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No one denies that capacity planning is hard. There are books written on the subject. The points you make are exactly the reason why you need to do capacity planning and plan for m…

Bing uses a lot of Microsoft technologies including C# and .NET framework languages but as with many large services (or sets of services in this case) the components crawling, proc…

So you're saying the BankSimple team should consist of folks who have built complex systems, designed and implemented interfaces that are engaging to customers, and are knowledgeab…

I'm pretty sure this article is one of those filler pieces that are in the writer's back pocket in case he can't think of something else to write about. I take my iPhone and MBP up…

Looks like this was interesting enough for the New York Times Magazine to take your idea and report on it as their own: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14fob-medium-t.ht…

Most of these (at least now) are made of sugar and baking soda. They used to be made of mercury thiocyanate back when we didn't know mercury poisoning was trouble.

It's been a while but I could start to explain it and maybe someone can pick it up from my rusty memory. Mercury thiocyanate, Hg(SCN)2, decomposes at about 165 degrees Farenheit[1]…

I have always wondered why there aren't more visible chemical 'sniffers' in all airports as I've seen at NY's Penn & Grand Central Stations. They're not really in the way and there…

The sad reality is that we've more or less given our government emergency powers to issue such ludicrous directives to the airlines and for what? Some semblance of security? I gues…

There are some review articles that are very readable for non-scientists written by an old boss of mine (Dr. Mark Mattson at the National Institute on Aging) on dietary intake. Her…

sounds a lot like rest for toddlers by mark pilgrim: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/12/07/rest-for-toddler...