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My break with the extreme right
Gosh! When did I end up in bed with Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber? Could it be because I did specialize in blowing things up while serving my country for four years as an airborne combat engineer? I…
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Ansible Modules¶
Ansible ships with a number of modules (called the ‘module library’) that can be executed directly on remote hosts or through Playbooks. Users can also write their own modules. These…
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False cognates and syntax
There is a common refrain spoken even by otherwise intelligent and informed people: “syntax doesn’t matter”. What they mean, of course, is that it is the semantics of a…
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2 days ago
Talking Philosophy
Neal Stephenson talking at the Boulder Book Store at his signing of Anathem. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Noted writer Neal Stephenson has argued that contemporary science fiction is too focused on…
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4 days ago
Lost in Translation
'The Tower of Babel' by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. (Please see Corrections & Amplifications below.) Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? Do they merely express thoughts, or do…
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4 days ago
Q&A;: SunGard's Aditya Yadav on Concurrent Design, and How Stealers Can Help
Most agree that most of the effort to date to reduce the latency of trading systems has been focused on the 'easy' areas - lowering propagation latency, speeding up network stacks, using faster…
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4 days ago
Lex Parsimoniae : Cloud Provisioning with a Razor
Blogging has been very difficult for me over the last 4 months. My move to the Office of the CTO within EMC changed much of what I did and left me searching for content I could write about. Most of…
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4 days ago
antirez weblog
Part of my work on Redis is reading blog posts, forum messages, and the twitter time line for the "Redis" search. It is very important for a developer to have a feeling about what the community of…
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5 days ago
Event-Sourced Architectures by Martin Thompson at QConLondon 2012
Software performance guru Martin Thompson (@mjpt777) gave an illuminating talk on event-sourced architectures, and why event-driven, state-machine designs are the way forward for complex, multi-path…
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5 days ago
Against the Grain: How We Built the Next Generation Online Travel Agency using Amazon, Clojure, and a Comically Small Team
Against the Grain: How We Built the Next Generation Online Travel Agency using Amazon, Clojure, and a Comically Small Team ;; AcknowledgementsFlowers and chocolates to the Room Key team members who…
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5 days ago
How to Read Mathematics
This article is part of my new book Rediscovering Mathematics. You can purchase the book at MAA or Amazon. How to Read Mathematics Shai Simonson and Fernando Gouvea Mathematics is “a language…
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5 days ago
A Month With BufferApp
This guest post is by Derek Land of ThisIsInspired.com. On the recommendation of BufferApp from Misty Belardo I have incorporated BufferApp into my Twitter routine—my Routwine, if you will.…
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5 days ago
dale lane
I passed a course this week. For the last few months I’ve been studying a distance-learning course on Natural Language Processing taught by Stanford University lecturers, Professors Dan…
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5 days ago
Prometheus: the making of a new myth
Noomi Rapace in Prometheus. Photograph: Allstar They say never go back, and in the case of Alien, why would you? The 1979 original, unusually for a cult movie, was a massive hit in its day, and its…
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5 days ago
A Linguist Reads Philosophical Investigations Even More Quickly and Likes It Better but Knows Even Less what to Make of It
In order to grasp the full extent of Wittgenstein’s contribution, you can’t read the Tractatus without also reading Philosophical Investigations. For starters, a lot of the latter…
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5 days ago
How Not to Get a (Python) Job – a rant
How Not to Get a (Python) Job – a rant At PyCon 2011, Brian Moloney (of Imaginary Landscape here in Chicago) gave a talk titled “How to Get A Python Job”. It wasn’t really…
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5 days ago
Interview with the Sage Mathematics Software Project
Today we have for you an interview with the developers of the Sage mathematics system project. Note that the answers were given as a team. Sage is an open source project that provides an environment…
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7 days ago
An intro to Haskell for Ruby programmers
Intro Stuck for a topic at Newcastle’s Ruby group, I attempted an off the cuff talk on what Haskell is about, and what Ruby programmers could learn from it. I was hoping to tie this to a…
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8 days ago
The Builders' Manifesto
Dear World Leaders, This relationship isn't working out. Its time for us to explore other government opportunities. We've tried to make it work. But it's not us — it's you (really). I've been…
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What I Learned in 40 Years of Doing Intelligence Analysis for US Foreign Policymakers — Central Intelligence Agency
In the First Person Martin Petersen "Every intelligence product must be rooted in a strong understanding of the audience it is written for." An advantage of getting older is increased perspective. I…
