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vark··on Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10)
Are you thinking about infoaxe.com ?
vark··on Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics
Dealbreaker for me: Piwik cannot do page-specific stats.

Everything else was in Piwik's favor, but I'm going to have to use GA because of this one requirement.

vark··on Google Flops & Failures - The Failed Google Graveyard
They forgot:

1. Lively 2. Google Print

Also, Google Answers preceded Yahoo Answers -- they got that wrong.

vark··on Why doesn't Quora use PostgreSQL
From http://glinden.blogspot.com/2008/05/yahoo-builds-two-petabyt... :

Yahoo builds two petabyte PostgreSQL database James Hamilton writes about Yahoo's "over 2 petabyte repository of user click stream and context data with an update rate for 24 billion events per day".

It apparently is built on top of a modified version of PostgreSQL and runs on about 1k machines. In his post, James speculates on the details of the internals. Very interesting.

vark··on Ask HN: Best Text Mining Resources
- Modern Information Retrieval by Baeza Yates

- Data Mining Book by Jiawei Han et al

- Managing Gigabytes by Witten et al

- Hypertext Mining book by Chakrabarti

vark··on A Farewell to Bing Cashback
Looks like a great way to burn through 50Million in 2 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish.com

vark··on Firebreath - Cross-platform browser plugin framework
Also see: http://browserplus.yahoo.com/
vark··on Facebook API Response times - Notice something missing?
Adding a Y axis would immediately draw up hundreds of blog posts and academic papers citing it as a "benchmark", making various claims and hypotheticals about Facebook's infrastructure. Since we don't have access to the exact metric or method of measurement, the exact magnitude is arguably meaningless.

Also, since this has potential for FUD and Facebook-bashing, it's in their interest to not publish raw numbers.

vark··on Facebook Graph API robots.txt
also see: http://graph.facebook.com/default.aspx
vark··on "I decided to add "inertial" scrolling, where you gave the image a push..."
No context in particular :) Just an observation of how the "inertial scrolling" people are raving about on the new iDevices has a history deeply rooted in Mac folklore (Andy Hertzfeld was part of the original Mac team).

Also note mention of hysteresis and Floyd-Steinberg Dithering which are worth reading up on.

vark··on The closest thing we'll ever get to an official Apple blog
I thought the URL for that was http://daringfireball.net :P