Follow Cozi on Pinterest to get go-to recipes, lunchbox ideas, tips for organizing and more. A few months back, the Tooth Fairy got busted. She left a note for Alice up on her computer, and Lucy figured the whole business out. The Tooth Fairy cursed her need to write notes in elaborate fonts and…

[A guest blog post by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. Gayle is the founder / CEO of CareerCup, and the author of Cracking the Coding Interview (Amazon.com’s #1 best-selling interview book) and The Google Resume. Gayle has worked a software engineer for Microsoft, Apple and Google, and served on Google’s…

Thirteen days ago, Marty Schoch and I created an empty directory called cbfs and started typing some go code into it. The idea was to create an answer to the frequent question, “how do I store large items in Couchbase?” I think we’re both pretty pleased with the results and would like to share what…

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At Scalyr, we’re building a large-scale storage system for timeseries and log data (see Introducing Scalyr Logs). To make good design decisions, we need hard data about EC2 I/O performance. Plenty of data has been published on this topic, but we couldn’t really find the answers we needed. Most…

On the way to the Apple Store today to buy AppleCare+ for my wife’s new iPhone 5, we passed the new Microsoft Store, coincidentally in the middle of their Surface with Windows RT launch. (That is actually the product’s name. “Surface with Windows RT”.) They had set up a table and an Xbox demo in the…

You are here: Home » Journal A Letter from a Scared Actress. A few years ago, a message came in to this website on the FAQ line from a young actress from Georgia (the one from the former USSR, not the State with Atlanta in it) called Anna Gurji. She sent a link to her webpage and to films she had…

Do you have a child that loves to create their own games? Check out this article from Chicago Toy & Game Fair on... http://t.co/NyaPYzFx

If you spend a lot of time typing plain text, writing programs or HTML, you can save much of that time by using a good editor and using it effectively. This paper will present guidelines and hints for doing your work more quickly and with fewer mistakes. The open source text editor Vim (Vi IMproved)…

Adafruit has released a great Linux distro and way to get kids into programming the Raspberry PI - http://t.co/aO3L4g6W - #edtech #stem

My little girl’s shown a keen interest in what I do for a job amongst other things recently. She’s a great reader and writer for her age and so I started looking around for a simple scripting language or similar that I could teacher her. Now the thing to remember about kids is this, no matter how…

WETA sends Valve the best gift ever... http://t.co/JShtRMRf #portal2 #geeksareawesome

When I was a kid with a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), sometimes my games wouldn’t load. But I, like all kids, knew the secret: take out the game cartridge, blow on the contacts, and put it back in. And it seemed to work. (When it failed, I’d just keep trying until it worked.) But looking…

"Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged" http://t.co/MzlnpXio

People ask me often why I have decided that I’d be writing the bulk of my new code in Go, which I started programming in November of 2011 while attending Hacker School. At that time, concurrency was a very hot topic in Hacker School, and we were all trying out different ways of writing concurrent…

An image from Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures from Chess to Role-Playing Games (Image: Unreason Press) There aren’t many comprehensive and in-depth books that chart the vast and complex history of tabletop role-playing and simulation…

Everything you need know about the Wii U http://t.co/5uF18SdE by @KyleOrl

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April 2001This essay developed out of conversations I've had with several other programmers about why Java smelled suspicious. It's not a critique of Java! It is a case study of hacker's radar.Over time, hackers develop a nose for good (and bad) technology. I thought it might be interesting to try…

Photo: Wikipedia Few people have seen the ups and downs more up close and personally than Kevin Rose, partner at Google Ventures and cofounder of Digg, the social news site that could have been Reddit but faded and is now trying for a comeback under new owner Betaworks. In an interview at the…

Photograph by Universal Pictures via IMDB. I remember the day my agent called and told me he was sending me a new script. I had just landed several movies in a row, and agents believe in one thing more than luck—momentum. He wanted to keep it rolling. The messenger arrived with a big envelope. I…

Click for full photo gallery: Joss Whedon Joss Whedon has the kind of credibility that only comes from repeated failure. To his intensely devoted fans, Whedon is nothing less than a genius, the hyperliterate auteur who created the cult hit “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and would have minted a…

Preview based on a production Canon EOS 650D with firmware 1.0.1 The Canon EOD 650D / Rebel T4i is the company's latest addition to its novice-oriented 'Rebel' series. With more than two decades of continuous success in its film and digital incarnations, these little SLRs have been improved and…

How Pixar Almost Lost Toy Story 2 To A Bad Backup http://t.co/ev190S1K

The battle of podcasting was to get access to the distribution channel for anyone who wanted it. Mission accomplished. http://t.co/8iVzHKFF

eBay Eng : Cassandra Data Modeling Best Practices, Part 1 http://t.co/c36QYyFO

I applied for internships at several tech companies this year, including Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Twilio, Bloomberg, and Fog Creek. Below, I describe the interview processes of all these companies. To potential applicants, this article will provide all the questions I received in these…

♻ Lock-Free Algorithms: How Intel X86_64 Processors and Their Memory Model Work http://t.co/kxKYVvS9 #NoSQLtheory

Cassandra is an excellent fit for time series data, and it’s widely used for storing many types of data that follow the time series pattern: performance metrics, fleet tracking, sensor data, logs, financial data (pricing and ratings histories), user activity, and so on. A great introduction to this…

Friday, March 14, 2008 at 3:04AM A thoughtful reader recently suggested creating a series of posts based on real-life problems people have experienced and the solutions they've created to slay the little beasties. It's a great idea. Often we learn best from great trials and tribulations. I'll start…

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BSD vs. Linux http://t.co/O42Kn79H

John Lasseter on Steve Jobs http://t.co/vyBPGtQJ (See? Steve didn't always wear jeans and black mock turtlenecks...)

Twenty-four years ago today, I had a very bad day. On August 8, 1988, I was a senior in high school. I was working my after school and weekend job at Safeway as a cashier, when the store manager suddenly walked over and said I better stop ringing up customers and talk to my mother on the store phone…

Ouya’s video game console Kickstarter tops $5M raised so far (exclusive interview) | VentureBeat http://t.co/WLqLEa0Z

Well just in case you were wondering how to derive the sum of squares up to n as a function of n...here it it is! http://t.co/LJu0HHLV

You’re in a rush, so I’ll summarize the rest for you: The Google Cloud Platform is the biggest deal in IT since Amazon launched EC2 and will cause the cloud market to explode, and the private cloud market to wither and die. The Google Cloud Platform, now synonymous with Google Compute Engine, is the…

One of the questions we always get asked at meet-ups and conversations with other engineers is, “what’s your stack?” We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level; you can look forward to more in-depth descriptions of some of these systems in the…

Time To First Byte is often used as a measure of how quickly a web server responds to a request and common web testing services report it. The faster it is the better the web server (in theory). But the theory isn't very good. Wikipedia defines Time To First Byte as "the duration from the virtual…

Home > Archive > 2012 > July > 7 Previous / Next Twitter is a Corporate API All of this is my opinion. I have been wrong before. Your mileage may vary. A lot has been written in the last week about Twitter's API and developer concerns that it would soon be closed to apps that are platform-specific…