Arto Bendiken (bendiken)

Arto Bendiken

Driving down to Darmstadt to visit the folks at @makaluaerospace.

Arto Bendiken

My neighbor the opera singer sure practices a lot.

Arto Bendiken

I've moved 20+ times previously, but today was the easiest by far. The agile, lean, Tofflerian home: no stuff, no worries. Very liberating.

Arto Bendiken

Whew, found the mother of all bugs. MAP_FIXED is very useful, but not a little dangerous.

Arto Bendiken

Excellent live support from @Namecheap to resolve a tricky situation. They remain a cut above the rest among domain registrars.

Arto Bendiken

The new SSD-equipped production cluster is sustaining write rates of 250+ MB/s per machine when importing & indexing new data. Goodbye, EC2.

Arto Bendiken

Wishing the Ubuntu devs would bite the bullet and adopt systemd. The current SysV init + Upstart + Monit combo is a kludge by comparison.

Arto Bendiken

Excited that Chuck Moore's asynchronous, 144-core Forth chip is shipping at long last, and at a $20 price point: http://bit.ly/ga144chip

Arto Bendiken

Looking forward to one day being able to ping an implant for self-diagnosis versus guesstimating concussion severity from 2nd-order factors.

Arto Bendiken

Woke up smack in the middle of the mammalian brain making sense of an abstract data structure. A synesthetic glimpse beyond the curtain.

Arto Bendiken

Our new European production cluster is almost 'go'. Refreshing to work with non-virtualized, capable hardware again. Leaky abstractions FTW.

Arto Bendiken

I think I need a vacation.

Arto Bendiken

Ruby 1.9.3's licensing change from GPL to a simple 2-clause BSD (http://bit.ly/tZpO78) is welcome news & part of a growing permissive trend.

Arto Bendiken

The system architecture is still evolving quickly enough that some of my slides for the presentations next week are already out of date...

Arto Bendiken

I keep reading 'persistent inverted index' as 'perverted index'. The wrong kind of speed reading.

Arto Bendiken

Explaining content-addressable storage (CAS) is so much easier these days, what with the popularity of Dropbox which is built on it.

Arto Bendiken

Back in Berlin after a long but worthwhile day trip to Leipzig and Chemnitz.

Arto Bendiken

Finding 64 kbit/s less problematic than anticipated (over my 3G quota for the month). All I use all day is Git, SSH and email, anyway.

Arto Bendiken

In the upsides/downsides of doing a startup, an upside is certainly the ability to mercilessly cut out and replace legacy crap. Die, cruft.

Arto Bendiken

The @JoyentCloud lineup (http://bit.ly/qRwyzL) looks interesting. We're always hungry for more CPU cores and throughput at @dydradata.