dennyabraham

how does this compare to a system like https://github.com/erlware/faxien ?

For a client, I recently had to evaluate a number of Rails content management systems. For their specific needs, they chose Radiant because of its large plugin ecosystem and its relative maturity.

I soon discovered that despite being the rails solution that best fit the project, it still lagged far behind wordpress and other similarly battle-hardened software. Most of the other options didn't fare better.

Unless you need interoperability with Ruby libraries, need direct access to ActiveRe* datasources, or you have a well-defined, tightly-limited use case, I'd recommend going with wordpress or something equally mature.

thanks, there's nothing too unexpected here.

Is the license mentioned in this blog post http://www.touchqode.com/blog/009_analytics_and_licence_expl... available on the website anywhere?

If there are any onerous terms, I'd like to know what they are prior to installation.

interesting, but i'm not sure this is the whole story.

google maps's stroke width for roads seems to be based on some measure of traffic or connectedness. from my experience, roads that see fewer cars and fewer intersections tend to show up less prominently. since google has vector data for maps, my guess is they algorithmically weigh and display routes and this leads to dead ends being fainter than other roads

if i'm not mistaken, the majority of those organizations still rely heavily on relational datastores, except in the case of exceptional workloads. in addition, i believe facebook has since migrated away from cassandra to the hadoop stack for their messaging platform, though they primarily use mysql (or its successors).

SQL is being replaced in niches that strain its model. elsewhere, it remains steadfast.

From working in extremely small things myself, I can recommend a few things:

1. Write tests around everything you have the time to.

2. Communicate frequently.

3. Try to write things in vertical (shippable) slices.

4. Work in short iterations.

5. Keep what works, drop what doesn't

Ultimately, the most important element to reap the benefits of 'agile' was #5.

When I saw the 'personal appeal', I thought Wikipedia was to shut down if they didn't receive funds. After reading the letter, I realized they were in no more danger than any other nonprofit. I wonder if others who donated did so because of what that sort of advertisement implied to them.

tldr; I feel like wikipedia cried wolf this year.

The title is misleading. The abstract of the cited paper http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2010/10/18/jme.2010.038125 says that retracted papers from the US published in PubMed had a higher ratio fraudulent to erroneous retractions than those of other nations. Given that the study targets English language publications only and that its results showed that groups of repeat offenders are responsible for the majority of fraudulent retractions, global statements about the likelihood of fake research originating from US scientists cannot be accurately drawn.

I've heard that diapers.com's warehouses are fully automated. If this isn't already how amazon's warehouses are set up, is this infrastructure (and the know-how to reproduce it) part of the reason behind the acquisition?

I didn't realize all pages were cached. I figured they were indexed and either discarded or tossed into storage

There must be a mistranslation in the article or embellishment on the part of the involved companies. How can QQ have a billion active users? When last I saw, there were only 350M internet users in China. Is it possible that the majority of their userbase is extranational? Or are they counting total accounts created?