Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Suspicion (1)
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ISBN: 0441731260LibraryThingThis is the second book in the Isaac Asimov's Robot City series, and follows on directly from Odyssey. In fact, it follows so closely that it feels like it should be part of that earlier book. I preferred this book to the first in the series, I suspect because it didn't need to use a random unexplained change to escape a dying plot line (which is what I felt happened about a third of ...
CitizenRE's Shitheaddery (4)
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Uncov got its first legal threat yesterday! I know that my post volume has slowed to a crawl, but I've been busy with a new job. In any event, this is an exciting new milestone. CitizenRE is a company who is running, in my opinion, a hustle in the solar energy business. You sign up for CitizenRE, pay them a $500 "security deposit", and then monthly fees to rent solar panels for your house. You ...
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Adam said:
Welcome to the social web, CitizenRE!
Generating and Playing Sound in Javascript (16)
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Another experiment with sound, data: URIs, and the embed tag. SK has shown that it’s possible to generate wave file in Javascript and play it. All this happens in the browser and without requiring Flash. He’s built a sine wave generator and a song player. I came across a post about putting .wav files in data: URIs (via an Ajaxian post) so my immediate question was whether I could generate .wav files on the fly. ...
Flowmaps and Frag-Grenades, Part 1 (5)
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Boxes and Arrows (1)
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By any measure, Halo 3 is one of the most wildly-successful consumer software interfaces in recent memory: more than 1 million players played the game in its first 24 hours on Xbox Live; over 8 million copies sold to date; and “over 100,000 pieces of user generated content being uploaded daily […] 30 percent higher than YouTube on a daily basis.” It’s probably safe to say that more cumulative man-hours have already been spent in ...
Product: Scribe - Facebook's Scalable Logging System (42)
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In Log Everything All the Time I advocate applications shouldn't bother logging at all. Why waste all that time and code? No, wait, that's not right. I preach logging everything all the time. Doh. Facebook obviously feels similarly which is why they opened sourced Scribe, their internal logging system, capable of logging 10s of billions of messages per day. These messages include access logs, performance statistics, actions that went to News Feed, and many others. ...
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Devlin D said:
That is some immense logging power!!
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Ted said:
Scribe is the new Syslog.
My Techmeme Obsession (16)
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Just over a year ago, I wrote a post explaining that Techmeme was moving from highlighting the work of individual tech bloggers to the work of professionally produced tech blogs. In that post, I bemoaned the fact that I had been knocked off of the techmeme leaderboard along with most other individual tech bloggers. Then something changed. Maybe it was me writing more for Techmeme (by reading the top stories and then blogging about them ...
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bhc3 said:
"I think what's happening is techmeme is catering more and more to the professionally produced tech blogs. Whatever Gabe's algorithm does, it seems to point mostly to TechCrunch, VentureBeat, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo and that ilk. Nothing wrong with that. But as of this morning, the only individual bloggers I see on the leaderboard are Nick Carr, Mark Cuban, and my good friend Tom Evslin."
Three signals of death march projects (2)
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Death march projects are standard in software development and they are usually the most complex ones to handle. It seems to me that this is more like question how to handle the chaos and how to survive it with as less losses as prossible. There are some signals of dangers I would like to share with you. Insufficient analysis I worked as a programmer in one death march projects where analysis was very insufficient. Of ...
Azure Storage Services Test Harness: Table Services 6 – Paging LINQ Query Result Sets (2)
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This is the sixth of a series of articles about an ASP.NET 3.5 C# test harness for Azure Storage Services that will be available for download in the near future. Azure Table Services HTTP Requests include a $top=n system query option that accepts NextPartitionKey and NewRowKey parameters to position the starting point of successive GET queries to the appropriate entity. HTTP Responses return the parameter values for the next retrieval. The feature implements a basic ...
Hoover’s Opens API With Data on Millions of Companies and Executives (9)
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Hoover’s, the business information company, has released their own Hoover’s API, aka “HAPI”. This new API enables developers to create applications that utilize Hoover’s database of 27 million companies and 34 million business executives (details at our Hoover’s API profile). This is certainly useful data for a variety of enterprise applications. Hoover’s VP of Business Development Heidi Tucker gave a presentation titled “Hoover’s - API Strategy - Open Access to Business Intelligence” at Mashery’s recent ...
