Peter McArthur
I live in NY & work at vimeo. Tw: twitter.com/ptrmcrthr, Em: ptrmcrthr+t@gmail.com
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This was good.pile:
We had two major upgrades to Vimeo today.
We completed a marathon data migration that moved all of Vimeo’s backend infrastructure from one data center to another. We’re talking hundreds of millions of rows data that had to be locked, dropped, shipped and restored across the country with complete consistency and zero downtime. Peter busted his ass for weeks setting it up and it went down like clockwork. That was a serious piece of hardcore engineering. We’ve moved from a ragtag group of a few machines to a totally virtualized environment where everything is centrally packaged, pushed, managed and monitored. It opens the door for us to quickly and easily scale up to the next 5 million users and really accelerate performance. If you haven’t already noticed, the embedded Vimeo player loads instantaneously now.
The second upgrade can be found at the bottom of any Vimeo page: we’ve split off from CV and are now our own LLC.
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(#2) I Can Watch Sean From My TV, Watch the Mets From Behind Home Plate
(via roborobo)
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amazing kid from cporridge
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My favorite RSS feeds right now
- Pepys’ Diary is the diary of Samuel Pepys, who acted as a kind of Secretary of the King’s Navy. New entries are posted daily - today’s is from July 6, 1665. The plague started appearing in London during that month. It’s strangely and heavily hyperlinked to annotations and google maps, which appear with modern tube stations, but whose streets are pretty much the same 340 years later.
- FiveThirtyEight.com is a daily recap of all statewide presidential polls (as well as some national and senate polling). It’s well-written with a statistical bent. He weights each day’s polls by historical accuracy & age, running test elections 10,000 times to show a breakdown of all possible outcomes. No more “Newsweek says this, CBS says that.” He’s got Obama winning 308.9 to 229.1.
- Austin Kleon is a writer who draws.
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Recommend: Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
Like Bellow with the sound all the way down.
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Peter and I were listening to the new Girl Talk album and he had the bright idea to remix the Macbook Air ad.
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I’ve never met anyone, except for people who are profoundly depressed or trapped in some neurosis, who exhibited a novelistic consistency. Usually they can’t remember where they were or what they did last week. They often don’t look the same from day to day. Some change so often from moment to moment, they seem like two or three people at once.
Leonard Michaels, Paris Review 184, “The Lost Interview” p 161 -
This is a good video (from a scientific perspective) (thx casey)
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Duly noted: don’t store the liquor near the ice.
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