10/08/2009 @ 23:00 UTC
nelson : Doug Cutting to Cloudera - Doug's one of the smartest systems engineers out there
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10/08/2009 @ 23:00 UTC
nelson : Sorting big data in Python - Nicely annotated example of how to do something simple, well
#10/08/2009 @ 22:00 UTC
nelson : non-English programming languages - Most programming languages use English keywords ("for", "if", "return", etc.)
#10/08/2009 @ 22:00 UTC
nelson : Facebook buys Friendfeed - huh
Andy Baio : Facebook buys FriendFeed - will it get sucked into the black hole, or help Facebook open up? Techcrunch says it's a talent acquisition
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Andy Baio : Ars Technica on the worries of high-frequency algorithmic trading - used for years, it's accelerated since the Wall Street crisis
#10/08/2009 @ 21:00 UTC
kaninka.net : FAITH NO MORE Stripsearch (via jp3design) [via]
#10/08/2009 @ 21:00 UTC
Simon Willison : topia.termextract - topia.termextract. Impressive Python term extraction library (similar to the various term extraction web APIs but you can run it on your own hardware), incorporating a Parts-Of-Speech tagging algorithm.
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10/08/2009 @ 20:00 UTC
nelson : Atlantica Online microtransactions - Nice description of how this new game finance model works in AO
#10/08/2009 @ 19:00 UTC
Greg Storey : Periodical Photographs. - Great backstory on the making of a fantastic book. #
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deusx : b3ta - Kittens Bookmarklet - Reload.me.uk - "Internet getting you down? Tired of reading tales of doom and disaster? Ever wanted to cheer yourself up by looking at floofy kittins? Of course you have. And now you can! With this little bookmarkelet that replaces all images on the page with pictu
#10/08/2009 @ 19:00 UTC
deusx : Self-Portrait With Ground Squirrel - Neatorama - "Melissa Brandts wasn’t trying to take a photo of this ground squirrel at Banff National Park. She’d set up the camera’s timer so that she’d have a nice picture of herself and her husband, with spectacular Lake Minnewanka in the background.
#10/08/2009 @ 18:00 UTC
nelson : Men at their most masculine - Interesting photo project (Note: some photos are nudes)
#10/08/2009 @ 18:00 UTC
deusx : HookPress: Webhooks for WordPress - "I recently have spent a little time putting together a new WordPress plugin called HookPress. HookPress lets you add webhooks to WordPress, letting you easily develop push notifications or extend WordPress in languages other than PHP."
#10/08/2009 @ 16:00 UTC
Greg Storey : US banks stand to collect a record $38.5bn in fees for customer overdrafts this year. - Great, so now they can pay the taxpayers back now right?! Hello? #
#10/08/2009 @ 16:00 UTC
Greg Storey : X Troop. - A story of the real inglourious basterd. #
#10/08/2009 @ 16:00 UTC
Greg Storey : Dogs are as intelligent as a two-year old human. - They would be a hell of a lot smarter if they could drop the habit of sniffing each other's posterior. #
#10/08/2009 @ 16:00 UTC
jcgregorio : Get the facts about the stability and security you get from health insurance reform | Health Insurance Reform Reality Check
#10/08/2009 @ 15:00 UTC
Simon Willison : How Different Groups Spend Their Day - How Different Groups Spend Their Day. Classy interactive infographic from the New York Times.
#10/08/2009 @ 11:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Full House, Alternate Intro - [via]
#10/08/2009 @ 07:00 UTC
kaninka.net : txtsfrmlstnght: (972): 90% of the problems in your life are directly related to your vagina
#10/08/2009 @ 03:00 UTC
Jeremy Zawodny : Mid-air Crash Photo - Mid-air Crash Photo: pretty amazing
nelson : Plane collision photo - Amazing photo of the mid air collision
#10/08/2009 @ 03:00 UTC
nelson : tr.im shutting down - First big URL shortener to go away; what happens to the links?
Rod Begbie : tr.im R.I.P. - Another URL shortener gets shuttered. As it turns out, unless you slap frames and shite over the links you bounce users to, there's no business model. Another example of why I run rdbgb.us: I am solely responsible for keeping the links in my Twitter post [via] #
jcgregorio : tr.im URLs | tr.im R.I.P. - One down, all the rest to go.
Andy Baio : Tr.im shuts down, breaking millions of shortened links by year's end - we were warned; someone should call Archive Team
Simon Willison : tr.im is "discontinuing service" - tr.im is “discontinuing service�. “However, all tr.im links will continue to redirect, and will do so until at least December 31, 2009.Your tweets with tr.im URLs in them will not be affected.�—these statements seem to contradict themselves. W
#10/08/2009 @ 02:00 UTC
nelson : tr.im shutting down - First big URL shortener to go away; what happens to the links?
#10/08/2009 @ 02:00 UTC
kaninka.net : status update Björn Ingi Hrafnsson PÃanósónata nr. 14, Tunglskinssónatan eftir Beethoven er eitt af... - status update Björn Ingi Hrafnsson PÃanósónata nr. 14, Tunglskinssónatan eftir Beethoven er eitt af undrum veraldar. Meðtakist à rólegheitum og með lokuð augu. Jafnvel kreppur hverfa einsog dögg fyrir sólu…
#10/08/2009 @ 01:00 UTC
WillPate : Online Community Expert Interview: Dawn Lacallade, SolarWinds
#10/08/2009 @ 00:00 UTC
jcgregorio : COBOL – Still doing the business | CIO - Blogs and Discussion - Filled with lots of numbers, none of which are verified, or even verifiable.
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