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Re:Music for Programming on Thursday July 07, 2022 @10:04AM (#32014253)

I've been enjoying "datawave" which a subgenre of synth music that has a pretty strong tech/retro-future vibe.

Datassette, who put together the Music For Programming site, shows up a lot on the playlists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9q6RYg2Pdg ("glitchy synthwave radio for retro computing")

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0gLnq5MERpg58hMfpSqVWr

Cloud Bigtable Introduces Global Replication

Posted by gelliott on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @03:13PM
from the cloud.google.com dept.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/go-global-with-cloud-bigtable

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Towards Federated Learning at Scale

Posted by gelliott on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:49PM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01046

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Re:Confluent, a company for Apache Kafka and realtime data on Friday November 07, 2014 @09:23AM (#8572575)

Can your endpoints log to syslog so they can be forwarded on to a central collector?

Quantopian Plans a Quant Hedge Fund

Posted by gelliott on Thursday October 16, 2014 @09:25AM
from the bostinno.streetwise.co dept.

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2014/10/16/quant-trading-fund-quantopian-gets-funding-for-hedge-fund-2/

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The Physical Web

Posted by gelliott on Thursday October 02, 2014 @10:12AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/google/physical-web

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UberX Is Now Cheaper Than An NYC Taxi

Posted by gelliott on Monday July 07, 2014 @08:17PM
from the blog.uber.com dept.

https://blog.uber.com/nyc/uberX-price-cut

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The Micro-Cloud: Do the work of a whole cloud in one thread

Posted by gelliott on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @09:45AM
from the vanillajava.blogspot.com dept.

http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2013/02/chronicle-and-micro-cloud.html

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Re:Why is C faster than Java: git vs JGit on Thursday January 12, 2012 @05:13PM (#3458212)

That's really interesting - according to this presentation JGit clone is significantly faster than native git clone (2.3x in the example).

I'd love to hear more about any code changes that lead to this result.

Re:Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs’ secret sauce (source code)? on Monday July 06, 2009 @06:09PM (#690533)

I don't think this guy was a quant at all, just a heavy-hitting programmer:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/aleynikov

Re:Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code on Friday January 23, 2009 @03:34PM (#447025)

Hey, I'm one of the guys who built WhoShouldiFollow. Glad the recommendations are working out for you.

The Twitter API rate-limiting makes things harder, but as a whitelisted app we haven't (yet) run into any situations where we've hit our quota or get throttled in any way.

It sounds like Alex is working on a new method to retrieve a users followers/friends in bulk which should help out a lot: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/...