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2011-11-06T14:31:26.889Z

Why does problem-hiding occur? - You'd think with all my video game experience that I'd be more prepared for this - Right from the start, every team on the program-of-work have been reporting green statuses. We're now in the home stretch so it should all be good.

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2011-11-06T03:06:41.681Z

Seeing Robots Everywhere - HBR.org

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2011-11-05T13:03:07.977Z

Not From The Onion - Marginal Revolution

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2011-11-05T02:13:13.535Z

The study of science is hard - Marginal Revolution

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2011-11-02T19:39:31.451Z

davegirouard: Googla culpa! Sorry but we pushed a bad version of our iOS app for Gmail. More info shortly - we're working on it.

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2011-10-31T16:54:48.136Z

Simplify - Polishing Ruby

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2011-10-31T05:00:27.132Z

Finally...a protest that represents my interests. Occupy Google Reader: A report from the protest's front lines - @TBD Arts | TBD.com - www.tbd.com -

Occupy Google Reader: A report from the protest's front lines

October 27, 2011 - 05:00 AM

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2011-10-28T06:15:36.610Z

Why we need an open-source geocoding alternative to Google - PeteSearch -

Photo by Marc Levin

You can't use Google's geocoding for anything but map display! I've always been surprised by how many services rely on the Google Maps API for general address to coordinate translation, despite it being prohibited unless you're displaying the results on one of their maps. Google have provide some fantastic resources for geo developers, they've moved the whole field forward, but ...

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2011-10-27T14:04:00.937Z

Sikhs defend and promote Parmesan cheese the culture that is Italy - Marginal Revolution

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2011-10-18T17:10:49.678Z

Mobile First (the book) Now Available! - LukeW | Writings on Digital Product Strategy and Design -

Very excited to let you know that you can now purchase my new book Mobile First in paperback, PDF, ePub, and mobi formats from the fine folks at A Book Apart.

Mobile First is a short but information-packed book that makes the case for why Web sites and applications should increasingly be designed for mobile first and outlines how Web design teams can make the transition from designing for desktops/...

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2011-10-18T14:56:15.188Z

I am not calling anything NoSQL when they have CQL. (which isn't even the real CQL-> Contextual Query Language)

[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 1.0 released - permalink.gmane.org

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2011-10-18T14:31:29.786Z

Empirical Software Engineering » American Scientist - www.americanscientist.org -

Software engineering has long considered itself one of the hard sciences. After all, what could be “harder” than ones and zeroes? In reality, though, the rigorous examination of cause and effect that characterizes science has been much less common in this field than in supposedly soft disciplines like marketing, which long ago traded in the gut-based gambles of “Mad Men” for quantitative, analytic ...

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2011-10-15T16:50:48.724Z

Nice picture of the early days.. like the two-pizza team rule.

Jeff Bezos of Amazon: Birth of a Salesman - WSJ.com - online.wsj.com

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2011-10-12T02:46:02.881Z

Why programs become territorial - Signal vs. Noise

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2011-09-26T16:41:19.529Z

Sometimes I like to imagine a world where the level of discourse is raised to this degree, instead of people focusing on group identification over arguments about what works.

Reversed Stupidity is Not Intelligence - Cato Unbound

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2011-09-21T14:34:54.550Z

Guinea pig repo markets in everything the culture that is Swiss - Marginal Revolution

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2011-09-19T16:25:19.102Z

I don't understand what this idiot is doing. There is a huge difference between DVDs and streaming from a licensing perspective. Once you've bought the DVD, it's more or less yours. The license to streaming content can be revoked at any time or made subject to higher prices- and it's already happened to Netflix with Starz. Netflix just spun out their leverage over the content providers. Why would I license my content to them? Streaming video files to web browsers is simple. They are setting themselves up to be disintermediated. Like daily deals, this is another market where Google is screwing up by not being Google and providing a searchable index across marketplaces where people can buy or rent A/V content. Netflix explodes into two companies - kottke.org - Qwikster will rent you DVDs and Netflix will rent you streaming movies. Two separate sites/companies, no interop, you have to sub to both separately, etc. Here's the explanation from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. This seems amazingly dumb at first blush. (ps. Qwikster?!!) Tags: business movies Netflix Qwikster

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2011-09-13T01:45:05.563Z

"Zuck's gonna write code" - kottke.org

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2011-09-12T00:34:16.439Z

It's different here - Seth's Blog

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2011-08-26T03:43:28.603Z

Doesn't even mention the ultimate crime of writing the application in the database- no one sane would do that, right?

