Some videos: www.vcasmo.com/user/drewconway

From Google-protobuffers, to extreme values to direct marketing data to soecial networking to large parallel problems, etc. ..

As usual the R-Journal (Volume 2/1, June 2010), has some good stuff, too. journal.r-project.org/current.html

www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/07/13/velocity-tcp-and-the-lower-bound-of-web-performance/

gold.approximity.com

New chart of the month, showing the slowly developing bull market in gold: gold.approximity.com/gold_charts.html

Make sure you check out this graph: DJIA during the 1987 crash gold.approximity.com/1987/DJIA.html

brainarray.mbni.med.umich.edu/brainarray/Rgpgpu/

www.martinarmstrong.org/economic_projections.htm

www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/05/20/2905304.htm

www.greenenergyinvestors.com/index.php?s=47bc29f8c5c432c86c879d7535e86675&showtopic=4411&st=2780&p=169037&#entry169037

Very interesting high performance challenge. We’re talking about hundreds of thousands of requests per second here that we need to handle!

If you are one of these guys that likes C/C++ coz you like to have control of what your code actually does and like to work in a team of brilliant nutcases, please do apply.

The ideal candidate:

• is pretty familiar with gcc and linux
• very open-minded and a good logical thinker
• familiar with ruby
• familiar with libevent
• familiar with nginx

This is for a TX Fort Worth based startup.

Please email your resume to jobs at simpli dot fi. No .doc, only txt or pdf.

Thanks to GetDigital for the great pic!