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London Stock Exchange to abandon failed Windows platform - Computerworld Blogs Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE (London Stock…
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Ecology of Finance § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM A growing cadre of biologists argues that ecosystem analysis of the world economy might stave off a repeat of 2008’s financial catastrophe.
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Disco Disco is an open-source implementation of the Map-Reduce framework for distributed computing. As the original framework, Disco supports parallel computations over large data sets on unreliable…
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Should you go Beyond Relational Databases? | Think Vitamin Relational databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and various commercial products, have served us well for many years. Lately, however, there has been a lot of discussion on whether the relational…
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Building DSLs on CLR and DLR (.NET)
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bbangert / Minger / overview — bitbucket.org Minger is a small crappy blog app that uses MongoDB. Not safe for public consumption.
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PylonsHQ - View Paste: MongoDB Stuff ””“Creates a thread local object regestry for mongodb connections. You can call this to get an object that gets a threadlocal connection from registry, or creates a new one if one does not yet exist….
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One Math Geek's Plan to Reform Wall Street | Newsweek Business | Newsweek.com
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15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will | Music | A.V. Club
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First Wave at Omaha Beach - The Atlantic (November 1960) UNLIKE what happens to other great battles, the passing of the years and the retelling of the story have softened the horror of Omaha Beach on D Day.