January 2010
86 posts
“The visigoths are at the gate of the city. They’re demanding access to...”
– Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock
Eloquently expresses similar thoughts to what I had as I watched the iPad demo. The iPad is a concretely useful, task-oriented machine. It is not a general purpose computer, but more in the vein of a refrigerator or microwave (albeit more flexible). Its ability...
Apple's New Thing (iPod) - Mac Forums →
Chatter during the initial iPod announcement. See any similarities to modern day events?
zeromq: Fastest. Messaging. Ever. →
(via dhotson)
erldocs.com (Erlang Documentation) →
High quality, alternative erlang docs. Much appreciated.
On the PlayStation 3: Here's your silver platter →
The PS3 is hacked. Finally.
Sadly, Sony is gonna fight them tooth and nail.
Information is Beautiful: giving aid to #Haiti... →
Chouser's clojure-jna at master - GitHub →
JNA is pretty awesome. Clojure-JNA is awesome-er.
Mozilla says H.264 is "like ActiveX". →
Rather than responding to this bullshit argument, I’ll quote a great post on hackernews by bladsel:
How about a more relevant analogy to Flash? It has the same insecurities and platform-dependence plus being encumbered by the same patents (and more!), but Mozilla took exactly the opposite approach!
Since 2004, Mozilla has had baked-in support for automatically installing Flash on the...
“Snooki said she was hiring a bodyguard to keep fans at bay. The 22-year-old...”
– ‘Jersey Shore’ cast wants big raise for season 2 - NYPOST.com (via rickyv)
The notion of celebrity hits a new low. Sometimes my friends and I poke fun at XKCD, but really that “geeky, quirky” humor is exactly what mainstream media is doing and what people are frantically slurping up:...
Richard Stallman on The Setup →
This is interesting, and I think it explains a lot about why Richard Stallman seems to crazy to you or I. The man, by his own account, experiences the internet and software world in a completely different way from you or I: He’s online rarely, does very little with multimedia (he “switches” to a graphical environment!).
While I admire him for sticking to his guns on the issue...
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One Man's Miserable Story Trying To Buy A B&N Nook →
Seems like the only thing worse than the Nook’s ugly design is their atrocious and forked-tongue customer service. I’d report fraud to my bank, immediately.
It’s really too bad this wasn’t over AMEX. I’m pretty sure the AMEX folks would actually launch rockets at the B&N Headquarters over it.
Human bed-warmers at Holiday Inn | Reuters →
“If you’re programming in Rails, you’re already pair programming with...”
– Toby “Blu-ray” Sterrett
RP - Fonts →
I really like that Septima font as a font for presentation.
Keeping computers from ending science's... →
Although there are bigger problems with reproducibility as science moves forward than just careful documentation and version control. The equipment itself is becoming so esoteric and expensive (and invalidated so quickly) that that’s a whole different problem.
For example, how are you going to check up on the LHC’s output? I’m reminded of that scene in Contact where they say,...
-= De-chunkifying Sequences in Clojure =- →
A good trick. Also, a neat example of what a self-hosted lisp on a JVM can be like once we get defproto and deftype going.
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WatchMy Macbook ♥’s HTML5 Video!
A repost of my HTML5 vs. comparison of classic flash video. I dunno why Tumblr lost the last one. I use the process reading, not the overall machine reading. If you use a mac, I highly recommend you switch Youtube and Vimeo to HTML5.
Grammerjack: A Taipei-Torrent postmortem: Writing... →
Go looks pretty awesome as a modern systems programming language. It doesn’t have all the cute things I like in Common Lisp or Erlang, but t has a lot of what you want and evidently is workable with known optimization techniques. That seems like a good start to me.
The Real Reason Outsourcing Continues To Fail →
I dunno if this is the reason, but it seems like a problem that requires thought.
I had some very negative experiences with code from Indian outsourcing, which surprised me. Nearly every Computer Scientist I knew who had an Indian background (be they native or not) was incredibly competent and motivated. I suspected that there was some kind of systemic failure in the communication channels that...
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BumpTop Mac →
Really not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand the piles thing seems awesome. On the other, the walls seem superfluous.
WatchMorning Commute Experiment on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
An experiment, I obviously need some better camera damping to remove that tedious jitter.
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Clojure 1.1 and Beyond →
Excellent summary of what’s changing in 1.1.
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Ian's Shoelace Site - "Ian Knot" = Ian's Fast... →
I HAVE SAVED 10 SECONDS WHAT NEXT?
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Moscow’s stray dogs →
An amazing urban ecology story.
Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous’s ass « PEG on... →
It may also be because of the comical lack of themes on Posterous (you click “see more” but SEE NO MORE). It may also be because no one actually wants to post shit via email. Given that, the Tumblr bookmarklet is much better than the Posterous bookmarklet for real work (although the Posterous bookmarklet is terribly clever, I admit).
The author’s insecure cries for New York to...
LG shows off newspaper-sized flexible e-ink... →
I remember first thinking about the idea of flexible paper displays when I read Neal Stephenson’s “Diamond Age” for the first time. “It’s getting sweeter!”
The FBI Sucks at Photoshop [PIC]
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“Got your nose!”
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Apple announces special event for January 27 →
We have a date.
U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret... →
Somehow I’m not surprised. How much you wanna bet these magic inscriptions are itemized on the bill?