Ho John Lee’s Weblog

• At Elite Prep Schools, College-Size Endowments - New York Times
  Phillips Exeter endowment crosses the $1B mark, averaging around 12% return for the past several years, enabling broader tuition and expense grants, 3rd largest secondary school fund.
  (tags: phillips exeter education philanthropy finance k12)
• Royal Pingdom » When data center cabling becomes art
  A photo collection of structured cabling installations.
  (tags: sysadmin networking datacenter hardware hosting geek culture art)
• Good Math, Bad Math : Databases are hammers; MapReduce is a screwdriver.
  Discussion on MapReduce, parallelism, and what tasks its approach is useful for.
  (tags: mapreduce database parallel programming algorithms scalability clustering software applications google)
• Jive Talks: XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services
  Post and comments on using XMPP as a 2-way, connection-oriented alternative to REST, SOAP, etc for web services.
  (tags: xmpp webservices network protocol architecture programming trends)
• Dave’s Blog » Spam Karma 2.3
  Very nice Wordpress plugin for suppressing comment and trackback spam.
  (tags: wordpress sysadmin spam plugin blogging tools)
• Wall $treet Folly: Jerome Kerviel: The rogue trader’s resume
  Appears to be a copy of SocGen futures trader Jerome Kerviel’s resume.
  (tags: futures stock trading markets risk management culture)
• Booksthatmakeyoudumb
  An entertaining graph of popular book reading lists versus SAT scores based on Facebook postings.
  (tags: facebook books education humor visualization culture datamining college)

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