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General Discussion / Re: I'm engaged!
« on: December 03, 2010, 05:03:03 pm »
Congrats! Welcome to the club of old people.
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General Discussion / Re: Should laptops be called Laptops or BurnLaps?
« on: November 04, 2010, 05:50:08 pm »
I melted the PCB in my laptop's battery enclosure...now I have 6 perfectly functional Lithium ion batteries with nothing to regulate them 
I'm considering finding a fun way to blow them up.
I'm considering finding a fun way to blow them up.
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Gaming / Re: SC2 Replay Parser online
« on: November 04, 2010, 03:26:54 pm »
I haven't even glanced at a Starcraft 2 replay, but the Warcraft 3 win mechanism relied 100% on the player actually staying long enough to get a victory/defeat screen (via all opponents leaving or actually destroying their bases). I assume that Starcraft 2 suffers the same limitation that it is hard to figure out who won a game that was not "over" when you left the game. Custom maps have solved this problem by basically injecting custom variables into the replay actions with their own standardized meanings. Obviously that isn't a solution for generic Starcraft 2 ladder play.
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Gaming / Re: StarCraft 2
« on: August 20, 2010, 04:03:19 pm »
I'm on sporadically. Often for hours in a single day then not again for a week or two 
My realid is posted where appropriate. Gold 1v1, Silver 2v2, Platinum 3v3
My realid is posted where appropriate. Gold 1v1, Silver 2v2
, Platinum 3v3
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General Discussion / Re: Google Blog on Algorithms
« on: August 12, 2010, 12:34:28 pm »
I never remember to go look when I'm at home and have access to my backup server. However, here is a crappy article about it from people that don't know what they are talking about and impressed by things that are actually pretty common in the Enterprise environment:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
What it doesn't talk about is the multi-tiered structure that search requests are actually handled (at a hardware level). Each cluster group has nodes dedicated to handling requests, routing requests to servers most likely to have results cached, and servers that do nothing but handle optimizing what is currently cached in their huge memory banks from disk. Essentially, they replace a typical SAN environment with a distributed cache/routing/control cluster.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
What it doesn't talk about is the multi-tiered structure that search requests are actually handled (at a hardware level). Each cluster group has nodes dedicated to handling requests, routing requests to servers most likely to have results cached, and servers that do nothing but handle optimizing what is currently cached in their huge memory banks from disk. Essentially, they replace a typical SAN environment with a distributed cache/routing/control cluster.
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General Discussion / Re: Google Blog on Algorithms
« on: July 16, 2010, 05:40:36 pm »
A lot of their speed is garnered by some very specifically tailored hardware architecture modifications. I wrote a paper / presentation on it when I was still an undergrad and could dig it up if anyone is interested.
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General Discussion / Re: Name My Rig!
« on: July 09, 2010, 03:43:41 pm »
One of my old machine was named Automaton (re: futura series finale or maybe I should call it the first series finale 
) which has been one of my favorites. Since then I've used exclusively DotA character names because so many of them are cool. If I include VM names, I've used the following:
atropos
azwraith
traxex
crsyalix
rigwarl
ezalor
lion
dirge
akasha
leshrac
razor
rooftrellen
rexxar
lucifer
naix
balanar
sven
I use the first letter as a loose tool for denoting what purpose I use the machine for and its a system that works really well for me.
) which has been one of my favorites. Since then I've used exclusively DotA character names because so many of them are cool. If I include VM names, I've used the following:atropos
azwraith
traxex
crsyalix
rigwarl
ezalor
lion
dirge
akasha
leshrac
razor
rooftrellen
rexxar
lucifer
naix
balanar
sven
I use the first letter as a loose tool for denoting what purpose I use the machine for and its a system that works really well for me.
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General Discussion / Re: Impact ... *pulls hair out*
« on: July 01, 2010, 12:03:47 am »
I don't think that this thread will have much of an impact on my word choice.
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General Discussion / Re: Going to Cisco Live! in Las Vegas
« on: June 27, 2010, 01:04:16 pm »
I asked my boss to send me but I think the notice was too short
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General Discussion / Re: Pidgin Directory Prefs?
« on: June 15, 2010, 09:25:54 pm »
There is a portable version of pidgin that should already have a modification similar to this.
edit: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/pidgin_portable
edit: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/pidgin_portable
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iago's forum / Re: Important news!
« on: June 01, 2010, 01:05:35 am »
What's the correct social response to a "coming out" event?
"Congratulations!" ?
"Happy Coming-Out day!" ?
"Get well soon." ?
(kidding)
"Congratulations!" ?
"Happy Coming-Out day!" ?
"Get well soon." ?
(kidding
)
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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!
« on: May 05, 2010, 01:03:31 am »
Probably not. Blaze hit the motherload with S2.
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Tutorials, References, and Examples / Re: [PHP] Organizing a JSON Array
« on: April 16, 2010, 12:10:18 am »
He's referring to the php rendering. Single quotes are treated as string literals, double quotes are parsed for variables. Citation