May 2012
When Kids Start Doing Root Cause Analysis →
How to think about science and becoming a... →
Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics... →
Highly Scalable Blog
Three things you should never put in your database →
April 2012
How Geniuses Think →
Interesting perspective on the way geniuses in the past have approached problems, things everyone should be doing.
Thinking in a Foreign Language Makes Decisions... →
Counting Pull-ups →
With computers. Like Fitbit. :metal:
“The Internet is not used to it’s potential but too many useless things. I’m...”
– Rails Girls: Interview with Rails Girls Tallinn coaches John & Laas
DIY: Cold Brew Coffee →
A Use for Smartphone Photos →
by Peter Sobot. I’ve wanted to do something similar. Includes (Ruby) code with some “magic interestingness cropping” which is pretty rad.
I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years →
The Calm After The Storm
The storm has gone:
I hear the joyful birds, the hen,
returning to the path,
renews her cackling. See the clear sky
opening from the west, over the mountain:
the landscape clarifies,
the river gleams bright in the valley.
Now every heart is happy, on every side
there’s the noise of work
as they return to business.
The craftsman comes to the door,
his work in hand, singing,
to gaze at the humid sky:
a girl runs out to draw water
that’s charged with fresh rain:
and, from street to street,
the vegetable seller
raises his cry again
See the sun return, see how it’s smiling
from hills and farms. The servants
open balconies, terraces, lodges:
hear the harness clinking, far off
along the highway: as the traveller’s carriage
moves, once more, down the road.
Every heart is happy.
When was life as sweet,
as pleasant as it is now?
When did men turn
to their work, or bend to
their studies with such love? Or begin
some new venture? Or were so forgetful
of old wrongs? Joy is born of pain:
vain joy, the fruit
of fear past, in one shaken,
and fearful of death,
who abhorred life before:
fear that made men sweat and tremble
in enduring anguish,
shivering, silent, pale: seeing
lightning, cloud, and wind,
moving to attack them.
O kindly Nature,
these are your gifts,
these are the delights
you give to mortals. To be free
of pain is our delight.
You scatter ills with generous hands: grief
appears of itself, and pleasure, that’s so often
born of trouble, through the monstrous,
and the miraculous, is our only gain. The human
race, dear to the gods! Happy enough
to gain a breathing space
from sorrow: blessed
when death heals you of every grief.
Can You Make Yourself Smarter? →
NYTimes.com
Content Focused Design: Type Edition →
Prismatic Blog
Evolution has given humans a huge advantage over... →
at The Washington Post. Hmm.
Meteor →
An interesting looking JavaScript web framework.
When Dan Ariely found the key to human nature →
Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can't Build iPads in... →
marksweep:
When President Obama asked Steve Jobs what it would take to make iPhones in the United States, the late Apple co-founder supposedly quipped: “Those jobs aren’t coming back.”
When I read this, it reminded me of something my dad presented to us as kids a long time ago- The Beer Game.
My dad…
Cultural Competence →
Interesting perspective.
On Academic Talks: Memory and Fear →
March 2012
Subsecond Offset Heat Maps →
Promiscuous Pairing: Do it often, do it fast and... →
For later reading.
Cache them if you can →
Build an IDE with tmux and vim →
event buffering →
by Ryan Smith, from Heroku.
Rabbit holes: Why being smart hurts your... →
interesting insights, by Sridatta Thatipamala.
Go to Trial - Crash the Justice System →
NYTimes.com
Designing Great API Docs →
NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques →
February 2012
How To Be Happy Anywhere →
via Fast Company.
Useful use of cat(1) →
VIM Mode Transition Diagram →
John Nash’s Letter to the NSA →
Turing’s Invisible Hand
The Julia Language →
Unix as IDE →
There's no need to panic over factorable... →
Some good research on factorable keys and their implications.
GUI Architectures →
STXXL →
Standard Template Lib for Extra Large Data Sets. Interesting.
Coding tricks of game developers →
at Dodgy Coder. Dirty tricks, indeed.
Metrics 2.0 →
from Yammer.
drinking games →