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I've often wondered how others get the multiplication tables to stick. When I was in school and tasked with learning and being tested on them I remembered them - just about - for l…

I do the dots thing too. I've never heard anybody else describe it and, to be honest, it's quite comforting to hear I'm not the only one. In fact I don't just imagine dots, I imagi…

> We start by finding a number that forms a perfect square that is close to 33. Here, let’s pick g=6, since 6^2=36. As somebody who is numerically essentially blind I'm not only in…

They bought and then shuttered Slicehost in an attempt to occupy that market segment.

Estonia beg to differ: https://e-estonia.com

https://runson.cloud and the associated Chrome extension

On the same topic, this is an excellent read: https://www.wired.com/2008/02/ff-seacowboys/

If you are unsure of the tenancy of any given site https://runson.cloud may be of some help.

Having worked on the PL/1 and Assembler that formed the core accounting systems of a bank: yes. Not only did I have source control I had flow diagrams of the entire system for all …

An availability zone (AZ) in AWS eu-west-2 was flooded by a fire protection system going off within the last year. It absolutely did affect workloads in that AZ. That shouldn't hav…

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I did a lot of the work to get sub-second timestamps working within the fluentd+ElasticSearch ecosystem and the thing is a tire fire.

I built https://runson.cloud to help you identify which Cloud or CDN a site runs on in the first place.

Wavefront brings a number of things to the table that aren't core competencies we wish to maintain in-house. I know it can scale to massive volumes without interaction from us. I k…

Why should I run this instead of renewing my Wavefront contract?

A query interface to the public IP address manifests published by the larger Cloud providers and CDNs https://runson.cloud/

It is interesting to note that elastic.co is hosted on Google Cloud: https://runson.cloud/search/elastic.co

I have a tool that makes parsing that file easier for some query types: https://github.com/sampointer/digaws

Mobile game development is heavily biased around Mono across Android. It is perhaps the biggest existing proving ground of the architecture independence of C#.

I've worked on zSeries machines running S/360 binaries from the early 70s. It is one of the primary reasons banking and related sectors that are heavily regulated stick with such p…

As a counterpoint, the suspected murderer of Abigail Williams and Liberty German in Delphi ("The Delphi Murders") was captured on video by his victims[1] and remains at large three…

This isn't in any way a criticism, but I found it really amusing that your post contained almost exactly the error you were describing ("hat") before correction.

Britney Spears = Beers. Brad Pitt = Shit. "Get the Britneys in, I'll be back in a minute - I'm off for quick Brad".