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I got bit by this a month ago. You can disable the new behavior by setting 2 environment variables export AWS_REQUEST_CHECKSUM_CALCULATION=when_required export AWS_RESPONSE_CHECKSU…

A Friend of a friend is a technical recruiter for SWA. They told me that SWA pays their Software Engineers below market salaries. They complained that because of that, its hard to …

I was able to copy a c64 cartridge by inserting it crooked and then dumping the memory to floppy disk. Then you could load it and run `sys 32768` to get it to run.

I looked, but I couldn't find a .tar.gz or anything. I emailed Joel and asked him to put it up on his github page, https://github.com/jswelling He has something called DrawP3D, but…

Back in the 90s, Joel Welling and Chris Nuuja at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at CMU developed a similar system called P3D. It was really cool, and they had a bunch of back…

I started at Akamai in July 2002 and I received an option grant as part of my offer. Since I had options before, I thought they were all priced at the closing price on the day they…

His company is http://www.ave4.com/ I meet him a few times, interviewed to work there (didn't get the job.) I mostly talked to a lawyer who was very nice, but reminded me of Kobaya…

This is would be the perfect time for IBM to apply all Watson technologies and resources to develop new insight into Covid-19.

I used a SPARCbook back in 1996 for a business trip to Germany to install our search engine at t-online.de. The CFO of the company wanted to know who had this machine at all times …

I'd like to see the source code for Altavista released to the Computer History Museum. I think it is of historical significance. If anyone knows who currently has that code, please…

Radix Trees are used extensively at Akamai. They are very useful in dealing with blocks of network addresses. When I was there, they had 2 libraries which shared the on disk format…

I'm reminded of this report from CMU on Toyota's Unintended Acceleration and Software Saftey from a few years ago. https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_... I…

Doesn't work for streaming Live Events (pay per view), which is the main use case for multi-CDN

This sounds similar to https://www.conviva.com/precision/ Unfortunately you need to know a lot more and the devil is in the details. Supporting the various streaming devices/browse…

They don't depend on geothermal activity. They depend on the relatively constant temp of the ground below the freeze line. In most places if you go down a few feet the earth is 40-…

The 'ERA' in 'Speedera' was from the first letter of first name of each of the founders, Eric Swildens, Rich Day, and Ajit Gupta.

Makes me wonder if Travis has a connection to Eric through Akamai. Eric's company, Speedera, was also acquired by Akamai in 2005. Travis's company, RedSwoosh, was acquired by Akama…

My sister has a http://www.waterfurnace.com with a about 1500 feet of plastic tubing buried in her yard. Works really well.

I second Pittsburgh. I moved from Cambridge to Pittsburgh 10 years ago after my first child was born. I have had no trouble finding interesting projects to work on at decent pay. I…

I love the ad he placed in the paper, it was perfect. "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and r…

I've always wanted Google to provide a BlackHole option on all their products. Every person, organization, subject on my black hole list would never appear in any search results, o…

What about VW going after the US through the TPP ? From http://www.dailydot.com/politics/tpp-leaked-investment-chapt... > Corporations may be granted through “Investor-State Disput…

I wonder how you car will drive after the "fix." I suspect you won't be very happy with it.

Coin is an interesting idea, but I figured https://www.dynamicsinc.com/ would sue the pants off of them for patent infringement once they went to market. Dynamics CEO is a former p…