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There is Loader.io from SendGrid ( http://loader.io/ ) that lets you load test your web apps with thousands of concurrent connections.

Do you mind expanding on it a bit? Is it the volatility of oil prices or lower margins in aviation fuel compared to specialty lubricants?

I'm having hard time wrapping my head around the time-money analogy here. In the case of money, by investing it or delaying spending, you can have more of it in future. In the case…

I find these graphics by WRI particularly useful in understanding the different angles to this problem: http://www.wri.org/blog/global-food-challenge-explained-18-g... As a genetic…

I think Quora handles this better than HN. It gives you the option to be completely anonymous on a case by case basis, reap the benefits/upvotes even when you are anonymous. Most p…

Money quote: Buying Bitcoins while their price is so bubbly is nothing more than a gamble. Investing in other online currencies, or in companies that can help the Bitcoin economy d…

I agree. After talking this much about complexity, it is rather simplistic of him to praise Ritchie over Jobs in terms of impact. On the one hand, I can imagine where the computing…

I've been pretty happy with Contactually ( http://www.contactually.com/tour ) as a personal CRM for a while. Basically it sucks in your contacts from Gmail, LinkedIn, Facebook etc,…

There is something fishy here. Neither www.corporate-ir.net nor corporate-ir.net resolve. And the site asks you to login. Relevant link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/bro…

Try http://www.wikimatrix.org/ if you'd like to compare available wiki engines side by side.

Here is a simple reason why these type of graphs are flawed: they ignore economics. If you've taken Econ 101, you'll know that the demand is sensitive to price and scarcity drives …