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Factual’s Global Local Schema 11 May 2011 | 09:00 pm
We have a number of primary data directives at Factual: one is to create a global coverage of the world’s POI and businesses. At the time of writing we manage over thirty-one million entities in thirt...
Factual’s Global Local Schema 11 May 2011 | 05:00 pm
We have a number of primary data directives at Factual: one is to create a global coverage of the world’s POI and businesses. At the time of writing we manage over thirty-one million entities in thirt...
Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers (Part 2 — Macros FTW) 20 Apr 2011 | 05:53 pm
How long does it take to change your language? Sun once estimated that it takes on average 18 months to evaluate and approve proposals for changes to the Java language. That estimate doesn’t include ...
Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers (Part 2 — Macros FTW) 20 Apr 2011 | 01:53 pm
How long does it take to change your language? Sun once estimated that it takes on average 18 months to evaluate and approve proposals for changes to the Java language. That estimate doesn’t include b...
Practical Hadoop Streaming – Dealing with Brittle Code 5 Apr 2011 | 05:20 am
It is a universal truth that our own code is perfect and that had we simply written every line of our project, every library, none of this would be happening. Let’s say that you’ve decided you’re read...
Practical Hadoop Streaming – Dealing with Brittle Code 5 Apr 2011 | 01:20 am
It is a universal truth that our own code is perfect and that had we simply written every line of our project, every library, none of this would be happening. Let’s say that you’ve decided you’re read...
Is that a fact? 3 Mar 2011 | 08:21 am
One of the product management interview questions I’ve been asking of recent is this: “how tall was Napoleon?” The question requires a prop – a print out of search results for how tall was napoleon. ...
Is that a fact? 3 Mar 2011 | 03:21 am
One of the product management interview questions I’ve been asking of recent is this: “how tall was Napoleon?” The question requires a prop – a print out of search results for how tall was napoleon. T...
Data Testing Challenge 15 Feb 2011 | 09:30 pm
Testing code is hard, but testing data is even harder. When writing code, you’d like to be able to test the “happy path”, error conditions, throughput, thread-safety, fault-tolerance, etc. Back in th...
Data Testing Challenge 15 Feb 2011 | 04:30 pm
Testing code is hard, but testing data is even harder. When writing code, you’d like to be able to test the “happy path”, error conditions, throughput, thread-safety, fault-tolerance, etc. Back in the...
