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NGINX Configuration Files and ReWrites

Some of this post will just be random notes, some will be more descriptive of just what madness occurs inside one of these files. For version 0.7.63. 1, ancient_browser “msie 6.0″; Whether quotes, like on the nginx site, capitalized or not, or unquoted as it is here: http://gist.github.com/228769 (linked to from the main site), the instruction: if ($ancient_browser) is [...]

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Nginx Configuration Files

Oh boy. Finally figured out that the issue here is that there is no abstraction of the concept of ‘variable’ to include both variables and aliases. So everything depends on context and which command is being used - which creates redundant functionality and unpredictability. Same for location etc. This lack of ability to use and apply [...]

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A Tweet classification scheme

When writing software to look at the content of posts on the internet, on blogs and on Twitter, one can just use keyword and keyword context metrics, or one can be a little smarter. Using somewhat heuristically based algorithms, one can classify blog posts and tweets, and in particular, tweeps, into several common categories for the [...]

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