January 2012
1 post
June 2011
1 post
December 2010
1 post
“I walked through my front door with purpose and gathered my family members in...”
– Hyperbole and a Half is always great, and this Christmas-related entry had me giggling like an errant child.
October 2010
1 post
CSS3 - A practical introduction →
Quite enjoyed this presentation by Lea Verou; it’s both informative and, unusually, pretty. The new CSS3 stuff looks really neat, although I wouldn’t like to speculate when we can actually use any significant amount of it.
September 2010
2 posts
WatchA representative of Twilio doing a presentation about the system by live coding in front of the New York Tech Meetup. Really impressive.
via. this article on avc.com
August 2010
3 posts
Some not entirely independent variables
Nearby sell-by dates.
Stupendous special offers.
Calum gorging himself on Frubes.
Headius: My Thoughts on Oracle v Google →
Not only a good primer on the recent legal challenge, but actually a good primer on the background of Android and Java over the last decade or so. Excellent article.
10 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers →
This list of common mistakes made in web APIs is excellent; many of the points apply equally well to APIs in general, especially remote ones.
June 2010
3 posts
“We prove that the implementation always strictly follows our high-level abstract...”
– Bold claims from a proof of correctness of the seL4 kernel
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
3 posts
“Dynamic programming” never meant anything; it was nothing but a political...”
– Interesting! I’ve always thought that term was weird.
#define private public →
March 2010
3 posts
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
3 posts
“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather...”
– _why (originally from Twitter but this site seems to archive it)
“Now me, I learned to actually do something with my brain besides take people’s...”
– I always have a soft spot for Zed for whatever reason, and although The Freehacker’s Union is (now defunct) old news, I find it a good read.
July 2009
2 posts
“Right now I’m heading to Microsoft’s campus with a tape measure and...”
– Codeweavers to overtake Microsoft by 2018
June 2009
1 post
“You make a bucket on Amazon S3, filled with MP3s. When someone visits your S3...”
– S3 FM
May 2009
1 post
“We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and...”
– David Clark
April 2009
4 posts
Mercurial support for Project Hosting on Google... →
Neat!
“Adobe Flex Builder 3 software is currently available for free for software...”
– This is sorta generous of Adobe, while being a nice way to spread skills in their technology
March 2009
2 posts
www.www.extra-www.org →
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and...”
– Phil Karlton
February 2009
2 posts
“How do you solve a problem like Moria?
How do you travel through without a...”
– Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the peak of our culture.
“Yet these things are said to be scientific. We study them. And I think ordinary...”
– Old news for everyone on earth I’m sure, but I’d never read Richard Feynman’s Cargo Cult Science before and it’s well worth it
January 2009
3 posts
“The important thing here is that the music is not in the piano. And knowledge...”
– Alan Kay
Live at The Ark →
The Ark in Edinburgh has live video streams of their gigs (with an archive). This is a really cool idea and it’s great to see a local venue doing it.
Thanks to Andy (whose band Proxy will be playing from 8pm tomorrow 21st Jan) for pointing this out.
Why did the Zunes fail?
while (days > 365) { if (IsLeapYear(year)) { if (days > 366) { days -= 366; year += 1; } } else { days -= 365; year += 1; } }
(source)
December 2008
6 posts
“…apparently there’s big money in fart apps — nearly $10,000 a day for the most...”
– What
“Effectively, Merb 2 is Rails 3.”
– Interesting news from Rubyland
iPhone Dev Spends $500k on Development, Still Not... →
This app sounds really neat. Maybe they’ll give up and transfer over to a platform I can use…
“The good news are you really do not need general “quality” or “being free from...”
– I know what Peter Zaitsev meant by this, but this is a pretty sorry line for anyone to have to say
Amazon MP3 UK →
Hurrah!
November 2008
4 posts
“No matter how P might perform, Q will scoop it:
Q uses P’s output to make...”
– The halting problem explained in poem
“Justice says their goal was “to open a debate, raise questions, something...”
– TIME, in their article on Justice’s video for Stress
October 2008
6 posts
“Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of...”
– This joke article which appeared on The Onion when Bush came into office has turned out to be depressingly accurate in a lot of respects.
ZX Spectrum emulator in JavaScript →
This would be awesome if my computer wasn’t a relic from mere months after the Spectrum itself. I need to get the +2 I have in the cupboard working.