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skype is finally opening up their kimono.. released specs on their new "silk" audio codec @ https://developer.skype.com/silk
@guruprasath as much as I like Google, competition is good. I'd rather not cede my entire internet experience to one company. evil or not.
awesome, Google DNS = know what you're going to click on / request before you even request it. adsense++; #paranoid
@ariejan yeah, good point. plus one click backups with snapshots!
finally. you can boot EC2 from EBS, which means shutdown + upgrade instance size is a reboot away! http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2009...
Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features - All Things Distributed - http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2009...
if you're paranoid about your privacy, don't read this: http://arstechnica.com/telecom... (go Sprint go!)
Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times - http://arstechnica.com/telecom...
Make your own photo book with Blurb - http://www.blurb.com/
@grantmichaels yikes, sounds like a name fail. someone didn't do their google search before pushing out the code.
interesting experiment to rewrite TinyRB (ruby VM) in Go! RubyGoLightly: http://github.com/feyelea...
oh my.. web 2.1 is upon us! standards compliant, server-side <blink> tag!! http://cheese.blartwendo.com/web21-d...
igrigorik removed the feed Scripting News from the topic Egos - http://www.postrank.com/user...
igrigorik removed the feed Tasty Blog Snack from the topic Egos - http://www.postrank.com/user...
igrigorik removed the feed PC Magazine: New Product Reviews from the topic Egos - http://www.postrank.com/user...
re: largest ML apps - finance, fraud detection, recommendations. my guess: Google adsense/adwords! clickstream data overload.
what do you think is the largest, deployed and operational application of machine learning nowadays? minus the NSA spooks...
@bradfordcross either one: size of data, or number of users making use of it.
Hadoop World: Hadoop for Bioinformatics » Cloudera Hadoop & Big Data Blog - http://www.cloudera.com/blog...
who would have thought... Microsoft's cloud (Azure) runs Java, PHP, and *drumroll* Ruby + RoR: http://www.infoq.com/news...
@lukebussey yep, raphaeljs is slick. been on my list to play with for a while now.
InfoQ: Ruby on Rails Is Compatible with Microsoft Azure - http://www.infoq.com/news...
There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) | Derek Sivers - http://sivers.org/kimo
@joshbuddy well, it is free for non-commercial use and $80 is not that bad for single site license.
highcharts is yet another JS graphing lib, but gotta say, it looks pretty slick: http://www.highcharts.com/
heh. wondering what RIM/Blackberry think of the Droid? Well, they sure are curious! http://skitch.com/igrigor... (via @omarismail)
looks like pair programming pays off in educational context as well: http://scicom.ucsc.edu/SciNote... (much higher student retention)
11.5 players in WoW: 10 data centers, 13250 server blades, 75K cores, 112.5TB of RAM: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archive...
WoW’s Back End: 10 Data Centers, 75,000 Cores « Data Center Knowledge - http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archive...
Perspectives - 2010 the Year of MicroSlice Servers - http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009...
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