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posts labeled tech
07.03.2009
Thanks to all the people who volunteered to alpha test , my new bookmarking site. The site is now open for beta testing (which means bookmarks are backed up and features are less likely to break). Give it a try if you find delicious too slow for your needs. ...
Using Google App Engine With Amazon Web Services
08.13.2008
For example, I have been building a little search engine that can import and index a complete list of bookmarks from a account. Depending on how many bookmarks the account contains, this import can take a few dozens of seconds. This workers + queue setup is a very common wa...
Notes From The Brick House
05.29.2007
Today I quit my job at Brickhouse, Yahoo's internal startup incubator, where I had been working as a backend developer since January. I'm grateful to my friends and colleagues at Yahoo for giving me this chance to work on interesting projects (particularly and ) and, like Jonah inside...
Balloon Pirate Radio
04.13.2007
When you're a People's Democratic Republic, having your workforce join an independent trade union is socially awkward, a bit like when guests order pizzas at your dinner party. The Communist Party was in an untenable position. Moreover, with Brezhnev's reanimated body still running ...
Dabblers and Blowhards
04.04.2005
I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. This sort of thing happens to a lot of people, and I would *really* like to avoid it - Paul Graham, posting on About two years ago, the Lisp pro...
An Audioblogging Manifesto
08.31.2004
I demand four minutes and twenty seconds of your life [ ]. ...
PC Forum
04.07.2004
Last month I attended , a conference of IT movers and shakers that attempts to answer the question "when 400 CEOs, venture capitalists, and high-powered corporate executives use an open wireless network, does it occur to anyone to encrypt their email?" Answer correctly and yo...
100 Years Of Turbulence
12.17.2003
If simply getting airborne is the criterion, honors have to go to the New Zealand eccentric Richard Pearse, who in 1902 built a that enabled him to reach an altitude of several dozen feet and crash into gorse hedges. If powered flight without a...
The Future Is Boring
02.22.2003
Of course, this lousy track record has never deterred people from making predictions. It's especially fun when you get to revisit old ones, and see how well they fared . Over at LA Weekly, they've a 1979 issue predicting what the world would be like in 2002. The...
Automated Checkout: Interfaces Attack!
02.10.2003
And of course, if you actually want to steal anything, all you have to do is . ...
Wolfram Speaks
02.10.2003
The O'Reilly Bioinformatics conference was a happy old pot luck. Proteins over here, starches over there, a vector-space model or two in the soup tureen. There were biologists just getting into computing, and programmers just getting in to biology, and a very smart few who had been doing both for m...
Among The Biogeeks Of San Diego
02.03.2003
I'm in San Diego, sitting in the lobby of the Westin Hotel with a bunch of other computer addicts. Everybody is here for the bioinformatics conference, and the O'Reilly people have set us up a wireless network. We come like moths to the flame. If you are wondering what I know about biology, the ans...
We Don't Know What We're Doing
12.23.2002
I am in Maine for Christmas, far from the madding crowd ( or its Vermont equivalent ), and I feel vaguely silly writing a serious post about agribusiness. One of the many infuriating things about modern industrial farming is that it makes you feel like a crank just for writing about it. You sta...