links for 2008-01-26
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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.
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A photo collection of structured cabling installations.
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Discussion on MapReduce, parallelism, and what tasks its approach is useful for.
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Post and comments on using XMPP as a 2-way, connection-oriented alternative to REST, SOAP, etc for web services.
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Very nice Wordpress plugin for suppressing comment and trackback spam.
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Appears to be a copy of SocGen futures trader Jerome Kerviel’s resume.
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An entertaining graph of popular book reading lists versus SAT scores based on Facebook postings.