The Web is killing database systems - Daniel Lemire's blog

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2011-08-26T03:39:55.525Z

yes...

Better job ads - Daniel Lemire's blog

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2011-08-20T04:16:00.508Z

A Big Bridge In The Wrong Place - NPR Blogs: Planet Money -

by David Kestenbaum...

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2011-08-20T03:25:40.626Z

Young Americans: Luckiest Generation in History - CARPE DIEM

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2011-08-12T04:13:51.733Z

Haruki Murakami's earthquake speech in Spain - TOKYOMANGO

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2011-08-06T03:31:49.027Z

Ukraine Modigliani-Miller tax arbitrage - Marginal Revolution -

Today I received some tax saving wisdom from a taxi driver in Ukraine. He told me that people who import cars to Ukraine sometimes cut the car in two separate pieces and carry it through the customs this way. By doing this, they save a fortune on import tax. A car carried in two pieces is seen as spare parts and therefore is taxed at a much lower rate than a normal car.
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2011-08-01T14:23:01.665Z

Our Biggest Budget Issue: Increased Spending on Payments to Individuals, i.e. "Entitlement Nation" - CARPE DIEM -

I'm sure most of us are experiencing "debt ceiling overload" by now and will be happy that a deal was just reached (it's 8:50 p.m.). Over the last month, we've heard endless debates on federal spending, federal spending as a share of GDP, the $14 trillion ever-increasing federal debt, the the federal debt as a share of GDP, spending cuts as a condition to raise the debt limit, possible revenue/tax...

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2011-07-25T14:29:15.370Z

A handbag away from our debt ceiling - Tim Harford - “Mum?” “Yes, dear?” “What do you and Dad keep arguing about late at night?” “You should be asleep. When Daddy and I have our little chats, it’s past your bedtime.” “Mum, I’m 15 – a bit old for...

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2011-07-24T01:28:45.102Z

Lessons from Watson (Jeopardy Computer) in the Big Data space - Anant Jhingran's Musings

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2011-06-29T17:53:48.000Z

davegirouard: Making Google+ work for Google Apps users is a very high priority for the team. Sorry to make you wait - we have to do it right.

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2011-06-28T04:11:36.403Z

Define the Ratio of People to Cake by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News - www.themorningnews.org

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2011-06-27T19:52:16.958Z

Get started with Hadoop: From evaluation to your first production cluster - O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. -

Sections

Start with a free evaluation in stand-alone or pseudo-distributed mode

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2011-06-26T14:41:22.252Z

Projecting meaning - Derek Sivers -

Projecting meaning into Chinese characters

Chinese characters look complicated, but they're mostly made up of smaller simpler characters.

语 language = words 讠+ five 五+ mouth 口 ...

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2011-06-25T04:05:30.119Z

2 lazy? Darpa: U.S. Geek Shortage Is National Security Risk | Danger Room | Wired.com - www.wired.com -

Darpa: U.S. Geek Shortage Is National Security Risk

By Katie Drummond

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2011-06-21T16:08:53.000Z

Nice Google Voice transcription today... "My name is John calling on behalf of the hijacker service."

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2011-06-21T14:42:16.140Z

Build Your Startup Through Conversations - ash maurya -

The key takeaway from my last post was that the “business model” is the real product of a startup.

As entrepreneurs, we’ve got the solution covered but need help with the rest of the business model to avoid chasing after solutions no one cares about which is a form of waste.

