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Sun 20 May 2012

  • "the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us" -Calvin (Bill Watterson)
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Sat 19 May 2012

  • "dump trucks are the largest in the world and and can haul 1 million pounds in a single load - more weight than a fully loaded Boeing 747"
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  • I know what you did last release.
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  • RT @Jakewk: Why every parking lot in SW USA doesn't look like this is dumbfounding. Stimulus I'd vote for: http://t.co/ZMqkgVEH
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  • "it's kind of a problem, I use it and look up an hour later" - wife, re @prismatic
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  • RT @adrianco: Interview: Trisha Gee from LMAX Discusses Concurrent Java Programming, Agile, and Diversity in IT http://t.co/iApfNANK
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  • I'm sure there will be good ones, but also curious what trainwreck startups will emerge from FB IPO. #NouveauSQL
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  • RT @timfox: @peakscale I believe there's a COBOL for the JVM. I guess we could support it in Vert.x ;)
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  • fish in the North Pacific "could be ingesting plastic at a rate of roughly 12k to 24k tonnes per year" - http://t.co/Ha2T9tYP
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Fri 18 May 2012

  • Well, the first 50 games were fun.
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  • I'm not so into either technology, but am finding the DSL for Groovy & Spring to be pleasant.
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  • Been a hard day at the bean factory(factory).
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  • RT @kendall: @peakscale Thx! That is a good and reflects what we've been seeing in testing & benchmarking.
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  • same for EBS ;-) RT > @kendall @peakscale @ShlomoSwidler No because storing database indexes in S3 doesn't seem like a sane idea. ;>
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  • .@kendall Don't know how w/o intermediary VM serving FS. I take it requester-pay S3 is not going to cut it. @ShlomoSwidler any ideas?
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  • RT @kendall: Yo, @peakscale, I'm dying for something like DevPay + EBS. Thoughts?
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  • #gatling has been at the top of my list for next serious api performance study for some time - but no project on my plate
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  • RT @mhjort: #gatling seems to be finally a stress test tool I have wanted for years. Works out-of-the-box, is fast and effective, and no ...
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  • RT @zerohedge: One word - MySpace
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  • Facepump: meet Facedump
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  • Congrats to all the new Facebook millionaires! You can finally afford a house.
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  • RT @lmacvittie: @jamesurquhart @peakscale @GeorgeReese @ThatConference Dells are great for a con - the water, the beer, the screaming... ...
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  • RT @EventCloudPro: Isn't it awesome how facebook and linkedin gave their users first crack at the IPO to thank them for their success!
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  • RT @jxinsight: I should add some more commentary (for lazy minds) but here is a quick perf analysis of the Vert.x benchmark http://t.co/ ...
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  • RT @geoffarnold: Comparing efficiencies of Fixed vs Chassis based designs http://t.co/Zgkk3pMb < The perfect post - because it's all ...
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  • just got agro-male challenged at the bar #lmao[internally]
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Thu 17 May 2012

  • If window geometry > x+y, activate pinned mode for this tab. @intellijidea
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  • How nice would it be if @intellijidea could tell if my external monitor was attached and adjust "Pinned mode" tab settings accordingly.
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  • Kalahari is ridiculous .. in a mostly good way.
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  • Spend 3 days, with 1000 people in 150 sessions geeking out on everything Mobile, Web and Cloud at a giant waterpark - http://t.co/WLyEwLoK
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  • 2030: "Man learns to encode themselves into the URI address space"
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  • 2023: "The distinction between RAM, disk drive, and Web disappears"
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  • RT @moonpolysoft: The controversial talk TED doesn't want you to see! *cuts to Bill and Melinda Gates peeling off skin, reptilian scales ...
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  • RT @argv0: .@moonpolysoft not talking about openstack. talking about stuff that actually works and has production deployments
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  • Doing PIP/PDP chains once again.
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  • RT @jxinsight: wrt to the hotspot analysis of vert.x we dropped our default threshold from 50/5 down to 5/1 microseconds for vert.x...a ...
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  • RT @coenhyde: Working with @joyent's api is such a pleasure. Nice docs and almost instant vm provisioning!
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  • ♬ If you spend an assload, it's easy to trace.. the tracks of my tiers ♬
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  • OH: "security teams are only cool if they have pony tails"
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  • RT @jxinsight: @peakscale tracing (esp distributed) is mostly useful when u have no idea of the interactions/flow in an env...u don't fi ...
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  • Sounds like Twitter's distributed tracing lib Zipkin is independent of Finagle: "Tracing is done by instrumenting libraries such as Finagle"
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Wed 16 May 2012

  • checked out Blueprints & Frames (trunk to get IdGraph). APIs and annotations are really clean, fit my brain. #neo4j http://t.co/8xW6dQO6
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  • But test something as identical to it as possible > RT @jtimberman: OH "Biggest take away: Never test in production" #ChefConf
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  • Unlimited and free, sounds great! <closes tab>
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  • RT @strlen: Voldemort on SSDs: With default settings JVM GC couldn't keep up with the rate at which data was read, p95/99 lat hurt http ...
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  • Send probes to 50 targets to build up a history, look for patterns/opportunities. (How about we work on deterministic perf instead.)
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  • Local, avg. instance performance is one thing, overall end user QoS metrics at X prices may be better optimized in other ways (spot is one)
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  • Can do the opposite to avoid noisy neighbors (esp. in batch-job situations).
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  • "Following the sun" (for better latency to awake-people and exchanges) predates clouds.
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  • Sure, test against special test configs. What could possibly go wrong. :-D
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  • "It's a delicious trap!" - Admiral @adamhjk #chefconf
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  • "It's a delicious trap!" - Admiral @adamhjk
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  • Love this typo: "syntactically concise manor". When can I move in?
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  • The greatest trick the Yak ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof, he's shaved.
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  • RT @turtlebender: If shaving the yak is wrong, I don't want to be right
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