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  1. I can't believe today's number of @DSpinellis tweets... I'm deeply honored by the response; many thanks; I'll try my best++
  2. Today's motto: If you can see the top of the fridge, you have to clean the top of the fridge (via @Pogue @UberStated)
  3. Overblown security: to e-order a collection the courier I'm using requires: 1) login, 2) CAPTCHA, 3) email confirmation.
  4. @fotisl I'm not generating Makefiles *from* XML, I'm generating XML *from* make
  5. I've found that to empty a USB flash drive containing many large files (quick) formatting it is a lot faster than deleting the files.
  6. @fotisl This will remove the tool; I want to remove the invalid file
  7. Nice way to end a Makefile XML generation rule using http://bit.ly/BK3KV: xml val -s schema.xsd file.xml || rm file.xml
  8. Student takes notes on his mobile phone. Interesting development.
  9. $1684 Beautiful Architecture book http://bit.ly/2IbnnU royalties got donated to Doctors without Borders. Thank you contributors, buyers!
  10. Great! Following the smoking ban in the workplace I now get smoked when walking on the city's pavements.
  11. OH @UdiDahan "There's the real business and there's the business as described by business analysts."
  12. By pulling the load from queues we can build scalable heterogeneous server farms (as in SETHI@home) - still via @UdiDahan
  13. Bu giving publish/subscribe messaging to our customers we can convert availability problems into negotiable freshness guarantees.
  14. same can be done over HTTP with POST, respond w redirect including guid where response will be for final GET - via @UdiDahan
  15. For critical transaction fail-over use transactional queues on both ends rather than web services. Later expose data via HTTP.
  16. Insight on transactional queues: Amazon doesn't acknowledge your order in real time, it just says "thanks" and acks via email.
  17. @hakmem Live stream of @UdiDahan talk http://tinyurl.com/yjusoku
  18. ... also to address problems of failing applications called as web services introduce a queue in front of them - via @UdiDahan
  19. @harrymvr I was told the whole talk will become available. I will tweet the URL when I get it.
  20. Putting a transactional queue in front of your application will address database and other system failures via @UdiDahan