node.js and Scala without mediators « Vasil Remeniuk's Blog

node.js and Scala without mediators « Vasil Remeniuk's Blog

Asynchronous nature of node.js and its capabilities to handle huge number of connections appeals to everyone who have ever been trying to build a scalable COMET-application that doesn’t suck. However, being a standalone solution (web-server, TCP-server etc), connecting node.js to another ecosystems is not that straightforward (though there’re known options of extending node.js functionality via C++ addons).

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Leveraging technology to stand up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Gov 2.0

"Can technology be used to create a “21st Century regulator?” Keep an eye on Elizabeth Warren as she works to stand up the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection over the next months. As Bill Swindell reported for NextGov yesterday, the new consumer protection agency plans to use crowdsourcing to detect issues in the market earlier. In a world where studios can use tweets to estimate movie profits or researchers can use Twitter to predict the stock market, it makes sense for government to seriously examine data mining blogs and social networks to pick up the weak signals that predate real problems. Choosing to use such a methodology is applying a lesson from Web 2.0 for Gov 2.0.

Health | How Continuous Chest Compression saves lives | Seattle Times Newspaper

Health | How Continuous Chest Compression saves lives | Seattle Times Newspaper: "How Continuous Chest Compression saves lives

How Stuff Works: CPR is getting a makeover, and it no longer requires formal training. The new technique is called Continuous Chest Compression, or CCC, and is a simpler way of saving lives.

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