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gtd

2012-06-232012-06-24 by .pQd

i like gtd, i’ve heard first time about the idea around 2006. since then i use some tiny-little-miniature form of it on daily basis; it boils down to writing things down, using reminders, tasks and todo lists. in other words – having OCD / being anal. i still manage to miss things, but in general ... Read More

higher TCP ICW – real world tests

2012-06-172012-06-18 by .pQd

this post inspired me to check how much performance can we gain by just upgrading to more recent kernel on the internet-facing proxy servers at work.

[pl] petelicki

2012-06-172012-06-17 by .pQd

dobre podsumowanie serji brutalnych samobojstw tutaj. a lemingi w najlepsze griluja cieszac sie co tym co im mainstream podrzuci. ciekawe komentarze na stronie michalkiewicza. + dla przeciwwagi – confirmation bias aka efekt potwierdzenia.

asia trip – 4/4 philippines

2012-05-302012-10-06 by .pQd

for the last 10 days of my Asian adventure i was traveled around Philippines.

asia trip 3/4 – thailand

2012-05-292012-05-29 by .pQd

from Singapore i flew to Bangkok Thailand and stayed there for 5 days.

asia trip 2/4 – singapore

2012-05-232012-05-25 by .pQd

after 10 days in Hong Kong my next stop was Singapore. i had 2.5days to use for some meetings and sightseeing.

asia trip 1/4 – hong kong

2012-05-232024-11-03 by .pQd

i’ve spent last month in Asia – Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Philippines. totally new experience in many ways.

2012-03-302012-10-06 by .pQd

[pl] to nie jest kraj dla mlodych ludzi

2012-03-212012-04-04 by .pQd

Film Fundacji Republikańskiej – To nie jest kraj dla młodych ludzi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHG3bm_MvRk jako bonus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5HOP82rsso – grzegorz braun, cork. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbPq8UxFb4 – ziemkiewicz

Benford’s law

2012-03-042013-10-05 by .pQd

by a coincidence [process well described in this xkcd’s comics] i’ve stumbled on the definition of Benford’s law. since i have access to quite a lot of different economic & financial data i’ve decided to check if that law applies also to it.

morocco

2012-02-282012-07-22 by .pQd

in search for some February sunshine i’ve spent 11 days in Morocco.

extracting single database from a [large] mysqldump

2012-02-082014-12-01 by .pQd

extracting the whole database: sed -n '/^-- Current Database: `databaseName`/,/^-- Current Database: `/p' /path/to/the/fill/dump.sql > output.sql single table: sed -n '/^CREATE TABLE `tableName`/,/^\-\- Table structure for table /p' /path/to/the/fill/dump.sql > output.sql [via this blog]

aspies

2012-02-042012-02-04 by .pQd

few articles about mild form of autism: Jeff Atwood – Software Developers and Asperger’s Syndrome Tracy Mayor/computerworld – Asperger’s and IT: Dark secret or open secret? sounds familiar?

cloning the server using rsync

2012-02-042012-07-27 by .pQd

braindump of things to do/directories not to copy when cloning physical debian to a vm using rsync

sopa/pipa/acta

2012-01-222014-01-10 by .pQd

while sopa/pipa legislation in the US seems to be postponed after a wave of protests acta in EU/Poland is doing just fine; acta possibly will be ratified [at least in Poland] without much of the mainstream attention. is pushing this law through the EU parliament going to be the only ‘success’ of otherwise pathetic polish ... Read More

Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street

2012-01-102012-01-07 by .pQd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2FWNWwE3I

surge 2011 presentations

2012-01-092012-01-14 by .pQd

playlist: here most interesting [to me] talks: Keynote ~ Ben Fried A journey through the full stack in search of performance and reliability Theo Schlossnagle – Closing Plenary Theo Schlossnagle – Architectures for real-time data Scaling Etsy: What Went Wrong, What Went Right

[pl/en] Czeczenia / Chechnya

2012-01-072012-01-07 by .pQd

Czeczenia – Cena prawdy / Chechnya – the price of truth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFzKh9ls5YI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VTTwVJojxQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIICOHGz94Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XZKSJLZeso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkCkbzoomnM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkeUeLj1t_0 Chechnya The Dirty War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_2medFkNhI another movie by the same director [ Mariusz Pilis ] Exit afghanistan – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-R_Yp2py0

switching reverse proxy from apache2 to nginx

2012-01-042013-05-14 by .pQd

i’ve been planning for a while to move away from apache2 as a reverse proxy in front of java appservs and start using nginx. i had two reasons: nginx can handle much better large number of concurrent connections [something we can make use of if we start using long-poll/comet], nginx gives more control over buffering ... Read More

Justice with Michael Sandel

2012-01-042014-01-10 by .pQd

pop-philosophy [aka the light version] with a political edge: http://www.justiceharvard.org/. playlist on yt. i’ve converted all of the lectures to mp3 [using this] so now i have something to listen to during the evening walks. as a counterbalance to the ‘soft’ stuff – 28c3 recordings: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/wiki/Documentation, and a list of talks; most interesting [for me] ... Read More