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Average time to first byte for nearest neighbor queries on @SimpleGeo storage is hovering around 30ms. I guess that'll have to do for now.
Man, remember when hacker news was cool? Lately it seems to be populated primarily by dickbags gaming kharma. I'd rather read slashdot.
RT @_jared: oh snap! RT @basho: new blog post from Basho COO @antonyfalco: "Lies, Damn Lies, and NoSQL" http://blog.basho.com/2011... #riak
Cool use of #polymaps by @leemartin on the website for Moby's new album: http://destroyed.moby.com/
this is terrifying: https://github.com/bradfit... /cc @bradfitz
Just got an email from @ftdflowers saying they won't be delivering the flowers I ordered for my mom tomorrow. I'm sure she'll understand...
OH: "if you're like a really famous guy like Ghandi or something can you sell your sperm for a lot of money?" -@kimsterv
We're now returning nearby intersections in @SimpleGeo context thanks to @kimsterv and @openstreetmap. http://blog.simplegeo.com/2011...
To those advocating a "multi-cloud" strategy: suppose AWS did blow up, do you really think Rackspace, et al. have capacity to absorb demand?
RT @SimpleGeoAPI: Scalable Data Storage Getting You Down? To The Cloud! http://www.scribd.com/doc... /via @mihasya @mjmalone @dsmitts @greytalyn
RT @shanselman: To the cloud! Oh, it's down.
Just watched the giants win on TV from a boat in McCovey Cove streamed over EVDO to a laptop via a slingbox. We live in the future.
RT @mbostock: Touch events for Polymaps incoming: https://github.com/mbostoc... Thanks for the love, #NoGIS!
New poop bags for the dog are biodegradable, "except as defined by California." http://yfrog.com/h7ty2kpj
New poop bags for the dog are biodegradable, "except as defined by California." http://t.co/IYwemW5
OH: "I got 99 problems and Hadoop is all of 'em." -@kimsterv
RT @mihasya: Holy shit #sxsw just got real! @Rosie O'Donnell sighting at The Moose Knuckle!!
$ alias bitch,=sudo /cc @mihasya
RT @ericflo: Pooooooo # geopoop
Either I'm crazy or twitter randomly unfollows people for me.
FreeBSD 4.2 is God's operating system. /cc @joestump
RT @joestump: AWS Premium Support won't investigate a serious fork issue we're seeing in us-east-1 because our AMIs aren't "support." Only RH-based are.
Important distributed systems research @SimpleGeo: http://yfrog.us/hq6t8z
Important distributed systems research @SimpleGeo: http://yfrog.us/hq6t8z
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Turns out the thread contention issue that's been causing problems for us was a bug in libc6. That's comforting.
$ uptime 07:09:39 up 31 days, 10:53, 5 users, load average: 8160.13, 6850.51, 3496.65
Poopin up at Tahoe. Keep losing my breath cuz of the altitude. #poopin
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