Quick observation: Right now I'm in Butler Library on campus. I'm hanging out in the lounge having a coffee and a croissant before class and I just noticed something. There are about 11 people in this area right now with laptops. Only two of these (myself included) are using PCs. Apparently students love Apple.
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October 13, 2005
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Talks
- Synchronous Reads, Asynchronous Writes
Talk I gave at RubyConf 2009 on building large scale applications with RESTful services and AMQP messaging. - Machine Learning Techniques for the Semantic Web
A short talk on machine learning I gave at the NYC Semantic Web meetup. - Collective Intelligence
Talk at the 2008 Gotham Ruby Conference on recommendation systems. - Building Web Service Clients with ActiveModel
Goruco 2010 about ActiveModel and Web Service Client Libraries.
Linkage
- My Github
- Feedzirra
My Ruby library for parsing and fetching feeds at blinding speed. - SAX Machine
My Ruby library exposes a DSL for building Nokogiri backed SAX parsers. - Typhoeus
My Ruby library for running HTTP requests quickly, easily, and in parallel. - NYC Machine Learning Meetup
The meetup I organize. Talks from researchers and practitioners on machine learning and related technologies and techniques. - Benchmark Solutions
The financial market data startup I work for in NYC. We're hiring and need Javascript, Scala, C++, and Ruby programmers. We're also on the lookout for PhDs in statistics or machine learning.
Recent Posts
- Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink: The Myth and Truth of the NYC engineer shortage
- Why Mark Suster is wrong about not hiring job hoppers
- Parse Domains from URLs easily with Domainatrix
- Resources for Synchronous Reads, Asynchronous Writes at RubyConf 2009
- Typhoeus, the best Ruby HTTP client just got better
- Bypassing wxWidgets error when building Erlang from Source on OS X
- Detect and Parse Atom and RSS Feed URLs from HTML with TruffleHog
- Using the Nginx Memcached module with Passenger
- First NYC Machine Learning Meetup
- Using Named Pipes in Ruby for Inter-process Communication
I think everyone loves Apple.
Here in Orlando, you can't walk into a Starbucks or a Panera Bread without seeing a bunch of people with laptops - most of which are PowerBooks.
Posted by: Michael Sica | October 13, 2005 at 10:25 PM