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Author: Markus Perdrizat

  • Cosmo, the Hacker ‘God’ Who Fell to Earth

    Following up from the Epic Hack, here’s an interesting piece about the guy who supposedly pioneered some of the new social engineering hacks. I wonder how much of everything else Cosmo has told me is true. The only thing I am certain of is that online security is an illusion. But I think he is…

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  • Do You Need To Be A Jerk To Be A Successful Entrepreneur?

    A few words about Mr. Jobs, by way of a Wired Article, The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale?, and Vinod Khosla‘s response to it. Austen’s article draws a caricature of Jobs and puts forth a series of false choices. After reading it, you might be convinced that you can either…

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  • Open Cloud Initiative and Demo in Züri

    Tomorrow, September 12, 2012, 7:00 PM, ETH HG E 1.1 Sam Johnston [1], the president of the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI) [2] will join us for the first session after the summer break. via Open Cloud Initiative and demo – Zurich FLOSS and IT geeks (Zürich) – Meetup.

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  • Open Source Facial Recognition

    Following Facebook’s Shut Down Of Face.com’s Facial Recognition API, Lambda Labs Debuts An Open Source Alternative. Free to use, and Open Source? Very cool, but I doubt that’ll work out financially, unless the guys have very soon have very deep pockets, or a credible products that larger companies will want to pay money for. Good…

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  • How Android has evolved while steering clear of Apple’s designs

    How Android has evolved while steering clear of Apple’s designs. Nice history of Android design decisions and changes, both Android SW and Nexus HW.

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  • VMware’s OpenStack Hook-up

    Some good commentary about Vmware joining OpenStack: VMware’s OpenStack Hook-up.

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  • The Bernie Madoffs of Bitcoin

    There was a bit of background story on BitCoin last week that was probably more interesting than the BitCoin debit card rumours… The market for Bitcoin — the digital currency of choice for the tech-savvy libertarian set — is hot again. The price of the popular online currency has steadily risen over the last six…

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  • For fast, interactive Hadoop queries, Drill may be the answer

    Drill is Apache’s Dremel. In the era of big data, there is increasing demand for ever-faster ways to analyze — preferably in an interactive way — information sitting in Hadoop. Now the Apache Foundation is backing an open-source version of Dremel, the tool Google uses for these jobs, as a way to bring that speedy…

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  • Twitter Has Been Shredded Into Slices

    I was excited about Slices, a Twitter client which – I hoped – would allow me to read my feed by topic of interest. Unfortunately I found out, after trying its desktop client now, that it only knows how to put known accounts into categories. It doesn’t work with 98% of the accounts I follow,…

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  • NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques

    Data modeling reference for NoSQL, good stuff! In this article I provide a short comparison of NoSQL system families from the data modeling point of view and digest several common modeling techniques. via NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques « Highly Scalable Blog.

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