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Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos | Facebook

by karlcow & 1 other

The Photos application is one of Facebook’s most popular features. Up to date, users have uploaded over 15 billion photos which makes Facebook the biggest photo sharing website. For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translates to a total of 60 billion images and 1.5PB of storage. The current growth rate is 220 million new photos per week, which translates to 25TB of additional storage consumed weekly. At the peak there are 550,000 images served per second. These numbers pose a significant challenge for the Facebook photo storage infrastructure.

How Google Street View Will Look 5 Years From Now - Jan’s Experiments

by sbrothier
Google Street View is a feature of Google Maps and Google Earth which provides panoramic views of streets so the viewers can look around at any place that has been covered. What is the difference between Google Street View and handcrafted virtual panoramic photography as of today? What is stopping Street View to look as today’s best VR panoramas? What are the current and future technology constraints? How will Street View look in 5 years?

Trailer - Yamazakura - Nippon Cinema

by sbrothier
Drawn to a tree full of beautiful cherry blossoms, Noe (Lena Tanaka) meets a man named Yoichiro Tezuka (Noriyuki Higashiyama). He happens to be one of the men she could have been arranged to marry before choosing her current husband, but she turned him down because he had a child. He asks her if she’s happy. She tells him yes, but in her heart she knows that’s not really true.

DeweyInfoTechOverview - WorldCat Developers' Network

by karlcow

The suggested URI pattern is based on the distinction between non-information resources (abstract or concrete real-world objects), generic resources, and their representations. Generic resources are Web documents describing the abstract object they are associated with (e.g., a Dewey class). The pattern for generic documents defined in the current pool of Dewey URIs is as follows:

Amazon RDS, MySQL, Hmm?

by marco
BTW if you follow their "use mysqldump" model for pushing data into the service, remember that --single-transaction will allow you to do a hot backup. There is no need to lock up your current database. I am still appalled at how few people know that. Years ago we should have renamed "mysqldump" to "mysqlbackup" and defaulted the settings for Innodb.

Michael(tm) Smith » WebKit adds support for the HTML5 <ruby> element

by night.kame

Current versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer also have native support for ruby, and you can also get ruby support in Firefox by installing Piro’s XHTML Ruby add-on (and for more details, see his XHTML ruby add-on info page) — so we are well on the way to seeing the HTML5 ruby feature supported across a range of browsers.

Maintenant que Ruby a gagné son petit autocollant "HTML 5", les développeurs de navigateurs s'y intéressent. Comme quoi, le web tient à peu de chose.

toronto.ca | Open

by karlcow

The City of Toronto (City) now grants you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, modify, and distribute the datasets in all current and future media and formats for any lawful purpose. more

WordPress › Post Templates « WordPress Plugins

by mozkart (via)
It happens quite often that a blogger publishes posts or static pages on a regular basis which have the same structure. Think about for example a "picture of the day" daily post. With current wordpress state, we need to spend a lot of time doing copy/paste between posts instead of actually writing content. All the instructions for installation, the support forums, etc. can be found on the plugin home page. IMPORTANT: LICENSE CHANGE Since version 4.0.0, the plugin has become a commercial plugin. It can be ordered (for cheap) on the plugin home page. Version 3.4.x will remain available for download for free on the WordPress plugin repository. No further development will be made on this version.

Sibe 2009

by karlcow

Infrastructure provides the basic needs for society, and sustainable infrastructure systems are essential for the survival, health and well-being of a society. For developing countries, the civil and environmental engineer are at the epicenter in seeking means to enhance human life through modernization of infrastructure as evidenced by provision of shelter, water, and transport, amongst others.

The current rate of urbanization and industrialization has caused a rise in environmental issues, involving environmental mismanagement which has been associated with unforeseen global catastrophes. The problems are further aggravated with environmental degradation such as soil erosion, depletion of water resources, etc.

In order to meet these multifaceted challenges, proper planning, implementation and verification exercises are required, via an integrated, multidisciplinary and holistic approach. The global momentum for sustainable development must now lead to practical applications of the engineering and science of sustainability.

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October 2009

Know thy Congressman

by ycc2106
"KTC" is a bookmarklet that displays an abundance of political and biographical information about current members of the Senate and House of Representatives.

