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Scalable SQL - ACM Queue
architecture 
april 2011
SF emergency unit's computer crashed during fire
They tried to switch to the backup system but no one knew the password. Painfully obvious that their disaster recovery wasn't automated or at least drilled.
devops  disaster  fire 
april 2011
YouTube - TURF FEINZ "RIP Rich D" | YAK FILMS | DANCING in the RAIN, DANSE SOUS LA PLUIE, HIP HOP STREET DANCE
East Oakland
jooking  video 
april 2011
Towards Street-Level Client-Independent IP Geolocation
geolocation  gis 
april 2011
A Unified Framework for Rigid Body Dynamics
physics  programming 
april 2011
Unpacking binary data in PHP
PHP's documentation sucks for pack() and unpack()
php 
april 2011
www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/papers/seda-sosp01.pdf
SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned,
Scalable Internet Services
algorithms  architecture  distributed 
april 2011
Rendering Effective Route Maps: Improving Usability Through Generalization
"Route maps, which depict a path from one location to another, have emerged as one of the most popular applications on the Web. Current computer-generated route maps, however, are often very difficult to use." A 10-year old paper but still looks relevant.
design  geo  research  visualization 
april 2011
BEST. PARTY. EVER.
color  bubble 
march 2011
A history of the world in 100 seconds
history  visualization 
march 2011
High Scalability - High Scalability - Facebook's New Realtime Analytics System: HBase to Process 20 Billion Events Per Day
architecture  scaling 
march 2011
Code Cowboys | MetaFilter
On the Tumblr oopsie.
march 2011
Hacker News | our API, like most of the popular "REST" APIs, is not REST as defined by Roy Fie...
People dissing Flickr's API. Eh.
api  semantics 
march 2011
bitquabit - Midnight deploys are for idiots, and other revelations at 12:30 AM Monday morning
I think I know the cure for what ails them.
deploy 
march 2011
Google APIs Explorer
This would be an awesome [redacted].
march 2011
Etsy Activity Feeds Architecture
How Etsy built their activity feed. Mention of how a certain part is a hack and won't scale is interesting...
architecture 
march 2011
On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services
distributed 
march 2011
What Happens in Vagueness Stays in Vagueness by Clark Whelton - City Journal
"The decline and fall of American English, and stuff"
language 
february 2011
CERT C Secure Coding Standard - Secure Coding - CERT Secure Coding Standards
This is one of the best guides that get you from writing C to writing C well.
c  programming 
february 2011
List-o-Mania | Movie Feature | Chicago Reader
"Just about everyone I've spoken to regarding the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American movies--presented on a stultifyingly vacuous three-hour CBS special last week--has been depressed about it, in a hang-dog sort of fashion."
lists  movies 
february 2011
Homemade Bagels Are a Breeze! | Michael Ruhlman
Boone! Bagels!
january 2011
NoSQL at Netflix
A little light on details but talks a bit about how they use Amazon SimpleDB, Cassandra, and HBase.
distributed  architecture 
january 2011
The Top 100 Novels, Reviewed.
"In 1999, the editorial board of the Modern Library came up with their list of the "Top 100 best English language novels of the 20th century." It turns out the list was derived pretty idiotically. A bit of web-research will reveal exactly how the list was derived. When the list came out, I turned to my friend, John Hall, and said, "I think I'll read them all." Hence this site."
books  lists 
january 2011
LeanEssays: A Tale of Two Terminals
"Those of us in the software industry have heard this story before: the time runs out for system testing, but a big-bang cut-over to a mission critical new system proceeds anyway, because the planned date just can’t be delayed. The result is predictable: wishful thinking gives way to various degrees of disaster."
engineering 
january 2011
Go Syntax in Vim
Tabs not spaces, sigh...
january 2011
Unreal Networking Architecture
"Multiplayer gaming is about shared reality: that all of the players feel they are in the same world, seeing from differing viewpoints the same events transpiring within that world. As multiplayer gaming has evolved from the little 2-player modem games that characterized Doom, into the large, persistent, more free-form interactions of games like Quake 2, Unreal, and Ultima Online, the technologies behind the shared reality have evolved tremendously."
architecture  games 
january 2011
COFFEE. » Sprouted Kitchen
january 2011
CoffeeGeek - How to Use a Press Pot
coffee  food  howto 
january 2011
www.telehash.org
"A new wire protocol enabling applications to connect directly in a real-time and fully distributed manner, freeing them from relying on centralized datacenters"
distributed 
january 2011
Debunking the Google Interview Myth
"In any highly skilled profession, 95% of the time someone with very little of your skill could do your job. The valuable part is that you can also be counted on for that 5% as well."

