December 2010
6 posts
Dec 28th
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Labmda: Your thoughts in bytes →
kareemamin: I recently read in a book on speed reading that one of the reasons you may daydream while listening to someone speak, is that invariably thought is faster than speech. The author went further and boldly estimated that on average you think at about 400 wpm vs speaking at 150 wpm. This got me…
Dec 23rd
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Dec 19th
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Google's OS Anti-Trust: History Repeats Itself?
We are moving towards a world where the traditional OS is replaced by the browser, with Google spearheading this transformation in computing paradigm.  I was thinking yesterday about different applications that could be built for the new cloud operating systems, and then I realized that I would have a hard time competing with whatever applications/services Google bundled natively with their...
Dec 15th
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Dec 8th
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“Latency: How quickly are transactions supposed to return success or failure?...”
– Facebook | The Full Stack, Part I
Dec 3rd