Author Archives: Jeremy Zawodny
Smart Appliances? I think not…
There’s been a lot of talk lately about adding various “smarts” to our everyday durable goods: things like refrigerators, cars, TVs, dishwashers, etc. You know, the kind of things you only buy every 10-15 years or when they’ve become too … Continue reading
The Broken Permissions Model in Android Apps as Illustrated by Facebook
A couple days ago I was informed that the Facebook app on my Samsung Galaxy S3 wanted to update. But it needed me to agree to some additional permissions for the app. I clicked the button to see what they … Continue reading
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Additions to a Fresh Windows 7 Installation
I recently found myself shuffling computers around a bit. And since it’s useful to have a functional Windows box on hand, I installed Windows 7 on an older desktop in my office. (Installing from an original Win7 DVD was entertaining–the … Continue reading
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C-130 Taking a run at the Rim Fire
Shot from the Pine Mountain Lake Marina earlier today (August 22nd). The next photo is a picture of a plume that blew up east of Pine Mountain Lake Airport.
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Seeking Sucks: Spoiled by SSDs
I’m in the process of rebuilding full-text indexes for a good sized document collection that lives in a sharded MongoDB cluster. And the funny thing about this is that I don’t really use MongoDB that much. I mean we put … Continue reading
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When Google Voice Transcription Goes Wrong…
Hilarity ensues… Hey there, I decided to try to catch up with you and I just got back from him. So I got it yet. My My Sweet diarrhea certainly help. I can tell you a little more about it later … Continue reading
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Handling Database Failover at Craigslist
There has been some interesting discussion on-line recently about how to handle database (meaning MySQL, but really it applies to other systems too) failover. The discussion that I’ve followed so far, in order, is: GitHub’s report on their automated failover … Continue reading
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Coursera on-line classes and the future of learning…
Ten years from now a “college education” is going to look radically different from when I went to school. And I think that’s a good thing, especially when you consider the skyrocketing costs of “higher education” and the miserable job … Continue reading
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iPad Annoyance: File Uploads in Safari
A few weeks ago I got a new iPad and have generally been quite happy with it. When paired with a wireless keyboard, I can even do some basic (lightweight) “work” on it as a remote terminal. But there’s a … Continue reading
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