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by dougb 2y ago
I got bit by this a month ago. You can disable the new behavior by setting 2 environment variables export AWS_REQUEST_CHECKSUM_CALCULATION=when_required export AWS_RESPONSE_CHECKSUM_CALCULATION=when_required or adding the followin
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by dougb 4y ago
A Friend of a friend is a technical recruiter for SWA. They told me that SWA pays their Software Engineers below market salaries. They complained that because of that, its hard to recruit people, and they end up with mediocre developers.
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by dougb 4y ago
I was able to copy a c64 cartridge by inserting it crooked and then dumping the memory to floppy disk. Then you could load it and run `sys 32768` to get it to run.
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by dougb 4y ago
I looked, but I couldn't find a .tar.gz or anything. I emailed Joel and asked him to put it up on his github page, https://github.com/jswelling He has something called DrawP3D, but I think its just a library that you
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by dougb 4y ago
Back in the 90s, Joel Welling and Chris Nuuja at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at CMU developed a similar system called P3D. It was really cool, and they had a bunch of backends to render on different high end graphic workstations. W
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by dougb 5y ago
I started at Akamai in July 2002 and I received an option grant as part of my offer. Since I had options before, I thought they were all priced at the closing price on the day they were approved by the board. But Akamai had a provision in t
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by dougb 5y ago
His company is http://www.ave4.com/ I meet him a few times, interviewed to work there (didn't get the job.) I mostly talked to a lawyer who was very nice, but reminded me of Kobayashi from the Usual Suspects. The offi
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by dougb 7y ago
This is would be the perfect time for IBM to apply all Watson technologies and resources to develop new insight into Covid-19.
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by dougb 7y ago
I used a SPARCbook back in 1996 for a business trip to Germany to install our search engine at t-online.de. The CFO of the company wanted to know who had this machine at all times because it was so expensive, around $20k USD. It didn'
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by dougb 8y ago
I'd like to see the source code for Altavista released to the Computer History Museum. I think it is of historical significance. If anyone knows who currently has that code, please post a comment. I think there is a lot to learn from e
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by dougb 8y ago
Radix Trees are used extensively at Akamai. They are very useful in dealing with blocks of network addresses. When I was there, they had 2 libraries which shared the on disk format. One was mutable and had all sorts of operations you could
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by dougb 8y ago
I'm reminded of this report from CMU on Toyota's Unintended Acceleration and Software Saftey from a few years ago. https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_... If you haven't see
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by dougb 8y ago
Doesn't work for streaming Live Events (pay per view), which is the main use case for multi-CDN
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by dougb 8y ago
This sounds similar to https://www.conviva.com/precision/ Unfortunately you need to know a lot more and the devil is in the details. Supporting the various streaming devices/browsers is a huge pain in the ass. Fu
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by dougb 8y ago
They don't depend on geothermal activity. They depend on the relatively constant temp of the ground below the freeze line. In most places if you go down a few feet the earth is 40-50 degrees F. Its basically a heat pump that uses water
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by dougb 9y ago
The 'ERA' in 'Speedera' was from the first letter of first name of each of the founders, Eric Swildens, Rich Day, and Ajit Gupta.
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by dougb 9y ago
Makes me wonder if Travis has a connection to Eric through Akamai. Eric's company, Speedera, was also acquired by Akamai in 2005. Travis's company, RedSwoosh, was acquired by Akamai in 2007.
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by dougb 10y ago
My sister has a http://www.waterfurnace.com with a about 1500 feet of plastic tubing buried in her yard. Works really well.
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by dougb 11y ago
I second Pittsburgh. I moved from Cambridge to Pittsburgh 10 years ago after my first child was born. I have had no trouble finding interesting projects to work on at decent pay. I live in a great neighborhood (Point Breeze) and my 3 kids g
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by dougb 11y ago
I love the ad he placed in the paper, it was perfect. "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of succes"
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by dougb 11y ago
I've always wanted Google to provide a BlackHole option on all their products. Every person, organization, subject on my black hole list would never appear in any search results, or News articles... I would BlackHole the Kardashians,
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by dougb 11y ago
What about VW going after the US through the TPP ? From http://www.dailydot.com/politics/tpp-leaked-investment-chapt... > Corporations may be granted through “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” (ISDS) tribunals the
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by dougb 11y ago
I wonder how you car will drive after the "fix." I suspect you won't be very happy with it.
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by dougb 11y ago
Coin is an interesting idea, but I figured https://www.dynamicsinc.com/ would sue the pants off of them for patent infringement once they went to market. Dynamics CEO is a former patent attorney. dynamics seemed to have all
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by dougb 11y ago
I got it installed, but there were problems. A lot of programs fail with SIGILL, illegal instruction. OpenSSL fails in OPENSSL_ia32_cpuid() Anybody get past this ?
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by dougb 12y ago
You could use code from here on a Mac, http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter10/ams2hid/ It would probably be best to have multiple triggers.
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by dougb 12y ago
Old news from Aug 2013.
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Over $5 BILLION Spent on Obamacare Websites(thefiscaltimes.com)
2 points by dougb 12y ago|0 comments
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The Chapel Parallel Programming Language(chapel.cray.com)
56 points by dougb 12y ago|10 comments
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by dougb 12y ago
We has lots of open positions for those of you looking to move to Pittsburgh. http://t.co/g9HmY0wXTS

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