LESS - Leaner CSS

by srcmax & 4 others
LESS extends CSS with: variables, mixins, operations and nested rules. Best of all, LESS uses existing CSS syntax. This means you can rename your current .css files to .less and they'll just work.

Getting multiple master password prompts when loading several tabs at startup

by srcmax

That issue has recently been fixed on the current trunk builds (Minefield 3.6a1), but not in Firefox 3.5.x

HTML5 Validator Needs Updating. from Maykel Loomans on 2009-10-20 (www-validator@w3.org from October 2009)

by night.kame

Ever since the HTML5 footer has been redefined I have changed the markup of http://www.miekd.com/

At the current stage, the validator has still not been updated to

match this spec change. I am aware of the giant draft/beta sticker on

the validator, but I would really love to have an up-to-date validator.

Encore un qui n'a rien compris à HTML 5, mwahahahaha.

CSS3 Module Status - CSS3 . Info

by dzc & 1 other
Following is a table of all the CSS3 modules and their current status. css3.info will be maintaining this table as modules progress through their development stages. The further advanced modules are listed first.

MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 2 | MySQL Performance Blog

by karlcow

A couple of good things to remember here: #1 resolving 1 bottleneck can open another bottleneck that is much worse. #2 is to understand that not all API’s are created equal. Additionally the configuration and setup that works well on one system may not work well on another. Because of this people often leave lots of performance on the table. Don’t just trust that your current API or config is optimal, test and make sure it fits your application.

Coding from Scratch: A Conversation with Virtual Reality Pioneer Jaron Lanier, Part One

by karlcow & 1 other

answer Right. And it results in a type of error that doesn't teach you anything. You have chaotic errors where all you can say is, "Boy, this was really screwed up, and I guess I need to go in and go through the whole thing and fix it." You don't have errors that are proportionate to the source of the error. And that means you can never have any sense of gradual evolution or approximate systems. So, the real difference between the current idea of software, which is protocol adherence, and the idea I'm discussing, pattern recognition, has to do with the kinds of errors we're creating. We need a system in which errors are more often proportional to the source of the error.

Pagezipper extension automatically loads "next page" links

by decembre
PageZipper automatically loads the contents of "next page" links right underneath the current page, so you can scroll down instead of clicking through. It's quite similar to another extension called AutoPager, and I like that it doesn't show its page breaks the way AutoPager does. Where PageZipper hasn't caught up with AutoPager yet is in the way it deals with tricky "next page" links. AutoPager lets you find them manually and train it, while PageZipper relies on its own (granted, very good) autodetection.

September 2009

RSS Best Practices Profile

by ycc2106 & 3 others
This profile contains a set of recommendations for Really Simple Syndication, a web syndication format documented in RSS 2.0 (revision 2.0.10). This is version 1.0 of this document, published Oct. 15, 2007. The current version will always be available at this link. Public comments are welcomed at RSS-Public.

Chromium Blog: Introducing Google Chrome Frame

by srcmax & 3 others

Today, we're releasing an early version of Google Chrome Frame, an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer.

With Google Chrome Frame, developers can now take advantage of the latest open web technologies, even in Internet Explorer. From a faster Javascript engine, to support for current web technologies like HTML5's offline capabilities and canvas, to modern CSS/Layout handling, Google Chrome Frame enables these features within IE with no additional coding or testing for different browser versions.

Our Causes: Internet Health Check

by srcmax

You're not alone. According to a 2009 Forrester Research study, 60 percent of companies are using IE6 as their default browser at work, as their IT departments are reluctant to upgrade and support a current browser. If you're in this situation, we've put together a letter you can pass on to your IT department. Just copy and paste it into an e-mail and customize it as you see fit. Get your colleagues to send a letter too.

Cocoa with Love: WhereIsMyMac, a Snow Leopard CoreLocation project

by karlcow

In Snow Leopard, you can ask for the computer's location. Without a GPS, how accurate could that be? The answer in my case is: very accurate. In this post, I'll show you how to write a CoreLocation app for the Mac that shows the current location in Google Maps, so you can see exactly where your computer thinks it is.

Guyjin » Blog Archive » Japan to More than Double Intake of Foreign Students

by karlcow

According to a Japan Times editorial today, Japan is set to increase the number of foreign students studying in Japan to around 300,000 by 2020. This represents a 250% increase over current levels (there are currently about 120,000).

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