Startup As Conversations...

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2011-06-16T13:35:16.000Z

Google Music Android app is better than Amazon MP3 app at streaming and dealing with large lists of songs on my phone.

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2011-06-16T05:05:45.000Z

Just had to wipe my Dalvik cache. (when I see trouble, I shoot it)

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2011-06-12T16:09:35.000Z

Theory of Constraints, Throughput, Drum-Buffer-Rope, the thinking process-- he's given us enough to work with. We must get on with it.

Gain agreement on the problem
Gain agreement on the direction for a solution
Gain agreement that the solution solves the problem
Agree to overcome any potential negative ramifications
Agree to overcome any obstacles to implementation

Some early posts on the death of Eli Goldratt...

http://kevinrutherford.posterous.com/rip-eli-goldratt
http://www.leanblog.org/2011/06/rest-in-peace-eli-goldratt-1948-2011

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2011-06-11T23:17:46.536Z

Instant Mix for Music Beta by Google - Google Research Blog

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2011-06-09T19:42:19.638Z

What's new in Apache Whirr 0.5.0-incubating - Tom White - Apache Whirr 0.5.0-incubating is now available. Whirr is a library and command line interface for running distributed services like Apache Hadoop in the cloud. Note that Whirr is currently undergoing Incubation at the Apache Software Foundation, which means that, in particular, the project has yet to be
fully endorsed by the ASF. Please read the full disclaimer.

In this release the Whirr development...

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2011-06-06T16:57:13.000Z

Sad news for Event Machine and Goliath with PostRank joining the anti-Ruby Google...

Of course, still check out EM--> https://peepcode.com/products/eventmachine

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2011-06-03T13:19:45.310Z

github, wow. interesting use of commits as a metric, might not be strictly equivalent between svn and git. What Black Duck Can Tell Us About GitHub, Language Fragmentation and More – tecosystems - redmonk.com -

What Black Duck Can Tell Us About GitHub, Language Fragmentation and More

Survival of the Forges ...

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2011-06-01T16:09:05.000Z

davegirouard: New "speedy meetings" feature in Calendar, inspired by our fearless leader. Meetings end 5 mins early by default. http://goo.gl/j3VrC

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2011-05-30T19:24:35.761Z

Gem Versioning and Bundler: Doing it Right - Katz Got Your Tongue?

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2011-05-26T18:52:26.241Z

At what point do various Hadoop implementations (EMC, Apache, Cloudera, Yahoo) lose the ability to interoperate? Startup MapR Underpins EMC’s Hadoop Effort Cloud Computing News - gigaom.com -

San Jose, Calif.-based storage startup MapR, which provides a high-performance alternative for the Hadoop Distributed File System, will serve as the storage component for EMC’s forthcoming Greenplum HD Enterprise Edition Hadoop distribution. This alliance helps differentiate EMC from other Hadoop vendors, and adds immediate credibility to MapR’s technology along with a strong distribution...

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2011-05-25T12:53:43.000Z

There's something doubly sad about Java applications written to be IE-only.

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2011-05-24T03:46:42.077Z

Traveler to Japan measures radiation on planes, near Fukushima (news flash: planes are much worse!) - TOKYOMANGO -

A Silicon Valley exec recently traveled to Japan for business. He took a Geiger counter with him and measured radiation throughout the trip--including on his flights to and from Asia. Steve Jurvetson posted a graph on his Flickr stream. He writes:

One of his destinations was 50 miles from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. As a precaution, a colleague gave him a Geiger Counter...

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2011-05-24T03:34:42.664Z

my way out of the money $CRM puts still looking good for Nov

Salesforce.com: Putting Lipstick on a Pig - Seeking Alpha - seekingalpha.com

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2011-05-19T03:59:47.000Z

Railsconf really good... need to code.
RailsConf 2011, David Heinemeier Hansson
RailsConf 2011: Eric Ries, "Lessons Learned"

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2011-05-15T14:59:50.203Z

The psychology of discarded statesmen - Cafe Hayek -

Evidently Newt Gingrich is running for President. I am reminded of what Adam Smith said about ex-politicians and celebrities in The Theory of Moral Sentiments:

To those who have been accustomed to the possession, or even to the hope of public admiration, all other pleasures sicken and decay. Of all the discarded statesmen who for their own ease have studied to get the better of ambition, and to despise...

