Stories by yarapavan

Charles P Thacker (MSR) wins 2009 ACM Turing Award

Has the Spam War Been Won?

Kavka’s toxin puzzle

The Powers and Perils of Intuition

When is the right time to commit changes?

GFS: Evolution on Fast-Forward

Yahoo Labs: Learning to Rank Challenge

The Trouble With Web-Traffic Numbers

Google's Chief Economist Hal Varian: Computer Mediated Transactions [pdf]

Facebook Granted Patent on the News Feed

I love eventual consistency but...

PyCon 2010: What every developer should know about database scalability

Draft: MapReduce Algorithm Design

Twitter (or Failover Twitter) runs on Google App Engine?

Can you really MapReduce natural language?

Computing Invisibility

Jevons paradox

Clay Shirky — Doing work, or Doing Work?

Google’s Walk in the PARC

Those maps at the beginning of books, or, a few words about teaching