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Podcast where Adrian Cockcroft goes into the philosophy and technology behind scaling at Netflix: http://www.se-radio.net/2014/12/episode-216-adrian-cockcroft...

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They look particularly good expanded out to fill the page: http://hoog.li/g?g=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.viralnova.com%2F3d-images%2F&cimw=480 http://hoog.li/g?g=http://www.mymodernmet.com/p…

They also have a gallery: http://clipboard.com/clip/LQKWhz7pKtAy_1cmySKwsOkeDLqT733mMj...

There is code for this project available: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rayforce/?source=directory

They are using some sort of graph of connected volumes without hierarchy as their acceleration structure. This could be an interesting alternative to using a tree or grid. I wish t…

What I don't understand is how a room packed with 600+ people all noisily engaging in social interaction was any more manageable last night. I found it almost overwhelmingly intens…

This is no Babbage-style mechanical computer. I found the BBC's title a distraction from the amazing revelation that ancient Greeks were building such complicated mechanisms.

Perhaps a PDF with an embedded image per page is the way forward.

I was at an interview recently and was disgusted to see my CV in the hands of the interviewers with the formatting totally messed up and the logo of the recruiters all over it. The…

The CurVe class supports multiple versions of a CV with its "flavors" concept: http://text-ex-machina.co.uk/blog/creating-curriculum-vit I keep all versions of my CV side by side i…

This part of the CV looks like a cross between a covering letter and a profile/summary to me. It seems too long and it repeats information that is present elsewhere in the CV. I wo…

I like the CurVe latex class. It works for me: http://www.hoogli.com/Andrew_Cox_cv.pdf It is worth going to the author's page about CurVe rather than relying on the ctan package. H…

Yes, you are right. In fact we don't have to infer this. The researchers state it directly in their abstract, "...a novel approach to utilize the CPU resource to facilitate the exe…