tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959892768910626667.comments2019-10-17T07:12:04.906-04:00MusingsHoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18207044645655351666noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959892768910626667.post-64784075865914965812010-07-14T18:43:38.666-04:002010-07-14T18:43:38.666-04:00The idea that Veracity can handle datasets the siz...The idea that Veracity can handle datasets the size of Data.gov remains to be seen. One of the obvious applications I can see includes syncing data between your smartphone, your laptop, and cloud data. Another is having a decentralized 'Like' button -- not just that is no longer beholden to an organization such as Facebook, but also that you choose who you share the database of your "Hoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207044645655351666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959892768910626667.post-73272220598944910702010-03-16T16:42:59.771-04:002010-03-16T16:42:59.771-04:00Another followup: "Integrating Composite Appl...Another followup: "Integrating Composite Applications on the Cloud Using SCA" http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/223800269;jsessionid=COL4HHOETTRRVQE1GHRSKH4ATMY32JVNHoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207044645655351666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959892768910626667.post-7077381133032631022010-02-23T21:06:02.032-05:002010-02-23T21:06:02.032-05:00An interesting application to "Adaptive Effic...An interesting application to "Adaptive Efficiency" comes from crowdsourcing. RentACoder.com, Elance.com, connects contractors with contractees. The Amazon Turk shows a second generation of this concept, with micro-tasks.<br /><br />The most intriguing scheme I have come across so far is CrowdFlower -- http://crowdflower.com/general/examples . The irony here is that the techniques theseHoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207044645655351666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959892768910626667.post-13966578550178787662010-02-20T18:24:02.079-05:002010-02-20T18:24:02.079-05:00There was (and still is) a pervasive meme that &qu...There was (and still is) a pervasive meme that "Rails doesn't scale". Yet others say that it does because it "scales developer time" ... whatever that means. Ultimately, we have two context for scale: scaling as a measure of allocation efficiency and scaling as a measure of adaptive efficiency. <br /><br />"Rails does not scale" because Ruby MRI runs slow on Hoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207044645655351666noreply@blogger.com