March 2013
1 post
Complex regexp worked exactly as expected
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January 2013
4 posts
Lessig Blog, v2: Prosecutor as bully →
lessig:
(Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every mixed emotion needs to find voice.)
Since his arresting the early morning of January 11, 2011 — two years to the day before Aaron Swartz ended his life — I have known more about the events that began this…
programming is terrible: Learning from Nostalgia →
This topic fascinates me, and I think tef learns and wants to learn the same way that I do. See also Bret Victor’s Learnable Programming which also cites MindStorms, and is generally a brilliant piece.
programmingisterrible:
If you ask any programmer how you should learn to program, you will get the following answer: People should learn programming from my mistakes by repeating them...
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Probabilistic Graphical Models on Coursera
I recently completed the Probabilistic Graphical Models course on Coursera, and thought I would note down my thoughts about it.
What?
Probabilistic Graphical Models are a tool used in statistical fields, in particular commonly in machine learning. They are:
Models because the representation of the problem is separate from its solution (meaning you can solve it in different ways).
Graphical...
programming is terrible: What makes good and what... →
programmingisterrible:
Many blogs claim to elcuidate a dichotomy of programmers—normally good and bad. Upon careful inspection, most of them turn out to actually dictate the following–
Programmers who are like me are good
Programmers who are not like me are bad
The assertion is that if you cargo cult their…
October 2012
1 post
“And so this is Node.js’s problem. It’s just another gun in the...”
– A old response to Ryan Dahl on Hacker News which sums up the overall feeling I got after trying out Node.js a while ago.
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!
