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Perl is 26 Today
Larry Wall released Perl to the public on December 18, 1987. Love it or hate it, Perl's influence is immense.
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Why Everyone Eventually Hates or Leaves Maven
My colleague Martin Fowler recently posted a Bliki entry about InternalReprogrammability , lamenting the diminishing mind share of tools that allow extremely fine grained customizability, such as Emacs and Smalltalk. I agree whole heartedly with his sentiment; I covered some of the same ground in my Abstraction…
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Replace Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync and a Raspberry Pi
I like to take long running notes, jotting down an idea here and there when one pops up. I never know which devices I will have with me, so I like to have these notes synced across all of them.
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ZeroMQ instead of HTTP, for internal services
A post by August Lilleaas, published July 22, 2013.
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Data Science of the Facebook World
Stephen Wolfram shares interesting Facebook data analysis finds from the Data Donor program of Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook.
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How to implement an algorithm from a scientific paper
This article is a short guide to implementing an algorithm from a scientific paper. I have implemented many complex algorithms from books and scientific publications, and this article sums up what I have learned while searching, reading, coding and debugging. This is obviously limited to publications in domains…
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Why Do Companies Still Use Microsoft Windows For Displays?
As I was exiting Oxford Railway Station, I glanced at this screen showing the bus departure times. Notice anything odd about it? sigh Yet again someone has shoehorned Microsoft Windows into a product it is completely unsuitable for. Why does a screen which displays a fairly basic set of information need to be running…
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Why am I here?
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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On Citizenship in open-source software development
How GitHub can revolutionize the field simply by empowering the users inside the repositories they contribute.
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Bezier Curves and Picasso
Pablo Picasso Simplicity and the Artist Some of my favorite of Pablo Picasso’s works are his line drawings. He did a number of them about animals: an owl, a camel, a butterfly, etc. This piece called “Dog” is on my wall: Dachshund-Picasso-Sketch (Jump to interactive demo where we recreate “Dog” using the math in this…
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The Deal That Makes No Sense
Early this morning Microsoft acquired Nokia for €3.79 billion (plus €1.65 billion for patents). It is a deal that makes no sense. While industry observers love to pontificate about mergers and acqu…
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Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App
Yesterday I wrote my first Firefox OS App.
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The Three Kinds of Laziness
We speak of three kinds of laziness. The first is simply to spend all your time eating and sleeping. The second is to tell yourself, "Someone like me will never manage to perfect themselves." In...
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Extracting Audio from Pictures of Gramophone Recordings
Three years ago, a survey team identified a staggering 569,148 time-based media objects on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University—that’s over half a million sound recordings, video recordings…
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Thrown Off a United Airlines Flight for Taking Pictures
You’ve changed almost everything. So why do the same problems keep coming back? Explore the rules, responses, and results with UPGRD®.