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The storage tipping pointstoragemojo.com
Storage is at a tipping point: much of the existing investment in the software stack will be obsolete within two years. This will be the biggest change in storage since the invention of the disk drive by IBM in 1956. -
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New method of quantum entanglement vastly increases how much information can be carried in a photonphys.org
A team of researchers led by UCLA electrical engineers has demonstrated a new way to harness light particles, or photons, that are connected to each other and act in unison no matter how far apart they are —a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement. -
Functional C++ - Kevlin Henneyvimeo.com
Functional C++? As opposed to what - dysfunctional? Well, kind of, yeah. Sure, in C++ the principal unit of composition is called a function, but that doesn't mean… -
Quote Unquotetheparisreview.org
A sentence goes viral—why?Quinn Dombrowski, The Library, 2010. Image via FlickrI recently discovered that a sentence of mine, written many years ago in a book that had enjoyed some critical praise but disappointing sales, had gone viral.I suppose I goo... -
What Ticketmaster is doing about technical debttech.ticketmaster.com
This post describes the journey Ticketmaster has been on over the last year to define and measure technical debt in its software platforms. The issue kept surfacing from multiple sources, and yet a... -
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Geographic visualization with R's ggmapblog.dominodatalab.com
Have you ever crunched some numbers on data that involved spatial locations? If the answer is no, then boy are you missing out! So much spatial data to analyze and so little time. Since your time is precious, you know... -
Search the cheapest flights on cleverlayovercleverlayover.com
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Erlang Central | Scalable is Awesome, Literally! – Garrett Smith – Erlang User Conference 2015erlangcentral.org
Scalability is a desirable characteristic of any system. But what does the word scalable actually mean? In this talk, Garrett will argue that when we use the word scalable we should instead use the word awesome. Awesome has has the same meaning... -
This Early Computer Was Based on a Urinal Flush Mechanism - Facts So Romantic - Nautilusnautil.us
John Horton Conway, a Fellow of the Royal Society who hails from Princeton via Cambridge, England, is notorious for many things—perhaps… -
MAGI Synthavision Demo Reel (1980)youtube.com
Early (1970s through 1980) demo reel from MAGI/Synthavision, who would later go on to provide many of the CGI effects for the feature film Tron. Mostly telev... -
Refactoring with Loops and Collection Pipelinesmartinfowler.com
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Consistency and Candy Crush: Don't give up on serializability just yet - The dot Postthedotpost.com
“Consistency” is used in a lot of different contexts. This talk covers three of them: ACID database transactions, consistency models, and the CAP theorem. -
PagerDuty Guarantees Uptime with Downtime Insurance - PagerDutypagerduty.com
Reliability is our business. We now offer Downtime Insurance. If we have an outage, we’ll compensate lost revenue that occurs as a result of our downtime. -
Study Suggests Google Harms Consumers by Skewing Search Resultson.wsj.com
New research by two U.S. academics suggests that Google is harming Internet users and violating competition laws by skewing search results to favor its own services.