Jack Zduriencik continues to get high marks from me. He definitely seems to have a plan.

Quoted: The idea is that the team will receive video of their opponents and have workers in the new department break down each pitch from a statistical viewpoint. They can grade the break on curve balls, tendencies to throw certain pitches in certain situations, figure out what hitters like to swing at, that sort of thing.

We have strong indicators that http://derekslager.com/blog/ is written by a man (93%).

Quoted: GenderAnalyzer uses Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman. Behind the scene, a text classifier has been trained on 2000 blogs written by men and woman. In our lab it seems to works pretty well, we want to see how it performs on the web!

LOL ... prevent drunk emailing.

In theory, this can do an hour's worth of work in one second. That is a lot of horsepower. Glad I'm not paying the power bill.

Quoted: • 4000 nodes
• 2 quad core Xeons @ 2.5ghz per node
• 4x1TB SATA disks per node
• 8G RAM per node
• 1 gigabit ethernet on each node
• 40 nodes per rack
• 4 gigabit ethernet uplinks from each rack to the core (unfortunately a misconfiguration, we usually do 8 uplinks)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5)
• Sun Java JDK 1.6.0_05-b13
• So that's well over 30,000 cores with nearly 16PB of raw disk!

Wow, no wonder I haven't heard Howard's name much this season.

Quoted: Nobody has ever hit 40+ home runs with a sub-.800 OPS.

Some good comments on Joel's "Smart and Get Things Done" mantra.

This is a fact! Great post.

Quoted: Before I wrap up, I’d like to point out that if the title of this post sounds suspect to you, consider it a huge red flag. If the thought of switching editors doesn’t fill you with quite a bit of dread, what you’re using now is almost certainly underpowered, and you definitely haven’t customized it enough. If this is you, take a look at one of the editors I’ve been discussing here, and take the time to learn it–I promise it’s worth the trouble. Just, uh…choose carefully.

Update to previous "fave" with broken link.

Quoted: Perfection kills. Prototype javascript framework tutorials and examples, tips and tricks on modern front-end web development