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popsci.com
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Peter Lawrey Describes Petabyte JVMsinfoq.com
It’s not unusual in financial service systems to have problems that requires significant vertical, as opposed to horizontal, scaling. During his talk at QCon London Peter Lawrey described the particular problems that occur when you scale a Java applica... -
recallbee.com
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The world's largest telescope is going to be built in Chilevox.com
It'll help us find distant planets — and perhaps even extraterrestrial life. -
Meetings Are Usually Terrible, But YC-Backed WorkLife Aims To Change Thattechcrunch.com
I'm guessing you have been in a meeting that made you hate your life. You know, where one or two people drone on and on, half of the attendees seem to be.. -
SpringRole — Everyone is a Recruitermedium.com
SpringRole is a crowdsourced recruiting network powered by referrals. While we all know, referrals are the best way to h… -
qz.com
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Safer Swift code with value typesmakeschool.com
A talk given at Swift Developers Community SF that discusses new ways of writing iOS apps with Swift. -
A Better Way To Find The Best Flights And Avoid The Worst Airportsfivethirtyeight.com
Get stuck at the airport last year? You weren’t alone. In 2014, the 6 million domestic flights the U.S. government tracked required an extra 80 million minutes to reach their destinations. At 80 pa... -
hbr.org
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room.eu.com
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news.ycombinator.com
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The poor kids of Silicon Valleycnn.com
CNN’s John D. Sutter finds this rich valley’s children living in garages and homeless camps. -
zop.clay.io
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We use [RethinkDB] at Workshape.ioblog.workshape.io
What’s the tech? RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database that stores JSON documents. Overview It is both developer and operations oriented - combining an easy-to-use powerful query language with simple controls for operating at scale with high... -
google.com
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Startup Solidarity • Climb Highersethbannon.com
We often hear about how the startup world is different – about how it’s less zero-sum and more communal than other industries. Recently I had the (mis)fortune to experience this first hand. Last year, my startup Amicus nearly died. Running out of... | ... -
At 95, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Recounts More Than Six Decades of Life in San Franciscoww2.kqed.org
The poet, painter and founder of City Lights bookstore criticizes tech's influence on the Bay Area. -
In South Africa, Ranchers Are Breeding Mutant Animals to Be Huntedbloomberg.com
Rich marksmen pay a premium to shoot “Frankenstein freaks of nature” - store.google.com