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Let’s say that you and I decide to play pool. We agree to play eight-ball, best of five games. Our perception is that what follows is a contest to see who will do something called winning.

But I don’t see it that way. I always imagine the outcome of eight-ball to be predetermined, to about 95% [...]

Pomegranate is a novel distributed file system built over distributed tabular storage that acts an awful lot like a NoSQL system. It’s targeted at increasing the performance of tiny object access in order to support applications like online photo and micro-blog services, which require high concurrency, high throughput, and low latency. Their tests seem to indicate it works:

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Well written article on the role of Linkers, covers *nix and Windows systems.

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While searching yet again for the SQL to find a particular piece of text inside SQL server proc definitions I came across this cool Addin project that does exactly that and also has other cool features like generating the data insert scripts for a table.

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perl -wle ‘print “Prime” if (1 x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/’ [number]

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This is a nice trick to check if a number is prime using regular expressions, I am going to try and see how this performs compared to regular methods and see if anything interesting comes up.

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To understand why NoSQL is important to you as an app developer, let’s consider the use cases for some of these features:

Frequently-written, rarely read statistical data (for example, a web hit counter) should use an in-memory key/value store like Redis, or an update-in-place document store like MongoDB.
Big Data (like weather stats or business analytics) will [...]

And just because of the simple fact that you are human, you find yourself heir to an inherent unsatisfactoriness in life which simply will not go away. You can suppress it from your awareness for a time. You can distract yourself for hours on end, but it always comes back–usually when you least [...]

Wow, Talk about false perceptions. This was one of the things that I had taken for granted for so long that it was very surprising for me to ready today that China is not the world's largest manufacturer. I read this at Helen Wang's site http://helenhwang.net/2010/03/myth-of-manufacturing/ 

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"The latest data shows, however, that the United [...]

Sometimes a you come across a tool that just makes you think why you never used it before, I ran across one such tool last month, it’s called soapUI (http://www.soapui.org/ ).

This is an open source tool for testing web services, everything I wanted to do for testing some of the web services that we [...]

Recently I had to work on a Java based rule modeling tool that was built on Java/Eclipse. The tool was pushing both eclipse and the JVM to the limits in terms of memory and I was getting a lot of OutOfMemory exceptions and out of heap space errors, usually these can be fixed by increasing [...]