Jonathan Moore and I watched this stream live over the web today. What was funny is that during the talk we kept saying “check” as we had a lot of the infrastructure work they implemented. For example, they’re doing vertical table partitioning in Big Table. Anyway.. There’s more information surfacing here. I’m going to have [...]
Categories: clustering,google,linux,open source,startups
About six months ago I blogged about how Six Apart was planning on censoring my blog in response to a fake DMCA takedown notice: Just to follow up here, the legal advice we have received is that for the next 10 business days, the disputed content does need to be removed from public access. If [...]
Categories: sixapart
We’ve been playing with partitioning in MySQL 5.1.18 from the MySQL AB community builds and noticed that the daemon will dump core every 5 minutes or so when under load. Recompiling from source fixes the problem. Anyone else notice stability problems?
Categories: linux,mysql,open source
Apparently, Twitter is raising a VC round: VB: Are you raising a round of capital now? Williams: We are raising our first outside round. VB: Can you disclose the amount? Williams: No. VB: You just starting that round now? Williams: We are about half-way through the process. We’ve been trying to decide who we want [...]
Rich blogs that Code is the Enemy and I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been looking for ways to get code out of the code. Is there something the code is doing that can be turned into an external dataset, and driven by a web UI, or some rule-list that I can contract out to someone [...]
Categories: java,linux,open source
The NY Times, Andrew Sullivan, and a host of others are calling the out Bush administrations on torture: The phrase “Verschärfte Vernehmung” is German for “enhanced interrogation”. Other translations include “intensified interrogation” or “sharpened interrogation”. It’s a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that would leave [...]
Categories: politics
Google Gears launches today and brings together a lot of open loops in my career. While at Rojo, we spent a lot of time talking about offline storage. NewsMonster was the first RSS aggregator that added full offline support (which I’m still proud of – only took Google five years!) and we generally wanted it [...]
Categories: aggregation,ajax,google,open source,rojo,startups,web2.0
Techcrunch and Search Engine Land are covering the release of Mahalo. Mahalo, the expected people-powered search engine backed by Jason Calacanis, has now gone live in an early “Alpha” test release. In Mahalo, human editors have crafted shows up in the top search results for popular queries. For example, search for [paris hotels], and human [...]