Tag 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

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

DARPA Shredder Challenge

Neat chal­lenge, it would be cool to work on this prob­lem but image analy­sis is so far out of my area of expertise.

October 27, 2011 – 11:31 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Computer Science, Programming, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

BBC News – Blackberry PlayBook operating software update delayed

Who could have guessed that peo­ple would want native email, cal­en­dar and con­tacts apps?

October 26, 2011 – 9:33 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off