Elias Torres

I want to get a better feel for that use case. Expect me back in a few weeks :). - Sanjeev Singh

But I just learned about flouridation from you last week! :| - Mona N.

Any chance you can leave me on your feed? I enjoy reading your science related posts. - GS 2Go

Thanks Dan. Please post an update again as I would be considering a switch if we upgrade the office computer. I'm really attached to the right mouse button that seems like the biggest obstacle i see. - Steve Craft

The main reason I can't switch to a Mac for work is Excel: a very limited set of keyboard shortcuts for Excel in Mac OS X really hinders my productivity there :( - Jennie Lin

@Jennie You can run VMWare or Parallels on a MBP now at work to use the Windows version of Excel - Roshan Vyas

This is what I have been looking for... - Elias Torres via Bookmarklet

I have been working with Chris Wensel to try out cascading, but Streaming + Python has been good enough. - Elias Torres

yeah, that was most of what we needed at facebook. hive let us hand the keys to business analysts, which is great. i never really got which problems were appropriate for cascading; it's basically a language for writing query plans, and so is pig. i guess it could serve as the basis for an etl framework, but there are a lot of those that exist already. - jeff hammerbacher

"Scaling Hadoop to 4000 nodes at Yahoo! (Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!)" - Elias Torres via Bookmarklet

Simple enough. - Elias Torres

Simple indeed - David Cancel

Like a charm! - Elias Torres via Bookmarklet

#!/bin/bash ln -s `pwd`/$1 `python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()"`/$1 - Elias Torres

This was one of my favorite features that never launched (we kept getting too many false positives with the prototype version back in 2005/2006). One of our interns fixed it up this summer. If you use it, let us know if you find any erroneous alerts -- the discussion group will be live soon in http://groups.google.com/group.... - Keith Coleman

I still can't use Gmail Labs in Google Apps for domain. torrez.us :( - Elias Torres

There's a setting in the Google Apps admin panel that will enable Labs on your domain. See the "New Consumer Features" part of http://www.google.com/support/... - Keith Coleman

@Keith, I did, but still nothing. BTW, my Apps Gmail UI is way behind my Gmail account. - Elias Torres

Another one from Collin. He's always busy. - Elias Torres

Just in case we didn't have enough of them: "Happy is a framework for writing map-reduce programs for Hadoop using Jython. It files off the sharp edges on Hadoop and makes writing map-reduce programs a breeze." via dmilstein - Elias Torres

This is what happens when I don't read blogs. I miss things. - Elias Torres

Already using most of these, but need to check the TCP settings on my images - Elias Torres

Nice summary of Geir's talk at Web 2.0: You have multiple VMs [virtual machines] on MySQL with one master and many slaves. And if one master goes away you can generate a new master from the remaining" VMs. However, "this is not my opinion of cloud computing; you're actually doing clustering," he said. - Elias Torres

Cascading is a feature rich API for defining and executing complex and fault tolerant data processing workflows on a Hadoop cluster. - Elias Torres

The purpose of Tsung is to simulate users in order to test the scalability and performances of IP based client/server applications. You can use it to do load and stress testing of your servers. Many protocols have been implemented and tested, and it can be easily extended. WebDAV, LDAP and MySQL support has been added recently (experimental). - Elias Torres

StGIT is a Python application providing similar functionality to Quilt (i.e. pushing/popping patches to/from a stack) on top of GIT. - Elias Torres

What would you want from a Facebook for companies? (what value would it provide?) - Paul Buchheit

*Like* the idea, *dislike* the implication that crap^H^H^H^Hsilly apps are a good use of 20% time. - Tudor Bosman

for me, facebook for companies is an app that sits on top of (in?) my corp email and contacts and tell me all about the network i already spend so much time cultivating. xobni, but on serious performance enhancing drugs (think of a network that implicitly know not only who you know but what it is - contextually - that connects you) - Alex Gawley

already proved useful once, might as well keep around - Elias Torres

I wish unfuddle supported mercurial. Oh well. Git here we go. - Elias Torres

"The Shakers, a Protestant religious denomination officially called The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, originated in Manchester, England in 1747 in the home of Jane and James Wardley. The Shakers developed from the religious group called the Quakers which developed in the 17th century. Both groups believed that everybody could find God within him or herself, rather than through clergy or rituals, but the Shakers tended to be more emotional and demonstrative in their worship. Shakers also believed that their lives should be dedicated to pursuing perfection and continuously confessing their sins and attempting to stop sinning." - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Here they are. - DeWitt Clinton

that picture is exactly like sufis doing zikkhar, dihkar - Gregory Lent

@DeWitt I was there (the New Hampshire village) a few weekends ago. Amazing place. http://flickr.com/photos/elias... - Elias Torres

My amazing Bride, Susan Kare, designs them. - Jay Tannenbaum

I like the artificial scarcity aspect. That's hilarious. - Gabe

wow. I forgot about the virtual gifts business - Andrew Warner

"Google App Engine now looks like a plaything in comparison. In fact, you could build GAE on top of Amazon's cloud computing platform now that the EBS has solved persistent custom storage problem. It will be interesting to see if higher level cloud computing platforms such as App Engine start getting built on top of Amazon's cloud computing platform. Simply porting GAE wholesale would be an interesting academic exercise and a fun hacking project." -Dare Obasanjo - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

I don't read it as Dare talking smack. I think the infrastructure that Amazon is providing here is quite profound, and in theory, it should be able to support new GAE-like high-level stacks with relative ease. Easier than without Amazon, that's for sure. - DeWitt Clinton

No argument regarding Amazon and yes, definitely easier with, but porting GAE public bits wholesale on Amazon, still leaves us far from complete GAE. - Elias Torres

Cool tip from one of the comments: "REPLACE INTO profile (`first_name`) VALUES ('Monkey') WHERE `user_id`='jsobel' /*!10000000 MEMCACHE_DIRTY 'jsobel:first_name'*/", but Jason responds that they simply wanted a tighter integration with the txn. - Elias Torres

via Kellan, @Ade - Elias Torres

wtf? - Gary Burd

Actually I was just commenting on something that happened at work. But I like the Obama VP explanation better. - Moishe Lettvin

damn Kevin. - Elias Torres

Fucking silverlight. No install for you, MS! - Steve Lacy

BTW, YT link? - Steve Lacy

When is it final that there was no doping and he becomes history forever? - Elias Torres

Bolt was running 28 mph in this race. - peter