Cafyn » geek http://cafyn.com Like Twitter, just longer. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:58:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Find out about recursion here: http://ww… http://cafyn.com/e/304 http://cafyn.com/e/304#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:13:44 +0000 kahwee http://cafyn.com/e/304 Find out about recursion here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recursion

Find out about recursion here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recursion

]]> http://cafyn.com/e/304/feed 2 Some geeky stuff on why the Iran electio… http://cafyn.com/e/236 http://cafyn.com/e/236#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:15:03 +0000 kahwee http://cafyn.com/e/236 Some geeky stuff on why the Iran election could have been rigged: http://incanter.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/chi-square-goodness-of-fit/

The results are suggested by applying the Benford’s Law.

[via Shayan]

]]> http://cafyn.com/e/236/feed 0 A couple of updates on Microsoft Bing: … http://cafyn.com/e/144 http://cafyn.com/e/144#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:00:10 +0000 kahwee http://cafyn.com/e/144 A couple of updates on Microsoft Bing:

- Bing API has been released with no usage quotas: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/06/08/microsoft-releases-bing-api-with-no-usage-quotas/
- Virtual Earth is no more as Bing Maps launches: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/06/10/goodbye-virtual-earth-hello-bing-maps/
- Bing’s #2 search engine reign (ahead of Yahoo) only lasted one day? http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/07/quick-peak-bings-reign-as-2-search-engine-lasted-one-day/

Supporting Bing is like cheering for the underdog. I recall back then when Netscape is king I was trumpeting Internet Explorer. And when Firefox got popular I was telling people only good things about Google Chrome when slamming Firefox for having too much unnecessary features. And when ICQ was popular I was spreading the then MSN Messenger (now Windows Live Messenger). There’s something about the underdogs that I couldn’t ignore – this hope to see a David-Goliath moment.

And now for Bing, I not-so-secretly hope for its success. We shall see.

]]> http://cafyn.com/e/144/feed 0 Oh nos, Twitter is heading toward someth… http://cafyn.com/e/143 http://cafyn.com/e/143#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:39:52 +0000 kahwee http://cafyn.com/e/143 Oh nos, Twitter is heading toward something similar to a Y2k bug. Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647. It’s at around 2,113,183,266 right now. That’s a site dedicated to this: http://www.twitpocalypse.com/

ProgrammableWeb explains:

The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive?

Every tweet in Twitter’s system is uniquely identified by an integer value. For example, the system’s very first public tweet, “just setting up my twttr,” by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is tweet number 20 (presumably tweets 0 through 19 were used for testing). The maximum signed 32-bit integer value for most database applications is 2,147,483,648.

Source: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/06/09/the-twitpocalypse-is-near-will-your-twitter-client-survive/

Everyone should find some good shelter and hide. And consider food rationing too. And slow down your Twitters, we can just live a day longer.

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