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by abscondment 17y ago
Reminds me of an interesting Wired article from 2008: "The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete" http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_t...
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Comparative Histograms of World Economic Powers(gongszeto.squarespace.com)
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by abscondment 17y ago
Cool. Bonus points for alliteration.
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by abscondment 17y ago
Clojure, Redis
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by abscondment 17y ago
It's too bad Hadoop seems to have been inspired by Google papers as a solution to Nutch's scaling issues. See http://research.yahoo.com/files/cutting.pdf [pdf] To me (and IANAL), this implies that Hadoop users are at Google's mercy.
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Microsoft to issue an out-of-band IE patch(blogs.zdnet.com)
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by abscondment 17y ago
No; it seems to have been inspired by Google papers as a solution to Nutch's scaling issues. See http://research.yahoo.com/files/cutting.pdf [pdf] :(
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by abscondment 17y ago
Everything you write makes sense, but only in a world where music prices aren't set by psychotic rights owners. Regardless of market influences and reduced cost of distribution, the majors demand ~$0.70 per track. This is why major label mp
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by abscondment 17y ago
Digital music pricing has such small profit margins that only offering a discounted item is infeasible. You'd need to already do huge volumes of sales and can demonstrate that this discount would bring more customers in. Amazon comes the cl
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by abscondment 17y ago
It's not just them denying it, but McAffee as well: http://siblog.mcafee.com/cto/operation-“aurora”-hit-google-o...
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by abscondment 17y ago
If C is proving too hard, perhaps they should use Lisp for embedded systems ala http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052858
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Solving cryptograms in Clojure(threebrothers.org)
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by abscondment 17y ago
This sort of thinking reminds me of Tim Bray's recent "Doing it Wrong" article: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/01/02/Doing-It-W... What corporate America wants is often opposed to what is actually useful.