Tumblr (3.0; @mmcknight)http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/<a href="http://www.toastyapps.com/excelsior/">ToastyApps: A Warm Fresh Slice of Web Development</a>: <blockquote>Shared by Matt McKnight <br/> oh, that is fast.</blockquote> <h2>Excelsior</h2> <hr> <p>A Ruby gem that uses C bindings to read <span>CSV</span> files superfast. I’m totally serial!</p> <h2>Benchmarks</h2> <p>The benchmark is against a 1 million row csv…</p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/282145581http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/282145581Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:23:11 -0500<a href="http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2009/12/12/apache-solr-1-5-on-the-move-with-more-functionality/">Apache Solr 1.5 on the move with more “functionality”</a>: <p>The paint is barely dry on <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/solr">Apache Solr</a> 1.4 and the community is already on the move for Solr 1.5 (which may actually be Solr 2.0, but for now let’s call it 1.5).</p> <p>I’m particularly excited about a…</p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/281203573http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/281203573Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:00:42 -0500<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/12/01/9930480.aspx">Microspeak: Cookie licking</a>: <blockquote>Shared by Matt McKnight <br/> Now I have a name for what they’re trying to do to me</blockquote> <p> <i>Cookie licking</i> is the act of claiming something as something only you can do, but without actually doing it. (Note:…</p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/277735331http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/277735331Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:35:31 -0500<a href="http://www.everythingisterrible.com/2009/12/pocket-monsters-are-really-pocket.html">POCKET MONSTERS ARE REALLY POCKET DEMONS...</a>: <p><blockquote>Shared by Matt McKnight <br/> I assure you that demons take it quite seriously.</blockquote> It’s only a matter of time before the children of Japan use their Satanic cuddly critter-fueled powers to destroy us all.<br/><embed></embed></p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/277151299http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/277151299Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:24:18 -0500<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/gJZg/~3/qjen64GrS_0/machine-learning-with-quantum.html">Machine Learning with Quantum Algorithms</a>: <p><blockquote>Shared by Matt McKnight <br/> I have to admit that when I first heard a lecture on this I didn’t think it would ever work in practice- but that was 10 years ago.</blockquote> <span>Posted by Hartmut Neven, Technical Lead…</span></p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/277151310http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/277151310Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:24:18 -0500<a href="http://ahathereitis.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-it-works.html">Looking for tennis courts on aerial photos: how it works.</a>: <p>This is a description of how <a href="http://www.ahathereitis.com">ahathereitis.com</a> works.<br/><br/><img style="display:block;margin:0px auto 5px;width:400px;height:263px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v64ub5Mt1q0/SxdJME9wOiI/AAAAAAAAAHg/44FpDPTAxrg/s400/original.png" border="0" alt=""/><br/><br/>The things I’ll be looking for are basically just a bunch of lines on the ground (like tennis or basketball courts), so the first step…</p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/269163898http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/269163898Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:22:01 -0500<a href="http://glinden.blogspot.com/2009/11/continuous-deployment-at-facebook.html">Continuous deployment at Facebook</a>: <p><blockquote>Shared by Matt McKnight <br/> Just went to meeting yesterday for team that has code freeze next for a version deploying in 7 months.</blockquote> E. Michael Maximilien has a post, “<a href="http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/51564-extreme-agility-at-facebook/fulltext">Extreme Agility at Facebook</a>”, on…</p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/267841220http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/267841220Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:01:20 -0500<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=973603">Hacker News | Google is getting so incredibly fast. As I'm reading this, your post is 16 minu...</a>: <p><blockquote>Shared by Matt McKnight <br/> holy overactive spiders batman.