Thanks to Erlang, the Disco core remarkably compact, currently less than 2000 lines of code. It is relatively easy to understand how the core works, and start experimenting with it or adapt it to new environments. Thanks to Python, it is easy to add new features around the core which ensures that Disco can respond quickly to real-world needs.

Disco FAQ — Disco v0.1.2 documentation

The dataflow approach to relational operators gives both pipelined and partitioned parallelism. Relational data operators take relations (uniform sets of records) as input and produce relations as outputs. This allows them to be composed into dataflow graphs that allow pipeline parallelism
(left) in which the computation of one operator proceeds in parallel with another, and partitioned parallelism in which operators (sort and scan in the diagram at the right) are replicated for each data source, and the replicas execute in parallel.

Parallel Database Systems: The Future of High Performance Database Processing

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Angel investing in Atlanta could be down as much as 40 percent, mostly because of a pullback from high-net-worth individuals who are doing fewer deals and taking longer to do so. Angels must also now financially prop up portfolio companies longer, as investors higher up the food chain — the venture capital guys — are short on investable cash or dry powder.

Investing by ‘angels’ down 40 percent - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

I started out modest by signing with a line or an "X". Occasionally I would do last name first. After a couple of months, I became bolder. I wrote goofy shit, drew pictures, etc. Here's a list of some of my favorite signatures over the past few months:

I AM NOT KINGPIN
I STOLE THIS
FUCK OFF
FUCK YOU
WALMART SUCKS
CALL ME
CROTCHY CROTCHINGTON
MY BALLS ITCH
911
I'M A CRIMINAL
THANKS FOR THE STUFF

Today I went the extra mile. When it came time to sign my name, a thought popped in my head. I should draw a picture. But what picture should I draw? I smirked as something completely juvenile came to me. This is a rough drawing of the signature that I provided:

HHAJAJajajahahah

gold star

Made me laugh on a conference call

When Your Credit Card Signature Fun Backfires

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Then, Adams lost his voice in early 2005 after a bout of bronchitis and laryngitis. He withdrew; the thought of going to the grocery store without saying “hi” or “thank you” was depressing. Being unable to scream “fire!” or “watch out!” terrified him.

His only comfort was that he could sing and recite poetry with only minimal gasping and stammering. He recited nursery rhymes every night in hopes of “re-mapping” his brain.

Last weekend, Adams was chanting “Jack Be Nimble” for the umpteenth time when it dawned on him: He wasn’t having a stitch of difficulty.

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So here it is. Some people will love it, some will hate it. It is what it is.

You must post your business plan here on my blog where I expect other people can and will comment on it. I also expect that other people will steal the idea and use it elsewhere. That is the idea. Call this an open source funding environment.

If its a good idea and worth funding, we want it replicated elsewhere. The idea is not just to help you, but to figure out how to help the economy through hard work and ingenuity. If you come up with the idea and get funding, you have a head start. If you execute better than others, you could possibly make money at it. As you will see from the rules below, these are going to be businesses that are mostly driven by sweat equity.

The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan - Open Source Funding « blog maverick

If the coffee hadn’t woken up the dozens of money-seeking entrepreneurs at Wednesday morning’s Meet the Angels event — the panelists sure did.

Venture firms and angels “should be a last resort," for entrepreneurs, said Sig Mosley panelist and the Yoda of Atlanta's angel community. "It's extremely expensive and onerous. If you can avoid it, don't do it.”

Entrepreneurs, instead, were urged to financially invest in their own company as long as possible.

“Bootstrapping allows you to focus on the problem you're solving [and] your customers," Mosley said. "Raising dollars should be the last resort."

AtlanTech | Angels to entrepreneurs: You don't want our money.

I use the amazon metadata for creating /etc/hosts and do this on a cron schedule. This does everything I need. Instead of fancy DynDNS tricks or having to run and manage an internal DNS server I just have a ruby script that looks at the metadata ec2 to build /etc/hosts. It’s easy. To set it up yourself and try it all you need are 3 easy steps.

Tim Dysinger » Using Amazon EC2 Metadata as a Simple DNS