Month: April 2011
Business Insider – Can We Please Stop Pretending That Microsoft’s Bing Is Doing Well?
Is Bing at this point helping or hurting Microsoft?
Overthinking It – Overthinking Star Wars: The Economics of Death Star Planet Destruction
Not only is this article fun, but it’s interesting.
Marco.org – The iOS weather-app market
But some software the level of customization that each user wants makes it really undesirable to enter that market.
Twilio Engineering Blog – Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issue
Twilio on how to build a service that was able to deal with Amazon’s downtime.
Paul Graham – Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
I understand this feeling, I just never knew how to describe it.
O’Reilly Broadcast – The AWS Outage: The Cloud’s Shining Moment
The article even goes through the process of what it would take to permit you to have stayed up through Amazon’s recent downtime.
BBC News – Jihadists use mobiles as propaganda tools
What a stupid article, if it was the 1980’s we would all be as isolated as if it was the 1980’s.
Yahoo! News – Armenia makes chess compulsory in schools
This seems like a cool idea, and I imagine would create students more skilled in critical thinking and logic, all good things.
Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union – Just A Smack On The Ass: A Tale Of Sexual Assault, Vengeance And Nervous Swearing
Just an awesome story of one woman going and confronting street harassment.