June 2010
pypants →
How do various Python libs stack up? This site will tell you.
May 2010
kragen's knuth interview from 2006 →
Great stuff. Especially read the stuff about his education.
perp →
a persistent process supervisor. Nice and simple, as a good unix tool should be.
Programming Culture And Philosophy →
at Shedding Bikes. Totally agree. I learned much more in my philosophy and science and literature courses, all of which could be applied back to my computer science interests.
How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell... →
by Hilary Mason.
Derick Melander Is Better At Folding Than You →
JavaScript Semicolon Insertion →
Visualizing System Latency →
at ACM Queue
Taming Manhattan's traffic →
Jónsi →
live streaming. Awesome visuals.
A New Subway Map for New York →
at the New York Times
R by example
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VoltDB Key-Value Benchmarking vs Cassandra →
Motor unit →
Woah, had no idea.
Drawing Math →
Running Vim within IRB →
Santa Inferno - Desert Music →
It kicks ass when you — designers, developers, writers, teachers — realize that...
– Don’t bite the shit sandwich « Unicornfree (via atmos)
HBase/Hadoop Mac OS Installation Guide →
nosql:
Now we have a very detailed HBase/Hadoop installation guide for Mac OS thanks to Robert J. Berger :
You should now have a fully working Pseudo-Distributed Hadoop / HBase setup on your Mac. This is not suitable for any kind of large data or production project. In fact it will probably fail if you try to do anything with lots of data or high volumes of I/O. HBase seems to not like...
UNKLE - Follow Me Down →
Music video. Scroll down.
Alan Kay Illuminates the Heart of OOP →
Everything you need to know about Cryptography in... →
Deceiving title, very detailed information about what’s good and bad practice in terms of cryptography.
Up and Running With LaTeX →
by Alex Kahn.
The Bygone Bureau →
Why: A Tale Of A Post-Modern Genius →
on Smashing Magazine. I must say, I’m pleased with this homage. _Why truly was an inspiration.