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A few things that you can't do in the official app, but you can do in the Teslabot: (1) voice control - send a voice messages/commands to Teslabot, (2) find out whether your car ca…

Nicely written blog! Agree with the author that academia sometimes focusses on a very narrow band of research topics, which might or might not improve end user experience. Also, ag…

There are lots of startups hosting their services on AWS. Their data is already on AWS. Amazon's Redshift makes perfect sense for them. Many startups like Qubole have been already …

Netflix focusses on movie/tv-series subscription model (streaming+dvds), and they are laser focussed on improving consumer experience in this area. On the other hand, Apple, Google…

Some of the functionalities right now are: (1) Ability to save and tag tweets with urls (kind of Delicious) (2) Url content inline with the corresponding tweet (3) Search over all …

"UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity." -- Dennis Ritchie. RIP.

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” -- Steve Jobs. RIP.

With Silk, Amazon will be able to see what webpages Kindle Fire readers are reading, and they can mine that data to figure out which web pages are read together. Based on the pages…

I use Pig to write many of my Hadoop Mapreduce jobs and test my Pig script on a small dataset using Pig Grunt. Pig 0.9 has a lot more debug information as well.

Nice. Check out another similar clojure library called "MR-Kluj" that you can use to write Hadoop MapReduce jobs in Clojure: https://github.com/cheddar/mr-kluj

That's a good point. I just hope FF survives the squeeze from IE and Chrome.

It must be your extensions. Disable all extensions and try FF. I use FF all the time with 10s of tabs open, and I don't have any issues with stability. My FF window is open for day…

This is disappointing. It has been hard to find the soft copy of IEEE papers. Now it will be even harder. IEEE is losing it's value among CS people. Good that most of CS papers are…

Nice collection of papers. Thanks for sharing! Here is a set of papers about distributed systems, which I read in a course and found very useful to get good understanding of distri…

Apache Mahout is interesting but I still haven't found a strong need to use it. Most of the time I can sample the data that I process in Hadoop, and use R for training machine lear…

When a deal appears for a business on Groupon, people buy those deals that day and visit that business later on. That's what I meant by "cash up front". Yes, I agree with you that …