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Quantifiably Nuts

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
— Victor Hugo/1845… but Flash-based storage has such a different performance profile from rotating media, that I suspect that it will end up having a large impact on filesystem design. Right now, most filesystems tend to be designed with the latencies of rotating media in mind.– […]

5 Signs Your Business Is Not Ready For Big Data – Blog – CQL

Big data has become the big thing recently and seems to be all anyone is talking about (besides it being the year of mobile, of course). By “big data,” we mean a concentrated effort to gather intelligence about your business so you can accomplish a deeper analysis.The fanfare isn’t unwarranted, though. Big data allows you to get a better understanding […]

Twitter IPO Live – Business Insider

Jay Yarow/Business InsiderTwitter CEO Dick Costolo on the floor of the NYSE.Twitter had a relatively steady first day as a public company.
The IPO was priced at $26 a share. The opening trade was at $45.10. That price took a little longer than expected for the NYSE. Trading opened at 10:49. People were expecting to start at 10 AM. The extra […]