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Books to read
I’m entirely aware that probably I won’t have time to read all of them, but I’m putting them here for future reference (all of the linked books are free): from the taint.org blog / Geeking with Greg: Introduction to Information Retrieval – very interesting with contributions from real practitioners from the all about linux blog:…
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Mixed links
From Slashdot: Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout. I especially liked the line “a new Facebook group called ‘People Against the new Terms of Service’ that has added more than 10,000 members today” (emphasis added). So yeah, start a group on the same site we are disagreeing with to show our protest. That should show…
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Update to the Top Commenters widget
Some time ago I created a "Top Commenters" widget for Blogger using Yahoo Pipes. Unfortunately my efforts to use the resulting RSS directly failed. The problem was that Blogger was displaying older entries, even though I tried a bunch of different things to convince it that the element were new (like setting the date, adding…
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Back of the napkin security research
I came up with the idea after seeing the following quote on the metasploit website: “powered by phpbb” “hacked by” – Results 1 – 10 from approximately 239.000 So you could do something similar to the TIOBE index (and with the same level of “accuracy” – this is more a fun thing than something which…
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Interesting (and informative) videos
10 Things about Hard Drives: Also check out the guy’s YouTube page, because it contains two other interesting videos from the domain of data recovery (and he seems to be somebody who actually knows what he is talking about when it comes to hard drives, not like some other people). Tyler Pitchford – They Took…
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Fun little game
From the All About Linux blog: spot the differences between the two picture. The right image is divided in 9 (3 by 3) regions, and you have to click on the region which contains the difference. The rule: don’t pause during play. Start below:
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PostgreSQL musings
First, a very good article about creating (and maintaining!) data clustering with PostgreSQL. This made me think: wouldn’t it be nice if the automated tuning wizards would give you a short article to read which discusses the proposed solution instead of just the “turn knob X” type of suggestions? Also, Percona is hiring performance experts,…
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The Amazon Mechanical Turk
A good series of posts from the “A Computer Scientist in a Business School” blog on the topic of the Amazon Mechanical Turk (and using it to solicit reviews of products): Soliciting Reviews on Mechanical Turk Time Out New York and Mechanical Turk Is it unethical to pay for reviews? Monitoring the Dynamics of Mechanical…
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Getting full contents for partial feeds
In my opinion partial feeds are not feeds. While I understand the need to get pageviews, I don’t like it. My time is valuable and I don’t want to hop between Google Reader and other browser windows to read the content. Disclaimer: this method might or might not be a violation of some laws, TOS,…
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Heavy Metal Band Names Etymology
Found it via the Comic vs Audience blog. Created by Doogie Horner: