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Thanks for your suggestions, all. Our traffic roughly doubled, which didn't cause any strain on our infrastructure. For the curious, the site is http://betterific.com , which was l…

I run a website that, to date, has had very low traffic, fewer than 1k uniques / day. I expect a Fortune 500 company to link to the site via their Facebook page within a day or two…

Start one. Ordinary people do it all the time.

I recommend less text shadow.

I have a similar laptop: 32-bit, 1Gb RAM, 1.6Ghz atom, purchased years ago on the cheap. I run the latest Ubuntu desktop edition and am able to run everything that I need (mostly R…

Ping me - I've got some ideas. bradcater@gmail.com

For those (like me) who didn't already know, the FetLife homepage appears NSFW.

FWIW, I worked at an online advertising company that ran a whole division on EC2 machines - at the peak, nearly 100 instances. This was never a problem for us because we were judic…

I'd recommend "The Mythical Man-Month" by Fred Brooks.

You're completely right. Thanks for the find!

Taking ideas from the beginning of "Keep Your Identity Small," I'd like to read something about art and / or artists. I choose that topic because, on one hand, I can say without ju…

Does anyone here have experience with protocol buffers? http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ I need to move some data faster and with less parsing on either side of the transmission,…

Ditto on the recommendation. It's one of the few free pieces of software that does something that's important to me really well.

I started using it this morning. After my session auto-expired, I can no longer log back in. It seemed useful until that happened, but lack of reliability is a deal-breaker.

Riddled with grammatical errors, this piece makes me chuckle.

After 1 million trials with the above method I get: avg: 499.00 sigma: 1115.04 [499.00 - 3.35,499.00 + 3.35]

You're exactly right. Whoops!

This is all scribbled in a notebook, so there's a good chance that it's wrong, but bear with me on the arithmetic. As a first guess, let's agree that in expectation you earn $0.51 …

CNN says that he is in the hospital: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/25/michael.jackson/...

Interesting that they use "type" as a field for the Format class: class Format(models.Model): type = models.CharField(choices=... type() is a Python function, so it doesn't make se…

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At the time that I took 6.001 (the MIT version of the SICP course), PLT Scheme lacked several libraries that the book requires. Since so many students wanted to use PLT, the staff …