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Thu, Jun. 05 Electoral Vote Predictor
via Electoral-vote.com by (author unknown) on June 04, 2008
The Washington Post saysHillary Clinton will concede to Barack Obama Saturday.Yesterday, the Clinton camp announced that the statement would come Friday, but they changedtheir mind.It must be veryhard for her. She has wanted to be President for her entire adult life and came within a hair of at leastgetting the nomination. Last year, Obama was hesitant to run since he knew he would face...
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LinkedIn: 99% Pure Java
via Blogging Roller by roller on June 04, 2008
Nick Lothiantweeted about this JavaOne presentation on LinkedIn because it mentions the ROME RSS/Atom feed parser.I'm really sorry I missed it at JavaOne. What's particularly interesting to me are the diagrams that explain how the LinkedIn architecture has evolved to scale up to 22 million users. Here's an example:
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JNI FAQ: UnsatisfiedLinkError
via Weiqi Gao's Observations by (author unknown) on June 04, 2008
... a hybrid C++/JNI/Java environment, usually prefixed with "I'm trying to run our test suite, but am getting the following error. Any ideas?"Here's my response in a email yesterday, posted here through the "Pull email response up to blog entry" refactoring pattern (the answer is Linux specific, but can be translated to other OSes with minimal effort):This is the part that trips up p...
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Neat organization at new NYC bookstore
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on June 04, 2008
Yesterday, my pal Jess Hemerly happened upon Idlewild Books, a new travel bookstore in Manhattan with a terrific organizational scheme. It shelves guidebooks with travel literature related to that place. "So the Ireland section has a bunch of Ireland-related travel guides plus Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," Jess says. I found a Publishers Weekly article about the opening of...
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What Google Looks For in Potential Acquisitions
via ReadWriteWeb by Richard MacManus on May 29, 2008
Today I attended the XMediaLab event in Wellington New Zealand (my hometown). Tom Duterme, who is in the New Business Development group at Google in Mountain View, was here talking about innovation. Tom's job is to travel around the world looking for acquisitions for Google, so it was interesting to hear what things he looks for in startups.Imagination is key, he advised -- see the Einstein...
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Java News Brief (JNB): ANTLR 3.0
via Weiqi Gao's Observations by (author unknown) on June 03, 2008
This month's OCIJava News Brief (JNB) article is out. In this article, Mark Volkmann continues his effort in getting proficient with ANTLR 3.0. (Actually, you need ANTLR 3.1b1 to compile the grammars in the article.)Mark Volkmann: ANTLR 3.0 by R. Mark Volkmann, Partner/Software Engineer Object Computing, Inc. (OCI)Table of ContentsPart I - OverviewIntroduction To ANTLRANTLR OverviewUse...
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Sunset on Mars
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on June 02, 2008
Scott Beale says: "As part of their Image of the Day series, NASA posted a beautiful image of a sunset on Mars sent by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on May 19, 2005." Link
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Gears Future APIs: Camera API
via techno.blog("Dion") by dion on June 02, 2008
A core vision of Gears is that the same APIs are available on the desktop, and mobile versions.That being said, there are APIs that will potentially make more sense on one platform or another. One of those that has garnered excitement on the mobile platform is the Location API.Another is the newly proposed Camera API that “enables a script to trigger the camera viewfinder and allow a picture or...
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At long last, real-time stock quotes are here
via Official Google Blog by Karen on June 01, 2008
Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome, and Katie Jacobs Stanton, Principal, New Business DevelopmentWe're very excited to tell you that real-time quotes on NASDAQ securities are now available on Google Finance. This is an important (and way overdue) development for everyone who consumes financial information. Historically, real-time stock data was not freely and widely accessible....
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Grandfather builds Web browser for autistic boy
via Hacker News by (author unknown) on June 02, 2008
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