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Succinct Data Structures: Cramming 80,000 words into a Javascript file
<img src="http://zwibbler.com/shared/1024.png"/> jQuery creator John Resig needs a little help storing lists of words in his side project. Let's go overkill and explore a little known branch of computer science called Succinct Data Structures.
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Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive
Twitter’s official iPhone app, formerly Loren Brichter’s Tweetie and an otherwise awesome client, got a lot of negative reactions from the recent addition of the Quick Bar, a mandatory trending-topics banner on top of the tweet list. A lot of people really hate it, calling it the “ dickbar ” and often abandoning the…
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Dynamic languages are static languages
While reviewing some of the comments on my post about parallelism and concurrency, I noticed that the great fallacy about dynamic and static languages continues to hold people in its thrall. So, i…
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What It Feels Like to Be Rich
A “wealth window” is opening as these tech trends go mainstream and my goal is to make sure YOU are ahead of the curve, securing your financial future in the process.
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The Tyranny of the Extroverts
Society rewards extroverts. They get the job, the money, the girl (or boy), and the front page. Fortune 500 companies are run by 499 extroverts, plus Bill Gates. There are 435 extroverts in the House of Representatives and 100 in the Senate, two from each state. In fact, the only introvert in the District of Columbia…
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I just don’t get LinkedIn, do you?
I’ve tried. I’ve tried several times. And every time I try looking at LinkedIn I always end up staring at it and thinking, “What is the point?”
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Want to write some code? Get away from your computer
I’ve recently realised something. The best place to write code isn’t in front of your computer, with your compiler, IDE and tools. The best place to write code is far, far away from any of these tools – somewhere where you can think properly. For a language with which you are fairly familiar, the mechanics of…
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Liquefaction from the Sendai earthquake – a remarkable video
By Dave Petley
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Why Reddit was down for 6 hours
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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IPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing
tech, simplified.
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JavaScript Trie Performance Analysis
After my last post discussing dictionary lookups in JavaScript the unanimous consensus seemed to be that utilizing Trie would result in additional space savings and yield performance benefits.
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New Chrome Logo
The first image of the new icon you posted does not match the actual new icon, which at least has some shading. The one you posted is just flat, solid color. The new one (with shading) look much better imo.
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This is why I sell beer.
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Don't distract new programmers with OOP
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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