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The New Yorker cover mentioned in TFA: http://content.archives.newyorker.com/djvu/Conde%20Nast/New%...

God, this is going to save my marriage.

You can do pretty neat things with indexes and regexp queries. The mongo-search project is also pretty cool (does Porter stemming, indexing, etc).

That said, if you need powerful "full-text searching" I would look to something like Lucene or Xapian.

Absolutely. Also, always use "var" in your variable declarations. I can't count how many times a scope issue bit me in the ass b/c of a missing "var"

I didn't realize Apple had invented magic as well!

> [Apple] has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

From the press release in TFA

Importing all of the actors/roles from IMDb into mongoDB for a little proof of concept. 12m documents and counting!

I wouldn't call it a workaround. You gzip it and set the content-encoding

http://mumrah.net/2009/05/serve-gzipped-content-from-amazon-...

I would think that any CDN would support gzipping, assuming you can set the content headers explicitly.

Assuming he doesn't care for the money, it seems like this waste of an opportunity to help some people - and rather selfish. Perhaps the Clay institute will do something good with the money (scholarships?)

Anyone have any info on the tech behind this? Is this a node.js demo or something?

The pages were actually cached locally for the chrome tests. The point of the test (besides being cool) was to show the rendering speed of the browser.

Brother makes some nice cheap laser printers. I picked up one with wifi for 100 USD two or three years ago

I worked in an R&D group at FSU back in 2003 making webmaps. When google maps came around, I spent a week deconstruction its inner workings. The tiling was such an obvious solution, but no one else was doing it yet.

Our next rev of the mapping software included tiling and progressive tile loading. We started with a commercial backend for creating the tiles (ESRI ArcIMS), and eventually switched to an open source solution (UWM's MapServer). Last I heard they had an entirely open source stack (MapServer, OpenLayers, gdal, etc).

Anyways, when I realized that Google had cached each and every one of these tiles - at every zoom level - I was simply confounded. It was the first time I actually contemplated the scale of a company like Google.

One thing I really like about Redis is that it is not concurrent at all. It runs in a single thread - it's just really freaking fast

Personally, I would still put some caching in front of a document db. Either something in the application (memcache), or something in front of the web service (varnish, squid)

I was somewhat confused by this post - I've had the left hand nav for weeks now

It's called memoization

Well, I can say that Python pays better and in general leads to more interesting work (rather than PHP that is). I imagine Ruby is similar.

However, I think Python is a better investment all around.

Here's the email from Lala http://i.imgur.com/LzQ3l.png

55.11% were using JavaScript as a /back-end/ language in 2008? I find that highly suspect.

I imagine you could use python-spidermonkey to execute isolated bits of JS. But yes, getting the window object into context in python would be super useful

I really hope SVG finds its place in the new HTML5 wave. I would hate to see it die

Indeed, defaultdict was added in 2.5 to the collections module

I had very similar symptoms to this guy (pain starting in the wrists and then forearms/elbows). I have adjusted my typing habits and daily routine as follows:

* Exercise arms with light weights (~10lbs)

* Adjusted chair height

* Started using a real keyboard (I think typing on a MBP for extended periods was a big contributor to my RSI)

* Drink more water, get better sleep, get some kind of exercise

These days, I don't notice any kind of RSI pains. I think generally, RSI (for a typist) is due to combinations of stress, poor posture, lack of general wellness, etc.

The ability to subscribe to notifications using SQS is a very cool feature. Adding the ability to listen for things is really the linchpin of asynchronous architecture (in my mind). This sure beats polling a queue.

This seems to be a good list for anyone using Python in their research, not just social scientists.

I used numpy for all my numerical analysis homework. The professor always lauded me for having the most concise code in the class.

Why in the world would anyone have a data center in Florida?

I will always remember LiveJournal as the reason for Memcache being invented. It's funny how you can be nostalgic about a key-value system...

The conditional probability of A given B is my shepherd, I shall not want. It makes me multiply through marginal probabilities, it leadeth me beside flat priors...

And the people sang "P of A given B is equal to the prior probability of A times P of B given A over the marginal probability of B"

They left out "Segfaults Firefox 3.5.7 on x64 ubuntu 9.10"