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2011-05-10T05:01:41.000Z

The mysql2 gem is already incompatible with rails 3.0.x. Hard for an old man to keep up around here.

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2011-05-09T13:07:59.541Z

The final fronteer. Have to educate our customers on this concept. 10 Skills to Become a Frontend Developer worth Millions - devblog.eduhub.nl -

Yesterday we had a very enjoyable Fronteers meeting at our offices. Fronteers is the Dutch association for frontend developers. Their monthly meetups consist of pizza, drinks and presentations about frontend related stuff.

We had four 15 minute presentations, all related to testing and organizing frontend development. I was up last and decided to go a bit philosophical I find that slides either suck...

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2011-05-08T19:25:28.000Z

Nice long term project.

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2011-05-06T02:51:48.458Z

Slides from DC Hadoop meetup - Grant's Grunts: Lucene Edition - The slides from my DC Hadoop meetup presentation are on SlideShare at: Intro to Mahout — DC Hadoop. I really enjoyed the meetup. Lots of good questions and insights into machine learning. For those at the meeting who were asking about references, check out Mahout’s references page, especially the Background Material section.

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2011-05-04T15:20:42.658Z

SQL doesn't have to be slow... A day in the life of a slow page at Stack Overflow - samsaffron.com -

In this post I would like to walk through our internal process of tuning a particular page on Stack Overflow.

In this example I will be looking at our badge detail page. It is not the most important page on the site, however it happens to showcase quite a few issues.

Step 1, Do we even have a problem?

...

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2011-05-04T15:15:46.339Z

Anatomy of a Fake Quotation - Megan McArdle : The Atlantic - Yesterday, I saw a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. fly across my Twitter feed: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." - Martin Luther King, Jr". I was about to retweet it, but I hesitated. It didn't sound right. After some Googling, I determined that it was probably fake, which I blogged about last night.

Here's the story...

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2011-05-04T15:11:43.017Z

80% non US... Megatrend Crosscurrents - A VC -

It is an exciting time to be an entrpreneur and an investor in tech startups. The history of tech investing is a series of waves or megatrends that come one after another. Mainframes to minicomputers to PCs to client server to Internet, for example. But right now we are in the midst of a number of these megatrends all happening at the same time. There are at least four big ones going on at the same...

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2011-05-04T15:09:57.964Z

Why the truth will out but doesn’t sink in - Mind Hacks -

Bin Laden used a woman as a human shield and fired at the commando team sent to kill him – at least according to the first reports. These have just been corrected to say he was unarmed and standing alone, but the retractions follow a useful pattern – media friendly version first, accurate version later – because the updates make little impact on our beliefs.

In this particular case, I can’t speculate...

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2011-05-02T03:01:00.000Z

Following live? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2005/04/12/VI2005041201139.html

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2011-04-29T17:07:54.000Z

johnmscott: github on apps.gov available for US Fed gov use: http://bit.ly/jqO4jz #miloss #github

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2011-04-27T16:15:00.000Z

davegirouard: Shiny new Google Docs app for Android now available. Let us know what you think! http://goo.gl/Sm6hf #gonegoogle

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2011-04-25T02:51:34.000Z

Both the SATA hard disk (750GB Seagate) and SATA DVD reader/writer failed in the Dell desktop my dad inherited from my uncle. Replaced both, now works fine. Coincidence?

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2011-04-23T03:00:54.038Z

One Pill To Break Us All - Overcoming Bias

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2011-04-21T12:46:59.652Z

Things I heard three times yesterday: Hub and Spoke Myth - Storm Alert -

This diagram can be found in almost any marketing document dealing with integration problems. It illustrates a concept that is known as hub and spoke. The difficult O(n²) problem of full mesh is reduced to a simpler O(n) problem by introducing a central hub. That's what the marketing guys say (although they don't usually use the O() notation).

