O'Reilly Radar
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O'Reilly Media's technology blog, covering web performance, software practice, data, and industry trends, with posts by Tim O'Reilly and others.
What HN saysHN commenters mostly cite it as a feed worth following and as a source for articles, such as one on the WeatherSpark visualization.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles16 people · 202 points · first shared 2009 · 31 comments on HN
- 2Homepage7 people · first shared 2008
- 3Bing and Google Agree: Slow Pages Lose Users6 people · 4 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 4The Sizzling Sound of Music- Preference for MP3 like Vinyl6 people · 1 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 5IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted file on the device5 people · 417 points · first shared 2011 · 190 comments on HN
- 6Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps5 people · 22 points · first shared 2009 · 4 comments on HN
- 7Resume Driven Development5 people · 6 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 8Tim O'Reilly: How I Failed4 people · 286 points · first shared 2013 · 74 comments on HN
- 9Questioning the Lambda Architecture4 people · 178 points · first shared 2014 · 12 comments on HN
- 10Dennis Ritchie Day4 people · 122 points · first shared 2011 · 6 comments on HN
- 11What is data science?4 people · 78 points · first shared 2010 · 26 comments on HN
- 12Tim O'Reilly on The State of the Internet Operating System4 people · 49 points · first shared 2010 · 5 comments on HN
- 13Building Data Startups4 people · 8 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 14What is Node.js4 people · 7 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 15The end of social3 people · 183 points · first shared 2011 · 41 comments on HN
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scrabbles · 2011-05-13
I look forward to seeing updates to these feeds, though they aren't always daily.
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The various "planet" feeds (planet lisp, haskell) and "r bloggers" are always great sources of news too.
0xbadcafebee · 2024-04-30
This happens so often on HN, and it is so god damn frustrating. I'm literally a fucking expert, telling you the best thing to do, and explain why, and I get downvoted for it. The next person who tells me in a comment "explain your opinion! you're not helping!" when I don't write an entire novel to justify my position, I'm going to link back to this thread. Pointless.
I've gone to the trouble of googling these articles for you (it took me a whole 30 seconds!). Please read any of…
rckoepke · 2021-04-02
I really miss the old weatherspark. It was extremely performant and also had by far the best/most useful UI visualizations of any weather app to date.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/09/weatherspark-weather-data-visualizati…
https://kk.org/cooltools/weatherspark/
As I understand it, they didn't have the money to migrate from Flash to HTML5 and the current site is a shadow of it's former self.
ignoramous · 2021-03-02
Speaking of Infrastructure, it is amazing that the initial set of the Apache BigData projects started at Internet Archive [0] whilst Alexa Internet, a startup Brewster Kahle sold to Amazon in 1999, formed the basis of Alexa Web Information Service, one of the first ''AWS'' products [1] which is still up? https://aws.amazon.com/awis/
[0] http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/04/coming-full-circle-with-bigtable-and-…
[1] https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee204/Publications/Amazon-EE353-2008-1.…
pkaler · 2018-07-05
So, funny story. I was in YVR waiting for a flight when I decided to get my shoes shined.
The shoe shine had been reading a manga take on the bible. Just a regular guy that in another life could be a computer programmer if the circumstances were different.
He asked me what I do: mobile apps. And he went on and on about how his favourite iPhone app downloaded all of Wikipedia but it didn't work on the latest version of iOS anymore.
That app was Patrick Collison's Encyclopedia app:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/oscon-preview-how-patrick-co.html
SEJeff · 2017-11-29
Here is a great article on just this. It is commonly known as the "gpl loophole", which RMS is entirely fine with. If you want to prevent this, you license the software the with Affero GPL, which explicitly forbids this.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/07/the-gpl-and-software-as-a-serv.html
Amazon / Google / etc are not redistributing the software as it is running on their servers in their environment, therefor, there is nothing wrong with the existing licenses.
jkldotio · 2015-09-22
It's such a ridiculous line. Even putting aside that many laptops and desktops cost over $1000 Intel spends over $10 billion a year on R&D and machines.[0] Add to that the kind of engineering that goes into the physical form of a Thinkpad or a Macbook Air, both of which are far more impressive that a stationary monolith. Then add the kind of engineering that goes into a modern Ubuntu, Windows or Mac OSX. Someone estimated as far back as 2008 that just the Linux kernel alone represents over 1 billion dollars of R&D.[1]
[0]http://fortune.com/2014/11/17/top-10-research-development/
[1]http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/10/linux-kernel-worth-1bn.html
jgrahamc · 2015-06-22
Yes. That's partly how I got the Alan Turing apology in 2009. Really helps to get celebrities on board, particularly because it gives the media something to write about.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/09/how-alan-turing-finally-got-a.html
On August 18, 2009 the petition made the national news with a major
story in The Independent, and at the same time the first celebrity
name appeared on the list of signatures: Richard Dawkins.
With one celebrity name and national press I began to think the
petition might really get noticed. The following night Richard
Dawkins and I appeared on Channel 4 News to talk about the petition (Dawkins was filmed looking regal in his garden; I was filmed in classic programmer clothing: bad shoes, dirty shorts and a crumpled shirt).
samuell · 2015-05-08
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alexatkeplar · 2015-01-27
It looks like there isn't any kind of user-definable shard/partition key available within the topics - a message within a topic could go to any client subscribing to a channel for that topic? Is that correct?
