August 2008
9 posts
“The futures market that serves as a price discovery mechanism for the physical...”
– Are Oil Prices Rigged? — Printout — TIME
Building a REST API for your iPhone SDK app using...
I’ve been writing an iPhone app for Circos over the past few weeks. At Circos we use simple REST APIs to hook up all our components. This way components are completely de-coupled and can be written in whatever language the programmer wants (so far we’ve used Python, C and Haskell). The idea is very similar to Facebook’s Thrift but much simpler. We use JSON as the data-interchange...
The Python Property Builtin →
Some seriously cool tricks with Python properties and decorators in order to make Django more beautiful than it already is.
“If you talk to Warren, he’ll tell you his preference is not to meddle in the...”
– Barack Obama, A Free-Market-Loving, Big-Spending, Fiscally Conservative Wealth Redistributionist - NYTimes.com
“Since the per-query parser object now stores all memcache keys we tack on to a...”
– Facebook | Engineering @ Facebook’s Notes
In brief: They modified MySQL such that additional user-defined info (in this case the list of keys to purge from memcached) can be transported to the slaves by hijacking the master-slave replication stream.
“Offices for “The Daily Show” occupy a sprawling loftlike space that combines the...”
– Television - Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America? - NYTimes.com
“Mostly the LDS attracts potential converts, like many churches in Japan do, by...”
– Matz loves Python
In case you were wondering how a Japanese programmer could be a Mormon…
“Use the Blackhole gambit. Facebook is rumored to use the Blackhole storage...”
– A Bunch of Great Strategies for Using Memcached and MySQL Better Together | High Scalability