April 2009
5 posts
Circos - visualize genomes and genomic data →
Must look for creating cool visualizations of lots of data.
Effects of Flash/SSD on PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL... →
(via kanbe)
I saw Jigdesh give his presentation at East and was very impressed by his thoroughness and scientific approach to measuring performance for Postgresql. He describes the different conditions under which SSDs can improve performance, and covers the areas where they are irrelevant to performance.
Is Facebook a Cult? - ReadWriteWeb →
Marshall Kirkpatrick offers a very interesting question; is Facebook a cult?
He points out some of the relevant similarities, the groupthink, the social isolation from non-facebookers, the use of subtle social pressures to enforce norms.
Definitely meshes with the creepy feeling that facebook gives me; which is why I am a facebook refusenik.
