The first edition of this site was the outgrowth of a previous book project, Practical Relational Database Design, by Wayne Dick and Tom Jewett. The move online featured condensed discussions, an integrated view of database concepts and skills
A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics.
a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
Easter eggs, also known as gang screens or computer eggs, are hidden functions and novelties contained within programs that developers put in for you to find and enjoy.
The term "sharding" was coined by Google engineers, and popularized through their publication of the Big Table architecture. However, the concept of "shared-nothing" database partitioning has been around for a decade or more and there have been many implementations over this period, especially high profile in-house built solutions by Internet leaders such as eBay, Amazon, Digg, Flickr, Skype, YouTube, Facebook, Friendster, and Wikipedia.
This real-time seismic monitor shows earthquake epicenters for today, yesterday, past 2 weeks and past 5 years. The size of the displayed earthquake circle is proportional to its magnitude.