http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/3/13/ironio-moved-from-ruby-to-go-28-servers-cut-and-colossal-clu.html sometimes language makes a difference ( i.e ruby is too low for a service stack )
http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/3/13/ironio-moved-from-ruby-to-go-28-servers-cut-and-colossal-clu.html sometimes language makes a difference ( i.e ruby is too low for a service stack )
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ 100M word -collection for english language “The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written. [more]”
http://langpop.com/ A websites that ranks different programming languages by comparing statistics from search engine queries, news articles and job board postings.
http://robertfortner.posterous.com/the-unrecognized-death-of-speech-recognition An excellent article providing an overview and history of speech recognition technologies. For geeks looking into more tech details, pls see http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1639412&cid;=32079936
http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2009/09/java-vs-c-performance-again.html somewhat useful comparative review
https://www.bewelcome.org/ online social network based around translation / multi-lingual
http://www.zhongwen.com/ online Chinese characters reference
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643/focus=57918 [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.