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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Google uses captcha to improve StreetView image recognition

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I just stumbled on one of these for the first time: Here's another one: These were on some Blogger blogs. Looks like Google is us...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Using debootstrap with grsec

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If you attempt to use debootstrap with grsec (more specifically with a kernel compiled with CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_MOUNT=y ), you may see ...
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Friday, November 9, 2012

Sudden large increases in MySQL slave lag caused by clock drift

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Just in case this ever helps anyone else, I had a machine where slave lag (as reported by Seconds_Behind_Master in SHOW SLAVE STATUS ) woul...
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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Python's screwed up exception hierarchy

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Doing this in Python is bad bad bad: try: # some code except Exception, e: # Bad log.error("Uncaught exception!", e) Yet yo...
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Saturday, October 6, 2012

Perforce killed my productivity. Again.

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I've used Perforce for 2 years at Google.  Google got a lot of things right, but Perforce has always been a pain in the ass to deal with...
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Saturday, April 14, 2012

How Apache Hadoop is molesting IOException all day

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Today I'd like to rant on one thing that's been bugging me for last couple years with Apache Hadoop (and all its derived projects). ...
Monday, February 6, 2012

Devirtualizing method calls in Java

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If you've read code I wrote, chances are you've seen I'm a strong adept of const correctness ( WP ). Naturally, when I started...
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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Hardware Growler for Mac OS X Lion

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Just in case this could be of any use to someone else, I compiled Growl 1.2.2 for Lion with the fix for HardwareGrowler crash on Lion that ...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

ext4 2x faster than XFS?

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For a lot of people, the conventional wisdom is that XFS outperforms ext4. I'm not sure whether this is just because XFS used to be a l...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Hitachi 7K3000 vs WD RE4 vs Seagate Constellation ES

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These days, the Hitachi 7K3000 seems like the best bang for your bucks. You can get 2TB disks for around US$100. The 7K3000 isn't an ...
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