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Hacking Debt

The term technical debt describes the accumulated effect of short term decisions in a software development process. In order to meet a deadline, for...

0 replies - 2564 views - 04/25/13 by John Cook in Articles

Data News: Dangerous Predictions, Killing Jargon, and More

Following previous posts on this blog (# 46 and 47), a couple of articles that are worth reading,The end of the Reinhart-Rogoffing story,...

0 replies - 801 views - 04/24/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Being a Data Scientist at Tumblr and Kickstarter

Data scientists from Tumblr, Kickstarter, and other sites discuss leveraging big data in a startup situation, in this panel from DataGotham 2012:

0 replies - 1350 views - 04/24/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

IP Address Resolving Now Optional

This is a neat feature. Whenever we see an IP address in your logs, we do automatic IP resolving so that you see immeadiately who is behind it. This is...

0 replies - 595 views - 04/24/13 by Trevor Parsons in Articles

Playful and Purposeful, Pure and Applied

From Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera:… applied science, purposeful and determined, and pure science, playful and freely curious, continuously...

0 replies - 682 views - 04/24/13 by John Cook in Articles

Apple WWDC 2013 Announced

One of the most awaited Apple events of the year, the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) has been announced -- it will be held in San Francisco from...

0 replies - 485 views - 04/24/13 by Senthil Kumar in Articles

Realtime Analytics for Big Data: A Facebook Case Study

This deep dive into analytics at Facebook explores their choice of HBase over Cassandra, and how to learn from Facebook's choices.

0 replies - 2813 views - 04/24/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Dev of the Week: Lakshan Perera

Every week, we feature a new developer/blogger from the DZone community here and in our newsletter, catching up to find out what they're working on...

2 replies - 7071 views - 04/24/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

What We (Developers) Take For Granted

A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation over dinner with a few fellow local development community members. As it always does, the conversation eventually...

2 replies - 4470 views - 04/24/13 by Casey Watson in Articles

Privacy is Dead. Time to Prepare.

Personal privacy is over.The world knows more about you than you do and soon it will know even more.We can keep fighting the battle to secure our privacy or we...

1 replies - 3012 views - 04/24/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Why j for Imaginary Unit?

Electrical engineers use j for the square root of -1 while nearly everyone else uses i. The usual explanation is that EE’s do this because...

0 replies - 1121 views - 04/23/13 by John Cook in Articles

Maven Deploy to Nexus

1. Overview In a previous article, I discussed how a Maven project can locally install a third party jar that has not yet been deployed on Maven...

0 replies - 1947 views - 04/23/13 by Eugen Paraschiv in Articles

MySQL Stored Procedure

These days I'm involved with a new project in my office and in this project we are using mysql store procedures heavily. So I decided to write up a post on...

0 replies - 327 views - 04/23/13 by Prathap Givanth... in Articles

My New Forecasting Book is Finally Finished

My new online fore­cast­ing book (writ­ten with George Athana­sopou­los) is now com­pleted. I pre­vi­ously described it on this...

0 replies - 1779 views - 04/23/13 by Rob J Hyndman in Articles

In Agile, Put Retrospective First

This morning I was speaking with some of our friends at VersionOne at the Mile High Agile Conference. We were discussing Agile practices and the...

0 replies - 2232 views - 04/23/13 by Eric Minick in Articles