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An 8,000 Ton Giant Made the Jet Age Possible - Slashdot
computer_internet

Slashdot - An 8,000 Ton Giant Made the Jet Age Possible: Hugh Pickens writes "Tim Heffernan writes that when 'The Fifty,' as it's known in company circles, broke down three years ago, there was talk of retiring it for good. Instead, Alco (...)



London Hacked Its Own Traffic Lights To Make Sure It Got the Olympics - Slashdot
culture_politics

Slashdot - London Hacked Its Own Traffic Lights To Make Sure It Got the Olympics: bmsleight writes "Does it count as a hack if you change your own system? Vanity Fair report that during the bidding process for the 2012 Olympic and Paraly (...)


peruse: brainpicker
recreation

Carnegie Mellon computer scientists use Foursquare to map living cities: Read article: (...)


To Facebook You’re Worth $80.95 - The CIO Report - WSJ
computer_internet

To Facebook You’re Worth $80.95 - The CIO Report - WSJ:: With all the hype about the imminent IPO indicating the public will value Facebook at $85 to $95 billion, it’s interesting to consider how much Facebook in turn values the publ (...)


Brazilian fashion retailer displays Facebook ‘likes’ for items in its real-world stores | Springwise
computer_internet

Brazilian fashion retailer displays Facebook ‘likes’ for items in its real-world stores via @zite: Bridging the gap between the online and offline worlds is a challenge for any brand, but Brazilian fashion retailer C&A has come up w (...)


When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?
science_technology

When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?: It’s an age of unprecedented, staggering technological change. Business models are being transformed, lives are being upended, vast new horizons of possibility opened up. Or something li (...)


A Gaming Replacement for Those Annoying CAPTCHAs
computer_internet

A Gaming Replacement for Those Annoying CAPTCHAs via @zite: We all know about those authentication blocks of text called CAPTCHAs, perhaps too well. (Today's fun trivia: The acronym stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to (...)


Want to talk to Mark Cuban? Call him up on Clarity — Tech News and Analysis
computer_internet

Want to talk to Mark Cuban? Call him up on Clarity via @zite: Just a couple months after Dan Martell sold his social marketing start-up Flowtown in October to Demandforce, he started thinking about his next venture. The seeds came from (...)


  04-30   The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash - Slashdot

  04-28   6 secrets for building a super team — Tech News and Analysis

  04-20   Semicolon

  04-18   Interview: Megadeth’s David Ellefson Talks Shop About Rock Shop (Video) | TechCrunch

  04-14   How to get more likes on Facebook - The Oatmeal

  04-14   Study: Drinking Two Beers Makes You Clever

  04-10   Twitter Engineering: MySQL at Twitter

  04-08   People Make Poor Monitors for Computers at Macroeconomic Resilience

  04-08   Neuromorphe Hardware is the Key to a Man-Made Brain

  04-07   Exclusive: a behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering

  04-02   Yahoo open sources Mojito, a developer framework for any device — Tech News and Analysis

  03-22   Netflix fires Operations, lets developers run the asylum – and it works « Nodeable Blog

  03-14   The Man Who Broke Atlantic City - Magazine - The Atlantic

  03-09   GoFlow: a DIY tDCS brain-boosting kit | ExtremeTech

  03-08   Getting the News — Hilary Mason | News.me

  03-08   Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life

  03-07   Adobe launches Shadow, a new toolkit for mobile developers | VentureBeat

  03-05   How I built the Hacker News mobile web app - cheeaunblog

  03-02   IKEA launches $86,500 flat-pack home — but don’t worry, they’ll build it for you

  02-28   IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical qubit computers are close | Extre

  02-27   Three New Tools Bring Machine Learning Insights to the Masses

  02-27   CiteSeerX — RED in a Different Light

  02-13   High Scalability - High Scalability - Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion Page Views a Month

  01-30   10 Questions with Facebook Research Engineer – Andrei Alexandrescu | Server-Side Magazin

  01-30   The Five Stages of Hosting (Pinboard Blog)

  01-30   Algorithm-Powered Movie whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir Computes at Sundance

  01-28   The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean big—data

  01-28   Netflix Engineer Daniel Jacobson: The API at the Root of Your Business

  01-26   I Heart Chaos — Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

  01-21   APOD: 2012 January 21 - Days in the Sun

  01-21   Why OnLive’s Windows-on-iPad App is Revolutionary | PandoDaily

  01-16   Extreme Minimalism | Andrew Hyde


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On occasion, I provide software consultancy services as well.

This is my personal blog with links to articles I find interesting.



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