Scalability! But at what COST?
Michael Isard, Derek Murray, and I recently sent in a HotOS submission (it’s not blind, so no harm talking about it, we think). The subject is hinted at from...
Hasnain says:
" Here are two helpful guidelines (for largely disjoint populations):
If you are going to use a big data system for yourself, see if it is faster than your laptop.
If you are going to build a big data system for others, see that it is faster than my laptop."
What Taking My Daughter to a Comic Book Store Taught Me | IT in the D
What Taking My Daughter to a Comic Book Store Taught Me
The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
In the 1920s, auto groups redefined who owned the city street.
A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You - Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 - search.cpan.org
Imagine that your task for the day is to localize a piece of software -- and luckily for you, the only output the program emits is two messages, like this:
Hasnain says:
Internationalization is always tougher than you think
Posted on 2015-01-15T17:17:28+0000
The Toronto Star
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Hasnain says:
"One more lesson Charles learned? That marketing is the flip side of science.
“You can have the best treatment in the world, but if people won’t use it, it won’t matter.”'
Tom Hanks on His Two Years at Chabot College
President Obama’s plan to expand free access to two-year schools deserves Congress’s support.
Obama calls for government-run high-speed internet
The president is visiting Cedar Falls, IA, today to make the case for city governments to build their own super-fast broadband networks.
A City Run by Children
At KidZania, a global theme-park chain, kids pretend to have grownup jobs, from dentist to factory worker. Rebecca Mead reports.
Hasnain says:
" They said that KidZania gave them what they desired most of all: a sense of autonomy. “Whenever you’re at home, your parents say, ‘You need to do this, this, and this,’ and you say, ‘I don’t want to do this,’ ” the boy with the overwhelming social-media presence told me. “But, when you’re in KidZania, you feel like you’re an adult, and you say what you want to do.” "
Posted on 2015-01-14T17:40:38+0000
The goats fighting America's plant invasion
The US has discovered that one of the best ways of fighting invasive plants is also one of the oldest - goats.
Bees, Inc.: Save the Honeybee, Sterilize the Earth
A decade ago, people started panicking about the collapse of the honeybee population and the crash of our food supply.
Hasnain says:
"The system feeding humanity keeps growing, but it keeps growing more precarious."
Posted on 2015-01-14T02:30:55+0000