aaronsw | 13 years ago | on: Why I am tired of writing pull requests
https://github.com/Aaronius/Stupid-Table-Plugin/commit/fbf3d... people.
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aaronsw | 13 years ago | on: Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up Quotes
The details are here:
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/107779/jon...
aaronsw | 13 years ago | on: Heroku Postmortem of June 29th Incident
The "What we are doing" section seems pretty weak. The only substantive thing they say is "we have produced new tools which enable us to more expediently relocate database services from a failed availability zone."
How exactly are they planning to deal with the larger Cedar difficulties? Are they going to eliminate their dependence on ELBs? Go multi-region? Developers need to know this to decide whether to continue with Heroku or build their own platform.
aaronsw | 13 years ago | on: How Google handle leap seconds
The real solution is not to use broken NTP: http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html
aaronsw | 13 years ago | on: Taking on Amazon, Google launches EC2 rival Compute Engine
Hmm, looks like they're competing directly on price:
1 virtual core, 1.7GB RAM, 160GB disk for $.055/hr (Google)
1 virtual core, 1.7GB RAM, 160GB disk for $.08/hr (Amazon)
Amazon is still much cheaper if you use reserved instances or spot pricing, though. And for these sorts of compute jobs, I'm not sure why you wouldn't use spot pricing.
aaronsw | 13 years ago | on: Letter to the FSF
Shorter johnw: I heart Ayn Rand.
In particular, I'm pretty sure Stallman (like most Americans) is in favor of taking from the rich and giving to the poor, so trying to persuade him that free software is a bad idea because it's like that seems pretty clueless.
aaronsw | 13 years ago | on: Yelp accused of burying good customer reviews
This is a pretty crummy article. If you read it carefully, you see:
- a woman owns a shady company
- she tries to get her friends to write five star reviews of her on Yelp
- Yelp intentionally tries to filter out these reviews so the site isn't filled with spam opinions
- the woman is upset
The real question is why there's a news story taking her side in this.
aaronsw | 13 years ago | on: Fish: Finally, a command line shell for the 90s
Presumably because fish hasn't been updated since 2009 and they expect their fork to become the new standard version.
http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/beta.html
"Welcome to our fork of the fish shell, a command line shell like bash. Its working name is fishfish, but I hope eventually it will just be fish!"
aaronsw | 13 years ago | on: Assange loses extradition appeal
Actually, Polanski was arrested and released in Switzerland, not Sweden.
aaronsw | 13 years ago | on: Assange loses extradition appeal
"Swedish law requires a person to be physically present before charges can be laid, so this can only happen once Mr Assange is on Swedish territory."
aaronsw | 14 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg married
Did they also hack this to autopost to Facebook?
aaronsw | 14 years ago | on: Apple to crush carriers, become direct service provider
And where are they supposed to get all the towers? That's a multi-year construction project and, if they try it, they'll alienate their existing carrier partners.
Now maybe Apple thinks they can afford to do that, but it seems risky.
aaronsw | 14 years ago | on: Netflix creates super-PAC
This is much more likely to be about the VPPA, a law which Netflix believes makes it illegal to provide social
features in the US:
http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2012/01/netflix-to-testify-tue...
aaronsw | 14 years ago | on: Google Scholar Metrics for Publications
Is there any reason to believe this h-index method of ranking is a good idea? Why not use PageRank?
aaronsw | 14 years ago | on: Google maps 8bit quest mode. A setup for 4/1 perhaps?
Google offices are apparently marked with surprisingly-unpixelated propellerheads. There's also some custom art for SF landmarks.
aaronsw | 14 years ago | on: Fact based, data-oriented news
Can we see this in real dollars? Hard to understand the actual trends the industry is facing in nominal dollars.
aaronsw | 14 years ago | on: From the IE Team: Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings
The dishonesty of this statement is stunning. IE is designed to only accept the cookie if Google promises not to use it for tracking. Google wants to use the cookie for tracking so they provide a dishonesty promise and then explain they're lying because IE didn't have them in mind -- when this is exactly what IE had in mind.
aaronsw | 14 years ago | on: Rand Paul promises to filibuster PIPA
And Rand has promised this before. But we need 41 to actually prevent a vote, since the Senate has already filed to override the filibuster.
aaronsw | 14 years ago | on: Congress Pushes Bills To Promote Cybersecurity
The actual audio piece doesn't mention SOPA/PIPA or pirates, best I could tell. It was about a cybersecurity data sharing bill and even gave the Tor Project the last word.
aaronsw | 14 years ago | on: Google search results for "askew"
Is anyone making a list of these?
http://www.quora.com/What-other-easter-eggs-does-Google-sear...
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