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Thanks for mentioning Songkick, I just registered there and looks like a good service overall. Reminds me of some of the last.fm functionality I was using in the past for that matt…

Nice service to get an initial overview. I am a regular festival-goer, but I prefer to go to more "underground"-ish festival (for the lack of a better word). Those festivals don't …

You are right about that, I lived in Trier, a German town next to the border to Luxembourg. A lot of people in the area went there just to fill their tanks (gas is around 20 cent l…

Like a Universal Health Care you could have a "Universal Law Care", a per se legal costs insurance for every natural person. You might have to pay low fares measured in daily rates…

That is already there :) Only one of the three servers allows bots.

Halite also looks interesting, but I think with generals bot-makers will have much more possibilities, because there are no limitations for your implementation. The game mechanics …

This will be super interesting. I think this game makes very much sense as an intermediate frontier on the road to a StarCraft AI. Here are my reasons: * The playing field is relat…

I have a bet going on with a friend for some years, about if there will be a hack or data-breach that exposes DNA data in the next 10 years (from 2009). He comes to visit tomorrow,…

I don't agree. From Cologne you can stay on the Autobahn/Schnellstraße pretty much until you reach the Grohmann front-door. I think that's a much better kind of commute for reading…

It depends on the kind of people you want. Even if the town is "remote" if seen by German proportions, it is still only an hours drive away from the next major cities and the count…

This just made my jaw literally drop. Not only is Prüm my former hometown (of roughly 5000 people), but I actually worked at Grohmann at holidays and as a part-timer during my scho…

For price-worthy PC Speakers I recommend Teufel: http://www.teufel.de/pc/pc-stereo21.html I am also very satisfied with these headphones: http://www.thomann.de/de/beyerdynamic_dt99…

This looks interesting at first glance, but to be honest, I don't fully get it from the description. Is it some kind of Storm/CEP/Graphite combination? Where does the actual "proce…

I really like the music on your Soundcloud! Would you share your current hard- and software setup?

The sounds are great by themselves, but I had the most fun layering different generators by opening several tabs. I played around with the EQ and made something sounding very close…

Here is my trick for this: I use an individual email address for each signup I do, in the form of @mydomain.com. By that way, when I get spam, I don't only know the spams source, b…

Which stream are you using exactly. Are you applying any filters? Afaik the complete firehose has restricted access, or did that change? Edit: very cool visualization btw. What are…

A really good framework built around ZeroMQ is Storm, which does exactly that: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm

I was reading the article "I'll Probably Never Hire Another Pure SysAdmin" yesterday and kept wondering if there is a good book that covers all the sysadmin topics that typically o…

Mahout & EMR is a powerful combination and I can also recommend boto library for managing it. If you are using these together, be sure to use hadoop version 0.20 when running a job…

The nice thing about them is that they are very short and so you can try a lot of different strategies, but there were also long scripts like Mule DNA. I think this is a great way …

Thank you for the recommendation. Some of my tasks are language specific, so I would like to find people capable of speaking a certain language.

After reading some articles about virtual personal assistants, I want to ask the community, if they know of any good site to find me an assistant paid on an hourly basis for some r…