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major ecosystems
Hsin-chu, Taiwan
Ang Mo Kio, Singapore
Silicon Saxony in Geermnay
all built on semiconductor industries
Zelenograd - Russia

hermione way take - argue against it

U.S. Policy on Asia: A New Diplomatic Framework Needed Heritage report wrestles w/ US engagement in Asia

Nektony introduces ClearDisk 1.0, a new Mac OS X utility designed to clear the hard disk of useless files which make Macs run low on disk space. ClearDisk analyses the state of particular system folders which tend to clog up. It enables the user to clean up the disk space quickly by removing obsolete files. The advantages of ClearDisk over other similar tools are its quickness and efficiency. It closely inspects the file categories that are commonly used for storage of unnecessary stuff on Macs.

Some great points but he fails to mention the "mink oiled boots" syndrome: NO pureplay social network could succeed now because the era of pureplay social networks is waning fast; I don't think he appreciates that Google gets this, Page's purported obsession notwithstanding

RARE: lucid analysis of social network "participation" patterns and model #kudos #li #fb

"We started the RStudio project because we were excited and inspired by R. The creators of R provided a flexible and powerful foundation for statistical computing; then made it free and open so that it could be improved collaboratively and its benefits could be shared by the widest possible audience."

" La pobreza, que en 2002 llegó a ser del 52%, hoy se ubica en 22% de acuerdo al Observatorio de la Deuda Social de la Universidad Católica Argentina y no en el 7% como dice el Indec."

The knitr package was designed to be a transparent engine for dynamic report generation with R

Looks like this might be a good book for learning how to analyse large amounts of data with python, the author is the author of pandas too.

collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files.

logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). Speaking of searching, logstash comes with a web interface for searching and drilling into all of your logs.

wtf, Storm is a realtime compute cluster --- it has 3000 followers on github?! I've never heard of it..

Clock Ticks On China-Japan Islands Dispute | war-hyping, not serious analysis