BabyGate: Explosive Details [Photos+Video] (43)
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Yesterday, the nation at large was introduced to Sarah Palin's fraudulent claims of maternity by numerous photographs, video, and a timeline that made even those accepting of the 'official' story turn their heads in confusion.The revelation that had been whispered among the Alaskan legislature was explosive. Sarah Palin is not the mother of Trig Palin. Her daughter is the mother. Scarce if any refutations to the contrary have come forward, and now damning incidents and ...
Music Review: Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery (1)
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Wes Montgomery (1925-1968) was one of the most influential guitarists of the 20th century. He took the swing sound of Charlie Christian and the gypsy jazz styling of Django Reinhardt and combined them into a unique American jazz sound. His early work would influence the two generations of jazz guitarists that would follow him.
Solid-state disk lackluster for laptops, PCs (1)
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Most observers agree that solid-state disk (SSD) will eventually overtake magnetic disk drives as the storage medium of choice. SSD is lighter than traditional hard disk drives, is faster, is more durable and consumes less power. Still, SSD doesn't measure up to the hype, particularly when using it in a desktop or laptop PC.
Facebook | Engineering @ Facebook's Notes (2)
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Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size across many commodity servers, with no single point of failure. Reliability at massive scale is a very big challenge. Outages in the service can have significant negative impact. Hence Cassandra aims to run on top of an infrastructure of hundreds of nodes (possibly spread across different datacenters). At this scale, small and large components fail ...
Java/JRuby Developers, Say Open 'Sesame' to the Semantic Web (1)
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he core concept of the semantic web is integrating and using data from different sources. Using semantic web technologies such as RDF/RDFS and the SPARQL query language to integrate and use data from disparate sources has some advantages over using a standard relational database. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) uses predicates to define relationships between data objects, and RDF Schema (RDFS), which is written in RDF, offers a modeling language for knowledge representation and ontology ...
openface - Google Code (1)
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The Openface Project is a PHP framework (Ruby in process) used for building applications that run on Facebook and OpenSocial platforms. Openface is a set of libraries that you add into your PHP application that enables the same codebase to run within Facebook, Bebo and OpenSocial containers like MySpace, Hi5 & Orkut.
How to interview key hires (6)
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Startup founders often need to hire people into areas that they don’t know anything about. This can be a technical founder hiring a VP marketing, a business development founder hiring a VP Engineering, or a product management founder hiring a VP Ad Sales. Often these hires are some of the most importantthat a company makes as they fill the holes in a founding management team. There are three things that you should test a potential ...
Music Review: Motorhead - Motorizer (1)
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Motorizer - Motorhead show just how it should be done There can’t be any rock band in the world that could release its 24th album and manage to maintain the same speaker shattering energy as they did with their first. Lord Lemmy and Motorhead main stays Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee manage to do just that with this, their new album, Motorizer (SPV Records). The success of Motorhead couldn’t...
Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it (68)
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* The time it takes for a packet to cross a network connection, from sender to receiver. * The period of time that a frame is held by a network device before it is forwarded. Two of the most important parameters of a communications channel are its latency, which should be low, and its bandwidth, which should be high. Latency is particularly important for a synchronous protocol where each packet must be acknowledged before the ...
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Isaac said:
"Latency matters. Amazon found every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. Google found an extra .5 seconds in search page generation time dropped traffic by 20%"
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jetienne said:
every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales
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Richard said:
Speed is important. Maybe even more important than relevance...
Facebook | Engineering @ Facebook's Notes (1)
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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
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Great post about cache consistency across data centers as well as multi-data center traffic serving.
Is GENE SIMMONS 'Smarter Than A 5th Grader?' (1)
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According to the Orlando Sentinel, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons is among the celebrity players that will take part in the new season of Fox's "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" Model Kathy Ireland will kick off the game show's third season at 8 p.m.
CloudStatus Keeps an Eye on The Clouds (9)
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The summer of 2008 has been the best of times and worst of times for cloud computing. Many companies –- big and small — decided to throw in their lot with cloud computing, betting that it is the future of technology infrastructure. At the same time, cloud computing took its lumps as some of the early large-scale cloud applications hit the skids. Apple’s MobileMe went on the blink for many while the GMail blackout that ...
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"The summer of 2008 has been the best of times and worst of times for cloud computing. Many companies –- big and small — decided to throw in their lot with cloud computing, betting that it is the future of technology infrastructure. At the same time, cloud computing took its lumps as some of the early large-scale cloud applications hit the skids."
METALLICA Drummer Talks 'Guitar Hero', 'Rock Band'; Video Available (1)
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Securing DNS with Transaction Signatures (TSIG) (1)
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The Domain Name System (DNS) is a replicated, distributed, hierarchicaldatabase of information that is a core service needed for the modern internet to function. If you're new to the Domain Name System please read Thomas Bridge's article. This article is primarily aimed at those familiar withbasic DNS concepts and the operation and configuration of a DNSserver.
InfoQ: Scalability Worst Practices (9)
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Process is an embedded reaction to prior stupidity.
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Some great topics that could apply to Q4 (see quote about process)
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