Archive for the ‘Interesting’ Category
Amazing 1,000,000 frames per second bullet video
Posted in Engineering, Interesting, Uncategorized, tagged bullet, high speed camera on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What is a tuple?
Posted in Engineering, Interesting, Technique, tagged Python, Tuple on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I get asked this from time to time, so for the fun of it, I’ll post this:
Tuples are immutable lists in python (and other languages). Very lightweight, unchangable arrays. They are used for storing multiple values in one variable (usually a fixed number of values).
x = (1, 2, 3, ‘abc’)
x[0]
-> 1
x[1]
-> 2
x[2]
-> 3
x[3]
-> abc
x["bob"]
-> [...]
Freeky Bug
Posted in AppCove, Engineering, Interesting, System Administration, tagged Fail Bug, Load Balancing on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ever have one of those bugs that customers complain about, but you just cannot reproduce it? Here is a good one…
Customers were complaining about being logged out when clicking a download link.
This particular setup is a Cisco CSS 11501 series load balancer with 2 Dell Poweredge web servers sitting behind it. Each webserver is running [...]
Time Lapse Photography
Posted in Interesting, Life, Perspective, tagged Photography, Time Lapse, Time Lapse Photography on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think this is a really cool picture. It is one from a set at http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/24/45-beautiful-motion-blur-photos/
