June 2012
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May 2012
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“I had a CEO who had offered this new engineer three-quarters of a percent of the...”
– Ben Horowitz, Cofounder, Andreessen Horowitz, one of the hottest VC firms in the Valley—raising $2.7 billion in its first three years and helping companies such as Bump, Facebook, Foursquare, Groupon, Pinterest, Twitter, and Zynga. (via fastcompany)
The momentum of Steve Jobs
As I’ve written previously, Silicon Valley is where the gods very much eat yogurt with mortals. And Steve was no exception. His house has no visible security, no gate. It is modest. Nestled in a very tony neighborhood. But not so tony as to exclude three enterprising rag-tag entrepreneurs from also living here. The blinds are almost always open (as most tend to be in Old Palo Alto). TVs flicker at...
creative album names
the doors: the doors
the velvet underground: the velvet underground
crosby, stills & nash: crosby, stills & nash
led zeppelin: led zeppelin
led zeppelin: led zeppelin II
led zeppelin: led zeppelin III
led zeppelin: led zeppelin IV
“MARIO JUMPS IN ONE PIPE, APPEARS OUT OF ANOTHER, AND THAT’S ALL YOU NEED TO...”
– Pipe: file sharing in the Facebook age is about to get real | The Verge
Why Women Choose Bad Boys
Women choose bad boys because their hormones make them, new research suggests. When ovulating a woman’s hormones influence who she sees as good potential fathers, and they specifically pick sexier men over obviously more dependable men.
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We use Hadoop to store copies of internal log and dimension data sources and use it as a source for reporting/analytics and machine learning.
Currently we have 2 major clusters:
A 1100-machine cluster with 8800 cores and about 12 PB raw storage.
A 300-machine cluster with 2400 cores and about 3 PB raw storage.
Each (commodity) node has 8 cores and 12 TB of storage.
We...
How do you predict and license appropriately? The answer thus far has been simple — use open source options like Linux servers, Apache, MySQL, Tomcat, Ruby on Rails…the list goes on. These tried-and-true stalwarts of the economically-challenged and deep-pocketed alike all have licensing costs equal to the number of Bugatti Veryons in the average person’s home — zero.
This is called freedom
As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States
of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe.
Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here.
For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.
Please be assured that any further contact with us, regardless of medium,
will result in
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b) a formal complaint lodged...
April 2012
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