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joshbaptisteon NASA's Mars Rover Crashed Into a DMCA Takedown

“The good thing about automation is that you don’t have to involve real people to make decisions. The bad thing about automation is that you don’t have to involve real people to make decisions.”

Indeed and this is what scares from relying completely on Google's services.

joshbaptisteon Why Plivo Cloud is better than Twilio

Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Vr3hZXr...

joshbaptisteon Why American Marriages Are Set Up For Failure

The absolute best resource I have read on why monogamy does not work in modern times in (mainly) developed countries is here: http://www.blackdragonsystem.com/uploads/3/9/7/2/3972480/why...

joshbaptisteon Private Facebook Data Powering Ads Outside Of Facebook — Is The World Ready?

huh? Whoever considered facebook data private..

joshbaptisteon Postman A trending Android app on Google Play

Link: http://itsmrpostman.appspot.com/

joshbaptisteon Google Cracks Down on YouTube-to-MP3-Ripping Sites

shrug.. youtube-dl + ffmpeg.

joshbaptisteon Vizio reboots the PC: a quiet American success story

The non-mobile link: http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/15/3076519/vizio-reboot-pc-am...

joshbaptisteon AngularJS 1.0 released

I was juggling between knockout and Angular for my next project, after watching some demo's Angular gets the win.

joshbaptisteon Getting Started with Batman.js

Coming from mostly back end Python/Shell/Go hacking, I have an in-house project that requires a single page web interface and of all the frameworks I reviewed Angular.js and Knockout.js are definitely my top 2 choices, mainly because their declarative syntax just makes more sense to my non Javascript expert brain.

joshbaptisteon DTrace in the zone

Troubleshooting with Dtrace specifically the Solaris variants (since Solaris contains the most probes) teaches you a lot of general Unix internals that usually only dedicated kernel/User land programmers would know.

joshbaptisteon V8+: Node.js Native Extensions in C

The FAQ, is hilarious.

joshbaptisteon Bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter

Heh, The overall sentiment in irc freenode #python is a general dislike of ipython and a recommendation of bypthon as a good alternative to the REPL. It's a pretty light alternative but I still generally use ipython these days.

joshbaptisteon Jython 2.7 alpha1 released

Far from it, Jython devs continue to attend and present at Pycon. Although these days I've been using Groovy lately for my JVM.next() needs.

joshbaptisteon Linux's awesome and underused traffic control facilities

indeed, The main reason tc(1) is underused is because it is under explained.

joshbaptisteon Kaspersky: "Apple is 10 years behind Microsoft in security"

Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3896699

joshbaptisteon Hello world in every programming language

I prefer the FizzBuzz examples as it also displays the simple looping constructs of the languages http://rosettacode.org/wiki/FizzBuzz

Edit: Grr it is missing one of my favorite JVM.next() languages of the week Kotlin, I will have to update it.

joshbaptisteon How useful is a Physics degree?

If you become a good programmer then you are good either way, but definitely any company that deals with software that relies heavily on physics (3D Gaming, animation, movie special effects etc..) you will have a competitive advantage with a physics degree.

joshbaptisteon The Downfall of Imperative Programming

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3818046

joshbaptisteon Docopt – The Pythonic option parser that will make you smile

I love this, simply the "Requests" of option parsing.. option parsing for humans.

joshbaptisteon Facebook acquires Instagram

Congrats to Instagram, Django-powered projects making it big.

joshbaptisteon Mod_redis

Thank you for this comment sir, you just saved me some days of coding a Python/Flask middleware application I was going to build to handle connections between an in-house browser application and Redis, very cool indeed.

joshbaptisteon Free 18GB Dropbox account now possible through referrals

The simple reason I love Dropbox has less to do with space, but ease of use on ALL my devices. Currently syncs my files on my Ipod touch,Nexus S,Linux boxes, and Android transformer prime tablet. I even use it as a trigger to kick off a reverse ssh tunnel from my VPS nodes, (since I allow Openssh to only listen on localhost). The way it seamlessly co-exists with my exiting setup and not get in the way is grand.

joshbaptisteon Screanleap (YC W11) Wants to Be the Dropbox of Screensharing

My sentiments exactly.. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3540800

joshbaptisteon Poll: What Would It Take For You To Switch To Blackberry?

I have two phones, an Android Nexus S and a work issued Blackberry Bold 9800. I was once on the road and forgot my Nexus and heard a cool tune on the radio. I quickly grabbed the BB and ran Shazam to try to get the song name, after about 20 permission pop up confirmations the song was over , I got pissed and simply swore off Blackberry since.

joshbaptisteon Do You Need Another Micro-Social Network App? You Might. Try Kibits.

of course, coming soon for Android, sigh..

joshbaptisteon The Way to Go (golang)

bah.. Ebook is some Adobe DRM format, that I would venture is unusable in GNU/Linux.

joshbaptisteon Many times faster (de)compression using multiple processors.

Test data

  josh@snoopy:~/Downloads $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1024K count=1000
  
  josh@snoopy:~/Downloads $ gzip -l test.gz 
  compressed        uncompressed  ratio   uncompressed_name
  1176024          1048576000  99.9% test.txt

with -p2 it runs ~2 sec slower

joshbaptisteon Many times faster (de)compression using multiple processors.

Had to try this on my quad core laptop, as I never heard of these tools .

  josh@snoopy:~/Downloads $ grep -m2 -i intel  /proc/cpuinfo 
  vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
  model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz

  josh@snoopy:~/Downloads $ ls -l test 
  -rw-r--r-- 1 josh josh 1073741824 2012-03-07 20:06 test

  josh@snoopy:~/Downloads $ time gzip test
  real    0m16.430s
  user    0m10.210s
  sys     0m0.490s

  josh@snoopy:~/Downloads $ time pigz test 
  real    0m5.028s
  user    0m16.040s
  sys     0m0.620s

Looks good.. although the man page describes it as being "an almost compatible replacement for the gzip program".

joshbaptisteon Review my startup, StartupPacks.com

Indeed my first thought was, cool how do I try this out? Then I wasn't sure what to do, is the product in beta? is this merely a landing page for something soon to come? I then tabbed back to HN to check comments for more insight.