Can't do better than Simon Payton Jones himself - functional programming

http://ontwik.com/haskell/simon-peyton-jones-a-taste-of-haskell/

Startup Idea

http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/how-to-find-startup-ideas-that-make-money.htm?src=hn

Edge vs Level Trigger in Distrubuted Computing

Reflecting on the excellent blog post at http://gengnosis.blogspot.com/2007/01/level-triggered-and-edge-triggered.html

The author argues against queuing. Instead rely on (a) state propagation/ synchronization (b) allow individual nodes to make localized decision based on local state (which is assumed to be in-or-near synch via the previous point)

NoSQL anyone?