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Clojure Performance Guarantees - Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff

Nice overview over performance guarantees of Clojure’s data types
Mar
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via www.tius.it

via www.tius.it

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Sten’s Blog » Blog Archive » Interviews with Average Programmers

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Clippy arrives for VI

Clippy arrives for VI

Aug
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The Squirralizer
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GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward - ACM Queue

Looking at GFS after 10 years — mistakes made etc.
Aug
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Mandelbrot set - PostgreSQL Wiki
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12th
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GG Artikel 1, moderne Fassung (auch Menschenwürde braucht Videoüberwachung) on Twitpic

GG Artikel 1, moderne Fassung (auch Menschenwürde braucht Videoüberwachung) on Twitpic

Aug
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Hacker demos persistent Mac keyboard attack

Apple’s sleek $49 Mac keyboards can be hacked and infected with keystroke loggers and impossible-to-detect rootkits, according to a security researcher presenting at this year’s Black Hat/DEFCON conferences.
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Suppose you are working on a feature branch copied from your trunk. During the development process you regularly merge ”all” new changes from trunk to your branch so that the branch stays in “synch” with the work occurring on trunk. When you eventually merge your branch back to trunk, that is called a reflective (or cyclic) merge. This type of merge is problematic for Subversion, let’s look at why.
— Submerged - Subversion Blog - Subversion merge reintegrate…
Jun
9th
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Geek Clock | Clock | Home

A wall clock for math geeks
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Hadoop: The Definitive Guide | O'Reilly Media

MapReduce for the Cloud

By Tom White
June 2009
Pages: 524
ISBN 10: 0-596-52197-9 | ISBN 13: 9780596521974

Apache Hadoop is ideal for organizations with a growing need to process massive application datasets. Hadoop: The Definitive Guide is a comprehensive resource for using Hadoop to build reliable, scalable, distributed systems. Programmers will find details for analyzing large datasets with Hadoop, and administrators will learn how to set up and run Hadoop clusters. The book includes case studies that illustrate how Hadoop is used to solve specific problems.
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Hadoop: The Definitive Guide helps you harness the power of your data. Ideal for processing large datasets, the Apache Hadoop framework is an open source implementation of the MapReduce algorithm on which Google built its empire. This comprehensive resource demonstrates how to use Hadoop to build reliable, scalable, distributed systems: programmers will find details for analyzing large datasets, and administrators will learn how to set up and run Hadoop clusters.
Jun
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JS-Placemaker - geolocate texts in JavaScript

JS-Placemaker - geolocate texts in JavaScript

JS-Placemaker is a JavaScript wrapper for the Yahoo Placemaker web service using an YQL execute table to allow you to extract geo location information out of any text in various languages.
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Hadoop Tutorial - YDN

Nice, comprehensive tutorial on Hadoop by YDN