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Links for 2010-03-16

dailylinks — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:05:02 +0000

a sad story of connections made via second-hand small ads : ‘“It’s free to advertise,” Ned explained. “And we have a lot of things we don’t need.” So each week, they advertised for sale in Loot something from their apartment. This was their social life. Some weeks – the good weeks – they had three or four people who came to see what they were selling.’
(tags: loot stories london small-ads for-sale second-hand irish-times irishwomans-diary rosita-boland)

dailylinks — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:05:03 +0000

RE2: a principled approach to regular expression matching : Russ Cox’ C++ lib to provide safer, guaranteed-linear-time, non-exponential regexps, at the cost of dropping support for backreferences and generalized zero-width assertions. actually looks quite useful, unlike most “I’ve fixed regexps” claims ;)
(tags: regular-expressions regexps efficiency linear-time exponential-time backreferences google re2)

dailylinks — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:05:05 +0000

dailylinks — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:05:03 +0000

NexPod, Freedom of Espresso : Nespresso-compatible capsules — fill up with your own freshly-ground coffee and use in any Nespresso machine
(tags: nespresso coffee capsules espresso)
Wall anchors & plasterboard/dry lining walls : Boards thread with good advice regarding wall fixings for drylined walls
(tags: diy boards walls howto)

dailylinks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:05:02 +0000

dailylinks — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:05:04 +0000

DIY Burglar Alarm : Damian Beresford’s experience installing his own home alarm. pretty cheap, sounds quite easy too
(tags: alarm home-alarms house security diy install)
Post-mortem for February 24th, 2010 outage – Google App Engine : extremely detailed; power outage in the primary DC resulted in a degraded fleet, and on-calls didn’t have up-to-date on-call docs to respond correctly
(tags: google gae appengine outages post-mortems multi-dc reliability distcomp fleets on-call)
Wrex in Effect, or, Deep Space and the Negro/Injun/Krogan Problem : fantastic article about Mass Effect’s political allegory. I’m slightly disappointed that Mass Effect 2 didn’t live up to ME1’s quality, IMO
(tags: mass-effect games gaming politics)

dailylinks — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:05:05 +0000

Ubisoft DRM Authentication Servers Go Down : Assassin’s Creed 2 players unable to play the game for no less than 10 hours due to failure of their DRM servers. nice work Ubisoft
(tags: drm fail defective-by-design gaming ubisoft assassins-creed)

dailylinks — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:05:06 +0000

dailylinks — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:05:03 +0000

dailylinks — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:05:05 +0000