tony spencer - aka notsleepy

Aug 11

Open Finder in Current Folder from Terminal

Computers, Switching to Mac No Comments »

Here is a super handy little trick that I know I'll be using a lot from now on as I must have thought about it so many times in the past. You find yourself messing with some files in Terminal and the find the need to jump to the current ...

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Aug 04

Obama’s windfall tax idea = more pain at the pump for YOU!

Politics 3 Comments »

No, no, no. Damn. This guy is already talking tax during the campaign season. I'm afraid we're in for some serious taxation when Obama is elected. So now he is proposing a windfall tax (because making a profit is wrong) on the gas companies and is going to throw you ...

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Jul 30

A feature that Yahoo has that I wish Google had:

Google No Comments »

Google sometimes I know better than you and want to see results without you thinking for me.

Jul 28

Ruby Could Replace my Python Crawler Pretty Soon

Code, Crawlers 6 Comments »

One of my developers just sent me some truly incredible stats about Ruby 1.9 and its threading performance. 20 threads * 100,000 iterations Ruby 1.9 = 1.54 s. Ruby Enterprise = 3.01 s. JRuby 1.1.2 = 5.82 s. Jython 2.2.1 = 11.86 s. Python 2.5.2 = 12.32 s. Ruby 1.8.7 = 22.68 Since our ...

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Jul 17