Month: March 2013
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Measuring Load in the Cloud: Correcting for Seasonality
Usage is over threshold, unleash the kraken! Short run peaks are perfect for automated elasticity: the unpredictable consumption that we stay up late worrying about fulfilling. But, short run peaks can be difficult to tease out from expected variation within the period: seasonality. Using the open source statistical package R, we can separate and look…
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Communication Method, Scale, and Entropy
In a surprise to Marshall McLuhan, we see ad hoc conversations conducted through different electronic media demonstrating very similar scaling characteristics across number of nodes, number of edges, and number of unique edges. Looking at email lists, IRC, and long-term twitter searches, we more similarity than difference between the three media. However, when look at the…
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Agile Programming — for your Family
Watch Bruce Feiler discuss using Agile Programming techniques to help build a stronger family. Would love to talk to him about this again in 10 years. [ted id=1675]
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Replacing Google Reader in 10 Minutes
RIP Google Reader. Even though all evidence pointed to it, I hoped it wasn’t going to happen. Here’s my coping mechanism: OpenShift + Tiny Tiny RSS I installed the Tiny Tiny RSS aggregator and reader using an +OpenShift quickstart +Gunnar Hellekson put together. If you already have an account, you can have your Google Reader replacement up in running in 10…
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Internet of Things and Twine
I’ve been asked by a number of people what is this “Internet of Things?” So, here’s a draft. Where do you disagree? What if everything could share information? Internet of things is making sharing information simple by bringing the network capabilities of computers to anything and everything. Who knows what will happen in uses? Maybe…
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How do you turn your phone into a tool?
I picked up a Galaxy S III over the summer, and a few minutes every week making the phone do more work for me. What are your Android tips? Change application view to alphabetical list or grid Apps – menu – view type – select Make sure you set up a password on your phone. Put…
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Daring Fireball: Open and Shut
John Graber of Daring Fireball has a great (albeit occasionally snarky) post challenging the value of “open” for shareholder value in technology companies. The key point he starts to discuss, and then backs away from, is the value of externalities contributing to create better products faster. Tim Wu also hints at this in his piece…