There is a new API in town! HTML5 will (soon) let you make the user's device vibrate. What fun! Obviously, it's useful for triggering alerts, improved immersivness during gameplay, and all sorts of other fun things like sending Morse Code messages via vibration. At the moment, Chrome (and other Android browsers) ask…
In 2007 ScottGu's team announced they were releasing the .NET Framework source ...
Something is amiss with the Interwebs! BGP is a flapping. , Author: Adrien de Beaupre
[20 Oct 2014] The Debian Project mourns the loss of Peter Miller [18 Oct 2014] Updated Debian 7: 7.7 released [14 Oct 2014] Debian Project chooses LeaseWeb to provide global snapshot archive [08 Sep 2014] FSF and Debian join forces to help free software users find the hardware they need [31 Aug 2014] DebConf 14 closes…
Note: This post departs from the general format used on this blog. That's because the post is not about a specific analysis I've done bu...
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
I think this is a great hack: A man bought a first-class ticket and used it to have free meals and drinks at the airport’s VIP lounge almost every day for nearly a year, Kwong Wah Yit Poh reported. The itinerary for the ticket was found to have been changed more than 300 times within a year, and the owner of the…
A recipe for a functional app, part 2
If, like me, you've been frustrated with the status quo in systems languages, this article will give you a taste of why Rust is so exciting....
An epic tale of deception, stolen artwork, and crappy logos
It was a dark day when Islam met the loudspeaker. All travelers to the Middle East discover that this normally self-assured religion gets insecure in the small hours of night and feels it has to rehearse its foundational beliefs, in public, at 190 dB.
A professor at Stanford once said, If you really want to impress your friends and confound your enemies, you can invoke tensor products… People run in terror from the $ \otimes$ symbol. He was explaining some aspects of multidimensional Fourier transforms, but this comment is only half in jest; people get confused by…
96,000 calls, 555,000 emails, 245,000 signatures and more. Find out what happened this Tuesday.
From the closing panel at the 1995 Brown/MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium , featuring Doug Engelbart, Alan Kay, Ted Nelson, and Tim Berners-Lee.
Samuel Clay is a grad student in the schools of design and of engineering at Harvard. He founded NewsBlur , a personal RSS news reader, and Turn Touch , beautiful control for the smart home.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was divided, one half awarded to John O'Keefe, the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain"
Recruiting outside of your personal network
In episode 47 of the Debug podcast, former Apple managers Lisa Melton and Nitin Ganatra talk about their work schedules at Apple and the questionable practice of being expected to work on weekends and vacations.
I had the awesome opportunity of taking the EE423 Speaker Design class offered at USC while I was going to school there. The class is taught by engineers from JBL, with some help from people like Tom Holman (the TH in THX guy!), who happens to be a researcher at USC. I learned a lot about speaker design, and ended up…
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