-Succintly put.
software 
january 2011
30 lessons learned in computing over the last ten years
"There is more value in learning to work in and around piles of crappy code than learning to make beautiful code; all code turns into shit given enough time and hands." -There are some real gems in this and most of them seem true enough to me.
programming  culture 
december 2010
'The' Culture War
"I found it extremely jarring to see "the BART" and "the MUNI" on that bus stop sign. It was *so* obviously not written or proof read by anyone in SF."

Post about definite articles, using BART and Muni as examples
sf  language 
december 2010
On Compressing Social Networks
"We show that some of the problems are NP-hard yet admit effective heuristics..." 

Effective heuristics are always good.
scalability  architecture  graph 
december 2010
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - Bret ...
toread  scaling  architecture 
december 2010
Paxos algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paxos is a family of protocols for solving consensus in a network of unreliable processors. Consensus is the process of agreeing on one result among a group of participants. This problem becomes difficult when the participants or their communication medium may experience failures.
architecture  toread  cs  database  algorithms 
december 2010
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/talks/dean-keynote-ladis2009.pdf
Just great stuff.
architecture 
december 2010
Facebook | The Full Stack, Part I
architecture  cs  database 
december 2010
De-Anonymizing Web Communities with Gravatar ∈ rgov.org
security 
november 2010
Your Song
"In my book, Your Song is the granddaddy of them all - the song that launched the Elton John phenomena. A major hit, yes. It is and will forever be one of Elton’s signature songs. Your Song firmly established several trademarks of the Elton style, trademarks that continue to this day. To understand them, is to gain insight. In this lengthy analysis, I’ll share what I've learned." --One of the best songs written, ever
music 
november 2010
Technical Debt && Collins' Stages of Decline; OR, The Exponential Point of No Return
"At stage one, a software team is developing features. They are cutting corners but their debt is low, they’ve not made too many mistakes and they can pay for them with enthusiasm. At point two, what Collins calls an undisciplined pursuit of more, organisational and technical debt are growing, yet its exponential nature is not yet apparent. A common feature here is long hours and low automation - the company are sending men to do machine’s jobs - and older projects are biting you back. At stage three, just before technical and organisation debt explode, projects are painful to complete, blame looks like a management practice, fights occur between the responsible and irresponsible, run time errors are all over the place."
software 
november 2010
Marginal Revolution: Books of the year, 2010
books  reading 
november 2010
High Scalability - High Scalability - Facebook's New Real-time Messaging System: HBase to Store 135+ Billion Messages a Month
Facebook also has an extensive MySQL infrastructure, but they found performance suffered as data set and indexes grew larger. And they could have built their own, but they chose HBase.
database  scalability  architecture 
november 2010
Boxee Box Review | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Bert's incredibly thorough review of the Boxee. 
boxee 
november 2010
High Scalability - High Scalability - Facebook Uses Non-Stored Procedures to Update Social Graphs
mysql  scalability 
november 2010
Kindle Post US: The Best Books of 2010: Editors' Picks and Customer Favorites
books 
november 2010
Recursive partitioning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"As compared to regression analyses that creates a formula that health care providers can use to calculate the probability that a patient has a disease, recursive partition creates a rule such as 'If a patient has finding x, y, or z they probably have disease q.""
statistics  machinelearning 
november 2010
How Google and Facebook are using R : Dataspora Blog
"Itamar conveyed how Facebook’s Data Team used R in 2007 to answer two questions about new users: (i) which data points predict whether a user will stay? and (ii) if they stay, which data points predict how active they’ll be after three months?"
algorithms  analytics  datamining  machinelearning 
november 2010
Yelp Engineering Blog: mrjob: Distributed Computing for Everybody
distributed  datamining 
october 2010
Redis: under the hood
Some good work went into this, it seems.
redis 
october 2010
Support vector machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
programming  algorithms  machinelearning  geo 
october 2010
The GeoJSON Format Specification
geo 
october 2010
Neighborhood Boundaries: The Next Big Thing in Geographic Data - Directions Magazine
"Neighborhoods are not usually delineated by the government, but rather by those who live in the area. The exact edges are often fluid. The names are also fluid. Clement is the first to admit neighborhood boundaries are "squishy." How then does the company determine where the digital lines are drawn?"

