The Computer Language Benchmarks Game is a collection of 429 programs, consisting of 13 benchmark reimplemented across 33 programming languages. It is a fantastic resource if you are trying to compare programming languages quantitatively. Which, oddly, very few people seems to be interested in doing.
"I was reading David Cramer's tip to use JSONField in Django to be able to store arbitrary fields in a SQL database. Nice. But is it fast enough? Well, I can't answer that but I did look into the difference in read/write performance between simplejson, cPickle and marshal."
Felix von Leitner's original paper on BSD and Linux io performance.
Dan Kegel's updated paper on high-performance network io programming on Unix.
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This is likely going to spread like wildfire, and it isn’t even finished yet: Information Architects has released the final beta for the fourth iteration of its awesome Web Trends Map series. This is a great visualization of current Internet trends, and how companies and individuals fit into it.
"I found the Google translate is pretty cool. I would like to use it to translate some text from my computer in batch(in script). Do you know any way that I could use it easily from shell?" And here we go...
Looks like a dutch datacenter providing virtual private servers (VPS) got owned. The community-driven Soleus Hosts has exported their iSCSI targets world-writeable, unless some bored dutch guy demonstrated the seriousness of this incident by replacing all the ssh-keys on the compromised boxes. (via bugblue)
AddressBookSync is a free Mac OS X application to download profile pictures and other Facebook data to Address Book cards
That leaked U2 album is causing all sorts of trouble. The unreleased album, which is due out on March 3, found its way onto BitTorrent and was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. That, apparently, sent music industry lawyers over at the Recording Industry Association of America into a fit. As a result, word is going around that the RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user’s listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. And Last.fm, which is owned by CBS, actually handed the data over to the RIAA.
