Probabilistic Data Structures For Web Analytics And Data Mining
Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets oft…
To the Pirate Bay: a modest proposal
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Fast enough VMs in fast enough time
Updated (February 07 2013): If you enjoy this article, you may also find the more academically-inclined article The Impact of Meta-Tracing on VM Design and Implementation interesting.
Goodbye Facebook.
Let’s get something straight: This is not a Facebook hate post. That being said, I’m running a little experiment of disabling my Facebook account. Why you ask? I first joined Facebook t…
Getting around the London 2012 branding police
The Guardian reported the other day on the London 2012 Olympics branding police who ensure that words like London, 2012 or Games aren't be...
Firefox finally plugs the leak
Leaky add-ons are a big problem, but there’s been lots of action relating to them recently. What follows is a summary of the situation and a request for help from currently Nightly testers who use add-ons.
JavaScript Needs Blocks
While reading Hacker News posts about JavaScript, I often come across the misconception that Ruby's blocks are essentially equivalent to JavaScript's "first class functions". Because the ability to pass functions around, especially when you can create them anonymously, is extremely powerful, the fact that both…
Arch Linux turns 10
If you follow Arch Planet , you may have already heard the news that we are celebrating a decade of existence, with the release of 0.1 Homer on March 11, 2002. If you haven't already, grab some birthday cake and head over to Arch Planet to read several developers chronologies and wonderful words of praise for Arch…
Nookd
Today's post departs from my stated mission to provide a glimpse into daily island life...except so far as it reflects my reaction to someth...
Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap
Creating a Web App with Backbone.js, Node.js, Express.js, Bootstrap, and MongoDB - TUTORIAL
Amazon's Play
Amazon is, to my eyes, the only company playing in the same league as Apple.
Gmail security warnings for suspected state-sponsored attacks
Posted by Eric Grosse, VP Security Engineering We are constantly on the lookout for malicious activity on our systems, in particular attem...
Small teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams
Small software teams are dramatically more cost efficient than large teams. Large teams don't even confer much calendar time advantage over small teams.