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Mar
3rd

Tue

Collaborative Map-Reduce in the Browser

Feb
26th

Thu

However, the mere existence of our existing approach gives us a vocabulary that we didn’t have before, which will make future refinements easier to approach

— stevenf.com - Hierarchies

Feb
18th

Wed

TeraScale SneakerNet: Using Inexpensive Disks for Backup, Archiving, and Data Exchange By MSR, via @werner.

Jan
21st

Wed

Rakudo.org: news relating to Perl 6 and Parrot Perl 6 seems to be a mostly academic exercise at this point, but worth a look.

Jan
20th

Tue

Craft the perfect gem with Jeweler

Jan
16th

Fri

Nexus I The “third gen” sequencers are just around the corner. 6 gigabases in 24 hours - that’s fast.

Jan
8th

Thu

Obama Puts Change.gov Under Creative Commons

Time from raw concept to a finished product in over 200 stores worldwide? Eight days.

— My visit to American Apparel - Venture Hacks

Map/reduce in Javascript

We never got tens of thousands of users.

— You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way

Firebug 1.3.0 final released

Jan
7th

Wed

Plotting genomic information from Ensembl with R.

— GenomeGraphs

R, the Software, Finds Fans in Data Analysts - NYTimes.com

Jan
6th

Tue

Making Highrise faster with memcached

Interacting with SOAP based web services from Cocoa, part 1.