Archive for the ‘video’ Category
The Art of Innovation
Found this Guy Kawasaki video on Duff O’Melia’s blog and enjoyed it.
Daniel Weinreb re: Lisp use at ITA
Some random notes:
- 650 KLOC plus 150 KLOC of open source code
- 100 people on the team, 70 programmers
- SBCL for the QPX product
- Clozure CL for the reservations product
- Availability requirement: four 9’s => less than 53 minutes downtime per year
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Latency agreement
- 90% of requests w/in 300 ms
- 5% of requests w/in 600 ms
- 5% of requests w/in 1,200 ms
- Java presentation layer, Common Lisp stateless business layer, Oracle data layer
- Daniel is very positive about Clojure
- Some links from the talk:
Andrew Wiles – Fermat's Last Theorem
The story of Andrew Wiles who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem in 1994.
Twitter in Plain English
Here’s a great introduction to Twitter. You can follow me on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/lojic
Startup School 2008
http://omnisio.com/startupschool08
http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/97554/Startup_School
Peter Norvig, Paul Graham, Marc Andreessen, Mike Arrington, Jeff Bezos, David Heinemeier Hansson, etc.
Dolphin Bubble Rings
My uncle passed on a link he received from my cousin to an amazing video showing dolphins cleverly making sophisticated bubble rings and manipulating them in interesting ways:
Bug Labs
This is one of the coolest ideas I’ve seen in a while. Bug Labs is developing some technology that should be very interesting to any geek. Another great find by Robert Scoble. The video quality isn’t high because they were recorded on his cell phone, but I’m glad he had a video capable cell phone with him when he bumped into Peter.
Crayon Physics
I found this video of a “crayon physics” game on Robert Scoble’s site – very cool!