-- Seems relevant to my interests.
gis  geo 
october 2010
Deviant Art devs running on VMs
It'd be interesting to see if Flickr could do this.
development  process 
october 2010
Foursquare outage post mortem - mongodb-user | Google Groups
So it turns out that when MongoDB working set size exceeds RAM size, things get shitty.
october 2010
Redis Virtual Memory: the story and the code
Great insight into the thought processes and coding decisions behind redis.
design  redis  memory 
february 2010
PC-GPE on the Web
Old-school game programming tutorials.
games  assembler  programming  algorithms 
january 2010
Easy statistics for AdWords A/B testing, and hamsters
analytics  statistics  abtesting 
december 2009
Regular Expression Matching: the Virtual Machine Approach
"This article presents two strategies as two different ways to implement a virtual machine that executes a regular expression that has been compiled into text-matching bytecodes, just like .NET and Mono are different ways to implement a virtual machine that executes a program that has been compiled into CLI bytecodes."
programming  reference  algorithms  compsci  vm  parsing 
december 2009
Obama's Big Sellout : Rolling Stone
toread  politics 
december 2009
Programming Rules
Erlang's programming rules that are good in the whole
programming  erlang  software 
december 2009
What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople? | Ask Metafilter
polymath  books  reference  lists 
december 2009
Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering
software  programming  development  management 
december 2009
How to Start a Business | The Blog of Fundamentals for Founders
statistics  analytics 
december 2009
Philosophizing about Programming; or "Why I'm learning to love functional programming" : Good Math, Bad Math
Great article about the benefits of functional programming, and Haskell in particular.
haskell  programming 
november 2009
Email Deliverability & You (And Your Startup) | Owocki dot com
email 
november 2009
MikeOS
MikeOS Main MenuMikeOS is an operating system for x86 PCs, written in assembly language. It is a learning tool to show how simple OSes work, with well-commented code and extensive documentation.
os  programming  x86  asm 
november 2009
Mightygodking.com » Post Topic » How to start reading comics.
comics  lists 
november 2009
Refactoring vs. Rewrite | Edge of Chaos | Agile Development Blog
management  software 
november 2009
Drupal or Django? A Guide for Decision Makers — scot hacker’s foobar blog
This is an even-handed glance into Drupal vs Django, but could probably be broadened to CMSes vs framework.
django  drupal  cms  python  php 
november 2009
http://www.annexia.org/_file/jonesforth.s.txt
Literate code of a Forth compiler.
november 2009
Correct way to handle mobile browsers | Surfing in Kansas
mobile  webdev 
november 2009
What are the great patterning works of literature? | Ask Metafilter
literature  books 
november 2009
iPhone Dev Center: Safari Web Content Guide: Introduction
iphone  web  reference 
november 2009
Challenges of Interface Design for Mobile Devices » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog)
design  usability  ui  webdesign  mobile 
november 2009
Bibliography of Scheme-related Research
scheme  programming  lisp  reference  papers 
november 2009
Erik Naggum — A Long, Painful History of Time
lisp  science  reference  time  programming  history 
november 2009
The power of "no"
"Sure, developers would still have objected in the same way, but those objections would be overturned by management or marketing. Release dates slip while developers scurry to integrate not-quite-baked software… and hey presto, it’s Adobe® Django© CSX™."
django  opensource  python 
november 2009
kung fu grippe : Making the Clackity Noise
Here's a kick in the pants.
writing  inspiration 
october 2009
Testing 101
Enjoyable little presentation on testing.
testing 
october 2009
The Best Way to Cook a Thick Steak - eG Forums
steak  cooking 
october 2009
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