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  1. Wow, I had no idea the Mars family were so wealthy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_family 26 minutes ago from Tweetie
  2. @Truviso Sounds like someone rediscovered analytics. And come on, Twitter is not real-time. about 12 hours ago from Tweetie in reply to Truviso
  3. @marcua Right -- idlers effectively subsidize those who make more efficient use of EC2. Hence, I wonder if that were not the case... 9:25 PM Dec 3rd from Tweetie in reply to marcua
  4. Trying to get good TeraSort perf w/ Hadoop on EC2 is proving to be an exercise in frustration. Not sure who to blame, though. 5:20 PM Dec 3rd from Tweetie
  5. @marcua w/ optimal resource utilization by clients, same revenue; in practice, perfect utilization is impossible (due to queue theory stuff) 2:46 PM Dec 3rd from Tweetie in reply to marcua
  6. @marcua Well, I just found some EC2 nodes that have been idle since October. So I don't think the revenue would remain the same :) 2:44 PM Dec 3rd from Tweetie in reply to marcua
  7. Wondering how EC2 revenue would change if AWS changed for compute cycles/IO ops, rather than per hour of uptime. 12:32 PM Dec 3rd from Tweetie
  8. RT @allspaw: Huh. Google is offering public DNS? http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ 9:16 AM Dec 3rd from Tweetie
  9. RT @dataspora: Amazon's EC2 has a new zone, us-west-1, available as of tonite; big news if you care about network latencies. 8:11 AM Dec 3rd from Tweetie
  10. RT @marcua: Transaction isolation differences between postgres/oracle and mysql: http://bit.ly/57D4CI 1:45 PM Dec 2nd from Tweetie
  11. Nice WSJ article on Simpson's Paradox: careless data aggregation can be very misleading. http://bit.ly/8HOF4W 1:01 PM Dec 2nd from Tweetie
  12. Excited to see link-time optimization (LTO) included with GCC 4.5: whole-program optimization, finally. http://bit.ly/5EWTEN 9:45 PM Dec 1st from Tweetie
  13. @bradfordcross "Valid"? Sure. Elegant / "from The Book"? Not necessarily :) 7:07 PM Dec 1st from Tweetie in reply to bradfordcross
  14. @bradfordcross Distinguishing between "mathematical theory" and "ad hoc PL theory" seems v. artificial to me. Sure, it's a bit hacky... 6:58 PM Dec 1st from Tweetie in reply to bradfordcross
  15. @bradfordcross http://bit.ly/8UwGag is the textbook we used for the undergrad class I took in PL semantics, it talks about this. 6:29 PM Dec 1st from Tweetie in reply to bradfordcross
  16. @bradfordcross Sure there's a "theory" for such things (e.g. formal semantics for assignment-having langs). It is just ugly, is all. 5:51 PM Dec 1st from Tweetie in reply to bradfordcross
  17. RT @cdixon: this darpa red baloon search challenge is really interesting http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/ 2:52 PM Dec 1st from Tweetie
  18. @craigkerstiens Interesting ... let me know what it's like 11:54 AM Dec 1st from Tweetie in reply to craigkerstiens
  19. RT @willf: Incanter, a Clojure-based R-like stat computing & graphics environment http://incanter.org/ 1:52 PM Nov 30th from Tweetie
  20. Interesting talk RT @vwadhwa: My lecture at the Open Innovation Forum at Berkeley (1hr long, very frank and direct): http://bit.ly/619RRx 1:04 PM Nov 28th from Tweetie