Tag Archive: fun

Mar 27

Nifty Things for Week Ending 27 March

Geekly Toys & Games B-EX, B the Flying Car, B GO Beyond Riding on street Car tracks — This looks like fun! Put a train horn on a bike and confuse everyone Hardware Rugged POD | Imagination is more important than knowledge — Open Hardware project for running waterproof, weather hardened servers without a data …

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Mar 17

Pi on a Pi for Pi Day

EDIT: The metrics below are skewed. Not all JVM’s are created equal. For updated metrics on the Pi, please see JVM Choice Matters (a lot!). What better thing to do on Pi Day than to calculate Pi? I figured while I’m at it, I might as well do some performance testing of the Raspberry Pi …

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Dec 26

Nifty Things for Week of 26 December

Arts and Crafts Albert Einstein and Marie Curie as snowflakes? Genius Fun Stuff The 2014 Chemistry Advent Calendar Data Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase vs Couchbase vs OrientDB vs Aerospike vs Neo4j vs Hypertable vs ElasticSearch vs Accumulo vs VoltDB vs Scalaris comparison generatedata.com — generate “random” datasets. It …

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