The black hole…
In the recent times you should be hearing a lot on map-reduce. I first heard of the term in last year Codebits. Although I wasn’t there, there was a talk with that title. I confess that knowing that map and reduce are common functional operators on different programming languages, I did not look to the […]
I really would like to know what is the time to live (TTL) of Google indexes. This blog of me changed design and back end in July (OK, end of July). We are in the beginning of February. Being a nice boy, this counts as six months. And, after six months, I still have lots […]
I hate stupid software. I really hate it. Specially stupid software that doesn’t have a rollback mechanism for their faults. Installed Papers demo version to try to manage papers. The application seems interesting and is not too expensive. I really thought on buying it. But now I do not intend to. During first use, Papers […]
I am trying to get rid of a spammer twitter (pigeonpoll) for about four days. Look at the following image. That is what happens. I say I do not want to follow it anymore, and twitter says, ok, you are not following pigeonpoll anymore, but you are still following it. Just because I got enough […]
Do not know if you know that SWIFT is a company responsible for financial services around the world. They also own the SWIFT codes to identify banks around the world. But they do now know much about database normalization. You can find entries of “JP Morgan Chase” and “JPMorgan Chase”. After searching for the first […]