Category: computing
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Doing business on bikes in Silicon Valley | PeopleForBikes
I had no idea there was even bike culture in Silicon Valley Doing business on bikes in Silicon Valley | PeopleForBikes.
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PH7 Engine – is it really the fix?
This sounds very useful, especially if you consider that PHP is used in embedded environments like MonoWall and pfSense. My big question for larger installation is this: xcache already does a great job at bytecode caching. The largest slowdown in the majority of PHP applications is the relational engine sitting underneath it. After much profiling…
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Hang this Poster in your Office
flyer_xp-to-xubuntu_USletter.png PNG Image, 765 × 990 pixels – Scaled 79%.
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Girls and Software | Linux Journal
I totally enjoyed this essay. My son is in elementary school. Last year, his school offered a robotics class for girls only. When my son asked why he couldn’t join, it was explained to him that girls need special help to become interested in technology, and that if there are boys around, the girls will…
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Losing Net Neutrality Is The Symptom, Not The Problem: Now Is The Time To Focus On Real Competition | Techdirt
This is a really great point because national broadband providers act not only as utility monopolies (Internet service) but also as content providers. This should be considered conflict of interest. A logical role for municipalities to adopt would be to become local broadband providers by buying out the POTS copper lines that the telcos are…
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Deleting about 24,000 files takes about 5 minutes
$ wc -l zz*txt 24028 zz-discard-paths.txt 78968 zz-keep-paths.txt 102996 total
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Deduplication, continued.
OK, so what started out as a bash script grew into a rather finicky Perl script. I used a bunch of parallel hashes, judging things by combinations duplicate names, identical file sizes and actually scoring the path name and taking the highest score. I ended up no using the file hashes, because I decided that…
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Standing Desk Pictures
Home workstation Old office standing desk: The new job’s standing workstation
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