April 2010
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“The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are...”
– The Lost Symbol
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Really like the notion of this article: FORGET ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS, OUR ENTIRE ECONOMY IS BUILT ON FRAUD
This article is both confronting and provoking but it does make sense since we are living in the world where debt is the new liquidity tool while abstraction and complexity are the fundamental of the market economy and free market.
Wall Street and financial markets are nothing but a fucking...
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WatchThis is hilarious!
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Measuring American Life
The index factors in life expectancy at birth, educational degree attainment among adults 25-years or older, school enrollment for people at least three years old and median annual gross personal earnings.
Asian Americans live the longest (86.6 years)
African American life expectancy today is on par with that of the average American life span three decades ago
Latinos outlive whites, on...
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“The programming language you learn and use does not matter. Do not get sucked...”
– Learn Python The Hard Way
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WatchHow history was made
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WatchPing Pong
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This presentation is an HTML5 website →
johnzanussi:
jayrobinson:
The coolest HTML5 presentation ever. Download Google Chrome to watch and enjoy.
Only one flaw (http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide8): Web SQL is not the part of HTML 5 spec http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/
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Assets of 6 largest banks as per US GDP:
BoA: 16%
JPMorgan Chase: 14%
Citigroup: 13%
Wells Fargo: 9%
Goldman Sachs: 6%
Morgan Stanley: 5%
And few years ago there weren’t any banks bigger than 4% of US GDP.
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“Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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HTML5 Test →
IE 8: 19 / 160
Safari 4.0.5: 115 / 160
Chrome 4.1: 118 / 160
Firefox 3.6.3: 101 / 160
via
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Couchio: NoSQL is About… →
To my fellow NoSQL-istas, present and future as well as everybody else who is interested:
Every time I read about somebody “having learned about NoSQL” at a conference or meet-up and they took away that “NoSQL is about X”, boy do I have a low opinion about the presenter (not pointing fingers…
Nice write up!
One thing was clear: Whether you were an oil company or an oil country, if you wanted to put something in play in the nation’s capital, you had better be ready to pay.
Excerpt from See No Evil
Context: How oil lobbying virtually destroyed CIA’s inner workings and motivations after the end of the Cold War
Foursquare == Narcissistic assault on decent... →
I also have similar feeling now!
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12 Million Ubuntu Users! →
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Gizzard - Twitter just sharded →
thechangelog:
Database sharding, or shared nothing partitioning is a technique that helps sites with massive amounts of data scale. Usually sharding is built into the database technology, either RDBMS or NoSQL. Twitter has released Gizzard, a middleware networking service that allows you to shard data across arbitrary backend datastores.
The partitioning rules are stored in a forwarding...
damnvid →
The video converter / downloader that doesn’t suck!
My New Tumblr Domain →
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Watch13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/760
WatchWeb Analytics: Collecting and Demystifying Data
http://webpub.mit.edu/2010/04/webpub-presentation-“web-analytics-collecting-and-demystifying-data”-now-available/
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Looting Main Street →
Matt Taibbi is only one of the few journalists who have ability to explain in simple English how Wall Street crooks are fucking Main Street.
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Military Spending: The Visual Way →
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