That's obviously fine for AWS Lambda-style single event processing (maps, filters, sinks), but isn't that going to make multiple event processing (reduces, sorts) really difficult? It rules out using in-process memory or local KV storage for maintaining the necessary state across the aggregation window - you're only left with pounding some remote database, not a great strategy as per http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/07/why-local-state-is-a-fundamental-prim…
phunge · 2014-10-06
Also worth checking out http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/07/questioning-the-lambda-architecture.h… from Jay Kreps, who's part of the Kafka braintrust.
daniyaln · 2014-01-31
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dccoolgai · 2012-12-30
O'reilly radar - 4 daily links is what I read when I don't even have time for HN. If it's one of the things I really care about, it usually ends up on there. http://radar.oreilly.com/
throwa · 2012-07-26
This link gives an alternative hiring perspective that eschews unnecessary loops.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/07/overfocus-on-tech-skills-could-exclud…
Check out the hackernews discussion on the subject:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4275140
acomjean · 2012-03-16
I had a similar positive experience with a gift subscription to Make. The site woudn't take my credit card. so I tried again. Then again. Then again the next day, finally success.
Credit card shows 3 charges.... friend gets 3 copies of the magazine.
They took care of it promptly. Sent me a couple make t-shirts.
Loyal O'Reilly cusomer/ oReilly radar reader.
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chwolfe · 2012-01-30
Kurt mentions it early in the article, but I have to also recommend "Building data science teams" by Patil:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/09/building-data-science-teams.html
DanielRibeiro · 2011-10-24
It is orignally from another great article of Tim O'Reilly: Work on Stuff that Matters[1]
[1] http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-that-matters-fir.html
michaelleland · 2011-08-23
Terry Jones wrote about the "Web 2.0 Address Book" last October (http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/getting-closer-to-the-web-20-a.html). It was an interesting concept that I've been following since. But it seems there needs to be a clear case for everybody to share their data in order for this idea to work. Wouldn't FluidDB be subject to the tragedy of the commons, with nobody curating the data and maintaining its quality? Or can it truly be the "wikipedia of data"?
tony_red · 2011-04-20
The problem is that iPad does not clear your private information even if you insist on doing so. It is possible to prevent tracking just by using simple technics and by following general rules.
Check out this link too:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html
olalonde · 2010-11-15
Reminds me of this great article by Tim O'Reilly: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-that-matters-fir.html
steveklabnik · 2010-11-02
"Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy." - Tim O'Reilly, 2006. http://radar.oreilly.com/2006/08/piracy-is-progressive-taxation.html
gvb · 2010-08-06
Seen on O'Reilly "Four Short Links" http://radar.oreilly.com/
JayNeely · 2010-03-18
I'm a 15-minute walk from Davis Square, where the subway is, and my rent is only $425 / month.
Not only is Boston the #2 city by number of startups:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/startup-centers.html
It's the #1 city by number of universities. It's really a fantastic place with a terrific startup scene, and one that's still growing and getting more connected.
teeja · 2010-01-28
Not only is this an insightful article, but the one it refers to at its bottom is deeply insightful about iPad as a reader ... iTunes LP viewer ... educational potential, etc.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/09/rebooting-the-book-one-apple-i.html
hexis · 2009-06-16
Eben Moglen, I believe, made some great points about the huge increase in distributed computing power (ie, the power of the laptops in the audience) in this talk:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/08/my-tonguelashing-from-eben-mog.html
Data centers get a lot of press, and it is warranted, but regular old desktops and laptops (and smartphones, etc!) are incredibly powerful and underutilized. The internet doesn't have to be cable tv, it can be the telephone game with checksums.
pasbesoin · 2009-03-05
Tim O'Reilly's post of last November first made it interesting enough to me to give it a go. Well worth the read, whether you subscribe (to Twitter, or to his thoughts) or not.
Tim O'Reilly: Why I Love Twitter
http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html
jhancock · 2008-10-28
I'm not sure if Tim's historical analogy is on target, time will tell. But his rational prior to the analogy is the best short summary I've read so far. O'Reilly's more lengthy version is also worth the read http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/10/web-20-and-cloud-computing.html
skmurphy · 2008-05-26
Tim O'Reilly had a great post back in August of 2006 "Round 2: Dial Tone" http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/round_2_dial_tone.html where he said:
New applications often start out requiring operators, but eventually move towards dial-tone. For example, you can look at blogging as the “dial tone” equivalent of creating a web site. For ordinary folks (not most of my readers, but non-technical folks), creating a web site was something that required an operator. You went to a web design shop or an ISP and had them do it for you. The blogging revolution, the wiki revolution, the MySpace revolution, the CyWorld revolution, are really about providing a kind of self-service dial-tone for creating a web presence and community.
Your blog is the dial tone for your website, go too long between posts (and a month seems to be pushing it) and visitors will wonder if you are still there.
snowbird122 · 2008-04-07
Thanks. That does explain it. Now for the better question: Is there an impartial source to quantitatively show what languages are gaining/losing popularity?
I found this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/3952/ref=pd_ts_b_nav
and this older link:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/programming-language-trends.…
ivankirigin · 2007-11-28
OReilly:
One of the first times I met Larry Page, long before Google went public, when he was still driving a bright blue VW bug, he was telling me how for Google, the annual energy cost of each processor they put online was greater than the cost of the processor itself. (This may actually have been lifetime energy cost. It's a long time and I don't remember exactly, so I don't want to put words in his mouth.) Energy is one of the key costs for anyone running a large server farm, and keeping that cost under control is a key element of competitive advantage.
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/11/google_energy_strategy.html