December 2010
18 posts
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Craftsmanship and Policy →
A fantastic talk by Robert Martin on Software Craftsmanship.
Dec 23rd
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The Empathic Civilisation →
A rational argument for Metta practice.
Dec 22nd
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First as Tragedy, Then as Farce →
Interesting take on charity. This is why I prefer microfinance.
Dec 22nd
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Using Flat Files So Elections Don't Break Your... →
Fascinating architecture from the NYTimes to deal with election night traffic.
Dec 21st
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How to setup a Scala project with SBT and IDEA →
Best damn writeup on Intellij and Scala
Dec 17th
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Model describes universe with no big bang, no... →
I wonder if my kids will think we were all crazy to believe in the big bang.
Dec 16th
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Jamendo geeks solve the hidden Chrome OS equation... →
Amazing Cr-48 video easter egg
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American... →
Awesome data visualization.
Dec 16th
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Pipes: Best of YouTube User →
My yahoo pipe fror getting the most popular videos from a youtube user.
Dec 15th
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The Vendor Client Relationship In Real World... →
If people tried to pay for other services like they try to pay for programming
Dec 15th
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Efficient data transfer through zero copy →
Hot damn, didn’t realize Java supported zero copy.
Dec 13th
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Kafka →
Fantastic read on Linkedin’s message bus design choices.
Dec 13th
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What does it feel like to be stupid? An anonymous... →
Fascinating stuff. I see a lot of cross over with meditation.
Dec 10th
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The announcement that started it all →
Thanks Mr Berners-Lee
Dec 8th
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Code Fearlessly →
I like to think I code fearlessly, I just never had the term until now.
Dec 3rd
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Today’s coding interview game →
The game to get hired is to know CS 2xx inside and out. How does that ensure you are good programmer?
Dec 3rd
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Disks have become tapes →
“Programmers have to start thinking of the disk as a sequential device rather than a random access device.” - Jim Gray
Dec 3rd