Category: Technology
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Geek And Poke: Windows 8
Geek And Poke: Windows 8. I so love that!
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The Scale of the Universe
The Scale of the Universe 2. Very nice to play around the scale of the universe from 10-24 to 1026!
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DataStax Raises $25 Million in Third Round of Funding
Venture capital pouring into Big Data is not really slowing down… DataStax Raises $25 Million in Third Round of Funding: DataStax today announced the completion of a $25 million C round of funding led by Meritech Capital Partners, with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Crosslink Capital. This latest round of capital comes…
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Professional Developers Estimate Times
Straight from the horse’s mouth: Being a professional developer not only means producing quality code. It means producing quality code on time. As a professional developer you should set equal pride in your time estimates as in your [code] via Professional Developers Estimate Times.
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Moo Adds Programmable NFC Chips To Their Business Cards
That’s awesome: Moo Adds Programmable NFC Chips To Their Business Cards. One NFC card is going into every package of Moo cards you buy and Moo is planning to release an app that will let you read and program the card on the fly. You don’t really need more than one NFC card – touch…
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How Vimeo Saves 50% on EC2 by Playing a Smarter Game
How Vimeo Saves 50% on EC2 by Playing a Smarter Game: Nothing shows how much software architectures have changed than the intelligent scheduling of computation over differently priced compute resources. This isn’t just a false economy either. Vimeo saves up to 50% on their video transcoding bill by intelligently playing the spot, reserved, and on-demand markets. If you…
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5 ideas to help everyone make the most of big data
5 ideas to help everyone make the most of big data: 1. Hadoop isn’t for everything 2. Big data makes data science easier 3. “Sometimes it’s more important to know what to kill.” 4. Context adds value 5. Transaction data trumps search data. Distilled wisdom of two days of IE Group’s Big Data Innovation event.
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X11 Turns 25 Years Old Today
Happy Birthday! It was 25 years ago today, on 15 September 1987, that Version 11 Release 1 of the X Window System (a.k.a. X11) was released. X11 has evolved a long way since then, but this 25-year-old technology out of MIT remains at the heart of every Linux desktop. via X11 Turns 25 Years Old…
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The Future of Amazon: Ambitious, Diverse, And Expansive
This article almost made me invest in Amazon… The Future of Amazon: Ambitious, Diverse, And Expansive: In less than 20 years, the feats accomplished by Seattle’s Amazon are simply astounding and, curiously, often taken for granted. It is the world’s largest online retailer, a master of logistics, an oracle of computing power, a wrangler of…
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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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