December 2010
The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? →
Very interesting. It turns out that flipping a coin isn’t 50/50 chance. There are all kinds of biases involved. They even built a machine that could flip a coin and have it land heads 100% of the time.
Somehow, I’ve always suspected this was the case.. with a little bit of practice I can usually flip a coin in a fairly predictable way.
Scala Pros and Cons →
Some pros and cons of the Scala programming language as compared to Java from a business management perspective.
Dream Jobs That You're Glad You Didn't Pursue:... →
Scott C. Reynolds is a collector of broken career dreams. This column examines the life that might have been had he, or you, followed through.
Soul crushing.
Four reasons Google is still Awesome →
By Paul Buchheit
Historical Jesus - Wikipedia, the free... →
Actually quite fascinating. It’s a proper historical look into the life of Jesus (without any religious mumbo jumbo).
Who knew that Jesus had siblings?!
Historical Jesus - Wikipedia, the free... →
Actually quite fascinating. It’s a proper historical look into the life of Jesus (without any religious mumbo jumbo).
Who knew that Jesus had siblings?!
Hello, hackers, look at your bookmarking service, now back to me, now back at your bookmarks, now back to me.
Sadly, your bookmarking service is not me, but if he didn’t keep shutting off his service, then he could be like me.
Look down, back up, where are you? You don’t have any bookmarks.
— Ma.gnolia shut down two months too soon
Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us →
So sad. :’-(
As usual, there’s more discussion mourning going on over at hacker news.
htracr - GitHub →
“htracr is a packet sniffer and visualisation tool for HTTP. It does not give you a score, grade, or hold your hand when you’re crying because your site is so damn slow, but it will give you unparalleled insight into what’s actually happening on the wire between your browser and the Web.”
This is Your Brain on Vim →
Heh.. I can relate to this.. :-P
Is it so wrong to have a secret love affair with a text editor?
Your battery gauge is lying to you (and it's not... →
Apparently there’s some clever engineering in modern smartphones to make batteries last longer. Interesting!
The difference between US Military prisons and... →
Actually quite interesting. Recommended.
“I see you were doing 120 ms in a 16 ms zone…”
– Android Developers Blog: New Gingerbread API: StrictMode
Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming Through... →
To read..
The Hacker's Path →
I drew a breath
And blew a whistle
And launched the truth
Like a cruise missile
— Fragments from Wikileaks! The Musical. (via)
OOP practiced backwards is "POO" →
Some interesting discussion going on over at Hacker News as well.
Did I ever tell you about Ashton? →
Joel Spolsky answers a question on StackExchange with an excellent off-the-cuff story about a farm boy.
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Design the next great hairstyle for Julian Assange... →
“Ok, I’m looking for some fine photoshopped hairstyles here. Nothing obscene or derogatory. I will however be accepting anything involving pterodactyls.”
This is gonna be awesome. $250 up for grabs for the best Julian Assange photoshopped hairstyle. Fuck yes!
“I love a bit of Leveraging Enterprise Buzzword Linguistic Synergies™”
– Salesforce.com eats Heroku; Excretes Indigestible Press Release
Primer explained →
Spoiler alert obviously. This is the best explanation I’ve seen of what goes on in Primer, which you should definitely watch if you haven’t already.
Abandoned on Everest →
vb:
dhotson:
“Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies” via Hacker News
Warning: Cannot be unseen.
Well maybe if every Tom, Dick and Harry didn’t think they could conquer Mother Nature they wouldn’t be there. I’m glad Mother Nature bites back.
I found the story about David Sharp particularly disturbing. They left him to die in order to reach the summit.
Abandoned on Everest →
“Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies” via Hacker News
Warning: Cannot be unseen.
Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable... →
By Julian Assange
How to Kill a Bad Idea →
“Jason Fried tells us why no is the most important word an entrepreneur can learn.”
Overclocking SSL →
Some details about how to make SSL faster, from experts at Google who work on this kind of stuff. Key quote: “you only need to remember one thing: SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more.” via
First-person remote-control helicopter tour of New... →
“Apparently legal under 400 feet for non-commercial use”
via Waxy.
“We knew that there are precisely 38 people who give a shit about Haskell,”...”
– Stevey’s Blog Rants: Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit
I fucking love a good Yegge article. Hilarious!
Hacker News | The only script in your head →
“Discussion of performance-oriented javascript loaders including labjs and headjs”
via joshua
Case Study: Carbonmade's Migration →
Carbonmade’s business guy Spencer Fry talks about rolling out their latest update.
November 2010
The Algorithm + the Crowd are Not Enough →
I’m kind of torn on this.. I think the use of clever algorithms + data can be really useful. On the other hand, I really appreciate careful human curation.
The Biology of Sloppy Code →
I’m watching the Future of Programming Languages panel and a point came up that really resonated with me. To the question, “what is the next big trend in programming”, Guy Steele said, “Maybe it’s sloppy programming.”
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“Hi John. I hope that’s not too familiar – I feel like we should be on a...”
– Q&A with TSA Chairman John Pistole
Spacelog →
“Read the stories of early space exploration from the original NASA transcripts. Now open to the public in a searchable, linkable format.”
Awesome project.
BankSimple launches preview site →
