Choice quotes from Shaun FitzPatrick, Major USMC.
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>By the way toughest interviews I ever did were on NPR, not because of harsh treatment or anything like that, but because the radio reporter asks you to describe in detail for listeners who can't see what you're talking about. It's tougher than I thought it would be.
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and Sales people and buyers:
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>Clients are uncomfortable with the quiet and want to fill the air. We always said, "Whoever talks first loses" but it isn't quite as simple as that. People will tell you things (if you just shut up!) when given the chance. Silence is the best way to handle it.

[Pixy Mesa](http://ai.mee.nu/) compares the [Laurel and Hardy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_and_Hardy) of NoSQL databases:
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> CouchDB is strong precisely where Redis is weak (storing large amounts of rarely-changing but heavily indexed data), and Redis is strong precisely where CouchDB is weak (storing moderate amounts of fast-changing data).
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On MongoDB:
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> Now, MongoDB offers a both a document store and high-performance update-in-place, but its persistence model is fling it at the wall and hope that it sticks, with a recovery log tacked on since 1.7. It's not intrinsically robust, you can't perform backups easily, and its write patterns aren't consumer-SSD-friendly.
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Choice Quote:
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> I do not trust MongoDB with my data.
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The comparison table is a good quick-ref of features.
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D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.
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Found this very interesting looking visualistion library via this article -- [d3 for mere mortals](http://www.recursion.org/d3-for-mere-mortals/).

RT @benbangert: The Pylons Project has space for more... Web2Pyramid -

@aclark4life @calvinhp plone.org looks broken on linux/chrome

Oh! the ignorance #androidcamp

best April 1 `news` so far "... which will recognize American beers in cases where updates have very little substance."

Kannada goes to Canada! RT @acroll Look of disapproval bathroom key at this Starbucks. Cc@jedberg

"We prefer integrated so the user doesn't have to be the systems integrator." Someone woke up and smelled the coffee

@zedshaw. Pandoc . programmer/tech-writing friendly markup by default, TeX when you want it. eg:

@zedshaw. Pandoc . programmer/tech-writing friendly markup by default, TeX when you want it. eg:

@noufalibrahim see opencv i saw a demo at indypy meetup and it was pretty cool, IMO.

RT @AtulChitnis: Abandoning Android: Thoughts on the future of FOSS on modern devices

RT @ashk4n: RT @jeremiahg: "Samsung admits to installing keylogger on its laptops" < certified pre-owned. < ...

RT @chrismessina: Want to get the +1 button in search? Do so on the experimental page:

"I'm thinking! Have you ever tried thinking?" - @billgates

Decided to do think stats exercises in python 3.2. `functools.lru_cache` gave me a big nudge.

Decided to do think stats exercises in python 3.2. `functools.lru_cache` gave me a big nudge.

"the road that wanders through time, remains simple, elegant, and pure."

Dear @mangochutney, while i'm delighted by your culinary preference for Chutney, I'm shocked at your domain name:

RT @stevelosh: This.

Run B&N, Run! "Is Amazon Working on an Android Kindle?"

RT @random_walker: Privacy and the Market for Lemons, or How Websites Are Like Used Cars

"Think Stats is an introduction to Probability and Statistics for Python programmers." CC Licensed book:

RT @zzzeek: reddit's downtime explained in one of those happyface/sadface things the kids are obsessed with

"on being surprised by a programming language"

Leica M9

aforementioned @VanL's talk "How to Kill a Patent with Python"

Kids, this is how you write clean looking C code. read and learn:

The New Chrome Logo looks evil to me

@kssreeram MaQLua which is part of Torch5 software is a decent editor for Lua.

Q: Is it faster than mysql?
A: If you defenestrate it, it accelerates at about 10 m/s^2.

Nail, meet head. "The Android OS isn’t a product and it isn’t a feature. It’s just an ingredient."

this is what i'm wary of RT@dgou That cell-phone donation you made to help out Japan? Phone companies are sitting on it

Where is your time *really* spent? Keeping it Honest.. A linux user's solution:

RT @dalmaer: Compare Sencha's review of the iPad 2 and the Xoom #holycatchup

RT @dalmaer: Compare Sencha's review of the iPad 2 and the Xoom #holycatchup

RT @ruhlman: america's fat problem: we don't eat enough of it.

Hmm I might be heading to the local BN to take a look. >How to root a Nook Color to transform it into an Android tablet

sleepyti.me
-- when to sleep?

Too late for Pycon :( Pyramid - Not Built By Aliens T-Shirt

How to Spot an Amateur " A pro is a pro because he's in this to make a profit, not to buy more gear."

RT @Aydin916: Schedule Computer Jobs for Later with the At Command [Command Line] #unix

Amazon has the early Phantom comics(1936-). Ooh, nice..

RT @dgou: RT @andreisavu: Sleep is More Important than Food

RT @TechCrunch: Big Pay Day For Big Data. Teradata Buys Aster Data For $263 Million by @erickschonfeld

viewgit (git repo browser) is nice to have on the development machine.. easy to set up too.

"We are tired of being treated like sharecroppers on Google's digital plantation!"

RT @calvinhp: #IndyPy is tomorrow, come out and see some stupid Python tricks with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision ...

"Openness – the very characteristic of Android that makes us love it – is a double-edged sword." Android Police

RT @silentbicycle: The #JLang source is going to be released under the GPL!

RT @newsycombinator: Matt Blaze: How ACM and IEEE Shake Down Science

:) "But we have pictures for the kids, to prove to them that their parents are cool people."

.@rstudioapp is the best open source app I've seen in recent times. The rstudio server is amazingly well done.

RT @JohnDCook: "Multitasking occurs when managers don’t make decisions ..." -- Johanna Rothman

RT @DataJunkie: RStudio -- a free IDE for #Rstats. Available in Desktop and Server packages!

Cross platform R environment.

This textbook is an introduction to the standard methods of proving mathematical theorems. Click here for a pdf copy of the entire book, or get the chapters individually below.

Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (with touching story)

RT @zedshaw: Photon (PHP Mongrel2 framework) is looking might nice: Even has 0MQ Tasks for integration wi ...

"We must lose this ball"

RT @dexterous: iPad 2 Early Hands On Review

Hand over your overpriced computer & wait for six days for a h/w upgrade? Apple users are such noobs! oh wait ...

Indian superman :)

" It really is the easiest way in. That's where all the smuggest lisp weenies come from, or go eventually."

Delicious new Thinkpads.