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administrator replied

1 January 2014, 09:58
Well done Suity! Happy New Year all. Am off to cook Roast v2.0.
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ctdctd replied

1 January 2014, 09:18
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

Suity wins!

Suity, please change your over long signature to be just this.

We'll have to accept that you are going to be insufferable all year!

Happy New Year all!
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suityou01 replied

1 January 2014, 00:54
Originally posted by AtW View Post

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AtW replied

1 January 2014, 00:50
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barrydidit replied

1 January 2014, 00:28
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Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

The polls were fixed I tell you.

oi, scoot.... is this any consolation? Seems you're a posterboy for the middle classes... of sorts!

Happy noo year y'all
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NickFitz replied

1 January 2014, 00:19
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

Can I ask what you pay for your EC2?

Normal on-demand charges in this case, as I'm just running this server for a few hours. For anything long-running it's worth investing in a reserved instance, and if you need to scale out then spot instances with a fallback to on-demand if no spots are available is the way to go.

I've also got an AWS account for my Ltd which has the year-one free allowance, but the underlying project this caper is for probably isn't billable through the business. If it turns out it is, it'll have to go through expenses.
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scooterscot replied

1 January 2014, 00:14
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

First post of 2014? You want the thread down the hall, second on the left

I think this thread was named in error.
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NickFitz replied

1 January 2014, 00:13
Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

Cough...

First post of 2014? You want the thread down the hall, second on the left
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suityou01 replied

1 January 2014, 00:12
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

I wanted to see what it takes for a Twitter Streaming API client to keep up with the busiest time a hashtag can have, and this seemed like a good candidate. As I'm saving the data with microsecond timestamps I can replay it later for testing stuff. It's mainly for a thing I've got an idea about

Can I ask what you pay for your EC2?
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mudskipper replied

1 January 2014, 00:10
Where's AtW? Don't tell me he had a real party to go to!
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NickFitz replied

1 January 2014, 00:10
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

Why?

I wanted to see what it takes for a Twitter Streaming API client to keep up with the busiest time a hashtag can have, and this seemed like a good candidate. As I'm saving the data with microsecond timestamps I can replay it later for testing stuff. It's mainly for a thing I've got an idea about
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scooterscot replied

1 January 2014, 00:09
Originally posted by norrahe View Post

You was robbed!

The polls were fixed I tell you.
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norrahe replied

1 January 2014, 00:08
Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

Cough..

You was robbed!
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scooterscot replied

1 January 2014, 00:06
Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

What's the thread called again?

Cough..
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fullyautomatix replied

1 January 2014, 00:05
Suity wins !!!!

Happy new year 2014 CUKkers!!
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