Interesting Snippets from 2013-03-12

• Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You - ProPublica

  Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about whether you're pregnant or divorced or trying to lose weight, about how rich you are and what kinds of cars you have.

• cloudhead/http-console · GitHub

  Talking to an HTTP server with curl can be fun, but most of the time it's a PITA. http-console is a simple and intuitive interface for speaking the HTTP protocol.

• High Performance Networking in Google Chrome - igvita.com

  The following is a draft chapter for the upcoming "The Performance of Open Source Applications" (POSA), a sequel to The Architecture of Open Source Applications. POSA is a collection of essays about performance optimization, designing for performance, managing performance as part of a development process, and more.

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