What the marketing guys don't say is that this approach...

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2011-04-20T15:40:29.036Z

Good for my attempts to seek i/o balance

The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR - www.npr.org

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2011-04-17T04:20:08.290Z

Why Google Should Buy The Recording Industry - Techdirt

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2011-04-16T03:18:46.939Z

Mapping the Average Time, Amount and Likelihood US Houses Drop in Price - information aesthetics - If you are in the market of buying a house in the US, this interactive map will certainly interest you... Trulia PriceRedux [trulia.com] shows several very valuable data attributes you typically like to know during the buying process, but are typically well hidden or kept secret by real estate agents. The map basically reveals the average number of days a typical listing is on the market befor...

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2011-04-15T15:39:22.900Z

Adapt.js: More efficient responsive design - The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up. - Adapt.js: More efficient responsive design: As the mobile space continues to grow, there has been a growing interest in Responsive Web Design, making use of CSS media queries to selectively target device screen size and layout orientation in CSS stylesheets. But as Jason Grigsby points out, media queries have substantial drawbacks. Since media queries only filter styles and (and related image a...

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2011-04-15T03:55:26.607Z

Offchiz, a new app that lets you cut up and draw on virtual maps - TOKYOMANGO - I still like paper maps, partly because I'm a total road geek and partly because I just think it's easier to use than my silly iPhone. Offchiz is a good idea that almost makes me reconsider my aversion to virtual maps. Created by Yahoo! Japan's research arm, it's an iPad app that lets you cut out relevant parts and draw notes on them with a stylus. You can even sync up your map with your friend...

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2011-04-08T13:52:12.000Z

Easier to compromise on tax cuts/more spending than tax hikes/less spending, too bad candy diets don't work. Myth of the rational voter.

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2011-04-06T01:18:33.686Z

The Data is the Query - Jeff Jonas

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2011-04-05T13:55:47.092Z

In 'Chap-Hop,' Gentlemen Rappers Bust Rhymes About Tea, Cricket - WSJ.com - online.wsj.com - By FRANCES ROBINSON "Cup of Brown Joy," a song by Professor Elemental, is an example of a new British take on hip hop known as "chap hop." BRIGHTON, England—For some British rappers, nothing goes better with laying down rhymes than a gin and tonic and a Sunday afternoon stroll. They have created chap-hop, fusing the American urban musical genre with the imagined lifestyle of the Britis...

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2011-04-03T13:37:52.064Z

Petabytes don't seem as big as they used to.... Outliers and coexistence are the new normal for big data - O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. - Letting data speak for itself through analysis of entire data sets is eclipsing modeling from subsets. In the past, all too often what were once disregarded as "outliers" on the far edges of a data model turned out to be the telltale signs of a micro-trend that became a major event. To enable this advanced analytics and integrate in real-time with operational processes, companies and public sec...

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2011-04-02T22:17:44.140Z

successfully hit the limit

SUCCESS - Very Demotivational - The Demotivational Posters Blog

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2011-04-02T19:35:56.000Z

Nice Studio 360 - Christopher Alexander, Yoda, and the Gang of 4.

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2011-03-30T15:01:20.229Z

Take some Initiative- today!

A slow news day - Seth's Blog

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2011-03-30T00:58:33.939Z

I like TestUnit (and liked when all of Rails was in one book and Ruby in the other) DHH Offended By RSpec, Says Test::Unit Is Just Great - Ruby Inside - As an outspoken and opinionated guy, David Heinemeier Hansson (a.k.a. DHH), creator of Rails, is no stranger to a little bit of controversy. He frequently sets off interesting debates on Twitter from his @dhh account. The latest is, perhaps, the most involved yet and has been rattling on for a couple of hours today. So what's the beef? RSpec and Cucumber versus.. Test::Unit. It's no secret tha...

