May 2012 Archive
511.
Pinterest Architecture Update - 18M Visitors, 10x Growth, 12 Employees, 410 TB (highscalability.com)
512.
Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go? (inc.com)
513.
How Facebook Hacked The NASDAQ Button (techcrunch.com)
514.
Markov Chain Monte Carlo and the Eurovision Song Contest (mewo2.github.com)
515.
Thiel on 60 minutes (cbsnews.com)
516.
Build Cross-Platform Applications for desktop using HTML, CSS, Javascript (appjs.org)
517.
When Rob Pike first met rms (commandcenter.blogspot.se)
518.
How can you program if you're blind? (stackoverflow.com)
519.
Stand up for Julian Assange before it's too late (wlcentral.org)
520.
Oracle loses on fair use; Only rangeCheck left (w/o new trial) (theverge.com)
521.
Elon Musk and the future of spaceflight (newscientist.com)
522.
DoppioVM: a JVM in CoffeeScript (int3.github.com)
523.
(Some) ORM haters do get it (revision-zero.org)
524.
On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data (businessweek.com)
525.
Opa replaces Javascript, HTML, CSS, PHP, and SQL with one unified language. (opalang.org)
526.
A story about Miles Davis and the nature of true genius (elezea.com)
527.
How WebSockets work vs polling/long polling/streaming (websocket.org)
528.
EU court: Reverse engineering OK, API not protected by (c) and more (jan.wildeboer.net)
529.
Kickstarter hides failure (misener.org)
530.
Draw Something Loses 5 Million Users a Month After Zynga Purchase (forbes.com)
531.
From Cubicles, Cry for Quiet Pierces Office Buzz (nytimes.com)
532.
Fixie.js - Automatic filler content for HTML documents. (fixiejs.com)
533.
Reddit's TestPAC is campaigning to defeat Lamar Smith, SOPA's daddy (reddit.com)
534.
TCP doesn't suck, and all the proposed bufferbloat fixes are identical (apenwarr.ca)
535.
2012 vs. 1984: Young adults really do have it harder today (theglobeandmail.com)
536.
Google, I've had enough. How about a Compromise? (ninjasandrobots.com)
537.
Old Farts Know How to Code (nick.typepad.com)
538.
Building Backbone.js/Python based tech stack (mikkolehtinen.com)
539.
Dr. Koop and The Bubble (dcurt.is)
540.
The Lazy Man's URL Parsing (joezimjs.com)