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8 days ago
Send More Paramedics
Why do people have trouble reading books? The primary answer you’re likely to receive when asking this question is that reading is boring. And to this response I agree. Reading is boring…
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10 days ago
Blog
Steve Jobs laid out a vision for the iPhone that by many people’s accounts has arrived—we’d rather leave home without our wallet than our smartphone. We’ve become…
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12 days ago
The love and hate of Node.js
I've been in the happy position lately of interviewing engineers for my new start-up. If you've read any of my previous articles or seen my talks (Talk Notes (warning: PDF download)) you know I love…
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17 days ago
Unifying version control and dependency management for reproducible research
When the Greek philosopher Heraclitus pronounced his famous “πάντα ῥεῖ” (everything flows), he most probably was not thinking about…
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17 days ago
Clojure/core
I'm happy to have pushed today the beginnings of a new Clojure library for higher-order manipulation of collections, based upon reduce and fold. Of course, Clojure already has Lisp's reduce, which…
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17 days ago
OrmHate
8 May 2012 database · application architecture tags: While I was at the QCon conference in London a couple of months ago, it seemed that every talk included some snarky remarks about…
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17 days ago
Structural Abstractions in Brains and Graphs
A graph database is a software system that persists and represents data as a collection of vertices (i.e. nodes, dots) connected to one another by a collection of edges (i.e. links, lines). Moreover,…
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17 days ago
What the Battle for “SDN” Reveals
As Mike Fratto notes in an excellent piece over at Network Computing, “software-defined networking” has become a semantical battleground, with the term getting pushed and pulled in…
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17 days ago
Sleep: Dopesmoker
In or out of metal’s seedy musical ghetto, there are few records as epically conceived or grandly ambitious as Sleep’s Dopesmoker. A single-track, hour-plus song about weed composed…
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17 days ago
Our Next Art Capital: Portland?
Crystal Schenk's 'Artifacts of Memory,' at Linfield College's MillerFine Arts Center. Portland, Ore. In what U.S. city might you find an "alternative" art exhibition space on a 200-ton, 135-foot…
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18 days ago
Theater: What if we woke up and found out we’re a city?
Meghan McCandless and John Debkowski (top), Jared Miller and Susannah Mars (bottom) with the band in Artists Rep's "Next to Normal." Photo: Owen Carey Portland’s a funny town. It thinks too…
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18 days ago
The Hobbit: a book for adults
J. R. R. Tolkein was a well-regarded Beowulf scholar Photo: Reuters I’m not sure that we properly appreciate The Hobbit as children. We enjoy the story, obviously, and the pace, and the…
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19 days ago
How to Miss a Childhood
Each minute of every day, we are presented with a choice on how we spend our moments. We can either miss the moments or grasp them. This photo was taken at a time in my life when I was missing the…
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19 days ago
Khandro Tsering Chödrön: In Memory of an Extraordinary Buddhist Master
Khandro Tsering Chödrön: In Memory of an Extraordinary Buddhist Master Early this month, I took part in the memorial ceremonies for my aunt, Khandro Tsering Chödrön. Khandro was…
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19 days ago
InfoQ: Philip Wadler on Functional Programming
Recorded at: In case you are having issues watching this video, please follow these simple steps to help us investigate the issue: 1. Right click on the video player and select Copy log2. Paste the…
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19 days ago
The REST of the Story « Open Sourcery
Web service designers have tried for some time now to correlate CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete) semantics with the Representational State Transfer (REST) verbs defined by the HTTP…
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19 days ago
A Universe from Nothing? | Cosmic Variance
Some of you may have been following a tiny brouhaha (“kerfuffle” is so overused, don’t you think?) that has sprung up around the question of why the universe exists. You…
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19 days ago
Discover Interview: Roger Penrose Says Physics Is Wrong, From String Theory to Quantum Mechanics
Roger Penrose could easily be excused for having a big ego. A theorist whose name will be forever linked with such giants as Hawking and Einstein, Penrose has made fundamental contributions to…
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27 days ago
Letters to a Young Engineer: How to Decide Where to Work
[Oftentimes throughout my life, I wished that I could time-travel and ask my future self for advice. I felt sure that in five or ten years, I would know exactly how to handle the thorny situation…
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4 weeks ago
How to Run a Successful Tech Meetup
The Origins of #lspe Since the Summer of 2010, I've been organizing the speakers for #lspe, The Bay Area Large-Scale Production Engineering meetup. When I started, I had never heard of meetup.com and…
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4 weeks ago
The Haskell / Snap ecosystem is as productive (or more) than Ruby/Rails.
