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Have you lost your camera recently? Mislaid it somewhere in a national park? Left it in a taxi? Dropped it in the gorilla pit? Anyone can be a victim of the thoughtlessness and/or sleepiness that can lead to Camera Loss.
I've just had a chance to play with the implementation of websockets in Googles Chrome browser. This post started me off. After a small am...
Here’s real news: Alex Osborne of National Library of Australia , also known as @atosborne , whom I first met on #clojure , took the Wide Finder bit between his teeth and has posted a remarkable implementation story: Widefinder 2 with Clojure . Um, 8m4.663s! If you care about any aspect of this stuff you really ought…
Preamble Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing...
The best iPhone web app I’ve ever seen.
I woke up from a nap to a loud pop and a smell of burning plastic. The source turned out to be one of the most precious and important to me digital devices: a ReadyNAS NV+, a small silver box with over a terabyte of hard drives that store my backups, music, and photos. Network attached storage (NAS) is an engineering…
Whenever I start to write something online, for myself or for a client, I have to answer one hard question: who cares ?
This is interesting: Most Americans fail to appreciate that the Civil Rights movement was about the overthrow of an entrenched political order in each of the Southern states, that the segregationists who controlled this order did not hesitate to employ violence (law enforcement, paramilitary, mob) to preserve it, and…
Sometimes the stories can't even be told. But some, after time, can. I'm starting to write them up, and this is one of them.
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One of the best things about capitalism is the way it handles sociopaths. Major executives look up to Alexander the Great and apparently try to follow in his footsteps. But instead of leading a murderous campaign across Asia, they decide to make something people want: newspapers and movies and television shows. True…
Is your desktop backed up? Did you backup that server? Are your backups on a different machine? Do you have offsite backups? All good questions, all best practices. But let’s stop talking about “ba…
Sometimes the stories can't even be told. But some, after time, can. I'm starting to write them up, and this is one of them.
A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.
Although I spend a lot of my play-time fooling about with other languages, my professional and released code consists of Python, C, C++ and, alas, Javascript. I've lived in this tiny corner of the magic garden of modern software development for 10 years, and I'm itching to strike out in a different direction for my…
On my list of creative management solutions to dire situations, I offer the rolling whiteboard. The rolling whiteboard was a curiosity at the start-up. Not a f
Regarding Randall Stross’s piece in The New York Times claiming the problem isn’t AT&T’s network, but rather the iPhone’s hardware.
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
GWT 2.0 was released today, and even though I've been using it for months and contributing to it, I didn't realize the significance of this ...
I, Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL, am asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle's clutches. Without your immediate...
I was fortunate to attend Olin College of Engineering with some of the brightest minds in the country, and the bar of achievement was set high. Inside the classroom, we worked on problems that were mind-numbingly complex and intricate. Outside of class, most students aimed to develop incredibly elaborate and…