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2011-03-30T00:50:15.565Z

I'm actually feeling a bit squirmish about this.

Palin perseverates - Language Log

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2011-03-29T13:45:39.733Z

BBC News - Factories in decline? It's OK, services will do nicely - www.bbc.co.uk - The Worrying Class in developed countries laments: "We don't make anything any more." They fear that, as more people find employment in services, their nation loses the ability to provide for itself and gives up the "good jobs" which sustain the middle class. They obsess about exports and trade imbalances while making a fetish of manufacturing and the blessings it brings to their country. But...

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2011-03-29T13:15:54.286Z

Amazon Announces Cloud Music Service and Player on Android, Your Music from Anywhere - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog - Talk about awesome midnight news out of the Amazon camp. How does a new cloud music service sound? So here is the deal – it’s a new cloud-based music service that allows you to purchase music and decide to upload it to the cloud so that you can access it from anywhere, or save it directly to your device. Obviously the smart thing here is to attach all of your purchases to your personal Amazon ...

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2011-03-24T18:43:19.529Z

In Kiev they just try to eat you. Moscow’s Wild Dogs Ride Subways To City Center In Search Of Food | The Dog Files - www.thedogfiles.com - Each morning, like clockwork, they board the subway, off to begin their daily routine amidst the hustle and bustle of the city. But these aren’t just any daily commuters. These are stray dogs who live in the outskirts of Moscow Russia and commute on the underground trains to and from the city centre in search of food scraps. Then after a hard day scavenging and begging on the streets, they ho...

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2011-03-23T19:35:14.145Z

The interesting idea here is that query logs for map sites (like maps.google.com) contain a lot of data about places of interest and movements of people. For all the focus on GPS trails from mobile devices, the authors make a good case that these query logs that Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft have already also have a lot of great data in them that can be used for local recommendations and local advertising. The paper is out of Stanford and Google to be published later this year at VLDB. Hyper-Local, Directions-Based Ranking of Places - Stanford InfoLab Publication Server - ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090 - Hyper-Local, Directions-Based Ranking of Places Venetis, Petros and Gonzalez, Hector and Jensen, Christian and Halevy, Alon (2011) Hyper-Local, Directions-Based Ranking of Places. In: 37th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Aug 29 -- Sep 3, Seattle, WA, USA.

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2011-03-20T03:24:39.994Z

Productivity from the People - Evolving Excellence - By Kevin Meyer Interesting article by Kimberly Weisul in BNet describing a study on where CEOs really spend their time. As you'd probably suspect, the vast majority is spent in meetings. As you might suspect, CEO’s go to meetings. A lot. - Some 60% of CEO time was taken up in meetings - CEOs spent 25% of their time on phone calls and at public events - Only 15% of CEO time was spent workin...

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2011-03-17T04:11:20.742Z

How did they get the milk and not the potato with a face on it? Google made a good move acquiring Neven, Apple bought Polar Rose, Facebook (the company with face in its name) bought...

WTFacebook - Boing Boing

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2011-03-14T15:55:35.844Z

Last Call for Google I/O - Google Code Blog

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2011-03-14T13:33:58.878Z

Wow

LivingSocial Acquires Ruby/Rails Consultancy InfoEther -- WASHINGTON, March 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- - www.prnewswire.com

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2011-03-12T15:57:01.914Z

Solr relevancy function queries - Lucid Imagination

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2011-03-11T04:07:01.000Z

Can't wait to start biking in to work...

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2011-03-08T21:53:41.017Z

Please don't reply-all to this message. Reply All Horror Stories: The Button Everyone Loves to Hate - WSJ.com - online.wsj.com - I answered my phone recently to hear a friend shrieking in my ear. "Check your inbox for the email I just sent you," he wailed. "And please, please tell me I didn't hit Reply All." What happens when we hit "reply all" by mistake? The result can be very embarrassing to say the least. Elizabeth Bernstein offers some tips on how to avoid making such a potentially costly mistake. You know t...

