January 9th, 2012
"I P R E S E N T T O Y O U , D E A R R E A D E R , T H I S parable about how the different ways we organize our work result in different levels of customer satisfaction.", by T H O M A S A . L I M O N C E L L I
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January 6th, 2012
In economics, the Jevons paradox (sometimes Jevons effect) is the proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource.[1] In 1865, the English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that technological improvements that increased the efficiency of coal-use led to the increased consumption of coal in a wide range of industries.
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December 26th, 2011
Interesting paper from UCI shows how the final $400 value of the iPhone is distributed. Interesting fact is that total value of manufacturing is about 10%
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December 24th, 2011
Interesting talk (18 minutes) about motivation for non-trivial tasks -- in short: science tells that revord & punishment approach does not work, instead, autonomy, purpose and mastery do work
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December 24th, 2011
The comments below are from Dr. Richard Hipp, the author of SQLite . "I've been running http://www.sqlite.org/ [sqlite.org] on Linode since 2004. They've been great. Highly recommended.:"
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December 24th, 2011
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December 11th, 2011
EC2 -> Ubuntu 11.o4 /, PostgreSQL 9.+ (Replication) + S3 (photo files) + Redis + Solr + Gearman-> Dajango / memcached -> Nginx -> ELB / Munin for monitoring trends, Pingdom for alerting,
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December 10th, 2011
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December 8th, 2011
Finally ... MS released ODBC driver for linux, it's a binary, w/out any packging (no RPMs )
Download it here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28160 , Documents http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh568451%28SQL.110%29.aspx , Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlnativeclient/
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December 5th, 2011
Configuration of Reddit website as GitHub repo.
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