Categoria: 01 – Curiosidades na Internet

Lea Michele has been hard at work with putting together her debut album, “Louder.” The Glee star’s first single off the album is titled “Cannonball.” Lea tweeted to her fans: “ANOTHER FUN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE TODAY!!!” And the announcement is the picture itself. Lea will be making her first performance of the single live on The Ellen Show! Be sure to catch the performance on December 12 at 4 PM ET although the song will be released on December 10.

Izabel Goulart chose Quinta da Baroneza, the Golf and Equestrian resort 90km north of Sao Paulo, to spend the weekend topping up her tan. “Beautiful day”, she says “relaxing by the pool”.  We agree, it does look rather beautiful from here!

Colocation, which means buying your own hardware up front and running and managing it in a third-party site,  is not usually seen as a cheaper alternative to cloud. But, oddly enough, it can be.

Last week I compared cloud instances against dedicated servers showing that for long running uses such as databases, it’s significantly cheaper if you go with dedicated servers, but that’s not the end of it. Since you are still paying for those server resources every month, if you project the costs out 1 or 3 years, you end up paying much more than if you had just bought the hardware outright. This is where buying your own hardware and colocating it becomes a better option.

Continuing the comparison with the same specs for a long running database instance, If we price a basic Dell R415 with x2 processors each with 8 cores, 32GB RAM, a 500GB SATA…

It’s no secret that, statistically speaking, National Football League head coaches should go for it on fourth down more often than they do. The odds have been calculated lots of times, and fans, sports radio hosts and columnists love to point to them when they think a coach made the wrong decision. But overly broad probabilities and Monday-morning quarterbacking are for amateurs thanks to a data-analysis tool from the New York Times.

The paper has created the Fourth Down Bot — a system that analyzes every fourth-down call from every NFL game against years of data involving the same down and distance, and then shares its verdict on each call online, in real time.

As of the most-recent Monday Night Football game on Dec. 2, the Fourth Down Bot (whose feed is presumably manned by one of its co-creators, Brian Burke of Advanced NFL Statistics or New York…