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Interesting new Unix commands/binaries in OS X Mountain Lion
In addition to those on its well-known list of 200+ new features, OS X Mountain Lion also brings along a handful of new UNIX commands and binaries. Most are probably outside the scope of Ask Different (e.g. commands concerning Radius Authentication, Kerberos or Berkeley DB maintainance) but some of them may prove…
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AngularJS 1.0 released
AngularJS lets you write web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you extend HTML's syntax to express your application's components clearly and succinctly and lets use standard HTML as your template language. And it automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects…
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Trello is now half million strong
Research, expert perspectives, and product announcements from Atlassian on how teams can work smarter with AI. Subscribe for monthly insights on the future of teamwork.
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An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%
The following article, and the two addenda that follow, were written by an investment manager who works with very wealthy clients. I knew him from decades ago, but in 2011 he e-mailed me with some concerns he had about what was happening with the economy. What he had to say was informative enough that I asked if he…
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The "Wash my Ferrari" Problem: A Meditation on Risk
The Setup Let’s pretend for a moment that you own a car wash. For $5, customers can drive in for a hand wash and wax. One day, in the midst of the stream of Hondas and Subarus, a customer pul…
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OOP Isn't a Fundamental Particle of Computing
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Plan 9: The way the future was
We know what Unix's future used to look like. It was designed by the research group at Bell Labs that built Unix and called ‘Plan 9 from Bell Labs’. [ 154 ] Plan 9 was an attempt to do Unix over again, better.
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Chromium Blog: A Tale Of Two Pwnies (Part 2)
When we wrapped up our recent Pwnium event, we praised the creativity of the submissions and resolved to provide write-ups on how the two e...
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Sencha Touch 2.0
Sencha Touch 2.0 is built for amazing apps, delivering a faster core, improved performance, and powerful tools for mobile app development.
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Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released
After years of hard work, the Simon team is proud to announce the new major release: Simon 0.4.0. New in Simon 0.4 This new version of ...
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Google: We’ve acquired Motorola Mobility
I’m confident the team at Motorola will be creating the next generation of mobile devices that will improve lives for years to come.
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How 30 days without social media changed my life
30 days ago, I made the decision to give up social media for a month. Well, here I am, reporting that I’m still alive and that the past month has been life changing- the most successful month of my existence.
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Erlang programmer’s view on Curiosity Rover software
On Curiosity and its software I cannot help but speculate on how the software on the Curiosity rover has been constructed. We know that m...
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Firefox debuts new developer toolbar
Firefox makes developing for the Web faster and easier with a unique Developer Command Line. The new tool provides easy keyboard control over Firefox Devel
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Go turns three
Happy 3rd birthday, Go!