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www.youtube.com 1y ago

The sham legacy of Richard Feynman [video]

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www.hyvar-project.eu 9y ago

Microservices and Docker for geographically distributed projects

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blog.borud.no 15y ago

Craft vs science: thoughts on computer science education

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blog.borud.no 16y ago

Programming languages for beginners

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knuthellan.com 16y ago

Sincerial, a general recommendation service, launched

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atbrox.com 16y ago

How to get pip/virtualenv/Fabric working on Cygwin

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thomas.broxrost.com 16y ago

Updated AWS/Go Daddy dedicated server cost comparison

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thomas.broxrost.com 17y ago

Why Amazon Web Services just became a competitive web hosting provider

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amundblog.blogspot.com 17y ago

Ajax with Python - Combining PyJS and Appengine with json-rpc

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thomas.broxrost.com 17y ago

Dostoevsky on the dangers of science

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thomas.broxrost.com 17y ago

3 lessons the individual investor can learn from JPMorgan Chase

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thomas.broxrost.com 17y ago

Hacking comments in Django 1.0

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thomas.broxrost.com 17y ago

Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS - The easy way

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eventseer.net 17y ago

Serving static files with Django and AWS - going fast on a budget

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thomas.broxrost.com 18y ago

Porting legacy databases to Google App Engine

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amundblog.blogspot.com 18y ago

Pragmatic classification: The very basics

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thomas.broxrost.com 18y ago

Django on Google App Engine: Serving templates and static files

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blog.broxrost.com 18y ago

Django on Google App Engine in 13 simple steps

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amundblog.blogspot.com 18y ago

Test-driven parsing with Python, Dparser and Doctest

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Molly White, a prolific Wikipedia editor, has written a good overview of how information source reliability is handled in practice: https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war.... There's a process for how decisions about source legitimacy and reliability are made, and these "decisions aren’t made lightly and are frequently revisited: there have been over fifty discussions about the Daily Mail’s reliability, for example, with both sides being vehemently argued".

It's long, but do give it a chance. The main premise is how the legend of Feynman (as in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!") is often at odds with Feynman the person. It is neither a character assassination nor a redemption story but somewhere in between--with a few plot twists. Also, Dr. Collier is an excellent science communicator.

Heroku EU Is Down 3 years ago

1.5 hours of complete downtime for our apps now.

We're getting "App boot timeout" errors for every request and "One or more of these arguments were missing: uid, gid, gateway, somaxconn, event_fd, out_fd" for scheduled tasks. The incident report has been up for almost four hours and it's not getting better: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2590

I remember young me spending hours on a VIC-20 version of animal.bas ("Computer guesses animals and learns new ones from you"). Given enough time and training input the computer could answer any question put to it! It helped open my eyes to the magic of computation and still gives me a bit of a tingle when I think about it.