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This week: technology links and some English titbits.

Technology

• Know Thy Complexities! Big-O Cheat Sheet and its Russian translation
• The US is home to one third of the world’s data—here’s who’s storing it
• gawk/awk implementation of crc32 (compatible with the POSIX cksum command)
• Microsoft: Pure Dumb (Bad) Luck: “Where does this leave Microsoft? Not so great, I’m afraid. When even WindowsITPro.com is questioning your trust, you’re in bad shape.”
• How to imitate TCP Wrapper with iptables
• SysAdmins – In Their Own Words

English

• Don’t say good bye; just ghost:

  Ghosting—aka the Irish goodbye, the French exit, and any number of other vaguely ethnophobic terms—refers to leaving a social gathering without saying your farewells. One moment you’re at the bar, or the house party, or the Sunday morning wedding brunch. The next moment you’re gone.

• The war of the words. How Republicans and Democrats use language:

  Republicans are also better, Democrats fear, at agreeing on a message and sticking to it. Frank Luntz, a Republican consultant, once said: “There’s a simple rule. You say it again, and you say it again, and you say it again, and you say it again, and you say it again, and then again and again and again and again, and about the time that you’re absolutely sick of saying it is about the time that your target audience has heard it for the first time.”