something, regardless of the true reason for deleting it. …

I was skeptical of the new pricing plan at first, but then I realized it was introducing more accurate price signals to users. This helped a lot of people realize that their apps w…

Sadly no mention of multipart upload. If you use S3's multipart upload feature you can get similar performance for one file by uploading multiple parts of the file at once. I saw a…