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Intel creates $300 million Ultrabook Fund

Posted by helwr on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @10:41PM
from the news.cnet.com dept.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20090869-1/intel-creates-$300-million-ultrabook-fund/

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Scarling » Kestrel (Twitter's tiny queue system)

Posted by helwr on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @07:36PM
from the robey.lag.net dept.

http://robey.lag.net/2008/11/27/scarling-to-kestrel.html

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NASA rover reaches rim of Martian crater

Posted by helwr on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @04:26PM
from the usatoday.com dept.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2011-08-10-mars-rover-opportunity_n.htm

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Re:The Price of (Dev) Happiness: Part One on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @12:03PM (#2868820)

Jeff Atwood on chairs: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/07/investing-in-a-qual...

Re:Awesome but commonly unknown Linux Commands on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @09:12AM (#2867996)

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-lesser-known-but-useful-U...

http://www.quora.com/Linux/What-are-some-time-saving-tips-th...

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-useful-swiss-army-kni...

Re:Awesome but commonly unknown Linux Commands on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @09:11AM (#2867993)

Re:Warn HN: Lots of Launches Coming on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @12:54AM (#2862964)

HN search is a bit out of sync, e.g. see the top result here: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=by%3Ahelwr+...

and the actual link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403290

Re:HN Exercise: We're the Hipmunk for X on Monday August 08, 2011 @09:41PM (#2862414)

Bitcoins

Re:Warn HN: Lots of Launches Coming on Monday August 08, 2011 @09:30PM (#2862375)

I'd just say it here, once and for all - YC startups suck

Dive Into Python 3 (online book)

Posted by helwr on Monday August 08, 2011 @06:06PM
from the diveintopython3.org dept.

http://diveintopython3.org/

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Elitism, and the frustrating necessity of PYPI

Posted by helwr on Monday August 08, 2011 @05:56PM
from the blog.wearpants.org dept.

http://blog.wearpants.org/elitism-and-the-importance-of-pypi/

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Google self-driving car crash caused by human

Posted by helwr on Monday August 08, 2011 @03:24PM
from the technolog.msnbc.msn.com dept.

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/08/7304902-google-self-driving-car-crash-caused-by-human

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Seminal papers on distributed systems

Posted by helwr on Monday August 08, 2011 @03:02PM
from the quora.com dept.

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-seminal-papers-in-distributed-systems-Why

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Identify Your Scarcest Resource

Posted by helwr on Monday August 08, 2011 @04:58AM
from the wired.com dept.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/ff_fred_brooks/

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Take a new look at Africa

Posted by helwr on Monday August 08, 2011 @04:14AM
from the ted.com dept.

http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mwenda_takes_a_new_look_at_africa.html

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Re:The demise of the low level programmer on Monday August 08, 2011 @03:42AM (#2859171)

not dead, this blog is a great example of low level and high level living in harmony: http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/memory-barri...

Memory Barriers/Fences (2011)

Posted by helwr on Monday August 08, 2011 @03:24AM
from the mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com dept.

http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/memory-barriersfences.html

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You miss L1 so much that you cry yourself to sleep every night

Posted by helwr on Sunday August 07, 2011 @04:31PM
from the altdevblogaday.com dept.

http://altdevblogaday.com/2011/04/01/the-radical-optimizationist%E2%80%99s-war-on-abstraction-and-patterns/

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The Case For An Older Woman

Posted by helwr on Sunday August 07, 2011 @12:12PM
from the blog.okcupid.com dept.

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-case-for-an-older-woman/

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The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms by Sir Isaac Newton

Posted by helwr on Saturday August 06, 2011 @04:48AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronology_of_Ancient_Kingdoms

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Re:Disruptor: ultra-fast concurrency framework on Friday August 05, 2011 @10:49PM (#2852788)

tags: HFT, caching, false sharing

Disruptor: ultra-fast concurrency framework

Posted by helwr on Friday August 05, 2011 @10:48PM
from the code.google.com dept.

http://www.code.google.com/p/disruptor/

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Re:How and Why Mixpanel Switched from Erlang to Python on Friday August 05, 2011 @10:40PM (#2852762)

Sophistication is often the ultimate enemy.

H. Thoreau once said "In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex.." (Walden, Princeton University Press, 1971, p.323-324)

Shipbreaking yard in Bangledesh

Posted by helwr on Friday August 05, 2011 @05:59PM
from the alexiuss.deviantart.com dept.

http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/journal/17919112/

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Dead cars

Posted by helwr on Friday August 05, 2011 @04:40PM
from the deadmachinery.livejournal.com dept.

http://deadmachinery.livejournal.com/290243.html

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SSH Programming with Paramiko | Completely Different

Posted by helwr on Thursday August 04, 2011 @03:11AM
from the jessenoller.com dept.

http://jessenoller.com/2009/02/05/ssh-programming-with-paramiko-completely-different/

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Demystifying Unix Domain Sockets

Posted by helwr on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @09:41PM
from the thomasstover.com dept.

http://www.thomasstover.com/uds.html

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How does LMAX's disruptor pattern work (concurrency)

Posted by helwr on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @03:38PM
from the stackoverflow.com dept.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6559308/how-does-lmaxs-disruptor-pattern-work

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Three people robbed in Craigslist deals

Posted by helwr on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @01:59AM
from the signonsandiego.com dept.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/aug/02/three-craigslist-robberies-reported/

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Strange object found during a sonar survey of the sea floor

Posted by helwr on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @08:34PM
from the oceanexplorer.se dept.

http://www.oceanexplorer.se/index.html

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