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cjg_··on Python 3 can revive Python
Long compile times can be fixed with pre-compiled wheels, http://wheel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ I shaved off 4 minutes of our build time of numpy/pandas with it.
cjg_··on EC2 California Down
One accounts b-zone is not necessarily the same as another accounts b-zone.
cjg_··on OS X 10.9.3 Is Toxic
10.9.3 is not pre-release software.
cjg_··on LibreSSL at BSDCan
Yep, it is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU
cjg_··on 100 Supercharger Stations
Technically it is not a gas station. What does the law say?
cjg_··on AWS Services Updated to Address OpenSSL Vulnerability
Possible the AWS Web console could be affected.
cjg_··on The Heartbleed Bug
It can only access memory of the process running openssl. So if you got nginx in front of your webprocesses they are protected. However anything in the nginx process is accessible (e.g certificates).
cjg_··on GnuTLS certificate verification vulnerability announced (CVE-2014-0092)
I wonder if there is any TLS library that actually does certificate verification properly...
cjg_··on Spotiamp – Long live the Llama
Wine works, colleague just tested it on Debian.
cjg_··on The SOLID principles of object-oriented design
Is there a video of the talk? I can't find it.
cjg_··on What the PS3 and Xbox 360 can do that next-gen still can't
Replacing harddrive on PS4 does not void warranty, they even have a guide for doing it: https://support.us.playstation.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5...
cjg_··on The Unix system family tree: Research and BSD
More likely FreeBSD 4.* than 5.
cjg_··on Andrea Rossi has started commercializing ECAT nuclear fusion devices
Is there conclusive evidence that this device actually work yet?
cjg_··on Debugging Python Like a Boss
If miss a line like that which is very easy to spot in a diff, which other things end up in your production environement?

And obviously any test covering that line will fail/hang.

cjg_··on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Fully agree on py-mysql2pqsql, awesome little tool.
cjg_··on Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook
Where do you get the limit of 256TB compressed from?

     Amazon Redshift enables you to start with as little 
     as a single 2TB XL node and scale up all the way to
     a hundred 16TB 8XL nodes for 1.6PB of compressed user data.
from http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/features-and-benefits/
cjg_··on Another Model S fire
Tesla sold 5.5k cars the last quarter. That's not 3k/month.

(http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/uni...)

The leaf sold 6375 during the same period (us only).

I think Teslas number was global sales. But still Leaf out sold teslas the last quarter in the US.

http://www.hybridcars.com/eight-us-sales-records-in-eight-mo...

Where did you get your numbers from?

cjg_··on Formula E
A money limit is very easy to workaround.
cjg_··on Useful Unix commands for data science
Sadly it seems very expensive now, $95 on Amazon...
cjg_··on Tesla Repays Department of Energy Loan Nine Years Early
Well there are some restrictions imposed on Tesla by this load.

See http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-borrows-150-million...

There is says that the loan requires Musk to have a 65% ownership of the company which of course is expensive to maintain when they are raising money.

cjg_··on Braintree now accepts online applications for European merchants
Earlier you could not sign up online.
cjg_··on US Treasury Guidance on Virtual Currencies (aka Bitcoins)
Not exactly true, they are already approved for the financial service provider law and still have to abide by it (see for example Tele2 http://fi.se/Register/Foretagsregistret/Foretagsregistret-De...)
cjg_··on US Treasury Guidance on Virtual Currencies (aka Bitcoins)
Those limits are certainly not correct, I have taken out around $2000 in 3 withdrawals within 5 minutes in one ATM (SEB) earlier this year.

The SMS payment change was not due to the new EU directive, it was due to the telcos wanted to change it. SMS payment from anonymous prepaid cards were already not possible.

cjg_··on The Galaxy S4 has a Barometer
Ah, yes of course :)
cjg_··on The Galaxy S4 has a Barometer
GPS provides accurate 3D positions. However if you know roughly your position the GPS fix can be acquired more quickly. So the barometer only helps you with an estimate Z pos, which helps you get the GPS fix faster.
cjg_··on How to Learn JavaScript Properly
K&R is great! For a really deep understanding how pointer and arrays are related I also recommend Expert C Programming by Peter van der Linden (http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/dp...)
cjg_··on C11: A New C Standard Aiming at Safer Programming
Clang supports some parts of C11, see http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#c11 for details.
cjg_··on Nginx Requests/Second – RaspberryPi vs Amazon EC2
Comparing cost of a cpu vs price of running an EC2 instance (and over what time)? Bit strange...
cjg_··on Favorite Unix Commands
Hm, can you start at the end of file without reading the entire file with less? Use case is tailing large logs.
cjg_··on So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (2008)
Are you sure? PHK is a quite seasoned FreeBSD kernel developer and did phkmalloc which was used in FreeBSD for a long time, see http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/malloc.pdf.
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