Alexander Williams

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

"With Skynet, one can easily convert a time-consuming serial task, such as a computationally expensive Rails migration, into a distributed program running on many computers."

the reversibility and decentralization of the Internet are the breeding ground of brazen user-empowerment, serving solely as an end in itself and providing no sort of edification whatsoever – a kind of user-generated discourse delirium.

If it’s true that “on the Internet nobody knows if you’re a dog”, how do you convince people that you’re a prince? Richard Fernandez looks at the renewed importance of reputation when your entire life history is just a Google more...

When you're trying to find someone online, Google's not the only game in town. In the last two years, a handful of new people search engines have come onto the scene that offer better ways to pinpoint people info by more...

MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets. Users specify a map function that processes a key/value pair to generate a set of intermediate key/value pairs, and a reduce function that merges more...

I'm number one with a bullet if you Google "hitler livejournal".

I’m working on a Firefox extension for annotating Google search result pages. It currently checks each page for RSS or Atom feeds and places links to feeds and also grabs a few popular tags from del.icio.us about the page.