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Naive question, but is using old school spinning HDs completely out of the question? In other words, can they play a role in a modern deployment?

Create an account by clicking "Register" at the top of the checkout page. You should then see the discounted price, at least until tomorrow (it seems the sale runs until then).

It did for me. Just click "Register" at the top of the checkout page.

they are desktop machines.

some people have macs, some other people have thinkpads (at other points in time, there have been dells or HPs as well). But only desktops are actually used for any development.

yeah, sorry, I was referring specifically to the Google developer standard workstations.

The standard machine has 32 GB. So I guess 0.32 hundreds... And for completeness, 6 physical cores, 12 logical with HT. Still beefy, but nothing out of the ordinary.

"Just say no to linked lists!" https://youtu.be/fHNmRkzxHWs?t=2099

that's hardly a response to anything. The market moves in that amount (and larger) every day.

1.07, actually. Title is wrong.

It seems an earlier related draft (s/Programs/Code) is available at http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3435&c...

Poor man's fix... sigh... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/backspace-to-go-ba...

There's also vimium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...

Another JS terminal emulator, https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/master/hter...

Regardless of whether that statement is true or not, 20% time is alive and well, based on my own experience, that of everyone else I know who's also done it and (if to a lesser extent), all levels of management having asserted so repeatedly since rumours started. I've even found it to be encouraged by certain managers to alleviate the "itch" to work on something different without having to leave one's current team.

A different take on the same matter: http://www.bottomupcs.com/starting_a_process.html

Nice. It work as advertised. This is going to make my WhatsApp-addicted extended family very happy!

Yes please, an import for OhLife exports would be very very nice.

"Bonding" at the kernel level:

The Linux bonding driver provides a method for aggregating multiple network interfaces into a single logical "bonded" interface. The behavior of the bonded interfaces depends on the mode. Generally speaking, modes provide either hot standby or load balancing services. Additionally, link integrity monitoring may be performed.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/bonding....

"We have observed a new boson at 125.3 +/- 0.6 GeV at 4.9 signa significance"

For what it's worth, "romano" means Roman in Spanish. As in, an inhabitant of the city of Rome, both in the classical and modern senses. The proper Spanish term would have been "rumano". I guess the guys over at the Italian capital are happy about the free compliments

No Mountain Dew at CERN's vending machines. But they do sell Perrier in cans the same size and shape as coke (33cl). After all, CERN is half over France too...

And in general, the most popular vending machines are coffee ones, much a more popular beverage than sodas. On the other hand, Restaurant 1 is open from 6am until 11pm for all your caffeinated needs, with freshly grinded coffee -the machine grinds in a JIT-fashion ;)-

EDIT: you can even check the menu of Restaurant 2 online (http://resto2.web.cern.ch/resto2/cgi-bin/dsr?menu). They used to have hilarious Engrish translations of the French names, such as "eat man" for "croque monsieur" -a kind of sandwich-.

The general (not just "languages" section) site being http://code.google.com/intl/en/edu/

Indeed. It surprised me reading this BBC article, as we hadn't heard anything along those lines here at CERN. In fact, the Director General sent a note (http://press.web.cern.ch/press/lhc-first-physics/msg-dg-1003...) to all CERN personnel, very much cheerful about the future, without mentioning any kind of unforeseen interruption in operations.

All levels of management at CERN are very open, both about successes and failures. Even more so about the latter: bad news travel fast and all that (and we are a quite close community here on-site).