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2011-03-08T02:13:41.826Z

Interesting, the bit about direct connections between users and makers is key.

Learn How To Code - www.businessinsider.com

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2011-03-05T20:31:45.060Z

Really? SiriusXM | Email - ebm.cheetahmail.com - Tune in to "Tiger Blood Radio," a 24-hour limited run channel that will explore the breaking news, facts, fallout and career implications of the Charlie Sheen controversy. "Tiger Blood Radio" will take listeners behind the headlines, exploring the media frenzy/media reaction, as well as the medical, psychological, psychiatric and pop culture and celebrity angles. Additionally, through a recap ...

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2011-03-02T04:20:31.263Z

Nice logo, but somehow I doubt they are going to get "algorithmic transparency", unless it comes out in a paper somewhere. Android Developers Union - Sharecroppers Unite! - AnDevUni - www.andevuni.org - AnDevUni - Join! - Blog - Contact The Android Developers Union We, the members and supporters of the Android Developers Union, are fed up with the conditions of the Android Market. We are tired of being treated like sharecroppers on Google's digital plantation! We have compiled a list of seven demands which Google can implement to improve the Market. Implementing these demands will absolutel...

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2011-03-02T03:36:49.000Z

Limits to keep in mind...
100 MB a table
250 MB an account
5/QPS
1 million characters per cell
2000 geocodes a day
100K rows displayed in Maps API

Buzz by Matt McKnight from Google Reader

2011-03-01T15:55:28.171Z

GC pauses again... Avoiding Full GCs in HBase with MemStore-Local Allocation Buffers: Part 2 - Cloudera » Blog - This is the second post in a series detailing a recent improvement in Apache HBase that helps to reduce the frequency of garbage collection pauses. Be sure you’ve read part 1 before continuing on to this post. Recap from Part 1 In last week’s post, we noted that HBase has had problems coping with long garbage collection pauses, and we summarized the different garbage collection algorithms commo...

Buzz by Matt McKnight from Google Reader

2011-03-01T14:47:55.276Z

GC pauses...

2Gbytes Is The Next 640K - electronicdesign.com

Buzz by Matt McKnight from Google Reader

2011-02-26T05:24:57.990Z

Filing this one... but more for this reason than any of the ones they outline-
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-python/browse_thread/thread/d3e5f8f8e76ab05f

The Unofficial Guide to Migrating Off of Google App Engine - www-cs-students.stanford.edu

Buzz by Matt McKnight from Google Reader

2011-02-22T06:22:04.138Z

5 notes for successful product inception

A VC: MBA Tuesday - www.avc.com

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2011-02-22T01:14:15.515Z

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Meow Mix - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report - I’VE TRAINED my cats to think they’re in charge, and to think they exact a tribute of two breakfasts from me each morning. Initially I feed them each half a small can of salmon. The white cat finishes first, and scratches at the cabinets for more. As if in response, I feed them each a half can of whitefish, exactly as I always intended to. They finish with gusto, convinced that they’ve won. I...

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2011-02-21T21:38:40.478Z

Mystery behind two Libyan fighter jets landing in Malta, revealed - Boing Boing - AP reports that two Libyan air force jets arrived in Malta today. Military officials say their pilots have asked for political asylum amid a bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters in Libya, in which air force pilots were ordered to fire on civilian demonstrators (see previous BB post). Apparently, these pilots refused to follow those orders. Above: a Libyan airforce pilot walks next to ...

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2011-02-17T16:12:50.316Z

I long for the days when I was the only person I knew who had read this book. Steve Blank on when not to add features - Obie Fernandez - I'm studying Steve Blank's Four Steps to the Epiphany with an intensity that I haven't mustered for any book in years. I'm talking liberal use of yellow highlighter markers and scribbled notes in the margins. It's gold, I tell ya! I love Steve's advice about uncovering a market that matches your original product vision: This rigor of no new features until you've exhausted the search of a marke...