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This article really nailed it. I spent two months last year in the D.R Congo and in those 2 months I had approximately only 4 hours of coding. Electricity was reliable only between…

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Whisper is great, I've used it for various projects. I don't know what state of the art will be but you can possibly look at Logstash.

I minimise costs by using a mix of GAE and AWS: Host the main application on GAE but for background services use AWS. E.g I use AWS SES for mails and S3 for storing uploads and blo…

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Same here. Ramanujan, Taxi, Hardy, Erdos, "The man who loved only numbers" but couldn't recall it's importance.

Elasticsearch is really awesome for keeping large amount of searchable data. I used it in a previous application where we stored millions of items a week. For data retention I had …

This is nice. Feature request: Add a safe-search setting.

+1. If you just replace "smaller" with "less armed", you get the history of most Sub-Saharan African countries in a nutshell. Unfortunately the schools there still teach more histo…

In addition to vukmir's suggestion of Robert Sedgewick's Coursera video lectures (which have some animations to help visualize the data structures operations), I find "The Algorith…

SEEKING WORK - Remote Full stack developer, primarily backend. I've worked extensively with backends of systems doing lots of NLP, ML and IR tasks (classification, stream processin…

I'm originally bilingual (French and Lingala). I've been living in an English speaking country for the last 10 years, moved here as a teen. It still takes me a lot of effort to pro…

Same on Chrome 24, using Ubuntu. I just copied the Download like directly and will play with it later. http://parall.ax/parallax/downloads/jsPDF-0.9.0rc2.zip

What I discovered is I may be too poor to own art but I can create it for people who are rich enough to own it. With time and the right opportunities I can increase the price until…

PCI is a great book. One book I'll recommend after reading it is "Mining of Massive Datasets" ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html ) - Chapter 9 especially. It goes into…

I came here to suggest the same book. I didn't do all the problems but it was definitely the best commit hour companion I've had.

Fascinating read, my memory wasn't as vivid as this person's but I didn't need much effort to recall anything. Like you, it all changed with age. It was really wonderful sometimes …

I'm working on a side project in this space and I'm interested to know more about why you're winding down the T-Shirt company. Please drop me a mail

I constantly scored around 15K without Googling or anything until I got bored and wrote this function: https://gist.github.com/dougk7/5633920

Any recommendations for great books on DevOps or iOS Programming?

Graphite is an awesome service. On the code side, I use Metrics ( http://metrics.codahale.com/ ) for Java and for Python I use scales ( https://github.com/Cue/scales )

For those running online shops, did you use an existing open source e-commerce platform or did you create your own? Which existing platforms would you recommend for a new project?

Thanks. I've done it.

It's still not showing - thanks for letting me know though.