January 2010
44 posts
Another interesting statement from The End of Influence:
..when we say, “The United States imports from China, ” we are really saying, “The United States imports from China the outputs of an integrated trans-Asian production network with key nodes for the high end components in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and for the brutish inputs, Australia.”
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“A United States that no longer has money will become more and more something of...”
– Excerpt from The End of Influence
After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for... →
adamgotterer:
“The web site redesign and relaunch cost the Dolans $4 million, according to Mr. Jimenez. With those 35 people, they’ve grossed about $9,000.”
Paywalls are a bad idea! The newspaper business is really blowing it on and offline.
Hybrid paywalls as used by WSJ and soon to be used by NYT next year may work but of course I don’t think Newsday’s content is as of high...
NYC's hottest startups →
Internet 2009 in numbers →
adamgotterer:
Preview:
90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009. -72.4% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2009. 384.4% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2009. 126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet 2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.
Nginx rocks!
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“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
– Einstein
My Avatar
http://www.mcdonalds.se/avatar/index.html?mId=33754629.3
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Google issue from *other side* of the world
Ok, I’ve heard so many posts favoring and/or criticizing Google’s recent accusation of Cyber attack by China. But this article explains some raw thoughts of Chinese government.
Several days before Google declared that it planned to withdraw from China, the U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton held a small evening dinner party. The guests she invited were just the leaders of the...
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WatchDavid Blaine’s breath taking saga
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Hadoop, NY Times and Open Source Libraries
nosql:
I guess everyone with some interest in Hadoop already knows the story of NY Times converting more than 130 years worth of articles (11 million articles in TIFF format) into PDFs using Hadoop and Amazon EC2 [1]. What I didn’t know though is that this wasn’t an one-time only project, NY Times continuing to use Hadoop for other projects [2] and that they open sourced [3] the Map/Reduce...
Google's "Ten things philosophy" →
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“Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty”
– Leo Rosten
“…knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5.”
– Eric Schmidt
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Brief NoSQL News
nosql:
Cassandra is getting closer to release the 0.5.0 version that will bring a ton of improvements. As far as I can tell it will be the first Cassandra release that we will have the chance to cover here on MyNoSQL.
Neo4j is also getting closer to finally release the 1.0 version. After the neo4j 1.0-b11, the guys have released an RC, so I expect the final release to follow shortly.
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Price war between AT&T and Verizon
Finally, finally, finally it’s happening. The Sun is shining.
More competition ~= more innovation ~= great for end users!
Google, China and Milton Friedman
cdixon:
“There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.” - Milton Friedman, The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
Google has received wide and...
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10 Things Happening on NYC Tech Scene in '10 →
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Nice explanation of CAP Theorem →
That you can only guarantee two of Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance is real and evidenced by the most successful websites on the planet.
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Database Capabilities in a High-Volume Environment →
The notion of DBA is kinda odd in the high end environments where most data are distributed and computing is parallel.
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Hat's off to Google! →
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“Experience is something you get just after you need it.”
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Simple way to memcache (almost) all database... →
nosql:
I’d probably argue that’s way too simple (and probably not so useful). What I’d do is:
make sure that I don’t have duplicates in the cache
Supporting this behavior is not so complex: a query cache will just store the keys of the results and use the multi_get for fetching these. In case objects are missing from the cache then you go on an execute the query making sure that this time...
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What Can NoSQL Learn from LDAP History →
nosql:
A great post from Michael Mullary over Engine Yard blog on the pros and cons of LDAP and what can be learned from its insuccess.
I especially liked what Michael identified as some of the possible causes of LDAP’s ”failure”
Telecom protocols FTL
Access control that exceeded human brain capacity
Interesting data wanted to be relational
If you take a step back and look at the first...
Financial terrorism →
Fluent as we are in Al Qaeda and body scanners, when it comes to synthetic C.D.O.’s and credit-default swaps, not so much.
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2010: A Year of Uncertainty →
Definitely worth reading! via
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mabimal asked: Praj what is this, ask me anything feature?
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Krugman: 30-40% Chance of U.S. Recession in 2010 →
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said he sees about a one-third chance the U.S. economy will slide into a recession during the second half of the year as fiscal and monetary stimulus fade.
Things startups do and don't need
cdixon:
Things startups do need
Sunny office
Windows that open
Democratically controlled music system
Two forms of internet access
Beer on fridays
EVDO cards
Video game system
Good coffee maker
Proximity to public transportation
Proximity to park
Heating that goes all night
Health care plans for everyone
Mac laptops with second monitors
Plants
Lots of in-person interaction
Gmail...
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“The bottom line for our directors: You win, they win big; you loose, they loose...”
– Excerpt from The Essays of Warren Buffet