1 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How do we kick our synchronous addiction? - How do we kick our synchronous addiction?: I've been wondering about this too...
nelson : Async programming is hard - Nice overview of current inadequate options for asynchronous programming
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Simon Willison : Socket Benchmark of Asynchronous Servers in Python - Socket Benchmark of Asynchronous Servers in Python. A comparison of eight different asynchronous networking frameworks in Python. Tornado comes out on top in most of the benchmarks, but the post is most interesting for the direct comparison of simple co
Jeremy Zawodny : Nicholas Piël » Socket Benchmark of Asynchronous Servers in Python - Nicholas Piël » Socket Benchmark of Asynchronous Servers in Python: an interesting comparison of async server libs in python
nelson : Python async servers - Nice comparison of a bunch of event-driven server frameworks
joshua : Socket Benchmark of Asynchronous Servers in Python
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Jeremy Zawodny : Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font - Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font: that is crazy yet brilliant at the same time... I love it
nelson : vt220.ttf - Someone makes a TrueType font that looks like an old VT220 terminal
Rod Begbie : Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font - I can think of no better use for my new 30" monitor at work than to use this font based on original VT220 terminals at a large size. [via] #
joshua : Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font
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Jeremy Zawodny : Build a Silent, Standalone XBMC Media Center On the Cheap - Feature - Build a Silent, Standalone XBMC Media Center On the Cheap - Feature: if I didn't already have a media center PC, I'd hack on this
nelson : $200 XBMC system - Looks promising as a settop PC.
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Jeremy Zawodny : CSS IS AWESOME Mug from Zazzle.com - CSS IS AWESOME Mug from Zazzle.com: Ha! that's funny...
deusx : CSS IS AWESOME Mug from Zazzle.com - "Your web developers will overflow their box model when they see you sporting this hilarious new t-shirt! Then they'll go back to using tables. "
nelson : CSS is awesome - Lolerific coffee mug
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Jeremy Zawodny : #sqlputdowns - Twitter Search - #sqlputdowns - Twitter Search: heh
nelson : #sqlputdowns - Funny nerd humour
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Jeremy Zawodny : What Your Computer Does While You Wait - What Your Computer Does While You Wait: this is good but kinda makes me sad too
nelson : Computer speeds - Great details of how CPU, cache, RAM, and bus interact for different latencies.
Rod Begbie : What Your Computer Does While You Wait : Gustavo Duarte - The latencies of the modern computer laid bare. "Waiting for a hard drive seek is like leaving the building to roam the earth for one year and three months." [via] #
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19 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Redhat perl. What a tragedy. - Redhat perl. What a tragedy.: yikes... this is really bad
nelson : RedHat Perl broken - Well, more broken than Perl elsewhere
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21 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : obstcp - obstcp: "Obfuscated TCP is a backwards-compatible modification to the TCP protocol which adds opportunistic encryption. It's designed to hamper and detect large-scale wiretapping and corruption of TCP traffic on the Internet." Interesting!
nelson : Obfuscated TCP - Interesting opportunistic encryption
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22 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Treadmill Kittens [video] - Treadmill Kittens [video]: most excellent
nelson : Treadmill Kittens - aw, cute kitties!
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24 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : The New $3 Coin - The New $3 Coin: heh
nelson : The new $3 coin - America's currency is being modernized, whether we like it or not
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28 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : May I take your order? - May I take your order?: holy shit! that's the funniest thing I've read all week!
nelson : Carbon burns black bowel - Particularly bad example of nonsensical Japanese to English example. Quite funny.
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28 month ago
Simon Willison : Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock - Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark’s clock. Les UX (previously known for constructing a secret underground cinema in the Paris catacombs) strikes again.
Andy Baio : Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock - the same group responsible for the secret cinema and bar built in a cavern under Paris
nelson : Stealth clock repair - Amazing story of an unauthorized repair to the Pantheon clock in Paris
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29 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : The Great Pizza Orientation Test - The Great Pizza Orientation Test: heh
nelson : Pizza orientation test - Totally silly, but made me laugh
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30 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo's Doug Cutting on MapReduce and the Future of Hadoop - Yahoo's Doug Cutting on MapReduce and the Future of Hadoop: "In this special InfoQ interview Cutting discusses how Hadoop is used at Yahoo, the challenges of its development, and the future direction of the project."
nelson : Hadoop interview - Doug Cutting is one of the smartest programmers I know
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31 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Lottery Winner Loses $114 Million In Four Years - Lottery Winner Loses $114 Million In Four Years: yikes!
nelson : Losing $114M - misfortune of a lottery winner
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31 month ago
joshua : MySQL Proxy - MySQLForge Wiki
Jeremy Zawodny : MySQL Proxy - MySQL Proxy: "MySQL Proxy is a simple program that sits between your client and MySQL server(s) that can monitor, analyze or transform their communication. Its flexibility allows for unlimited uses."
nelson : MySQL Proxy - About time, should be quite handy
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32 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo/Google Competitive Product Matrix - Yahoo/Google Competitive Product Matrix: Jeff put this together after having a kid? WTF?!
nelson : Yahoo vs Google - product matrix, pretty good
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36 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Inevitable gunk creep - Inevitable gunk creep: search.yahoo.com clutter :-(
nelson : Inevitable gunk creep - Frustration that the Yahoo search page now has a bunch of crud on it.
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37 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : I Bought Votes on Digg - I Bought Votes on Digg: "I can tell you exactly how a pointless blog full of poorly written, incoherent commentary made it to the front page on Digg. I paid people to do it." Ha ha ha ha ha hahahahaha.
nelson : Buying Diggs: $1 - Turns out it's easy to game the site
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