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Citizen Science: Conservation Org makes fixed phone holders to record change

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www.theguardian.com 3y ago

Chemical attraction: some people are ‘mosquito magnets’, study finds

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www.npr.org 3y ago

Winner of French Scrabble Title Does Not Speak French (2015)

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www.theguardian.com 5y ago

Spot the sniper in these photos (2014)

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en.wikipedia.org 6y ago

Jesus Nut

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medium.com 6y ago

Date of reporting, not date of death (UK Covid-19 data reporting quality)

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advertising.amazon.com 6y ago

Amazon DSP – programmatical buying of display and video ads

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twitter.com 6y ago

Legal Analyst sexually harassed via on-board Virgin Atlantic chat system

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www.archdaily.com 6y ago

Using AR to help build a complex brick wall

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en.wikipedia.org 7y ago

Quindar Tones – what the beeps on the moon landing audio were

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

The [food] science of pizzas – video

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blog.cloudflare.com 7y ago

Announcing SSH Access Through Cloudflare

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www.news.com.au 8y ago

Why do pilots say “Roger that”?

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www.flightradar24.com 8y ago

Live: Finnair flight 666 to HEL on Friday 13th at 13h

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stackoverflow.com 8y ago

Awk: fetching seconds since the epoch with srand()

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www.vox.com 9y ago

The case for raising chickens in virtual reality (2014)

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www.bbc.co.uk 9y ago

US photographer captured moment of her death in Afghanistan

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www.bbc.co.uk 9y ago

How I funded my studies by digging for Sierra Leone diamonds

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www.dailymail.co.uk 9y ago

The man who dug a coal mine at the bottom of his garden

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www.bbc.co.uk 10y ago

The Irishman who faked his own kidnapping

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www.imaginecurve.com 10y ago

Curve card – new FinTech Mastercard combines your cards into one

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libraries.io 10y ago

VW PhpUnit makes your failing tests pass CI tools scrutiny

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www.aviationrepublic.com 10y ago

The 13 Most Beautiful Airliners of all time

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

360° interactive video of Airbus A320 takeoff and landing

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www.bbc.com 10y ago

UK national sperm bank has just nine donors

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www.google.com 10y ago

Google PDF Search: “not for public release”

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status.github.com 10y ago

GitHub had connectivity problems

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www.theguardian.com 10y ago

South African team may have cracked small scale solar production

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www.aviationfigure.com 10y ago

The 10 Most Beautiful Airliners of All Time

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finance.yahoo.com 10y ago

107 feet of fire-breathing titanium - a story about the SR-71 Blackbird

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I suspect:

- memcached if you don't need to persist the data

- Redis if you don't know whether you need to use Redis or FoundationDB

- FoundationDB if you learn that Redis doesn't do what you need

I don't mean this in any kind of a derogatory way but I suspect that if you need to ask then you probably don't need FDB.

The principle of keeping tech stacks boring and using well established components is less exciting as an Engineer but is usually the best choice.

Exactly the same at my university except the the phone in the lift would ring and have to be picked up by someone.

We'd wait until the lift was totally crammed with people, call it and then ask to speak to someone we knew was in the lift!

Next in the series: "Lessons in server capacity learnt when we got more traffic than usual". The page doesn't load for me.

As an amusing aside "dom kop" (same phonetic as their domain name) in Dutch or Afrikaans translates to "stupid head"

I'm torn a little on my opinion of this post. On the one side I applaud anyone who's willing to self-learn and isn't a "I'll just Google it" developer. On the flip side I tire of hearing people tell me that they've written a CMS of their own, in some cases piggy backing on someone who's solved the an identical problem pays dividends and will be more mature than your solution.

Perhaps for a self-learner a nice approach is to write it yourself and then go searching for a solution. That way you'll likely: validate what you did, figure out that you missed a detail or perhaps learn some new regexp foo or different way of writing the same thing.