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Four short links: 20 December 2011 - Maximum MySQL, Digital News, Unbiased Mining, and Congressional Clue 21 Dec 2011 | 06:51 am
How Twitter Stores 250M Tweets a Day Using MySQL (High Scalability) -- notes from a talk at the MySQL conference on how Twitter built a high-volume MySQL store. How The Atlantic Got Profitable With Di...
Four short links: 26 October 2011 - CPAN's Sweet 0x10, Social Reading, Questioning Polls, and 3D Manufacturing 27 Oct 2011 | 08:42 am
CPAN Turns 0x10 -- sixteenth anniversary of the creation of the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. Now holds 480k objects. Subtext -- social bookreading by adding chat, links, etc. to a book. I haven...
Four short links: 10 October 2011 - Education Startups, Smartphone Robotics, Google SQL, and Deleted Timezones 10 Oct 2011 | 07:48 pm
Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed --This fundamental investment vs. expenditure mindset changes everything. You think of education as fundamentally a quality problem. The average person thinks of ...
Four short links: 19 September 2011 - The Changing Internet, Python Data Analysis, Society of Mind, and Gaming Proteins 19 Sep 2011 | 11:53 pm
1996 vs 2011 Infographic from Online University (Evolving Newsroom) -- "AOL and Yahoo! may be the butt of jokes for young people, but both are stronger than ever in the Internet's Top 10". Plus a chan...
Four short links: 24 August 2011 - STM in Python, Static Web is Back, Cyberwar, and Virtual Language Education 25 Aug 2011 | 01:17 am
STM in PyPy -- a proposal to add software transactional memory to the all-Python Python interpreter as a way of simplifying concurrent programming. I first learned about STM from Haskell's Simon Peyto...
Four short links: 17 August 2011 - Tabular Data API, Open Stanford Courses, Wearable TV, and Wearable Sensors 18 Aug 2011 | 08:46 am
Tablib -- MIT-licensed open source library for manipulating tabular data. Reputed to have a great API. (via Tim McNamara) Stanford Education Everywhere -- courses in CS, machine learning, math, and en...
Four short links: 12 August 2011 - Learning Adventure, Python Data Analysis, Lanyrd Technology, and New Sensor 13 Aug 2011 | 03:47 am
Hippocampus Text Adventure -- written as an exercise in learning Python, you explore the hippocampus. It's simple, but I like the idea of educational text adventures. (Well, educational in that you le...
Four short links: 8 August 2011 - Graph ORM, Graphic Computation, Web Intents, and Async RPC 9 Aug 2011 | 01:48 am
Bulbflow -- a Python framework for graph databases: it's like an ORM for graphs. (via Joshua Schachter) Nomograms -- the lost art of graphical computing. (via John D Cook) Web Intents -- adding Androi...
Developer Week in Review: Lion drops pre-installed MySQL - MySQL is missing from Lion Server, and Apple gets a slap on the wrist from South Korea. 3 Aug 2011 | 09:17 pm
A pre-installed version of MySQL is noticeably absent from Lion Server, South Korea penalizes Apple for the location brouhaha, and Java 7's compiler injects a bit of randomness into software developme...
It's True. Don't Believe A Word Of It. 29 Jul 2011 | 10:45 pm
The Ruby book was smoking!
