Ah, great, I just noticed now that the slides and all the relevant material from last![global_83649072[1]](http://lh4.ggpht.com/-G2aDyr-fF_I/UYQLNJ_3qFI/AAAAAAAABB4/6mI1xBFLPEg/global_83649072%25255B1%25255D%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800 "global_83649072[1]")
week’s “Understanding Eventual Consistency and Riak” are available here.
The event that was hosted by the “Zurich FLOSS and IT geeks”, was as usual interesting, informative and well organized. Looking forward to their next one…
EPFL’s “Salamandra Robotica II”, pretty cool design! More about it here.
And for the few people who were asking about the Haskell talk I attended last week, you can read about pretty much everything that was discussed here.
Previously due to my German course on Thursday evenings I couldn’t attend any of the Haskell group’s events. Now, happily, I can. =)
A few weeks ago I attended a very informative [as well as extremely funny] tech talk titled “Neo4j And Connected Data“. During the presentation Jim Webber made a mention of his new book called “Graph Databases”, which is available to download from here.
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During the past weeks I’ve had a chance to have a better look into the book, and simply put, I like it! =) For anyone interested in the relevant topics, I really recommend checking it out.
Few days ago I watched “Robot & Frank“. One of the better Robot movies I’ve seen. I guess I mostly liked the fact that this movie, unlike many sci-fi/futuristic movies I’ve seen, is not trying to decide or state whether this kind of technological advancement has positive implications or negative ones. Instead, it’s simply showing that it can have pretty serious effects on the most private aspects of our lives, and our relationships, with others and even with ourselves.
Oh, and I loved the soundtrack! =)
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Tomorrow at 12:00 noon [Switzerland time], year 2572 [1392] of the Persian calendar begins. Wish everyone a very happy Norooz, and a lovely start to the spring. Cheers! =)
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<vexed rant>
Seriously Google, what in the bloody hell?
It’s not just that Google launches projects with half-baked concepts, gathers a small user ![RIP-google-reader-300x300[1]](http://lh6.ggpht.com/-8W19uAE_2ck/UUNiuFYWEFI/AAAAAAAAA-g/0vQwWFAIhuU/RIP-google-reader-300x300%25255B1%25255D_thumb%25255B4%25255D.png?imgmax=800 "RIP-google-reader-300x300[1]")
group, and then discontinues the service hanging the users to dry. But it’s also that Google launches a good, useful, well developed service, throughout the years gathers a large number of users, and then out of the blue decides to shut the service down and make the lives of all these users complicated. =(
It wasn’t just that they recently discontinued Friend Connect that me and some of my friends were actually using. It wasn’t just that they disabled my G+ profile and therefore half of my Google services because they thought my name wasn’t “real”. Now they’re going to shut down Google reader, which is probably the single web service that I use more than any others [with exception of my stuff on my own domain]. I’m angry, I’m furious, I’m exasperated, and I’m not the only one.
I’ve exported my feeds, and I’ve found a couple of possible replacements. Feedly is the one I’ve switched to as of last night. The Chrome version looks good and the Android version looks great. And still, there’s so much they don’t do, compared to GReader.
Ask me again why I don’t like Google.
Meh.
</vexed rant>
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