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Stop it with .. “world famous”
The next phrase on my silly rant list is “world famous”. no clue what is trying to be sold to me here when I read such a lofty claim
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Stop it with the .. “Unlimited”
Start of a new mini series of harmless rants focused around words/phrases that have crept into our lives that have lost their original punch.
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Isolation – things I have discovered
Now on my 6th week of isolation (self after a trip to Scotland, then forced isolation), I have discovered a few things about myself.
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Dying Careers and their alternatives
http://education.yahoo.net/articles/careers_dead_by_2020.htm?kid=1LFZ5 Fascinating list this, particular when they advise that instead of going into semi-conductors you may want to look at Database Administration instead. Where is the relationship to semi-conductors? You may as well said “Sheep Herding” – which incidentally is my own pipe-dream should this computer game finish. Dying Careers and their alternatives
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Tumblr Engineering: Open Source – Memcache Top
mobocracy: We rely on memcache pretty heavily at Tumblr, with over 10TB of cache memory available across the stack. One of the things we’ve historically had a challenging time with at Tumblr is finding hot keys. A hot key is a memcache key getting dramatically more activity than other keys…. I do love a good scaling story. Hardware these days is so cheap that solutions such as a 10TB memory…
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