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news.ycombinator.com
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Why we pulled Apache Storm from Production in Pursuit of Performanceloggly.com
Log management at scale isn’t easy. Here's why we pulled Apache Storm from Production months after launching in pursuit of even higher performance. -
vis.berkeley.edu
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The Buried - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
From Cairo, it’s only about three hundred miles to Abydos, in Upper Egypt, but the distance feels much greater. This region has been a world apart ever since Pharaonic times. The ancient Egyptians separated their land into Upper and Lower, a division t... -
mactech.com
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The Man Who Was Buried Twice—Vol. 2, No. 4theappendix.net
The earthquake that swallowed up the “Sodom of the West Indies,” and the aftershock that regurgitated one lucky merchant. -
The Limits of Friendship - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
How does the increased prevalence of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram in our lives affect our social circles? -
citusdata/postgres_vectorization_testgithub.com
postgres_vectorization_test - Vectorized executor to speed up PostgreSQL - foia.cia.gov
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lkml.org
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People care more about convenience than privacy onlinewashingtonpost.com
We don't trust companies with our personal data. That doesn't stop us from giving it to them. -
'Fighting Ebola: A Grand Challenge for Development' by ebolagrandchallenge.netebolagrandchallenge.net
We are calling on the global community to share pioneering ideas that deliver practical and cost-effective innovations in a matter of months. Regardless of background, experience or knowledge of Ebola, your bold thinking is necessary to address this cr... -
glyph.twistedmatrix.com
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Interana promises Facebook-style analytics for everyonegigaom.com
Led by a husband and wife team, and two former Facebook engineers, Interana thinks it can make any company do analytics just like the big web companies. Its software is designed for massive scale, blazing speed and easy data analysis. -
Genius – The Genius ISMsmeta.genius.com
As Dan Gilbert once explained to us, when you first start in business you think “company culture” is total BS – I’m just here to do good work and make some money, what’s all this - nature42.com
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Why is it easier to teach girls to code than to teach ourselves to treat women well? « Playing with Negative Spaceblog.lizdenys.com
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Meteor Acquires YC Alum FathomDB For Its Development Platform | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Meteor, a well-funded member of Heavybit's stable of developer-centric startups, today announced that it has acquired FathomDB and its database technology... -
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travist/makemeasandwich.jsgithub.com
makemeasandwich.js - A Node.js + Phantom.js command line application that will automatically order you a sandwich from Jimmy John's. ( http://xkcd.com/149 )