"The most important thing that I said about in-memory data structures, above, is that you throw them away. It's important enough that I'll repeat it a third time, for emphasis: you throw them away. As it so happens, the inverse is the most important property of an on-the-wire data structure. You can't throw it away. You have to live with it...Forever." - glyph - Vlado Handziski

"Concurrency is hard. If you want to use threads and you want to do it right and you want to avoid pitfalls and have bug-free code, you're going to be doing some head-banging. If you want to use an asynchronous framework like Twisted, you're going to have to bend your mind in a different way." - Duncan McGreggor - Vlado Handziski

"Value Quadrants maps value creation and revenue model changes by asking WHEN and WHERE is value being created. The WHEN of value creation is function of the handset lifecycle, from design, development and production (pre-sales phase) to point-of-sale and in-life use (post-sales phase). There WHERE of value creation is either on the device (hardware, software, patents and industrial design) or on the services ‘cloud’ (for designing and delivering content and services)" - Vlado Handziski

I hope that now we will finally get standardized annotations handling between Acrobat's products and their open source counterparts based on the poppler library. BTW, the Ocular document viewer in KDE 4 is awesome. - Vlado Handziski

On the scaling properties of Mantissa, Divmod's application server by Glyph - Vlado Handziski

Nice summary of Jason Soebel's talk on using Haystack storage abstraction at Facebook, by James Hamilton - Vlado Handziski

It kinda makes you wana ... break into song... - Vlado Handziski

Things people read while procrastinating on their thesis writing :) - Vlado Handziski via Bookmarklet

Sentila goes down the OEM road also - Vlado Handziski

Interesting application of the Xbow Stargates - Vlado Handziski

Ha, I didn't know that Scoble had a close encounter with the STARMACs last year: http://www.engadget.com/2007/1... - Vlado Handziski

Beautiful... - Vlado Handziski

Maybe the days of Android programming using Python are not that far away... - Vlado Handziski

"What do we have right now? Companies are fighting for each other over who gets to have our data for free. Yay, free stuff! We used to have to pay for that sort of thing! But paying for people to hold your data was the old, old world. Having them do it for free is the old world. Here's the new world: They pay you." - Vlado Handziski

It would be interesting to see if their software can be ported to the TI MSP430 range - Vlado Handziski

Eric's group has done some incredible WiFi deployments in the past (like the 220 mile WiFi link record last year). Watch the video for his proposal to build a 6 Mbit/s Gibraltar-to-Ghana backbone based on a ten-hop WiFi mesh - Vlado Handziski

"Measurements show that Phoenix consumes 29.6pW in sleep mode and 2.8pJ/cycle in active mode". For comparison, the new TI MSP430x5xx family achieves ~ 0.2 uW in LPM5 (deep sleep) and 3.2uW in LPM4 (with RAM retention) - Vlado Handziski

"The answer is extremely simple: they’ve reduced the battery size." Well... However, here's at least the detail that they work on 0.5V: http://www.heise.de/newsticker... (in German) - Thomas Menzel

Yes, 2.8pJ/cycle number is for Vdd=0.5V. It would be interesting to see what kind of frequency and voltage control they've included, the power management controller and the instruction set. But I guess we have to wait for the 2008 VLSI Symposia for those details - Vlado Handziski

A remote-control protocol stack on top of IEEE 802.15.4" - Vlado Handziski

"The basic reason, we suggested, was that if the data in the stream had enough randomness, it would combine with the randomness from the choice of hash function to produce value that looked independent and uniform." - Vlado Handziski

Another interesting "participatory sensing" project - Vlado Handziski

Nice summary of the keynote. Interesting A/B testing examples. - Vlado Handziski

Thanks to the reduced failure rate due to the fixed size extension they propose, the Cuckoo hash might actually find its way in real HW like routers, etc. - Vlado Handziski

I like the overlaying of the pictures better than the way Panoramio or Picasa pictures are included in Google maps - Vlado Handziski

The cashback service for users seems like a fun idea, but I doubt it can have any significant impact on Google's market share - Vlado Handziski

Interesting backgrounders. Somewhat related to this large IBM and DoD project of integrating wireless sensor networks in such system of systems: http://domino.research.ibm.com... - Vlado Handziski

The beating of the drums for the upcoming battle between 6LoWPAN and ZigBee continues. The ability to use familiar control/management tools is a big plus for 6LoWPAN, but I doubt that "each node is an IP router" can be very successful on the long run. In large networks at least, Level 2 meshing brings better use of the limited resources. - Vlado Handziski