This looks really cool… I wish there was a way to easily keep track of all the OSS projects that larger companies throw over the fence. This Java library provides some useful building blocks to build high-performance multi-threaded asynchronous applications in Java. Its implementation was inspired by Twisted’s asynchronous library (twisted.internet.defer). Deferred allows you [...]
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This is a great move by Verizon. AT&T has been going back and forth with unlimited data. Combine this with their mobile hotspot and the Verizon iPhone looks sweet. I might switch to be honest… I have NO service from AT&T at my house, and generally hate them as a company. Mr. McAdam certainly [...]
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We’re hiring an API Software Engineer to join the team over at Spinn3r. We’re probably going to be hiring 2-3 engineers in the next month or so but don’t grow too fast. We want to focus on one position at a time so we can bring in the best potential hires. This is a fun [...]
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Fortune is saying that amateurs beat the professionals in forecasting Apple revenue numbers. Here’s what is confusing. Aren’t they just cherry picking the data? There are WAY more bloggers than just the 41 on this list. Do these count? Were there no other bloggers that predicted Apple numbers? Surely there must be at least hundreds [...]
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This is interesting. Toyota and Tesla are routing around China’s rare-earth shortages and are shipping rare earth free engines in 2012. The all electric RAV4 also seems pretty cool. Toyota’s move feels reminiscent of electric car makers saying “booyah” to oil. It also shows that at least one major automaker is bearish on the [...]
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This is getting really interesting. Mobile devices were the last devices to remain single core (for the most part) but the world moves forward and in 2 years this will no longer be the case. It means that computational frameworks like map reduce are going to be needed more and more even on mobile devices. [...]
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SoftLayer posted a blog entry on their API , how their entire portal is implemented on their API, etc. We use their API extensively at Spinn3r. Most of our automation is implemented on top of their API. I’m surprised that other providers like Rackspace haven’t implemented a similar API (or flat out cloned it) for [...]
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Nice to see that Strava raised some money. Their app looks pretty cool but I do have to admit that I have not yet appreciated the Zen of their approach. Perhaps because their iPhone application doesn’t yet work and they prefer Garmin GPS devices. I don’t see the need and probably will NOT buy a [...]
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Nice. This is awesome. Gag orders are horrible and have no place in our democracy. These subpoenas must be visible for the government to be held accountable. To Twitter’s credit, the company didn’t just open up its database, find the information the feds were seeking (such as the IP and e-mail addresses used by [...]
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Someone needs to do the same thing for VLC in the Mac App Store. At last, Apple has removed VLC media player from its application store. Thus the incompatibility between the GNU General Public License and the AppStore terms of use is resolved – the hard way. I am not going to pity the [...]
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