Sanjeev Singh

"flush" - Sanjeev Singh

The "honeypot" who trapped him, Cheryl Bentov, now works as a real estate agent in Florida. - Sanjeev Singh

Compress text to 40-80% of its original size and: (1) Execute 20K-50K count queries for patterns of 20 chars per second, (2) locate 100K patterns/sec and (3) decompress from arbitrary locations at 1MB/sec. Well, not exactly, but you'll have to read for the full details :) - Sanjeev Singh

Also, there are other small disadvantages: unlike pure suffix arrays, you don't automatically know *where* your needle is in the haystack -- the only operation you have is "decompress starting from the match onwards"; you have to encode the string in some way (and insert self-referential position markers) and decompress until you find the next marker, which tells you where you are in the string. - Tudor Bosman

I'm looking for places that rent full racks, not just individual machines. - Sanjeev Singh

Another vote for layer42.net. We use them for all fatgoose.com antics. - Walter Korman

A thesis from a VC who lived through the 1990s. I like the clear and simple exposition of how the economy developed from the 1930s to today. Though I'm left wondering if it is too simple.... A good read, nonetheless. - Sanjeev Singh

Clare, there are so many renewable energy companies, it's hard to keep up. Renewable Energy Systems (a wind firm) just moved HQ from Austin to Broomfield, CO. I cruise the Daily Camera's local biz section for companies: http://www.dailycamera.com/news... Also, the Rocky Mountain Institute is a cornerstone: http://www.rmi.org/ My husband and I live in Lowry, an urban in-fill project in east Denver. We would prefer to live in Boulder, but it's out of our price range. We like low overhead. - Ginger Makela Riker

Reading this article made me feel like I understand China's political and economic trajectory better. On the other hand, I lost 15 minutes of my life. - Sanjeev Singh

Reads like a glowing puff piece, but I like these ideas. "The nation also has a high degree of personal freedom, linked to a decentralized government in which voters are the ultimate sovereign through an elaborate system of direct democracy—citizens can both propose their own laws and challenge any action of the government. As a matter of fact, Swiss citizens may advance new legislation or “initiatives,” which must be put to a nationwide vote if their proponents can round up 100,000 signatures in support of the legislation. By means of referendum, the Swiss can also challenge a piece of legislation already approved by the federal parliament. If opponents of the new legislation amass 50,000 signatures in the first 100 days after the law is published, the electorate is allowed to make the decision." - Sanjeev Singh

It did snow all night in Zurich... well, that's fun for the kids! - Laurent Schneider

"Prayer OK" is a funny name for a bike. - Sanjeev Singh

Shouldn't you be saving up your grievances for Festivus? - April Buchheit

Someone wake me when we get to the feats of strength. - Mark Trapp

James Surowiecki argues that Bush's tightening of bankruptcy laws has been bad for everyone except the credit card companies. (from Piaw Na) - Sanjeev Singh

As someone who's been in on the side of the consumers in the credit business before, I can agree. I had the unfortunate opportunity to basically memorize the changes to bankruptcy law when they were passed. It might has well have been called the Bankruptcy Elimination Act. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

produced by James Cameron. I like the footage of the deep sea creatures, though the Europa mission seems somewhat fanciful. - Sanjeev Singh

awsome - shallwelin

lack of libraries + erlang developers. - Sanjeev Singh

4/1? - Paul Buchheit

haha, he got me! - Sanjeev Singh

ha ha: "Developers in the US who've worked on a successful Erlang project probably number less than 10. But the number of developers who've worked on a successful Java project are easily 100X that amount." - Phillip Kast

check out the video of Eric Schmidt from 1986! - Sanjeev Singh

Hilarious! Eric Schmidt looks like a Nintendo Wii character in this video :) - Mike Reynolds

FriendFail! - Sanjeev Singh

wikipedia: "Parkour is an activity with the aim of moving from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body. It is meant to help one overcome obstacles, which can be anything in the surrounding environment — from branches and rocks to rails and concrete walls" - Sanjeev Singh

The backflips and handsprings are for show and not part of the spirit of parkour laid out by the founder, David Belle. There is a branch of the sport called freerunning, led by Sebastian Foucan, which include the more showy flips and stuff. Those of you who live in the NYC area can attend Sunday parkour training sessions at STREB in Williamsburg. It's a blast! - Mike Yang

Non-PC product names from an earlier era: "It was basically a 12 cylinder 'W' engine that was based on the Arab." - Sanjeev Singh

More details on the infamous orca pod from LA. - Sanjeev Singh

Old, but new to me. Killer whales sometimes hunt great white sharks around the farallones, causing them to scram (one shark high-tailed it all the way to hawaii). - Sanjeev Singh

A good description of why most low-end RAID solutions don't really work. ZFS solves all these problems elegantly, though (and without extra hardware). - Sanjeev Singh

If only ZFS were available in Linux... I suppose it's enough of a competitive advantage for Sun that they're not about to GPL it. - Jim Norris

ZFS is open source, but not under the GPL license. FreeBSD has it, and future version of OS X might get it too. - Sanjeev Singh

e2fsck -n claims there are errors but I can't tell if those are artifacts of checking a live fs. - Sanjeev Singh

Dan, I was mistaken about ext3 above. ext3 does cleanup via fsck on a reboot, but this seems to be mostly for compatibility with ext2. Still, ZFS lets you check consistency on a live running system via the scrub command, which is very nice for long-running systems. With ext3 you can only run fsck -n, and it will report false alarms on an active system, meaning there is no way you can be sure you are good without unmounting! - Sanjeev Singh

"All measurements are nondestructive. Following standard protocol, only 5% of all samples are sent to an accredited laboratory for confirmatory analysis. By screening samples prior to collection, environmental professionals will eliminate the testing of high-concentration samples during confirmatory testing." - Sanjeev Singh

No idea what the price is, but they rent from $1000/week - Sanjeev Singh

pure genius - RAPatton

Even if the bus did not need gas, it would still use a lot oil. Lubricants, plastics etc... - RAPatton

FAIL blog rules. - arnaldostream

yeah, what a pleasant time-waster! - Sanjeev Singh

Many pictures on the FAIL blog are likely photoshopped, but I don't care. - Tudor Bosman

that's just Hilarious !! - Peter Dawson

Ignore solutions involving a gun to your head. - Sanjeev Singh

E.g. when you've turned into a fly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Philipp Lenssen

Nice graphs (even though some are old). It's interesting to see big growth in "social networking" and big losses in "community" and "personals". Also looks like retail movies + music are getting killed by online media + gaming. - Sanjeev Singh

I really like the two-dimensional scatterplot of growth vs. penetration (it's not as dirty as it sounds). It would be nice to see the growth curve of MySpace pre-2007 too. - Jim Norris

re-sharing from paul. Really funny. Britney, Travolta, Cruise and more. - Sanjeev Singh

hilarious!! - Jing Lim

Nicely done! Tom Cruise image is uncannily creepy! Good one! - Mario Sundar

oh My God~ - marx