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Introduction As I was browsing the web and catching up on some sites I visit periodically, I found a cool article from Tom Hayden about using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and mrjob in order to compute some statistics on win/loss ratios for chess games he downloaded from the millionbase archive, and generally have fun with EMR. Since the data volume was only about 1.75GB containing around 2 million chess games, I was skeptical of using Hadoop for the task, but I can understand his goal of learning and having fun with mrjob and EMR.
List and specifications of lenses for Fourr Thirds system cameras, mostly the Olympus E-System
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Rewriting deprecated APIs with parser gem In upcoming Rails Event Store release we’re going to deprecate existing reader methods. They’ll be replaced in favor of fluent query interface — popularized by ActiveRecord. In order to make this transition a bit easier, we’ve prepared a script to transform given codebase to utilize new APIs.
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You work in a 100 floor building and you get 2 identical eggs. You need to figure out the highest floor an egg can be dropped without breaking. Find an algorithm that is minimizing number of throws in the worst-case scenario.
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Web performance is an extremely important metric in the digital world. Learn tools and tricks for its improvement and enjoy both better Rails-related and General Web performance.
I stumbled upon the Datamuse API the other day as I was looking for thesaurus-like data for some small app I am currently toying with. If…
A pratical use case of using Concurrent Ruby in Rails applications without swalloing the exceptions
Ruby comes distributed with a vast standard library. We only use a fraction of it, usually. Everyone knows date, set, json, maybe even csv. But there are man...
Wharel is a tiny little gem that uses the empty room pattern to make Arel queries easier to build.
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rubex - A Ruby-like language for writing Ruby C extensions. - SciRuby/rubex
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