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Massive On-line Analysis is an environment for massive data mining. MOA is a framework for data stream mining. Includes tools for evaluation and a collection of machine learning algorithms. Related to the WEKA project, also written in Java, while scaling to more demanding problems. - Chad Dickerson

"But blogging is just the tip of the amafessional iceberg. Etsy - a site where people sell what they make – has registered nearly 200,000 sellers, and sales more than doubled in a year, all from people making arts and crafts. Here you will find $35 art works, $10 hand-made gloves, and $5 earrings, most of which are made by amafessionals who for the first time can go to a broader marketplace with the goods they make but could never get to market before the Internet opened it up." - Chad Dickerson

Albert is completely on the money on this one. - Chad Dickerson

At his Agile 2008 keynote in Toronto, "Uncle Bob" came forth with a proposal that the [Agile] Manifesto is due for a fifth value: "Craftsmanship over Crap". As he explained, the value signifies that it is more important to pay attention to good craftsmanship in software development, most notably when writing code, than it is simply to crank out working, but "crappy", code. A week later Bob took the opportunity to clarify his intention, revising the new value he had put forth in Toronto: The problem with my proposal is that it is not a balanced value statement. In the other four statements we value the second item. We just value the first item more. But in my proposed addition, we simply don’t value crap at all. So I hereby change my original proposal, which was made for dramatic effect, to: * Craftsmanship over Execution Most software development teams execute, but they don’t take care. We value execution, but we value craftsmanship more. " - Chad Dickerson

"Zoie is a real-time search and indexing system built on Apache Lucene." - Chad Dickerson

move fast and break things (via kellan) - Chad Dickerson

very useful list - Chad Dickerson

Short history of OAuth's beginnings, from Kellan - Chad Dickerson

Steve McConnell on estimates and the "cone of uncertainty" - Chad Dickerson

"Today at their headquarters in Palo Alto, Facebook’s design team walked through their philosophy and approach to designing for a quarter billion users. In particular, they emphasized the importance of writing code, sharing designs early and often, being involved with a project from start to finish, and not falling in love with your work. Making sure designers are technical enough to write code came up a lot." - Chad Dickerson

title says it all - Chad Dickerson

Go Pasha! - Chad Dickerson

Useful for anyone running a site that still has a large percentage of IE6 users (like we do at Etsy) - Chad Dickerson

The show I saw this weekend - Chad Dickerson

"As a coder, designer, and UI guy, it’s difficult to put into words how many extra man hours I and others have dedicated to make websites compatible with the outdated browser." - Chad Dickerson

Django consultants in the Northeast - Chad Dickerson

"MALLET is a Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text." - Chad Dickerson

This is pretty on-target - Chad Dickerson

presentation from Alfred Spector, VP of Google Research, that I saw at the NY CTO Club this morning. - Chad Dickerson

Great roundup of presentations at Velocity about business impact of performance. - Chad Dickerson

how facebook is using hive/hadoop - Chad Dickerson

Very brief history of agile project management (via Scott Berkun). "Agile methods are not simply 'sanctioned hacking' as they are sometimes caricatured, but are based on solid research, demonstrating that these incremental, iterative, prototype-based methods solve problems and offer real benefits." - Chad Dickerson

"The crazy common point in both operating rooms and cockpit crews, the thing that makes this all so damning is that research into both fields has shown that errors occur most often when a senior, experienced person is performing. In other words, even in these highly trained professions, it is not just about being skilled or knowledgeable enough – in fact, the more skilled you are, the more it can hurt you! " - Chad Dickerson

"Craig Grannell asks designers and developers if it’s finally time to take IE6 behind the shed and shoot it" - Chad Dickerson

Another Etsy API app: "To see selected fabrics in a color range at Etsy, click the related color strip." - Chad Dickerson

Awesome study -- everyone knows speed is "good," but this quantifies it. - Chad Dickerson

Another Etsy iphone app! - Chad Dickerson

Great roundup of the costs of latency. - Chad Dickerson

Totally missed this -- that was a very exciting time in my life. Full disclosure: I made about $1200 pre-tax off the IPO when all was said and done! That wasn't why I was there, though. Working at Salon was a defining experience in my life. - Chad Dickerson

Etsy is mentioned on the showtime show Weeds. - Chad Dickerson