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Disclaimer: ex-AWS here. This article ends up making a compelling case for DynamoDB. It has the properties he describes wanting. Many, many systems inside of Amazon are built with …

Kamailio is what is called a Session Border Controller. Its primary purpose is to provide protection and some lightweight filtering for the media servers/PBXs behind it. Once you w…

I always thought "intelligence" was defined as the capacity to learn. Websters' first definition of "intelligence": > capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar f…

> Write a love song from Luke to Leia. ...It proceeds to produce a poem, not a song, and without any references to Star Wars that would indicate that it "knows" who either of them …

Link is busted: http://mlbase.org

You may have a problem in your math. A mean of 4.3us with a stdev of 10.9us should mean that your 99% should be over 26us, unless it's super smooth with a few huge outliers. Also, …

Anthony Eden has a project for this from a while back: http://activewarehouse.rubyforge.org/ Not sure how well its maintained at this point but it looks like a pretty good mapping …

Noir is not bad. I've been using it for a side project. Its no Rails, but its the best option I've found for Clojure at this point. http://webnoir.com/

IANAL, but: It would appear to me that the author doesn't understand the GPL very well. If my code is BSD licensed and yours is GPL, I can submit pieces of my code to your project …

The article says they are using Office Communicator, part of the Office suite, so I'd imagine they are going full-bore on that. Wonder if they are using SharePoint for the wiki, to…

"DSP" is a term for an service that connects to multiple ad inventory sources (ad exchanges, ad networks, etc) and allows an advertiser to upload their creative media and targeting…

Become a lawyer. We don't need any more unskilled labor running around.

Why have SSDs killed this question? Seems like you could tweak the amount of data on disk and/or the size of the values and/or the requests/second requirement and keep using it. Al…

Anybody have free access to this?

There are plenty: * Monetate * Infuse Media * Venmo * Vuzit * MyYearbook * Relay Network * PackLate * ClickEquations * Portico And these are just the ones I could think of before I…

I have all the books currently out now on Scala and I think "Programming Scala" by Wampler and Payne is the best one for learning the language: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Sc…

You might be interested to know that this method has been employed by Cloudmark for many years in their collaborative spam filtering network: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=…

Except for email, that sounds a lot like Friendfeed ;-)

You know, I think they might have been thinking along the lines of a "distributed Facebook"-type thing when this came out. Anyone looking to replace Facebook should probably learn …

I was thinking along the same lines, actually, in terms of a "distributed Facebook"'s similarity to Lotus Notes. However, one of the big niceties of SaaS services is that you don't…

The big thing in replacing Facebook isn't "distributed" or "central", its "what could make people switch?" Facebook came to prominence because of the elitist factor associated with…

I couldn't agree more. XML sounded like such a great idea for this back in '99. Attempted implementation will disabuse you of that feeling very quickly ;-)