Four short links: 28 December 2010
Amazon Sold 158 Items/Second on Cyber Monday (TechCrunch) — I remember when 20 hits/s on a Sun web server was considered pretty friggin’ amazing. Just pause a moment and ponder the infrastructure...
View ArticleFour short links: 31 December 2010
The Joy of Stats — Hans Rosling’s BBC documentary on statistics, available to watch online. Best Tech Writing of 2010 — I need a mass “add these to Instapaper” button. (via Hacker News) Google Shared...
View ArticleFour short links: 11 February 2012
Phantom of the Flopera (YouTube) — Bach’s Tocata and Fugue in D Minor (BWV 565) as performed by floppy drives. Creative intimacy with one’s tools is a sign of mastery. (via Andy Baio) Save Entire BBC...
View ArticleFour short links: 9 March 2011
R Studio — AGPLv3-licensed IDE for R. It brings your R console, source code, plots, help, history, and workspace browser into one cohesive package. We’ve added some neat productivity features like a...
View ArticleFour short links: 9 November 2011
The Social Graph is Neither — Maciej Ceglowski nails it. Imagine the U.S. Census as conducted by direct marketers – that’s the social graph. Social networks exist to sell you crap. The icky feeling...
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