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Excedrin

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Excedrin··on Starbucks and the Restroom Anti-Bubble
Yes I pee in the shower. It is very convinent. Sometimes I'll pee in a floor drain at Starbucks so i dont have to flush. I have a vey small bathroom, and Im fat. So I sit on the edge of the tub and pee while brushing my teeth.
Excedrin··on Twitter At Scale: Will It Work?
Is using Twitter really very different from the Gale messaging system? It seems like the user experience is fairly similar, but Gale's architecture is much more interesting to me (and it scales! wow!).
Excedrin··on A Detailed Five Step Twitter Scaling Plan
Did you mean 100M users per box?
Excedrin··on TC Slows Hacker News - Start the Arc can't scale rants.
I wish my webserver had a repl.
Excedrin··on Software Engineering is a Joke
If it's a joke, what's the punchline?
Excedrin··on Ask YC: Why do you recommend a Macbook?
I run Arch Linux on my Macbook Pro. I don't like the hardware at all, it feels cheap in comparison to the Thinkpad it replaced.
Excedrin··on (1..100).inject(&:+)
What does '/' mean? Also, why does '+' seem to do different things in the first and second expressions? I suppose '!n' means "array of integers ending at n" which seems like an odd choice since it's neither 'not' nor factorial.
Excedrin··on Could a unified theory of modern life really be this simple/scary? (quick vid)
The style of this video reminded me of Adam Curtis' The Century Of The Self and The Trap - What Happened to our Dream of Freedom perhaps with a little Michael Moore sensationalism mixed in, but I'm not sure if that's enough of a reason to buy and read the book.
Excedrin··on Tip the Odds in Your Favor: How to Count Cards
I get that it's not a very detailed article, but it seems sort of bad to omit that it's pointless to attempt to count cards when a continuous shuffle machine is in use.