January 2011
16 posts
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“In writing the steps, Wilson drew on the Oxford Group’s precepts and borrowed...”
– Brendan I. Koerner, Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works
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“At a time when fraternal orders and churches with strict hierarchies dominated...”
– Brendan I. Koerner, Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works
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“…I’ve been trying to fully engage with the social layer. I joined and...”
– Devin Friedman, The Viral Me
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“It couldn’t be any clearer that the Internet is what citizens need to keep their...”
– Albert Wenger, Egypt, the Internet, and the Second Amendment
I couldn’t disagree more. The lesson from America’s endless debate over the second amendment is that it’s a mistake to bind human rights to technology.
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“Hard-core porn, which is what Internet porn largely traffics in, is undoubtedly...”
– Natasha Vargas-Cooper, Hard Core @ The Atlantic
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“[Carol Dweck, a psychologist at Columbia University] discovered something...”
– Malcolm Gladwell, The Talent Myth
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All About Amazon Dynamo Paper →
nosql:
From the series “if you didn’t read the paper, here’s an overview”, this time Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store:
The Dynamo paper can be difficult to read. The main issue we had is that the authors don’t always motivate the different components of the system. For example, consistent hashing is one of the earlier concepts introduced in the paper, but it is difficult to...
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“Centralized metrics suppress cognitive diversity… Suppose you have a...”
– Michael Nielson, The mismeasurement of science
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“The notion that Karen Owen is good at getting the guy, that she represents...”
– Caitlin Flanagan, The Hazards of Duke
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“For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide...”
– CQ (via kateoplis)
See also, How to save a friend from the brink.
(via jayparkinsonmd)
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“I’ll make my bias fully known: I believe that for smaller clusters (and by...”
– Ask HN: Cassandra, HBase, Hypertable, Voldemort. Lowest read latency? @ Hacker News
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“In a conversation years ago, Mr. Jobs said he was disturbed when he heard young...”
– Can Apple Find More Hits Without Its Tastemaker?, NYT
via 37Signals
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“At the very least, [online reading tools like Instapaper and Readability] reveal...”
– Nicholas Carr, Short is the new long
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“The excess capacity story is a myth. It was never a matter of selling excess...”
– Werner Vogels @ Quora
via Simon Willison