This may be controversial, and all of the usual disclaimers apply - this is based on my own experience using both of the languages/frameworks to do real work on real projects. Your mileage may vary.…
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Functional Programming in C++
Probably everyone reading this has heard “functional programming” put forth as something that is supposed to bring benefits to software development, or even heard it touted as a silver…
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Dark Integers
"Good morning, Bruno. How is the weather there in Sparseland? The screen icon for my interlocutor was a three-holed torus tiled with triangles, endlessly turning itself inside out. The polished…
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5 weeks ago
Observations on Errors, Corrections, & Trust of Dependent Systems
Every couple of weeks I get questions along the lines of “should I checksum application files, given that the disk already has error correction?” or “given that TCP/IP has error…
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5 weeks ago
Rethinking Programming Language Tutorials
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your own ideas. Newest EntryComplete ArchivesAtom Feed I'm a recovering programmer who has been designing video games…
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‘Hopefully’: Five Decades of Foolishness
In the annals of prescriptivist poppycock, a century is not very long, and a development spanning only 50 years from beginning to end counts as speedy. Let me describe one such incident, which…
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5 weeks ago
Get Rich U.
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it’s as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever. Students ride their bikes through manicured quads, past…
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5 weeks ago
GADGETLAND
Jonathan Lethem is confidently wearing sneakers with green laces, a white striped shirt, and a beige jacket. He is delivering the tenth State of Cinema address at the 55th San Francisco Film…
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5 weeks ago
The day software ate Cisco | ZDNet
It hasn’t happened yet. It’s another of my predictions. But it suddenly struck me this week, as I read about the latest developments in cloud networking. Five or so years from now, the day will come…
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STEP VI DEVELOPING THE WILL
Will Developing the Will by Israel Regardie In his introduction to The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, William Q. Judge makes the statement that the ancient Hindu sages knew the secret of the development…
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5 weeks ago
What is latency, throughput and degree of concurrency?
chrisapotek asked. How do you define throughput and latency for your test? There is not a simple question, so I have replied with a post. Sustained Throughput I consider throughput to be the number…
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5 weeks ago
James Cameron, Google Duo Back Asteroid-Mining Venture
A new venture backed by director James Cameron and Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt seeks to accomplish something straight out of science fiction—the mining of asteroids for raw materials…
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“Programming Concurrency on the JVM”
A few years ago when I took concurrency classes pretty much everything I was told was that in java synchronized is key. That’s the way to go, whenever you have multithreading you have to do it…
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5 weeks ago
The God-shaped Hole: Whither Theology?
I recently came across the following exchange between the late Christopher Hitchens, renowned atheist and author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and Unitarian…
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6 weeks ago
The Hitchens Transcript
The complete interview between the renowned atheist Christopher Hitchens and Unitarian minister Marilyn Sewell Hear the full audio interview: Christopher Hitchens’s 2007 book God Is Not Great:…
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Carl Sagan
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Augmented Paper
For most of my life, I’ve struggled to quantify what constitutes an enticing interface. There are certain basic aims from which you can take your pick - intuitiveness, attractiveness, clarity,…
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6 weeks ago
I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here's How
Lifehacker reader Gabriel Wyner was tasked with learning four languages in the past few years for his career as an opera singer, and in the process landed on "a pretty damn good method for language…
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6 weeks ago
Assistants: Not just for the boss anymore. | Virtuous Code
This is not strictly software-development-related, but a number of developers have asked me about my experience finding and working with a remote assistant. I’ve had my assistant for a few…
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6 weeks ago
An Interview with Millenium Technology Prize Finalist Linus Torvalds
The Millenium Technology Prize, awarded every two years, is a Finnish award designed “to improve the quality of life and to promote sustainable development-oriented research, development and…
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6 weeks ago
Macintosh Stories: Sound By Monday
hen Burrell redesigned the Macintosh digital board in August 1982 after the Integrated Burrell Machine effort fell apart, one of the most significant improvements involved the sound generation…
