Category Archives: Technology

Amazon’s cloud is the world’s 42nd fastest supercomputer

I posted about this on Twit­ter, but it’s still a lit­tle astonding.

November 16, 2011 – 12:45 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Computer Science, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy

First Adobe kills Mobile Flash and now Flex looks like it’s about to wither away.

November 16, 2011 – 12:35 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, General News, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Analyzing Network Characteristics Using JavaScript And The DOM, Part 1

Pretty sure I would never have thought of attempt­ing mea­sur­ing the speed of the TCP pack­est with JavaScript.

November 14, 2011 – 11:51 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Computer Science, Programming, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Stanford researchers outsmart captcha codes

The only two that came out unscathed, Google and ReCaptcha.

November 14, 2011 – 10:20 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Computer Science, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Apple launches iTunes Match: music hoarders need not apply

Seems like a great deal if you either have a lot of music that is in cruddy ver­sions or are away from wher­ever most of your music is a lot.

November 14, 2011 – 6:04 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in General News, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

American Civil Liberties Union – It Was Close, But We Won: Viva Net Neutrality!

Yeah for Net Neu­tral­ity, boo for my State Sen­a­tor being the one who intro­duced this resolution.

November 10, 2011 – 9:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

GeekWire – Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated

Some really inter­est­ing stuff in here.

October 29, 2011 – 1:42 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off