Ok, it the last month I’ve used every one of these languages and most of them for the same project. Some highlights: Java — decompilers are very useful in reverse engineering C++ — std::string in naive use sucks for performance (wrote a pooled string ala Java String — performance increased by 10x) Python – is easy to …

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I recently got yet another notification that somebody was following a feed of mine… every now and then you go, who is this person, why are they interested in my stream of ramblings. So, I looked and found this wonderful statement on their linked in page: Track record in establishing a vision, identifying opportunities, …

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I’ve been playing with clustering my email, just a sample set of 300 or so messages. It’s been a while since I’ve done any “NLP” work and it’s really quite fun. Some learnings: As the dimentionality of space increases everything starts to sit at the origin: initially you might have 120 unique words in an email message, …

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Gosh it’s nice to have a job that doesn’t require writing performance reviews, but I still have friends who encounter them on a regular basis. This is a problem sort of like taxes and in desperate need of reform. The original idea was some what sound, though you might argue it was tied to bureaucracy — the requirement …

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I’m not really going to rant against relational databases, but this is more thinking about why technologies like CouchDB and SimpleDB are useful. Some quick reference note: Amazon SimpleDB and CouchDB compared Eventual Consistency Is Not That Scarry Falling Walls – VC view Many things can be said about databases but …

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Was reading a posting about Trends in web development according to Google one section got me me thinking. Their trends show end user behavior as it relates to popularity. However, when I think about language popularity I think in terms of programs written or lines of code produced… The Google trend I think is a …

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