Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-24-2010

[andrewducker]

• Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site
  (tags: facebook architecture performance scalability software opensource)
• The effects on children's preconceptions of meeting real scientists
  (tags: science drawing feminism gender education)
• How HFT Quote Stuffing Caused The Market Crash Of May 6, And Threatens To Destroy The Entire Market At Any Moment
  (tags: finance shares)
• No link to child cancer from phone masts.
  (tags: health mobile radiation science technology telecoms)
• One very good reason not to go into Science - at least, not at CalTech
  (tags: science employment usa)
• Nokia N8 to be final Symbian N Series device, all further devices will be MeeGo (Linux) based
  (tags: nokia mobile symbian)
• C# Closures Explained
  (tags: c# code tutorial closures .net)
• The small print in the budget about housing benefit
  (tags: uk politics economics)
• iPhone 3G Performance with iOS 4.0 is terrible
  (tags: iphone apple)
• "Vincent and the Doctor" and mental illness
  Pretty much every depressed person on my flist seemed to love this episode. (I loved it too)
  (tags: psychology brain depression DrWho)
• Is the World Ready for the Waterless Urinal?
  (tags: toilets technology)
• Meme of the day: Playing chess on a rollercoaster.
  (tags: chess xkcd funny photos geek)
• Gay men's bilateral brains better at remembering faces than straight men. About as good as straight women.
  (tags: gay brain psychology)
• Natural hot reservoirs harnessed by scientists to service Pennine eco-village
  (tags: ecology energy)
• New government housing policy: make people homeless
  (tags: government uk housing)
• An open letter to the UK media about coalition governments
  (tags: uk politics media)

Comments

[matgb]

I had no idea FB contributed that much to so many OS projects. I knew they used stuff, and contributed to memcache, but that much extra stuff is impressive.

Shame they've taken/created so much good stuff, then covered it over with a layer of, well, Facebook.

(this post has too many good links, I like)