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I have almost 60000 pictures (about 195 GB), going back to about 2007 and I like to keep things organized. Of course, I also don't want to manually tag 60000 pictures. Until last year, the only option to avoid that was Google Photos, which would automat
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This reminds me of the singing lion. My wife has never been outside of Romania before this year, so I thought I would use this summer to fix that by traveling around as much as possible. Right after our wedding, we went for a short, one week, roadtrip honeymoon around
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This is the land of cheap layovers on the way to Romania. Thanks to the invisible hand of the market, tickets to the airports that are close to where my fiancee lives were 50% cheaper when flying through Istanbul, with an overnight layover, than more direct flights. It was still
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After feeling a bit down under at home, I decided to go places again. Because I haven't seen my good friend Alida in a long time, I decided to go to Paris again. And this time not just for an afternoon. It made me feel uncomfort
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Back in April, after my trip to Geneva, I realized I needed a camera. Just using my phone to take pictures wasn't going to cut it. No matter how good cameras in phones get, they still have a small sensor and a fixed lens, so in many conditions
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In September I went to Belgium to work in a Google datacenter, near Mons, for two weeks. I took the opportunity and used the three weekends to wander around and visit a lot of places, including three capitals: Brussels, Amsterdam and Paris (hence the title of
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Alcatraz, where my childhood favorite movie was set, The Rock After a week in New York and another one in hot, humid Richmond, where I had a very blessed time due to who was there, I finally arrived to the official destination of my trip: Mountain View,
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The Big Apple. New York. The greatest city in the world, as every tour guide in the city will tell you every 5 minutes. I went for a business trip to the USA, to Mountain View, California, but before that I took two weeks of vacation: one in New York
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A month ago there was the first ever SRECon in Europe. It got together lots of SRE-like engineers (basically the people who are responsible for the software that is live, running in production) from Google (the host of the event), Facebook, Etsy, Splunk, SoundCloud and others. Because
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I was oncall the week that ended in the long weekend of the 1st of May. It was a rainy weekend and I had to stay inside the house, during my shift, but because it was rainy, it wasn't very tempting to go outside even after it. So
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On my second day in Geneva, after waking up quite late, Cipri, Alexandra and I went to the Geneva International Inventions Exhibition. It is quite large exhibition, having 790 inventions, from 45 countries, displayed on 8900 m^2 surface. It wasn't entirely what I
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Last week I went skiing for the first time in my life. I said that I can't live in Switzerland and not go skiing at least once. So I talked with some friends from the church I go to here and we booked rooms at a hotel