</blockquote> <table border="0"><tbody><tr> <td valign="top"><center> <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/vote?for=973603&dir=up&by=mattmcknight&auth=SIkOB77m&whence=item%3Fid%3D973603"><img src="http://ycombinator.com/images/grayarrow.gif" border="0" vspace="3" hspace="2"/></a><br/><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/vote?for=973603&dir=down&by=mattmcknight&auth=SIkOB77m&whence=item%3Fid%3D973603"><img src="http://ycombinator.com/images/graydown.gif" border="0" vspace="3" hspace="2"/></a> </center></td> <td> <div style="margin-top:2px"><span><span>8 points</span> by <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jhancock">jhancock</a> 36 minutes ago <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=973603">link</a> <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=973578">parent</a> <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/r?fnid=EntWnsxxc2">flag</a></span></div> <br/><span><font color="#000000">Google is getting so incredibly fast. As I’m…</font></span> </td> </tr></tbody></table></p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/267333360http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/267333360Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:01:10 -0500<a href="http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/12/01/step-by-step-math/">Wolfram|Alpha Blog : Step-by-Step Math</a>: <blockquote>Shared by Matt McKnight <br/> it’s getting hard to tell if someone did their homework.</blockquote> <p>Have you ever given up working on a math problem because you couldn’t figure out the next step? <a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com">WolframAlpha</a> can…</p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/266704247http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/266704247Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:48:31 -0500<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AskAManager/~3/AhqJMMAg1GQ/its-your-office-holiday-party.html">it's your office holiday party!</a>: <p>I get a lot of mail full of angst about company holiday parties — do you have to go, can you make your employees go, why can’t they give you a day off instead, and so forth.<br/><br/>Apparently there are an…</p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/266388152http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/266388152Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:54:47 -0500<a href="http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/12/01/google-analytics-goes-async/">Google Analytics goes async</a>: <p>Today’s announcement that <a href="http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-analytics-launches-asynchronous.html">Google Analytics Launches Asynchronous Tracking</a> is music to my ears. Not only does it make web sites faster, switching over to this async pattern improves uptime and…</p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/265687985http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/265687985Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:49:15 -0500<a href="http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2009/12/01/facebook-developers-event.aspx">Facebook plans DC event for application developers</a>: <p>Facebook will hold an event to help software developers create government applications for the social networking site.</p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/265687964http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/265687964Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:49:15 -0500<a href="http://rubyconf2009.confreaks.com/">Confreaks: RubyConf 2009</a>: <blockquote>Shared by Matt McKnight <br/> saving on airfare and hotel</blockquote> <div><a href="http://rubyconf.org/" title="RubyConf 2009"><img src="http://rubyconf2009.confreaks.com/images/rubyconf-logo.png" alt="RubyConf 2009, November 19-21, 2009"/></a></div> <br/><br/><p> Video Podcast: <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/RubyConf2009-Confreaks">RSS</a> <a href="http://subscribe.getMiro.com/?url1=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FRubyConf2009-Confreaks" title="Miro: Internet TV">Miro</a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/RubyConf2009ipod-Confreaks">iPod</a></p> <h2>Conference Schedule</h2> <table><tbody> <tr> <th>Time</th> <th>Room 1</th> <th>Room 2</th> </tr> <tr> <td>19-Nov-09 09:00</td> <td> <em><a href="http://rubyconf2009.confreaks.com/19-nov-2009-09-00-keynote-yukuhiro-matz-matsumoto.html">Keynote</a></em><br/> Yukuhiro “Matz”…</td> </tr> </tbody></table>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/263182032http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/263182032Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:00:03 -0500<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/26/AR2009112602420.html?hpid=topnews">'Cash for Clunkers,' household edition - washingtonpost.com</a>: <blockquote>Shared by Matt McKnight <br/> Economics fail. Sending another copy of The Road to Serfdom to DC…</blockquote> <p>In U.S. history, there may have been no better time to own a junk car, a rattling old fridge and a…</p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/259622856http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/259622856Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:54:17 -0500<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/guesta3e206/colin-powells-leadership-presentation">Colin Powell's Leadership Presentation</a>: <p><blockquote>Shared by Matt McKnight <br/> Some of the best stuff to come out of a Colin.