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xtrahotsauceon GNU grep is 10x faster than Mac grep

Oops, missed that part of the article, thanks!

xtrahotsauceon GNU grep is 10x faster than Mac grep

Does "git grep" use a system grep or does it implement grep on its own?

xtrahotsauceon Google throws open doors to its top-secret data center

I love AutoPatchWork (for chrome) for this purpose: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autopatchwork/aeol...

xtrahotsauceon Data Mining 3.4 billion Web pages for $100 of EC2

We bring up spot instances all the time with EMR as additional compute capacity, and we're okay with these instances possibly going away because we use HDFS very little. Instead, we store almost everything on S3.

xtrahotsauceon Prismatic's "Graph" at Strange Loop

happens to me on an iPad as well

xtrahotsauceon Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)

Burlingame, CA - TellApart http://www.tellapart.com/

We're hiring Software Engineers, senior and junior, as well as Software Engineers specializing in machine learning. We help eCommerce companies "TellApart" their high value customers from the rest by collecting and making sense of their customer data.

Here are some technical challenges you'll face at TellApart:

- Scale -- build systems that handle tens of thousands of requests per second under strict latency guarantees on behalf of hundreds of millions of users.

- Predictive modeling with huge data sets -- build predictive models that evaluate hundreds of thousands of features in milliseconds.

Email me at mike@tellapart.com for more information and check out our jobs page at http://tellapart.com/company/jobs

xtrahotsauceon Show HN: TwoSides.co, because there's at least two sides to every story

Looks pretty awesome so far. I'm not a big fan of all the different fonts and formatting. Like aginn mentioned, I don't know if Related Issues should have the same size as the currently focused issue. Love the landing page though.