Round of Links

• Apache Hadoop Wins Terabyte Sort Benchmark "One of Yahoo's Hadoop clusters sorted 1 terabyte of data in 209 seconds...This is the first time that either a Java or an open source program has won." There were just under 1000 nodes, the benchmark results are hosted by HP (a tad more detail here).


• Microsoft buys Powerset one of the interesting things is that they use Hadoop (see their blog). It's hard to tell whether this is bad or good for Hadoop.


• Google vs Microsoft - oh for structure.


• Tom talking about GridGain from his presentation in February. C++ isn't as productive as Java?


• Applets are back (according to Sun).


• Why commenting is for n00bs. "And Haskell, OCaml and their ilk are part of a 45-year-old static-typing movement within academia to try to force people to model everything. Programmers hate that. These languages will never, ever enjoy any substantial commercial success, for the exact same reason the Semantic Web is a failure. You can't force people to provide metadata for everything they do. They'll hate you."


• Some interesting discussion on Web 2.0 and the future of the web.


• Rich text editor for browsers. Not free though.


• Linked data and what it is.


• ThoughtWorks Podcasts (the REST talk was what drew me to it).


• Turtle specification. I've been looking at this for serialization of RDF molecules but it seems that you can't have blank nodes as objects using the nested syntax.


• Semantic Web for bioinformatics.


• Data structure stuff: Linear Bloom Filters, Bloom filters for Spell Checking, Optimal Bloom Filter replacements and scalable btree and B-tries for Disk-based String Management.