teoruiz

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20 years a CTO, engineer, and humanist — in no particular order.

You'll find me on most online services as teoruiz.

teoruizon Dr. Brian May on Freddie Mercury's creativity

He's signing the article as:

Dr. Brian May, CBE. Guitarist.

As in: Doctor Brian May with a PhD in astrophysics from the Imperial College London, Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Guitarist of Queen.

It can't get cooler than that.

teoruizon Marc Benioff interviews Eric Schmidt

One of the best quotes from Schmidt: "Life is short and you should spend the time working with people you enjoy".

I could not agree more.

teoruizon Android account passwords are stored on disk in plain text

You just have to revoke the "per application" password you used on your phone.

My iPad 2 was recently stolen (sad face) and I just had to revoke the different passwords I used for the different apps (Reeder, Mail, Safari, etc.).

teoruizon Live coverage of the last Shuttle launch (STS-135, Atlantis)

There is a bigger version of the video here:

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/135_splash/index.html

teoruizon The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid

I can't help to compare this raid with the feds raid to the Novus Ordo Seclorum hosting company pictured in Cryptonomicon.

teoruizon Skype server took a short break

Ha, they posted the instructions for the different OSes (but Linux) here: http://heartbeat.skype.com/2011/05/problems_signing_into_sky...

I wonder if all users will have to do that, because it would be a huge pain.

teoruizon Skype server took a short break

Even http://heartbeat.skype.com/ seems to be suffering, and when it loads it claims that everything is "working normally".

Sigh.

teoruizon LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Not to be anal here, but the original article is about LastPass[0] as opposed to KeePass[1], which is another password manager (NB: KeePass is locally hosted).

[0] http://lastpass.com/

[1] http://keepass.info/

teoruizon Linode outage in Fremont

Linode's datacenter in London has "100% uptime" for me.

Just a few times I had to reboot the Linode because of some weird I/O locking.

teoruizon Secure password storage – a myth?

Repeat after me: "use bcrypt".

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

Or just use bcrypt, please.

teoruizon YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo

Somebody installs wp-super-cache[0] in that poor dying Wordpress blog.

Glad to see delicious itself not dying.

[0] http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

teoruizon How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse

That would be awesome. +1 on my side.

teoruizon House tells FCC to drop net neutrality

From the outside it looks like the US political scene is a complete and ridiculous mess right now, led by the Republican Congress.

teoruizon Mozilla Glow: Awesome Firefox 4 live download day map

Are you thinking on open sourcing it?

teoruizon Google rolls out algorithm change in the US

Is there any reason to change the algorithm, initially, only in the US?

teoruizon CIO update: Post-mortem on the Skype outage

I wonder how they managed to launch "several thousand more mega-supernodes through the night".

I assume they can't turn regular Skype nodes into supernodes because they must be reachable from a public IP address.

Where they using a cloud computer provider such as EC2?

teoruizon InnoDB faster than NoSQL solutions?

There was a more detailed discussion about HandlerSocket in another thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1886137

Original article: http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-a...

teoruizon Amazon.co.uk and .de are down

AWS's services in Europe (Dublin, Ireland) seem to be having latency problems:

http://status.aws.amazon.com/#EU_block

teoruizon Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.

Sadly no international shipments. Yet?

Anybody from outside the US got a CR-48?

teoruizon Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet?

Did you get a confirmation from Google that they were going to send you the laptop?

Where are you based?

teoruizon Visa is under DDoS attack

I really, really don't understand how can this happen if www.visa.com is Akamaized.

teoruizon Wikileaks moves to Amazon's cloud to evade massive DDoS

Cloudsigma is based in Zurich, Switzerland and seems to be fairly big. They should be able to cope with this kind of attack:

http://www.cloudsigma.com/

teoruizon The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders

Just for the brave ou there: to build a custom kernel for Ubuntu, based on the actual Ubuntu kernel image, you have to follow these instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile

Apply the patch before compiling and there you go.

teoruizon Github outage official status updates

Even the status page is intermittently down ("too many requests on the app backlog"), poor Heroku.

teoruizon Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote

It is actually slower. Adding an f8 function using the ''.join() method:

  sikanda-13:30:02:/tmp$ python f.py 
  [...]
  f1 0.07
  f2 0.12
  f3 0.07
  f4 0.06
  f5 0.09
  f6 0.04
  f7 0.02
  f8 0.07

Original code linked in the article: http://www.python.org/doc/essays/f.py

teoruizon Show HN: my regular expression example match generator

And the Python 're' option: http://pythex.org/

teoruizon Twitter 'onmouseover' security flaw widely exploited

They are tweeting this from the official "@safety" account:

We've identified and are patching a XSS attack; as always, please message @safety if you have info regarding such an exploit.

http://mobile.twitter.com/safety/status/25118959058

teoruizon Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

I wonder how this feature will translate to in the Android Gmail client.

teoruizon America's misguided culture of overwork

> - University tuition has been introduced recently (though still low, but will rise as obvious source of gov revenue)

In Spain (another socialist economy by the article standards) University tuition is something between 600-1000 EUR a year and has not risen for a good decade now (except for the inflation).

teoruizon Paul Graham and his "no asshole" rule (Interview)

I am so sorry, but I have to say this because it is what came to my mind when I watched it: Robert 'Scobleizer' Scoble is, most likely, an asshole.

And that's what I can read all over PG's body language throughout the video.

And again, I'm sorry for this mini-rant.