placeholder

The dangers of intermediate targets: IQ, cholesterol, and 99%-ile latency

Most real-world problems are big enough that you can’t just head for the end goal, you have to break them down into smaller parts and set up …

Click to view the original at danluu.com

placeholder

The man who posted himself to Australia

In 1964 Australian athlete Reg Spiers sent himself from London to Australia in a wooden box - he was transported as freight in the cargo hold of a plane.

Click to view the original at m.bbc.com

placeholder

MySpace – what went wrong: ‘The site was a massive spaghetti-ball mess’

Sean Percival on corporate interference, Punch The Monkey, and a failed attempt to buy Spotify: ‘They sure as hell were not selling to us...’

Click to view the original at www.theguardian.com

placeholder

placeholder

placeholder

Silicon Valley gets a taste for food

A PLANT-BASED hamburger patty that bleeds. Meatless chicken strips with the same fleshy and fibrous texture as cooked poultry. Mayonnaise made without eggs that is...

Click to view the original at www.economist.com

placeholder

Hasnain says:

Kind of old but it's on the top of HN again. A pretty cool initiative that just has people pay directly for sites instead of being bombarded by ads

Posted on 2015-03-06T02:13:22+0000

placeholder

How we upgrade a live data center - Server Fault Blog

A few weeks ago we upgraded a lot of the core infrastructure in our New York (okay, it’s really in New Jersey now – but don’t tell anyone) data center. We love being open with everything we do (including infrastructure), and really consider it one of the best job perks we have. So here’s how and why…

Click to view the original at blog.serverfault.com

placeholder

Hasnain says:

An interesting read on the Adria Richards story. I'm kind of conflicted about this.

Not 100% sure I agree with some of the statements going on here

Posted on 2015-03-05T17:19:07+0000

placeholder

Introducing Airpal - Airbnb Engineering

Airbnb is pleased to announce the launch of Airpal, a web-based query execution tool that leverages Facebook’s PrestoDB to facilitate data analysis. People who spend time using SQL for exploration and investigation know that the workflow is not always smooth. Remembering how a query was written, cop…

Click to view the original at nerds.airbnb.com

Hasnain says:

Some cool data tools. I like how they use Presto and react, though I'm having a hard time figuring out why airbnb has / needs 1.5 peta bytes of data

Posted on 2015-03-05T17:10:32+0000