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6 weeks ago
Letter to an Undergraduate Computer Science Class
Last week I spoke to an undergraduate data structures class at GVSU. The talk was partially about data structures, but mostly about becoming a good developer. Most of this is old hat, but I think…
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6 weeks ago
Star Simpson's Blog
How do you make calls about new or future technology? Which ideas are worth pursuing? What frameworks can you apply for thinking about this? I ask my friend Tim, who lays down his theory for…
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6 weeks ago
Cisco memo: We can’t build anything
Earlier this morning, The New York Times wrote about an internal memo in which Cisco Systems outlined its plans for software defined networking. More importantly, it also shared the news that it has…
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6 weeks ago
How Big Data Is Changing Astronomy (Again)
This isn't your grandfather's stargazing: The amount of data we have on our universe is doubling every year thanks to big telescopes and better light detectors. Think of all the data humans have…
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6 weeks ago
The ugly, dog-eat-dog world of data center startups
The normally staid and somewhat boring world of networking equipment focused startups is become a hotly contested minefield — thanks to the newest kid on the blog, Insiemi, a company started…
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6 weeks ago
Clojure/core
Daniel Spiewak is a force of nature. As a highly respected member of the Scala programming language community and an overall thoughtful polyglot he seemed a natural fit as an interesting speaker for…
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6 weeks ago
Why Do Monads Matter?
(A Side Note: Perhaps it’s the season for monad tutorials?  I’ve been formulating the final thoughts on this post for about a week now.  In an entirely unrelated coincidence,…
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6 weeks ago
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Patti Neighmond | April 15, 2012 11:17 p.m. One in four women has had a migraine. And, it turns out, the debilitating headaches affect three times more women than men. But why? Decades ago, these…
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6 weeks ago
Dropbox For Developers
Dropbox has become an indispensable tool for almost everything I do on my computer as well as my mobile devices. Dropbox is also one of the most powerful dev tools I use. One of the best features of…
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6 weeks ago
Clustering Related Stories
Request an invite Tweetby Jenny Finkel The funny thing about feature requests is how in sync they are. Right now, users are clamoring for the ability to blacklist topics and publishers (coming…
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6 weeks ago
Will OpenFlow really be the Android of networking?
A demo from the Open Networking Summit. The Open Networking Summit currently taking place in Santa Clara, Calif. is like attending a giant science fair for the networking industry. There are…
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6 weeks ago
Content Focused Design: Type Edition
What is Prismatic Prismatic is the best way to discover relevant news. We connect to your social accounts, learn about what you are interested in, and get you straight into the awesome content…
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6 weeks ago
In 140: I’m moving back to Galiano Island and...
In 140: I’m moving back to Galiano Island and joining Etsy to form a new, distributed team to understand and improve the economics of Etsy shops. After leaving Twitter at the end of last year,…
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6 weeks ago
Can You Make Yourself Smarter?
Early on a drab afternoon in January, a dozen third graders from the working-class suburb of Chicago Heights, Ill., burst into the Mac Lab on the ground floor of Washington-McKinley School in a blur…
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6 weeks ago
Going With The Flow: Google’s Secret Switch To The Next Wave Of Networking
In early 1999, an associate computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara climbed the steps to the second floor headquarters of a small startup in Palo Alto, and wound up surprising himself by…
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6 weeks ago
A New Syllabus: Alternate Approach to CS1 and CS2
Executive Summary: I'm considering a complete rework of my syllabus and teaching methodology. The result will be pretty much no lecturing during class times. It would also do away with pencil…
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6 weeks ago
Teach Talk
A Contrarian View of MITx: What Are We Doing!? Woodie Flowers I love MIT but confess being frustrated. The MITx announcement added to my frustration. As outlined below, I argued against…
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To SOAP, or to REST, that is the question
Today I was asked to describe the difference between SOAP and REST web services and how to decide which one to use? Here is what I came up with: SOAP web services support RPC-Style and Message…
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6 weeks ago
Software is the Central Nervous System of Modern Business
Software is the Central Nervous System of modern business, this is something that Bill Gates asserted way back in 1999 in his book “Business @ the Speed of Thought”, and it is even more…
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6 weeks ago
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