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Engineering manager for code search at GitHub here... this is an excellent summary of many of the concerns we have as we work on code search at GitHub scale!

I don't see anything on the status page. I know the status page lags an actual incident, but I'd imagine something would be up by now. Is this a widespread problem?

I live in NYC and recently noticed 2 day prime deliveries are becoming more unreliable. I've had two shipments in the last 2 months take 3 days. It seems they're switching to using…

Wand ( http://docs.wand-py.org/en/0.3.5/ ) is a set of python bindings for ImageMagick that was super easy to get set up. In my experience with this project, it exploded the GIFs l…

Some technical points of interest, perhaps. The gif explosion / creation is done server-side using python Wand, Pillow and the excellent images2gif script. Exploding the gif into f…

A while ago I put together http://twoletterscrabblewords.com/ to visualize the two letter pairs that were possible. If you click on any of the tiles you'll see the valid pairs, unl…

Big deal. I was Time's person of the year back in 2006 - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00....

Make enough money so you can save $333,333.34 each year.

A mathematician figures out the best way to jam an extra star onto the American flag. How would you do it?

I won't put quicktime on this machine, so I haven't seen the video. Do they mention the speed of the processor in the video? I'm suspicious of the actual processor speed since it w…

You might consider having an additional meta field where the person requesting can write notes about the translation request to provide context for the translator. I worked on larg…

I appreciate the use of CSS3, but that's the Strongbad-lookinest rendition of Spiderman I've ever seen