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A Day in the Life of Facebook Operations – Tom Cook at Velocity 2010

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Strike that: now I’m a PC-BSD! – Nothing but blue skies from now on…

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A fortnight ago I wrote in I’m a BSD about my initial adventures installing FreeBSD and trying to get it configured as a desktop system. After a few days, I had come to a halt. As one reader put it:…

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Four short links: 25 June 2010 – More NoSQL, Data Medicine, Startups to Government, and Cake-and-eat-it Open Source

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Membase — an open-source (Apache 2.0 license) distributed, key-value database management system optimized for storing data behind interactive web applications. These applications must service many concurrent users; creating, storing, retrieving, aggregating, manipulating and presenting data in real-time. Supporting these requirements, membase processes data operations with quasi-deterministic low latency and high sustained throughput. (via Hacker News) Sergey’s Search (Wired) –…

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Gov 2.0 Down Under: Australia and open government – Federal Senator Kate Lundy and Nicholas Gruen on Australia’s open government plans.

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Australia is lapping much of the world with its rapid moves toward open government. Interviews with Federal Senator Kate Lundy and Australia Gov 2.0 task force head Nicholas Gruen reveal the country’s current progress and its future plans.

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A Super Simple Sample App for Supersampling on iOS – New in O’Reilly Answers, plus posts about iOS 4, Objective-C, MobileMe email on Android, and much more.

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Looking for a shortcut to get full-screen anti-aliasing for your iPhone game? It might not be the optimal solution for your needs, but if you’re rushing to get something out and need to cut some corners, then this excerpt on supersampling from Philip Rideout’s iPhone 3D Programming is for you. Read more.
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How to Render Anti-Aliased Lines with Textures in iOS 4
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Open source and health care already have a history – Fred Trotter on how open source and health IT are working together.

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:03:23 +0000

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Fred Trotter, a longtime developer in the open source healthcare world and a speaker at next month’s OSCON conference, discusses the history of open source and health IT in this podcast interview.

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Urs Hlzle of Google interviewed at Velocity 2010

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Writing Apps as Enriched Documents

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I’ve been surprising people more people than I expected lately with the revelation that it’s possible to write iPhone and Android applications as a pile of HTML and CSS documents with some accompanying JavaScript. I’m far from the first to…

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@RIARadio: Flashbelt Day 2 Interviews

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On the second day of Flashbelt we were able to snag a few terrifically talented people including: Seb Lee-Delisle, Jesse Freeman, Dave Schroeder, Bruno Fonzi, Stephen Braitsch, Mark Anders, Branden Hall, Wade Arnold, and John Lindquist. Seb Lee-Delisle and Jesse…

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iPhone economics and lower barriers to entry – The power of the App Store is defined by more than direct revenue.

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The App Store has exposed incumbents in the mobile industry to the same sort of asymmetric competition that has reshaped the media industry over the past decade. Developers are responding in droves to the economic incentives that lower barriers to entry create, as well as the fact that the App Store has generated $1 billion in royalty payments in just a few years.

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