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Amazon.com Invades the Apple App Store
By Brad Stone via Bits on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Amazon's new iPhone app includes an "experimental" feature called Amazon Remembers that is designed to funnel sales from the offline world to the Internet. readmore
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How to eat...
(unknown author) via MetaFilter on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Shared by laacz Atceros, kad Kijevā kompanjoni nezinājā, kā jāēd spageti. Tagad zinās :) How to eat spaghetti. Fufu. Phở. readmore
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Pirates of the Amazon, Firefox extension adds Pirate Bay links to Amazon listings
(unknown author) via Waxy.org Links on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
similar Greasemonkey scripts exist for Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB [via]  readmore
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Using MySQL as a filesystem
bolk via Bolk site on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
With MySQLfs you can store a filesystem inside a MySQL relational database. MySQLfs breaks up the byte content of files that you store in its filesystem into tuples in the database, which allows you to store large files in the filesystem without requiring the database to support extremely large BLOB fields. With MySQLfs you can throw a filesystem into a MySQL database and take advantag readmore
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Apple Safari to support WML?
(unknown author) via Andrea Trasatti's tech not on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Shared by laacz Ļoti labi. Latvietim patīk šādas atklāsmes :) I was checking the latest changes of the webKit nightly to see if it's worth updating my current nightly (about 1 month old) to something fresher. While looking at the timeline I noticed how a few commits have been made in the last few days to implement W readmore
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Making Google Maps more accessible
Roger Johansson via 456 Berea Street on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
It has become very popular to use the Google Maps API to add maps to websites. While the maps work fine for most users, unfortunately Google Maps does not by default work without JavaScript – when there is no JavaScript support, you don’t get a map. Fortunately it is quite easy (but not very common) to provide a fallback for users who readmore
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Chromium Extensions Design Doc
Dion Almaer via Ajaxian » Front Page on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Aaron Boodman posted about the new design document that discusses what the extension system should look like in Chromium and thus Google Chrome: Chromium can’t be everything to all people. People use web browsers in a va readmore
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Apple Safari to support WML?
(unknown author) via Andrea Trasatti's tech not on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
Shared by laacz Beidzot! I was checking the latest changes of the webKit nightly to see if it's worth updating my current nightly (about 1 month old) to something fresher. While looking at the timeline I noticed how a few commits have been made in the last few days to implement WML card, timer and do tags, some WMLScript readmore
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Linux, mysql, vmstat
Mark Callaghan via High Availability MySQL on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
I wrote this to remember what vmstat output means. I am running a benchmark with MySQL and Linux on a server with 16GB. I used innodb_buffer_pool_size=12G. The process size is 13.6GB. What else uses all of the memory? Domas investigated the problem and one of the causes is that the per buffer pool page overhead in Innodb is readmore
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Oops, we did it again (MySQL 5.1 released as GA with crashing bugs)
Monty via Monty says on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
MySQL 5.1 is no readmore
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MySQL for Hosting Providers - how do they manage ?
peter via MySQL Performance Blog on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Working with number of hosting providers I always wonder how do they manage to keep things up given MySQL gives you so little ways to really restrict how much resources single user can consume. I have written over a year ago about 10+ ways to crash or overload MySQL and since that people have come t readmore
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New York Times' visualization of one year of NYC parking tickets
(unknown author) via Waxy.org Links on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
they had to file a FOIA request to get the data for the 9.9 million tickets   readmore
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During Peak Hours
(unknown author) via HotLinks - Level 1 on Fri, 28 Nov. 2008
Shared by laacz Feins sociālais stikeris :) jonhicks : During Peak Hours - People may need to sit on your lap Tags : readmore
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Church Encoding in Python
(unknown author) via Bolk site on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Shared by laacz O jā, māt... Вывихнул себе мозг статьёй «Church Encoding in Python», теперь смотрю на Пайтон под новым углом. readmore
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WikiLeaks Calls for Help in Taking Whistle Blower Site to Next Level
Marshall Kirkpatrick via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Wikileaks.org, a website that publishes classified, confidential, censored or otherwise secret documents for anyone to see, put out a call last night for help in advancing the site readmore
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Drawter: Visual Web based HTML tool
Dion Almaer via Ajaxian » Front Page on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Damian Wielgosik has created Drawter, a web based tool to layout pages: Drawter is a tool written in JavaScript and based on jQuery library. It provides you the possibility to literally draw your website’s code. It runs on every single web-browser which makes it really useful and helpful. Each tag is presented as a layer you have drawn. readmore
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DNS Drama exposed.
(unknown author) via Nick Bradbury's Shared Ite on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Comments readmore
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"A byte of Vim" - новая свободная книжка о Vim!
Pento via Всё о Vim on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Появилась новая свободная книга о Vim. Автор Свэруп (Swaroop C H) выложил её в публичный доступ под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Из предисловия: Vim [1] is a computer software using which you can wri readmore
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WordPress 2.6.5
Ryan Boren via WordPress Development Blog on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
WordPress 2.6.5 is immediately available and fixes one security problem and three bugs. We recommend everyone upgrade to this release. The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-incl readmore
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How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit
Baron Schwartz via MySQL Performance Blog on Tue, 25 Nov. 2008
Our customers or prospective customers often ask us how we do a performance audit (it's our most popular service). I thought I should write a blog post that will both answer their question, so I can just reply "read all about it at this URL" and share our methodology with readers a little bit. This fits well with our p readmore
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