</blockquote> <h1>Colin Powell’s Leadership Presentation</h1> <div><ul> <li style="float:right;width:115px"><div><div> <a href="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=tf&c=20&mc=click&pli=1066947&PluID=0&ncu=%24%24http://thirdparty.fmpub.net/click/201045?r=%24%24&ord=1234567890"><img src="http://static.fmpub.net/banners/20091021/4adf29fb5bfcf111x17Option1.gif" alt="" title="" border="0" height="17" width="111"/></a><img src="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=tf&c=19&mc=imp&pli=1066947&PluID=0&ncu=%24%24http://thirdparty.fmpub.net/click/201045?r=%24%24&ord=1234567890&rtu=-1" height="0" width="0"/><div><img src="http://thirdparty.fmpub.net/view.php?t=b&n=201045&fleur_de_sel=1652271989" alt="" style="width:0px;height:0px" height="0" width="0"/></div> </div></div></li> <li> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/guesta3e206/colin-powells-leadership-presentation#" title="Email this presentation to your contacts" rel="nofollow">Share</a> </li> <li style="display:inline"> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/guesta3e206/colin-powells-leadership-presentation#" title="Save to favorites" rel="nofollow">Favorite</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/guesta3e206/colin-powells-leadership-presentation#" title="Saved to your favorites" rel="nofollow">Favorited</a> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/guesta3e206/colin-powells-leadership-presentation#" title="Remove from favorites" rel="nofollow">X</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/guesta3e206/colin-powells-leadership-presentation/download" title="Download this presentation" rel="nofollow">Download</a> </li> <li> </li> </ul></div></p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/258373254http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/258373254Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:20:08 -0500<a href="http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=b31e8fbe51d96d97caeb887a4f2b5928">Hot Potato Raises $1.42 For Event Social Networking</a>: <p><img alt="hot potatoe.png" src="http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/hot%20potatoe.png" width="178" height="144"/><br/> Brooklyn-based Hot Potato, a social networking startup focused on connecting friends and fans through live events, has raised $1.42M in first-round funding.</p> <p>Hot Potato is building tools for…</p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/258373260http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/258373260Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:20:08 -0500<a href="http://searchengineland.com/google-news-ranking-stories-30424">Under The Hood: Google News & Ranking Stories</a>: <blockquote>Shared by Matt McKnight <br/> some googly ideas for ranking and clustering our articles for “the other project”</blockquote> <p>Forget <a href="http://searchengineland.com/what-is-google-pagerank-a-guide-for-searchers-webmasters-11068">PageRank</a>, at least if you’re a news publisher looking to do well in Google News….</p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/256633935http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/256633935Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:40:37 -0500<a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/11/the-paradox-of-choice-is-not-robust.html">The "paradox of choice" is not robust</a>: <p>I missed this one while traveling, so I am grateful to the loyal <strong>MR</strong> reader who pointed it out to me:</p> <blockquote> <p>… the psychological effect may not actually exist at all. It is hard to find much evidence…</p> </blockquote>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/256528991http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/256528991Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:28 -0500<a href="http://www.welovedc.com/2009/11/24/dc-mythbusting-metro-map-to-scale/">DC Mythbusting: Metro Map to Scale</a>: <p><a title="Metro_Compared" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61585593@N00/4128092733"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2755/4128092733_79ef2c9736.jpg" alt="Photo courtesy of "/></a><br/><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61585593@N00/4128092733">‘Metro_Compared’</a></small><br/><small>courtesy of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/61585593@N00/">‘Don Whiteside’</a></small></p> <p>Hi, and welcome to another edition of Mythbusting! After <a href="http://www.welovedc.com/2009/11/10/dc-mythbusting-metros-most-crowded/">our last feature busted some misconceptions about the busiest Metro stations and…</a></p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/256040323http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/256040323Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:38:16 -0500<a href="http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/For-the-Ease-of-Maintenance.aspx">CodeSOD: For the Ease of Maintenance</a>: <blockquote>Shared by Matt McKnight <br/> It always ends this way.</blockquote> <p><b>Ryan Thompson</b> works on a project where all database queries had to go through “stored procedures”. Now before you call me out on extraneous…</p>http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/255196025http://mmcknight.tumblr.com/post/255196025Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:20:09 -0500