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links for 2010-02-06

February 6, 2010 – 9:05 pm

Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip looks back with no regrets | Living – cleveland.com – – cleveland.com
i understand the thinking, and am very glad he didn't run the strip into the ground, but i really do miss Calvin and Hobbes
(tags: calvinandhobbes billwatterson interview nostalgia)

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Facebook Rolls Their Own PHP: What HipHop Means

February 5, 2010 – 4:30 pm

It is marginally interesting that Facebook continues to open source its technology. Anybody surprised by the fact that Facebook is producing software, however, simply hasn’t been paying attention. Facebook is, and always has been, a software company. Ask Savio.
The four hundred million-ish people Facebook provides with social networking functionality are a byproduct of their [...]

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Netbook Applications: The Bare Necessities

February 4, 2010 – 6:13 pm

The more time I spend crunching numbers on even moderately sized datasets, the more frustrating my current hardware setup becomes. Things are desperate enough that my Thinkpad X301, which maxes out at a mere 4 GB of RAM, is becoming a better performing alternative to my aging, dying Sun Ultra 20 workstation. How sad is [...]

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Ubiquitous Analytics and Tableau Public

February 3, 2010 – 6:45 pm

Well, that didn’t take long. One of my 2010 predictions foretold ubiquitous analytics, and here we are not even two months in and that’s already about to happen in the form of Tableau Public.
For those of you unfamiliar with the vendor, Tableau’s a bit of a midpoint product: more statistically and visualization oriented than [...]

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links for 2010-01-29

January 29, 2010 – 9:05 pm

750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy
"If you pay any attention to the endless debates over intellectual property policy in the United States, you'll hear two numbers invoked over and over again, like the stuttering chorus of some Philip Glass opera: 750,000 and $200 to $250 billion. The first is the [...]

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