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  1. Some goofy developers idea of a joke: tradeable "code offsets" for writing bad code. http://bit.ly/2pAEa9
  2. Google ChromeOS + Browser strategy sounds an awful lot like Ellison's Network Computer of the late 90's, Upgraded wine in new bottles?
  3. RT @metapandava @spencerfry: Paul Graham essay on the terrible iPhone approval process http://tl.gd/10cp7
  4. RT @neil_conway SIGMOD 2010 Programming Contest: implement a simple distributed query executor. http://dbweb.enst.fr/events...
  5. @stuartrobinson better or worse idea than esperanto?
  6. @dierken I saw your latest post on fables and folk tales. Any recommendations on a good dead-tree collection?
  7. Rapleaf Engineering BlogCommand-line auto completion for Hadoop DFS commands http://bit.ly/3alKdX (ht @dierken)
  8. @neil_conway Have not looked at many Regex engines other than henry spencer's This is the same backtracking alg as backtracking-search?
  9. RT @prasnation: A regex prime number checker? The simplicity blows my mind: http://bit.ly/tdBDy (yes! regexes are FSAs)
  10. I highly recommend engaging Cloudera for all things hadoop.
  11. Just got a note from Yahoo Launchcast that if payment is not received by 126129600 that my account will be deleted. #unixtime
  12. Just passed an elevator company's building on the highway. I would think they would have a building with more than one story.
  13. @igrigorik The state of MySQL text search via various engines has been poor for years. Former execs at MySQL have said this to me in person.
  14. @igrigorik what do you think of sphinx? I did a cursory speed test versus Solr a few years back. http://bit.ly/3JC9bl needs updating
  15. @dwf congrats. What next?
  16. @mmaunder @kickstand I think the kiss-and-tell rule of the bathroom calls is more inviolate that the actual kiss-and-tell rule - NEVER tell!
  17. @kickstand I am now blind. You have blinded me with that imagery.
  18. @peteskomoroch Lucky man. 80% of the battle is often getting the data marshaled, joined, washed etc.
  19. @aarnone I think even at the most distorted Mercator @mdreid's fixed point thm math-pun becomes a contraction map, but still is a function.
  20. RT @mdreid: Fixed point thm: Put a map of where you are on the ground, exactly one point on map is directly above the point it represents