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Statistical Formulas For Programmers

By Evan Miller DRAFT: May 19, 2013 Being able to apply statistics is like having a secret superpower. Where most people see averages, you see confidence intervals. When someone says “7 is…

aphyr.com 10min

Previously in Jepsen, we discussed MongoDB. Today, we'll see how last-write-wins in Riak can lead to unbounded data loss. So far we've examined systems which aimed for the CP side of the CAP theorem,…

randsinrepose.com 7min

Technicality

Feb. 7, 2007

There’s a very short list of new manager “must do’s” in the Rands Management Rule Book. The brevity of this list comes from the fact that a must is an absolute and, when it comes to people, there are…

bjk5.com 2min

You must stop coding, you must keep coding

By G+

Our dev team’s grown to twenty-three and when the summer intern zenith hits we’ll be — this is weird to type — forty for a few frightening days. My biggest personal…

randsinrepose.com 3min

Unknowable

May 19, 2013

Each year, the race to get a ticket for WWDC is on. Even with early warning, the window of ticket availability shrinks with every passing year. 2013 being no different: 2 minutes. Capping the number…

blog.priceonomics.com 13min

Why is Science Behind a Paywall?

Scientists’ work follows a consistent pattern. They apply for grants, perform their research, and publish the results in a journal. The process is so routine it almost seems inevitable. But…

edwardtufte.com 5min

Project Management Graphics (or Gantt Charts)

At the time of this posting I am a Project Manager for an owner for a medium sized hospital project in California, taking it from concept through to opening. I hate Gantt Charts. I loathe MS Project.…

blog.capwatkins.com 1min

Designing the Whole

When you first launch a product, pretty much every feature you add is (or at least should be) key to achieving your larger vision. You add new modules, pages, sections, overlays and form fields to…

splunkevents.webex.com 1min

animals.oreilly.com 2min

Farmers, Elephants, and Bees: A Winning Combination

By Edie Freedman May 6, 2013

As if African elephants didn’t have enough to worry about, habitat loss is yet another key issue affecting their survival. Although elephant populations have increased since the 1970s, the…

nytimes.com 2min

Is This the Best Education Money Can Buy?

By JENNY ANDERSON May 2, 2013

One night last winter, more than 120 parents filed into the black-box theater at Avenues: The World School in Chelsea, to learn about what their kids were eating. Ever since the $85 million…

nytimes.com 2min

The Dark Side, Carefully Masked

By MICHAEL WINES and IAN LOVETT May 4, 2013

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — On the day after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev tapped out an early-afternoon text message to a classmate at the…

falkvinge.net 3min

Debunking The Dangerous “Nothing To Hide, Nothing To Fear”

July 19, 2012

Every so often, you hear the argument “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”, in order to justify increased and invasive surveillance. This argument is not only…

npr.org 4min

So Jerry Seinfeld Called Us To Talk About Coffee : NPR

By NPR Staff, Morning Edition April 26, 2013

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thomaslevine.com 1min

Thomas Levine

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dataferrett.census.gov 9min

Datasets Available

Description of DataSets Available using the DataFerrett: This page contains brief overviews of the datasets that are available in the DataFerrett system. The links below take you to a description of…

mobile.slate.com 7min

Big Data in the Big Apple

A new way to figure out which old buildings are most at risk Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images The following article is adapted from Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier’s

codingthriller.blogspot.com 8min

How meta can you go?

By Greg May 3, 2013

I'm staring at a configuration dialog. While playing with the connection string for the past hour or so, I've learned the subtleties of how the server expects the parameters to be set in order to…

webintents.org 1min

Web Intents

Introduction Users use many differnet services on the web to handle their day to day tasks, such as sharing images, editing documents and listening to music. They expect their applications to be…

alistapart.com 5min

WYSIWTF

Arguing for “separation of content from presentation” implies a neat division between the two. The reality, of course, is that content and form, structure and style, can never be fully…

shapeof.com 3min

We Need A Standard Layered Image Format

Apr 30, 2013 Last summer, Adobe killed their image exchange format "FXG". The idea was to have a publicly defined XML based image format which could handle vectors, bitmaps, and layers, and could be…

radar.oreilly.com 8min

Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles

I spent a lot of last year urging people to work on stuff that matters . This led to many questions about what that "stuff" might be. I've been a bit reluctant to answer those questions, because the…

onthemedia.org 1min

Let's Fix Twitter

April 26, 2013

Twitter: we all love it, but during recent breaking news stories, it's been an amplifier for rumors. Lots of people have weighed in on how to make it better -- Mat Honan at Wired, our own Brooke…

digg.com 7min

When Your Twitter Friend Turns Out To Be The Boston Bomber

By Gilad Lotan

We live in a networked age, where you can be found not only through the data trails that you leave behind, but also based on the patterns around your network – who you're connected to. A lot…

blog.cloudflare.com 1min

W3TC and WP Super Cache Vulnerability Discovered, We've Automatically…

By Matthew Prince

April 24, 2013 The team at the research firm Sucuri announced a serious vulnerability to W3TC and WP Super Cache this afternoon. (Update: it appea

urbanspoon.com 1min

fargo.io 1min

Fargo

This information is included in the OPML file we generate from your outline. Name: Email: You can set the font and size we use to…

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Statistical Formulas For Programmers

Call me maybe: Riak

Technicality

You must stop coding, you must keep coding

Unknowable

Why is Science Behind a Paywall?

Project Management Graphics (or Gantt Charts)

Designing the Whole

Farmers, Elephants, and Bees: A Winning Combination

Is This the Best Education Money Can Buy?

The Dark Side, Carefully Masked

Debunking The Dangerous “Nothing To Hide, Nothing To Fear”

So Jerry Seinfeld Called Us To Talk About Coffee : NPR

Thomas Levine

Datasets Available

Big Data in the Big Apple

How meta can you go?

Web Intents

WYSIWTF

We Need A Standard Layered Image Format

Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles

Let's Fix Twitter

When Your Twitter Friend Turns Out To Be The Boston Bomber

W3TC and WP Super Cache Vulnerability Discovered, We've Automatically…

Wild Ginger

Be Kind

Alexis Ohanian: Give a Damn. Give Lots of Damns.

Fargo

Google+

Statistical Formulas For Programmers

Call me maybe: Riak

Technicality

You must stop coding, you must keep coding

Unknowable

Why is Science Behind a Paywall?

Project Management Graphics (or Gantt Charts)

Designing the Whole

Farmers, Elephants, and Bees: A Winning Combination

Is This the Best Education Money Can Buy?

The Dark Side, Carefully Masked

Debunking The Dangerous “Nothing To Hide, Nothing To Fear”

So Jerry Seinfeld Called Us To Talk About Coffee : NPR

Thomas Levine

Datasets Available

Big Data in the Big Apple

How meta can you go?

Web Intents

WYSIWTF

We Need A Standard Layered Image Format

Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles

Let's Fix Twitter

When Your Twitter Friend Turns Out To Be The Boston Bomber

W3TC and WP Super Cache Vulnerability Discovered, We've Automatically…

Wild Ginger

Be Kind

Alexis Ohanian: Give a Damn. Give Lots of Damns.

Fargo

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