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Caching in theory and practice
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 130 posts.
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Google Homepage Size Over Time
This afternoon, I looked at the source of the main Google page with my browser. It spans my whole monitor and takes 15 pushes of the scroll-wheel to see it all. Whither minimalism? Off to the Wayba…
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Codeq
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
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Understanding Postgres Performance
Update theres a more recent post that expands further on where to start optimizing specific queries, and of course if you want to dig into optimizing your infrastructure High Performance PostgreSQL is still a great read For many application developers their database is a black box. Data goes in, comes back out and in…
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I’ll Give MongoDB Another Try In Ten Years
A few weeks ago I wrote a small app that fetches JSON documents from app.net’s API and draws a word cloud . At first I wasn’t keeping the content around after generating the images. Later I thought of other things I’d like to do with the documents, so I decided to start storing them.
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World `countries` – database table for MySQL
So today, I was buzzing around and searching for a `countries` table script that I could use in MySQL database. As you can imagine, it wouldn’t make any sense to add all world countries into …
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PostgreSQL 9.2 released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces PostgreSQL 9.2, the latest release of the leader in open source databases. Since the …
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PostgreSQL vs MySQL: an apples to oranges comparison
Every time we see people look at PostgreSQL and MySQL on the internet it falls into a flame war fast. I think that a large part of the pr...
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Damn Cool Algorithms: Cardinality Estimation
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under python , cardinality-estimation , damn-cool-algorithms
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Bitcoin Mining in Plain English
99Bitcoins is your trusted guide to Bitcoin & crypto, offering easy tutorials, expert insights, and in-depth reviews to help you navigate the crypto world.
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Reddit's database has only two tables
Steve Huffman talks about Reddit’s approach to data storage in a High Scalability post from 2010. I was surprised to learn that they only have two tables in their database.
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If the world’s population lived like... (infographic)
Shortly after I started Per Square Mile, I produced an infographic that showed how big a city would have to be to house the world’s 7 billion people.
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Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook
Wolfram|Alpha analyzes your Facebook data for free. Compute statistics: posting activity, most liked post, words most used, friends' geography, age and genders... more than a dozen reports.
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What 10gen nailed with MongoDB
When my co-founders and I first started on our startup a little over a year ago, we asked other startups about what to database they were using. Nine out of ten people all had the same response: “Just go with Mongo.”
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A Statistical Portrait of a Y Combinator Batch
ไลฟ์สไตล์ ธุรกิจ กีฬา ไอที บันเทิง แม่และเด็ก ความรู้รอบตัว รถยนต์ สัตว์เลี้ยง อสังหาริมทรัพย์ กิน-เที่ยว การเงินและการลงทุน สุขภาพ การศึกษา บ้านและสวน
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Riak 1.2 Officially Released
Nearly three years ago to the day, from a set of green, worn couches in a modest office Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Riak team announced Riak to the world. To say we've come a long way from that first release would be an understatement, and today we’re pleased to announce the release and general a
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Datomic Free Edition
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
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Lying with pictures: Smartphone manufacturer share by OS
As steer and drplokta pointed out yesterday , the Nielsen diagram was grossly out of proportion, so it looked like RIM and MS were better than they were. I passed the data to steer, who then played around with R (code is in the other post), and produced the second diagram. I've tried to line them…