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scdlbx··on Google Patents 'Tower of Containers'
I think there is a difference between stacking cargo containers for use as a billboard and connecting cargo containers to a spine that provides power and cooling, with the purpose of running a bunch of servers inside the cargo containers.

Google did not patent stacking cargo containers, but stacking them in a specific way for a specific purpose, with additional resources.

scdlbx··on Gmail has become unusably slow
I'm using over 5200MB, over 90,000 messages and 54 labels and haven't noticed any speed problems. Though the majority of my messages are archived, with only ~6000 in my inbox.
scdlbx··on Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?
Just use a rubber band and bump fire it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkF2wish5I8

scdlbx··on Blippy And Credit Card Numbers - Official Blippy Blog
"While we take this very seriously and it is a headache for those involved (to whom we apologize and are contacting)"
scdlbx··on New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others
I wasn't particularly gentle with my MacBook Pro and it never got scratched or damaged.
scdlbx··on The Thrill of Flying the SR-71 Blackbird
The author states that he graduated high school in 1966 and that he built a model of the the SR-71 when he was 10, presumably 1958 if he graduated at 18. He also states that the SR-71 was designed in 1960. Some of this doesn't quite seem right.
scdlbx··on N. Korea launches out-of-date OS
You can easily run the latest kernel on a Pentium III without issue.
scdlbx··on Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke today?
LHC used to discover the Neutrinosaurus

http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2010/100401.html

scdlbx··on LHC sees first record-breaking high-energy particle collisions
Typically a cluster is connected with fiberoptics or similar media anyways. That they are doing the same is not surprising.
scdlbx··on Unix recovery legend
You work on a lot of VAXs? That's VAX assembler.
scdlbx··on Microsoft Job Interview Questions
Then don't write it in Lisp or Haskell. If they don't specify a language, use one that makes sense.
scdlbx··on How To: Read more books
I've found that simply setting aside some time every day or every couple of days for reading is sufficient. Once I start reading I have no problem continuing.
scdlbx··on WTFPL
What would you need to defend?
scdlbx··on Things I’m surprised we don’t have yet
Lots of cars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_key
scdlbx··on Common REST Mistakes
What REST actually is, is not explained on this page. More information can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer
scdlbx··on Barbie Gets to be a Computer Engineer
Khaki cargo pants and a black t-shirt with "Got Root?" written on it.
scdlbx··on Quality, a user problem
If important updates are lost in the noise, perhaps Facebook is not the place to announce them.
scdlbx··on It's all about the cores. Why AMD doesn't use HyperThreading
What is the "Fusion-based" computing mentioned in the first paragraph? A quick search doesn't yield much.
scdlbx··on The New Data Center Rack From ... IKEA?
How much weight can those handle? I don't want to throw my $100k NetApp in there and have the bottom fall off.
scdlbx··on Google's MapReduce patent: what does it mean for Hadoop?
A little off topic, but any of the Good alignments follow "Don't be evil", since by definition Good is not Evil. Neutral says nothing about not doing evil and actually implies doing some evil. Lawful Neutral is following the order of law regardless of whether a law is good or evil. Chaotic Good is more of disregarding law or actively attempting to destroy law but while still doing what is Good. Therefore, I'd say Google acting as the GP describes would more closely follow Lawful Neutral than Chaotic Good.

Edit: Actually, I guess the process of acting as the GP describes would be Lawful Neutral but the end result would be Chaotic Good.

scdlbx··on Things I've overheard about my Linux laptop while on public transportation
A little better: echo -e '\E[32;40m'; cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'A-F0-9'
scdlbx··on Record police with phone camera in Boston, get arrested
No, because red light cameras do not record audio.
scdlbx··on Google Multivac
Most large and dense server rooms are quite noisy. Ear protection can make them much more bearable to work in for long periods of time.
scdlbx··on One heck of a hack: Ocarina from an egg
He makes ocarinas from other edible things as well.

Carrot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsboQ7cp7a4 Avocado: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtH9P-rtCPM Apple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e37opEulwk

scdlbx··on Lessons From Parallelizing Matrix Multiplication
The multiply itself is not being changed. Rather, the order in which the elements in the matrices are being multiplied is changed. The results will be the same.
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