Mike Malone
Developer at SixApart / Pownce co-Founder
I make the stuff that makes the interwebs. Sometimes I do other stuff too.
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So @krclapham had a dream that animated @joestump (from his website) was on family guy talking about @simplegeoinc .
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Dear chinatown - it's chinese new years, I get it. In fact, I got it last week. You can stop banging on those drums now.
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I know there are all sorts of ecological implications but, all else equal, a world without insects would be a vastly superior world.
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General impression of RabbitMQ so far - cool product, nonexistent community. Seems if you don't pay for a services contract you're screwed.
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If you code Python and use vi you might find this handy: http://bit.ly/98I1GX (feel free to make improvements - I want tab completion!)
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Breaking: dude from Pittsburg wins olympic gold medal in hockey for... Canada..?
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Well done Canada.
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Boo.
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Haha, my brother @jim_malone is a huge hockey fan & had to stop watching Twitter bc "the Canadian hockey fans were being douches." Go USA!
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Holy crap that just happened #hockey #USA
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$294.5 billion worth of beer was sold wordwide last year. I promise I drank less than half of it.
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Had an awesome time in Boulder @simplegeoinc , but glad to be getting back to SF. Feels like I've been gone forever.
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The cover of Jackson 5 - I Want You Back by Discovery is awesome. http://bit.ly/d0oFiy
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This is why I love Python: http://gist.github.com/313924
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Gotta say, there's really nothing in the zen of python that I disagree with. Wish more programmers read / abided by it: http://bit.ly/AEDQc
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The yaks... they're multiplying. There'll never be time to shave them all.
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Does anyone else find Apache's mailing list archives consistently slow or completely unavailable? It's unusable. So frustrating.
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What's the best monitoring/alerting pkg these days? Reconnoiter, Graphite, & Zenoss look cool. Splunk is $$$. Ganglia & Nagios still work.
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So pypy is faster than cpython... if I run pypy on top of pypy is it even faster? Turtles all the way down!
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Maximized windows have a 5px border at the bottom of my screen. Cant even manually make it bigger. WTF OS X? http://yfrog.com/4a89jp
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OH: "Why don't they just make babies travel in the overhead bins?"
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turns out it's really hard to do integration tests with a data store that's eventually consistent.
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OH (@lambdaknight to @mg ): "Also, Matt, I was thinking about getting a pet skunk. Could I bring it into the office?" Response: "No."
