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The lady doth protest too much, no? The guy is using Redis as a buffer to what ultimately ends up just being a central log file. You know. rsyslog. None of the fancy things you hav…

woot can't wait to play with this Edit: err I should probably add more substance than that.. one less thing to keep track of and have to set up when getting into config management …

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Do you have some benchmarks handy that indicate that CentOS or RHEL are more performant than Ubuntu?

So Canonical, a distribution maker, is not to be trusted for their kernel suggestions, but Amazon is infallible? On what basis? We asked the Amazon kernel team if we should try swi…

What is your recommendation?

You're neglecting the fact that which distro you choose has a large influence on the kernel version you get to run. With the amount of work going into stabilizing the kernel when r…

We ran into what we believe to be this very problem at SimpleGeo and spent a long time figuring out what the cause of the JVM locking up for tens of minutes at a time were; we beli…

think you're viewing my statement out of the necessary context..

The implication is that the people for whom eventual consistency is not an option will never reach a data set size or availability requirement that'll require them to use replicati…

I think any serious infrastructure is going to need a cross-language, cross package manager entity that just lines everything up. I've run into the problem with pip on ubuntu where…

That's in case the battery goes boom. The bend at the bottom is an absolute dealbreaker for me.

a/s/l? it's threads like these that will forever keep me from accumulating any karma on here.

How is using hash passwords "a lot of extra work"? Seriously, what part of that is a lot of work? The password reset feature?

Why of course. You can come stay in the closet of my studio apartment. I'll feed you and clothe you until we can find just the right opportunity for your brilliant mind! I know we'…

I like that... I'll have to see if there's a way to locate the stops short of just maintaining a database. I'll also need to be careful with browser detection - I don't want to be …

Upon my moving to the US in 98, some kids at my middle school found out the hard way that that is certainly not a universal rule. I certainly do think that hackers are more prone t…

Well, at least at this phase, I'm solving the very specific problem (dogfooding like crazy here, btw) of having a very set routine that can involve N number of busses where N > 1. …

Hmmm I guess if you submit a link, the "text" field gets ignored. It uses Django and the App Engine. Data is just a scrape of nextbus.com. The write up is here: http://mihasya.com/…

Yeah, but it works on most other phones its been tried on (limited audience so far, but I know it works well on the G1, as well as on some basic browser phones with small screens) …

Just a small app using Django and the Google App Engine for improving the workflow provided by nextbus.com. Write up here: http://mihasya.com/blog/?p=203, source here: http://githu…

All of the big silicon valley companies claim to be "flat." When I started at Yahoo!, all I heard about was how flat the organization was. Doesn't mean it's true.

GASP A JOB AT GOOGLE IS A JOB?!!!