Many factors come into play when you want to win a horserace. Next to the fastest horse, there’s a
Month: March 2015
Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
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The Hiring Post — Quarrelsome
1. The software developer job interview doesn’t work. Companies should stop relying on them. The savviest teams will outcompete their peers by devising alternative hiring schemes. Years from now, we’ll look back at the 2015 developer interview as an anachronism, akin to hiring an orchestra …
Combining the power of R and D3.js – AE Blog
This post focuses on data processing with R and visualization with the D3 JavaScript library.
3.1 Announcement – Django REST framework
Is Most of Our DNA Garbage?
Biologists are feuding over the usefulness of our genetic material — and the fundamental sloppiness of life on earth.
Inside the Weird World of 3D Printed Body Parts
Startups in the U.S. are working on printing nipples and bits of liver tissue, while a Russian provocateur claims to hav…
The Northwestern research provides the first physiological evidence that real-world creativity may be…
The Northwestern research provides the first physiological evidence that real-world creativity may be associated with a reduced ability to filter “irrelevant” sensory information.
Research links creativity with inability to filter irrelevant sensory information
How we upgrade a live data center – Server Fault Blog
A few weeks ago we upgraded a lot of the core infrastructure in our New York (okay, it’s really in New Jersey now – but don’t tell anyone) data center. We love being open with everything we do (including infrastructure), and really consider it one of the best job perks we have.