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The top 15 cities for tech startups
From Infoworld: The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) list measures overall venture capital investment in each respective market to compile its data.
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NoSQL Taxonomy
Examples in parentheses: Key-value store (Amazon DynamoDB) Column-family store (Cassandra) Document database (MongoDB) Graph database (Neo4j)
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Estimated Costs of Crop Production in Iowa
Dr. Michael Duffy of Iowa State University publishes them online. Next time I attempt working out the economics of alternative fuels, I should start there…
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Digital FX solo
German animator Kaleb Lechowski recently released a short, but very well made, computer-generated sci-fi film. According to the author, the six-and-a-half-minute film took seven months to make, including two months spent on writing the script. The entire film crew consisted of … Continue reading
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Disabling Java
From Infoworld: Step 1: Find out which version of Java you’re running. The easy way to do this is through the Java Control Panel — if you can find it. Start by bringing up the Windows Control Panel (in Windows … Continue reading
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Technology vs. economy in a nutshell
Paul Krugman continues to ponder the impact of technology on income distribution. The takeaway, in my opinion, is here: Smart machines may make higher GDP possible, but also reduce the demand for people — including smart people. So we could … Continue reading
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I was wondering about this for a long time…
…and, apparently, so did Paul Krugman: Robots mean that labor costs don’t matter much, so you might as well locate in advanced countries with large markets and good infrastructure (which may soon not include us, but that’s another issue). On … Continue reading
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Major IT wizardry…
Mina Naguib is chasing down a weird network malfunction: At AdGear Technologies Inc. where I work, ssh is king. We use it for management, monitoring, deployments, log file harvesting, even real-time event streaming. It’s solid, reliable, has all the predictability … Continue reading
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Andrew Oliver on NoSQL
From Infoworld: Which freaking database should I use? By Andrew Oliver Created 2012-08-02 03:00AM I’ve been in Chicago for the last few weeks setting up our first satellite office for my company. While Silicon Valley may be the home of … Continue reading
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What Hadoop can and can’t do
From Infoworld: What Hadoop can and can’t do By Brian Proffit Created 2012-06-21 03:00AM The lure of using big data for your business is a strong one, and there is no brighter lure these days than Apache Hadoop, the scalable data … Continue reading
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