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kevindication··on Quick Tips for Fast Code on the JVM
Not really disagreeing with your sentiment, but he laid it out nicely in the "Defining the Hot Path" section. That is honestly the most valuable lesson a newer programmer could take away from this gist.
kevindication··on Vagrant 2.0
Just wanted to drop a note to say thanks for your nicely done ansible recipes.
kevindication··on Snakisms
Something I don't get to say every day: Nihilism made me smile.
kevindication··on Panoramio no longer available after Nov 4
Looks like there's some WARC files here: https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_panoramio
kevindication··on Panoramio no longer available after Nov 4
It says that they will upload the results to archive.org, which is good news. But is it possible to join a torrent now to make a copy of the dataset?
kevindication··on North Korea announces successful hydrogen bomb test
Nice to see more options on that one. This is the one I remember: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/hydesim.html
kevindication··on Mr. Wizard, Television's Original Science Guy
Amazing! That's the one episode I think of when I think of Mr. Wizard.
kevindication··on What's Really Warming the World?
Does it work better if you click the black arrow at the bottom of each slide?
kevindication··on Data hacked from U.S. government dates back to 1985
Anyone who has worked on cases involving APT from known foreign actors can identify common TTPs and attempt a best guess at the group involved.
kevindication··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)
HumanGeo - http://thehumangeo.com - Washington, DC - Technologists/Developers

HumanGeo creates innovative geospatially oriented products and solutions for government and commercial clients. We usually get to work on blank slates to build large scale databases and applications. We also like to brew beer and play Mario Kart.

Citizenship required.

kevindication··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
HumanGeo - http://thehumangeo.com - Washington, DC - Technologists/Developers

HumanGeo creates innovative geospatially oriented products and solutions for government and commercial clients. We usually get to work on blank slates to build large scale databases and applications. We also like to brew beer and play Mario Kart.

Citizenship required.

kevindication··on Ask HN: What is this triangle in the Philippines?
Similarly, it's always fun to find out what has appeared at Null Island recently: http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Null_I...
kevindication··on Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
I did enjoy Slackware as a learning experience all those years ago, but nowadays I like to spend more time building things and less time futzing with the OS.
kevindication··on Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
My primary professional OS progression went something like:

Slackware -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> OS X.

As with the author, I'm pretty sure I'm done with OS X. If I want to go back to Linux, what is the best path? Mint? Back to Ubuntu? Something new?

kevindication··on Graph of Netflix speeds shows the importance of net neutrality
Correct, data is a plural. OP either doesn't know that or is making a more nuanced complaint about stodgy old style guides that used Latin to decide things like this.
kevindication··on Google’s Scientific Approach to Work-Life Balance
Both of these positions on the subject are needlessly binary. I often find it the case that, even though I erect careful boundaries between work and non-work, when I leave a problem on my desk, I will continue to ruminate about a solution throughout the weekend, say. Similarly, I will Strategically avoid email when I'm recharging. I don't think it's so easy to boil down as black and white.
kevindication··on With Amazon Redshift SSD, querying a TB of data took less than 10 seconds
But to call that a Postgres variant seems to suggest that they have way more in common than they really do. The trade offs that vertical databases are making are kind of alien for someone who is used to using Postgres.

Really cool work though!

kevindication··on With Amazon Redshift SSD, querying a TB of data took less than 10 seconds
It's not a Postgres variant at all. Postgres is emulated as an interface to the columnar ParAccel database underneath. ParAccel does neat things (compiles your SQL into a program that it runs to answer the question, for instance) and really rips if you can order your data on good keys up front (and then use those keys in your query, of course).

Source: I helped build a very high speed network data analytical tool on top of ParAccel (before it was bought by Amazon and rolled into redshift).

kevindication··on You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
This. I love Chrome, but their target market is using Windows, and asking them to click "Yes" to upgrade Chrome (or leaving this question up to the administrator) is not a barrier worth circumventing.
kevindication··on Center of the universe
He was reinstated apparently upon appeal.
kevindication··on Year 2038 problem
Right, but just because you have a data type that can handle a date that far in the future does not imply that you have fixed your OS and supporting software to be able to handle the day when the system time rolls over.
kevindication··on Disney Shuts Down LucasArts
I guess this explains why their booth was empty at PyCon this year.

(Though I think they may have had an empty booth at previous PyCons...)

kevindication··on Amazon Redshift Now Available to All Customers
Yep. Redshift is based off of ParAccel. We used that DB for some really awesome large scale analytics on a previous project.

http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-redshift-paraccel-in-costly-appl...

kevindication··on Receiveee.com - disposable email address
It seems like you should recognize that a user does not want interesting offers when they submit a black hole address to you. Or maybe that's what you're saying you do?
kevindication··on Bye Bye Ubuntu, a sad Christmas
You might also have a hardware problem.
kevindication··on Tor exit node operator raided in Austria
The OP doesn't want to enable the bad uses of Tor, nor do they want to get into legal trouble for it. It's demonstrated that by running a Tor exit node, you are at a high risk of the former and at least some risk for the latter. Both carry significant costs. By not running a Tor exit node, you eliminate these risks to yourself.

The risk that your neighbor will use your knife to kill someone is far lower by comparison. Additionally, the risk that there is a legal threat should they choose to do so is also quite low.

kevindication··on Tor exit node operator raided in Austria
You don't find yourself in litigation for the legitimate uses of Tor.
kevindication··on Deep Emo Shit
Meta: I clicked through to this link without pause but then I noticed the tld. Is that enough to get you blocked on corporate networks?

And on the flip side, can you get in trouble for visting it?

kevindication··on Steam for Linux Beta Now Available
A Beta test is usually a call for this kind of feedback. You should send it to them. Save the HN comment for after the Beta.
kevindication··on Are you on Facebook? Check out MyPermissions
I think the mobile version is the main feature. Accessing many facebook settings from your phone is a challenge.
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