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How shaving 0.001s from a function saved $400/mo on Amazon EC2 | Ben Milleare
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On Marketing, Coding, Tech and Business. How shaving 0.001s from a function saved $400/mo on Amazon EC2. So this old post hit the HN front page. Feel free to join the discussion over there: https:/ news.ycombinator.com/item? If premature optimisation is the root of all evil, then timely optimisation is clearly the sum of all things good. At standard EC2 rates that would work out at around $2.52/hr (almost $2000/mo). And the results ( 10 per page) then get fed into a further 11 separate CSS robots along w...
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Personal Archives - Ben Milleare
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On Marketing, Coding, Tech and Business. Jill Linda Milleare: May 31 1955 – April 27 2013. On April 27 2013 at approx 19:40, my dear Mum lost her 9-month battle with Pleural Mesothelioma. Essentially, it simply boils down to this: some people are lucky and some people are not. Last Thursday we finally said goodbye to my amazing Mum. At the (packed) Church service prior to her cremation my Uncle Mark and I stood up and said some nice and very true words about her – which was honestly one of the ...When Mu...
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Fail Archives - Ben Milleare
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On Marketing, Coding, Tech and Business. House of Fraser Product Ads #superfail. Earlier tonight our Dyson Ball decided to give up the ghost and fall apart – not bad really for over 4 years constant use; but it obviously meant it was time to buy a new hoover. Being the super SEO type that I am, I turned to none other than my trusty Google SERPs. The question is – is this a Google issue (unlikely) or is this a fuck up by HoF or their agency instead? It looks like House of Failure (or Google) have pulled a...
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General Archives - Ben Milleare
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On Marketing, Coding, Tech and Business. Skin Heads for Charity. Today was the big day – a bunch of us guys at HP Group had a mass balding. In aid of two very deserving charities. It was organised by Patrick Hegarty and he even roped in his wife (yeah, how brave was she? And son to join the ranks of the follically challenged. The two charities receiving funds are St Helena Hospice. And Building Futures in Malawi. St Helena’s is very close to my heart as my sister. This entry was posted in General. In act...
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Crawler.io Archives - Ben Milleare
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On Marketing, Coding, Tech and Business. Category Archives: Crawler.io. How shaving 0.001s from a function saved $400/mo on Amazon EC2. So this old post hit the HN front page. Feel free to join the discussion over there: https:/ news.ycombinator.com/item? If premature optimisation is the root of all evil, then timely optimisation is clearly the sum of all things good. At standard EC2 rates that would work out at around $2.52/hr (almost $2000/mo). And the results ( 10 per page) then get fed into a further...
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On Marketing, Coding, Tech and Business. How shaving 0.001s from a function saved $400/mo on Amazon EC2. So this old post hit the HN front page. Feel free to join the discussion over there: https:/ news.ycombinator.com/item? If premature optimisation is the root of all evil, then timely optimisation is clearly the sum of all things good. At standard EC2 rates that would work out at around $2.52/hr (almost $2000/mo). And the results ( 10 per page) then get fed into a further 11 separate CSS robots along w...
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My To-do List | Ben Milleare
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On Marketing, Coding, Tech and Business. Below is what I consider my life to-do, or “bucket” list. It was inspired by something I saw on somebody else’s blog although, for the life of me, I can’t remember who’s – so sorry, no credit able to be given unfortunately. Some of these things are long term goals but I would like to have completed most of them by my 40th birthday (July 25 2021). Geographical/Places I want to Visit. Lake Como, Italy. San Francisco, California, USA. Los Angeles, California, USA.
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House of Fraser Product Ads #superfail | Ben Milleare
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On Marketing, Coding, Tech and Business. House of Fraser Product Ads #superfail. Earlier tonight our Dyson Ball decided to give up the ghost and fall apart – not bad really for over 4 years constant use; but it obviously meant it was time to buy a new hoover. Being the super SEO type that I am, I turned to none other than my trusty Google SERPs. The question is – is this a Google issue (unlikely) or is this a fuck up by HoF or their agency instead? It looks like House of Failure (or Google) have pulled a...
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Running a Bloom Filter as a Web Service | Ben Milleare
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On Marketing, Coding, Tech and Business. Running a Bloom Filter as a Web Service. One of the fundamental problems that need to be solved when building a web crawler of any non-trivial scale is the question of how to determine if a link has been seen before and already added to your URL frontier and/or crawled and parsed. From an initial look at this you might think it’s fairly easy to solve; a MySQL table with a unique key on the md5sum(URL) crawl id should do the trick, right? And assumes the use of a s...
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Skin Heads for Charity | Ben Milleare
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On Marketing, Coding, Tech and Business. Skin Heads for Charity. Today was the big day – a bunch of us guys at HP Group had a mass balding. In aid of two very deserving charities. It was organised by Patrick Hegarty and he even roped in his wife (yeah, how brave was she? And son to join the ranks of the follically challenged. The two charities receiving funds are St Helena Hospice. And Building Futures in Malawi. St Helena’s is very close to my heart as my sister. This entry was posted in General.