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Jon Wiley said:
This is excellent. Way to go, Hoover's!
Anatomy of a Subtle JSON Vulnerability (14)
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I recently learned about a very subtle potential security flaw when using JSON. While subtle, it was successfully demonstrated against GMail a while back. The post, JSON is not as safe as people think it is, covers it well, but I thought I’d provide step-by-step coverage to help make it clear how the exploit works. The exploit combines Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) with a JSON Array hack allowing an evil site to grab sensitive ...
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AJ Batac said:
adds this to the stuff to learn/remember list...
An easy and efficient way to improve .NET code performances (7)
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Currently, I am getting serious about measuring and improving performances of .NET code. I’ll post more about this topic within the next weeks. For today I would like to present an efficient optimization I found on something we all use massively: loops on collections. I talk here about the cost of the loop itself, i.e for and foreach instructions, not the cost of the code executed in the loop. I basically found that: for loops ...
Yahoo! Search Blog: Yahoo! Search BOSS Releases Key Terms (4)
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Today we're pleased to announce the availability of the first of a series of new BOSS features called Key Terms. We began opening up our search infrastructure four months ago with Yahoo! Search BOSS. Since then, we've heard again and again in our developer group and at conferences and hack days around the world that developers want more access to deep infrastructure assets. Key Terms is derived from a Yahoo! Search capability we refer to ...
20 Famous Software Disasters - Part 2 (1)
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This is Part 2 of “20 Famous Software Disasters.” See also Part 1, Part 3 and Part 4. 6. Wall Street Crash (1987) Cost: $500 billion in one day Disaster: On “Black Monday” (October 19, 1987), the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 508 points, losing 22.6% of its total value. The S&P 500 dropped 20.4%. This was the greatest loss Wall Street ever suffered in a single day. Cause: A long bull market was halted ...
Magic Johnson discusses telepresence, Celtics-Lakers rivalry and today's NBA (1)
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Distribute Your Content With Amazon CloudFront (45)
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A few months ago I talked about our plans to create and offer a service for content delivery. That service is called Amazon CloudFront and it ready now!Like all of our other services, CloudFront was designed with ease of use in mind from the very beginning. There are no minimum usage commitments, no monthly fees, and no need to even talk to us. Here's what you do: Sign up for CloudFront. Put your most frequently ...
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al3x said:
Amazon releases a proper, geographically distributed CDN layer atop S3.
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Nicolas Lehuen said:
Amazon rolls its own Content Delivery Network. Only 14 POPs as of today, although given the current Internet infrastructure it may not be as much as a problem.
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Eric W said:
Awesome! Amazon now provides CDN type of service!
Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3 (34)
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We shipped Silverlight 2 last month. Over the last 4 weeks, the final release of Silverlight 2 has been downloaded and installed on more than 100 million consumer machines. It has also recently been published to corporate administrators via the Microsoft SMS and Microsoft Update programs to enable them to automatically deploy across enterprises. Over 1 in 4 computers on the Internet now have some version of Silverlight installed. Silverlight 2 was a major release, ...
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Paul said:
I meant pdc. Damn iphine
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Nate said:
Silverlight in Visual Studio proper. Whoop!
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From http://blogs.msdn... Microsoft’s Global Product Development team in Europe recently completed its Treemap control for visualizing hierarchical data, seen below. You can read more about it here and leave your feedback. If you are excited by what you see us doing, check us out at www.joinmicrosoft.... You can skip a few steps straight to the demo here: http://www.joinmi... Wow! Putting this in the context of PerformancePoint, remember that you can get a similar visualization in ...Shared by Kamath ॐ (7) Paul (0)Contribute commentNetwork World on Convergence (0) permalink
Magic Johnson's businesses rely on Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing to communicate, cut costs on plane travel.Shared by Paul (0)Contribute comment
