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Allows you to enter keywords into address/location bar and returns search results (like Google Chrome) - Jeremiah Peschka

Don't worry, once the AT&T Death Star swallows T-Mobile, there will be iPhones and bad service for everyone! - Jeremiah Peschka

Seen it before, but it's still funny - Jeremiah Peschka

Remind me again what good comes from software patents? - Jeremiah Peschka

It's called "porn mode". - Jeremiah Peschka

Perception of value is important. - Jeremiah Peschka

Perception of value is important. - Jeremiah Peschka

See, kids, you CAN get to just about any conference on the cheap! - Jeremiah Peschka

Understanding how different database internals work is incredibly helpful. Different explanations make it easier to understand how your favorite database works. Plus, you never know when you'll have to work with a different database. - Jeremiah Peschka

This is where the "Numbers everyone should know" comes from. - Jeremiah Peschka

Hadi Hariri brings up an important point - withNoSQL databases we can't afford to be ignorant of the underlying implementation. Barring syntactical differences, one OLTP database is largely the same as any other. With NoSQL databases we cannot take any feature for granted. We need to understand how our data is being stored, how to access it, and what goes on under the covers. - Jeremiah Peschka

VisualEyes is web-based authoring tool developed at the University of Virginia to weave images, maps, charts, video and data into highly interactive and compelling dynamic visualizations. Yup, we can now create interactive presentations that let people explore data in a variety of ways. Cool stuff. - Jeremiah Peschka

Some of the inner workings of PostgreSQL make it difficult to implement index only scans. Robert Haas details the changes that need to be made in PostgreSQL to make this possible. - Jeremiah Peschka

All data isn't created equal. Robert Haas writes about potential new features for PostgreSQL that will enable additional concurrency as well as existing features that make it possible to get higher transactional throughput. - Jeremiah Peschka

Lookit that, a cloud solution that lets you backup with ease! - Jeremiah Peschka

sometimes OS X is like a visit to crazy town... population: you. Specifically when you're dealing with the internals of launchctl and launchd - Jeremiah Peschka

Google-refine is a freely available data cleansing tool. - Jeremiah Peschka

It's tough to find good use cases for new things, especially when you're reading the documentation. Here are 10 common use cases for Hadoop. - Jeremiah Peschka

Links to a large number of academic papers that use MapReduce and/or Hadoop. - Jeremiah Peschka

An interesting look at some limitations of PostgreSQL and some point by point rebuttals - Jeremiah Peschka

Adrian Cockcroft has posed a set of standard questions for each NoSQL database vendor. These are the answers supplied by Basho about Riak. - Jeremiah Peschka

Understanding how your database writes to disk is a great way to help improve database performance. - Jeremiah Peschka

HELL YES - Jeremiah Peschka

Mladen Prajdic demonstrates how it's possible to restore a single table from a backup without using a vendor tool. Admittedly, this is a pretty dirty hack, but it's interesting to dig around in SQL Server at this level. - Jeremiah Peschka

Ever wonder when you might want to use the RandomPartioner vs the OrderPreservingPartitioner and what kind over problems they solve/cause? - Jeremiah Peschka

Free library with support for queues, ring buffers, singly linked lists, and stacks. - Jeremiah Peschka

Load your SQL Server with the Stack Overflow data dump. - Jeremiah Peschka

Planning for future growth can be difficult. This is a nice spreadsheet to help with riak storage planning and growth. - Jeremiah Peschka

I wish this had been around when I started programming. - Jeremiah Peschka