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greenonion | 10 years ago | on: Athens 1944: Britain’s dirty secret

I think you are oversimplifying the events. I'm not suggesting there was nothing wrong with EAM. However, the article is about the British involvement that lead to the December '44 events. They freed and armed the Greeks who collaborated with the Nazi regime and they disarmed (or tried to disarm) only ELAS members. Of course Greek citizens would protest against that. And it was policemen armed by the British who opened fire against a peaceful crowd. I really can't see how you can justify this.

greenonion | 10 years ago | on: Athens 1944: Britain’s dirty secret

You assume that all members of EAM/ELAS were communists. They were not. Also, there really was a window for them to take over: after the Nazis left and before the Allied forces arrived they were practically the only armed force in Greece. However they chose to wait.

Mark Mazower's "Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation 1941-44" is an excellent book on the subject.

greenonion | 10 years ago | on: Athens 1944: Britain’s dirty secret

So since some of the Greek fighters - meaning those who allied with the British against the Nazis, had communist ideals you assume that all they wanted was a violent take over and establishing communism. And based on that assumption you justify the British for (a) arming Nazi collaborators and (b) opening fire against civilians in a peaceful demonstration.

Well done!

greenonion | 11 years ago | on: Working with the ELK stack

While I do not know the specifications of your Elasticsearch cluster, I am really surprised by your experience.

We (at skroutz.gr) use a moderately small cluster (four nodes) and easily process > 4 million rows a day and view them on Kibana dashboards in real-time. We also have success running aggregations on data going back as far as 3 months.

greenonion | 12 years ago | on: Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties? (2001)

Although I do agree that today's events show that Stallman is right to be that much worried, I have to point out that his argument against face recognition is a weak one. Computer vision is superior to human in many aspects, and this is why the situation we 're facing is very complex.

greenonion | 13 years ago | on: PG chooses healthcare non-profit Watsi as his first board seat

Thank you for that link, I wasn't aware of that. Even though the reasoning behind their model is mostly logistics it is good to know that every person on Watsi will get his/her treatment regardless of when/if it gets funded.

I believe that information should be on a prominent spot on their website.

greenonion | 13 years ago | on: PG chooses healthcare non-profit Watsi as his first board seat

Maybe this comment is off-topic here but I can't help but feel that Watsi is in a way making all these individuals "compete" in terms of who is more likable, or whose situation is the worst, in order for them to get the help they need. Maybe I'm exaggerating but this model really troubles me.

greenonion | 13 years ago | on: Ubuntu considers end of traditional release cycle

Just when I decided I'm only going to be using LTS releases in the future. If they actually go through with this I hope there will be a general update option like choosing between "conservative" and "cutting-edge" updates.

greenonion | 13 years ago | on: Our Django Book is Launched

This is great. As a new Django developer one of my most frequent Google queries is "best practices about x in django". I am thrilled to finally have so much of that stuff in one place.

greenonion | 13 years ago | on: A Python Compiler for Big Data

You got me a bit confused here. If I understand correctly what you 're saying, you 're still using Python for prototyping the core algorithms and C++ in actual production systems. I'm not saying Python is not good for production systems in general, I'm wondering whether it is good enough for real-world implementations of machine learning algorithms.

Also, I believe most people would consider Java as an alternative to C++, hence all the Java-based Apache projects, such as Mahout, Solr etc.

greenonion | 13 years ago | on: A Python Compiler for Big Data

So is there anyone using Python for machine learning in production systems (i.e. not just for prototyping). I would love to do it but seems Java/Mahout is a safer choice, performance-wise.

I wonder whether Blaze is a step towards that direction.

greenonion | 13 years ago | on: Best Open Python Books

Well I guess that makes sense, seeing that version 2 hasn't been updated since 2009. Too bad though, it is really well-written.
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