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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
Eat It: The Brooklyn Food Blog Likes it Blogger Review • Dec 11, 2009 A big Thumbs Up to Wild Ginger. I'd definitely go back here for dinner sometime as the food was good and the space was…
On Wednesday last week, I spoke to Gary Chou's IxD class about failures I've experienced during my career (specifically, Formspring). I got to the end of the presentation and was taking questions…
Photograph: Julian Mackler / MACKME.COM Alexis Ohanian shares lessons learned from years of building three startups from scratch. Making a customer's day should be obligatory throughout every…
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