Amazon DevPay is now out of limited beta and available generally.

That's a good thing.

Ever since the violence in Mumbai started, I've been wary of checking email. Checking the news. Reading news articles. I actually turned off the television.

And today, from a phone call from India, I get the first communication. A school senior Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan died fighting the terrorists in MumbaiI heard a great many things from my ( Read more... )

So, after all the chaos settles, I wonder how folks will remember Jerry. He is, after all, an exceedingly nice guy. Although, perhaps not the best CEO that there could have been ( Read more... )

For a while now, there had been multiple references to books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It got to the point where I could hardly turn before I had a reference in my face ( Read more... )

Sometime ago, when I was working at Y in California, I had the good fortune of working with an eclectic and superb group of friends. The group worked closely and met every day for lunch. Lunch discussions were wide ranging usually involving the world, politics, algorithms and stock predictions ( Read more... )

It's surprising, but no sooner do you get an email id and the information flow is immense. If you take a few days away from working and beating down the email fire hose, it can flood back. This series of articles talk about Inbox Zero, an idea that has resonated with me:

You have no control over the world’s demands on your time and attention, yet ( Read more... )

Some of the work that I'd been doing over two semesters in Cornell was put together into a paper at CIKM 2008. So, I traveled to the Bay Area and drove up to Napa each day to attend. The conference was excellent and I had a really good time meeting up with my professor. I also stopped by the a9 offices in Palo Alto which was very interesting - it's ( Read more... )

Once in a while things that I work with actually show up in a way (newspaper) that I can point to them generally.

Amazon Web Services moved Elastic Compute Cloud out of beta and added Windows to the set of operating systems (Linux/OpenSolaris) that you can run. The launch has received a bunch of positive press. As usual, All Things Distributed has ( Read more... )

Warren Buffet says: "be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful". In addition to this being a rather simplistic credo, as with most significant ideas, it is incredibly hard to implement.

Hard to implement most for the fortitude, for the cast iron lining of the stomach required. There are huge bargains around - there's a ( Read more... )

For reasons beyond my control, my music source is now Rhapsody. Now, I own a particular CD (Dream by U Srinivas and Michael Brook) that I felt like listening to today.

No matter how I tried, I couldn't get Rhapsody search to spit out the darn songs. Finally, I remembered a trick that my microsoft friends had pointed me to when I was struggling with ( Read more... )