Logstash joins Elasticsearch
Logstash is an open source data collection engine with real-time pipelining capabilities. Logstash can dynamically unify data from disparate sources and...
Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One
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How to Hire
After startups raise money, their next biggest problem becomes hiring. It turns out it’s both really hard and really important to hire good people; in fact, it’s probably the most important thing...
Thoughts on Bitcoin
Maybe bitcoin will be the world reserve currency, maybe it will totally fail, or maybe it will survive in some niche capacity. I don’t know how to weight the probabilities (although I think in the...
Why I Dislike EC2
EC2 is great if you need per-hour billing and instance provisioning. For everyone else, which is most, it's just really expensive and slow hardware.
Wherein SFPD is still going surveillance-nutty
We got a funny phone call today, and by "funny" I mean "not actually even a little funny." Officer Chan, the permitting officer for SFPD, called to remind us that we're required to have video surveillance that records everything our customers do, and to give that footage to SFPD any time they ask, without a warrant or…
Reproducibility Initiative gets $1.3M grant to validate 50 cancer studies
Explore the Science Exchange Blog for expert insights on R&D outsourcing, supplier orchestration, and life sciences operations. Discover best practices for managing scientific suppliers, streamlining procurement, and accelerating research with a trusted global marketplace.
Zurb Launches Foundation 4
Well, it's that time again. We're pretty excited.
Introducing The Paper Bay
Over the last couple of weeks I've been working off-and-on on a little side project. The idea is that there are lots of people that are not in a position to visit a university or that don't have a public library with 'access' at their disposal but that do need to be able to read scientific papers. Ever since the…
Amazon and the "profitless business model" fallacy
[DISCLOSURE: As always when I write about Amazon, I'll note I worked there from 1997-2004 and that I still own some shares in the company. I still have many friends who work there, though I have no more idea what Amazon is working on now than any of you in the public.] With every quarterl
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How Google Authorship decreased our traffic by 90%
We claimed Google Authorship like every SEO blog told us to. Then our search clicks dropped 90%. Here are the numbers and what really happened.