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The Ultimate Software Development Office Layout(possibility.com)
3 points by alatkins 13y ago|0 comments
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by alatkins 13y ago
As a wearer of contact lenses I'm surprised how often people express this sentiment :-) It takes some getting used to (I seem to remember, but I've been wearing them for 15 years), but it's not that bad, honest!
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Lean Essays(leanessays.com)
2 points by alatkins 14y ago|0 comments
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by alatkins 14y ago
I'd be really interested in some references to these studies, if you wouldn't mind sharing.
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Cardiio: touch-free pulse sensing, turn your phone into a biosensor.(cardiio.com)
10 points by alatkins 14y ago|1 comments
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by alatkins 14y ago
I also found the post-PhD transition to industry a challenge. I highly recommend Jane Chin's 'PhD [alternative] Career Clinic' [1] for getting a handle on the perspectives of employers to PhDs, and ideas on how to avoid falling victim to so
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by alatkins 14y ago
It work kind of okay, but formatting tends to get screwed up when doing this. Conversion with something like Calibre can give better results, but typically nothing's as good as a well-prepared epub or mobi.
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by alatkins 14y ago
Richard Hamming: You and Your Research: http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
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Oracle's First Release of Java and JavaFX for Mac OS X Ships (eweek.com)
1 points by alatkins 14y ago|0 comments
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by alatkins 15y ago
Summary: scrape by while learning the bare minimum, reinvent the wheel for perpetuity.
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by alatkins 15y ago
And for a slightly more modern take on the tuple space, check out Java Spaces [1] or Gigaspaces [2]. There's still plenty of active research on the topic too [3] (disclaimer: I did my PhD thesis on distributed tuple spaces). I've long conte
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Nature Special: Alan Turing at 100(nature.com)
4 points by alatkins 15y ago|0 comments
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by alatkins 15y ago
Then there's Gelernter's Linda [1] and it's tuple space model [2], the granddaddy of non-relational data stores: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language) [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_space
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Start-up pipeline: new lab for Aussie ideas(brisbanetimes.com.au)
2 points by alatkins 15y ago|0 comments
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What Programming Language to Learn (Next)(streamhead.com)
18 points by alatkins 15y ago|8 comments
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by alatkins 15y ago
As soon as I saw this story I thought "DoodleRoulette!".
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by alatkins 15y ago
There was also a detailed answer related to this a few days ago on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Steve-Jobs/Why-did-Steve-Jobs-choose-no... EDIT: Please see the link to the answer comment below, which I hadn't seen until now. As always, a g
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Umple - The Umple Model-Oriented Programming Technology(code.google.com)
1 points by alatkins 15y ago|0 comments
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by alatkins 15y ago
Man, how our expectations change in a short time. Nobody quite believed the iPad's 10-hour claim at launch, now apparently it's the accepted baseline in less than years :-)
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by alatkins 15y ago
Once again, yet another diet-related study which reinforces the old maxim of everything in moderation (including moderation, of course :-)).
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The problem with recruitment for software jobs ... is you(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by alatkins 15y ago|0 comments
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by alatkins 15y ago
Anyone else feel that these guys have missed their moment? Their whole raison d'etre is privacy and openness, and it seems to me the once-regular privacy scares around Facebook don't seem to be happening any more, or at least they're not re
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by alatkins 15y ago
Pleased I'm not the only one who had trouble parsing the title...
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TEDxNASASiliconValley(tedxnasa.com)
2 points by alatkins 15y ago|0 comments
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by alatkins 15y ago
While I'm not necessarily disagreeing with everything in this article, there are an awful lot of assertions made that could really use some citations and illustrative examples to back them up. The fact that the author is associated with a f
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Amazon Buys U.K. Online Bookseller(online.wsj.com)
2 points by alatkins 15y ago|1 comments
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by alatkins 15y ago
The typical "hacker" ethos these days (out with the old, re-invent the wheel, everything taught in college is a waste of time etc) seems to be almost the antithesis of classical computer science, so I'm not sure I get the juxtaposition of t
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by alatkins 15y ago
There's also the press release: http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20110622indigo.php
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Delia Derbyshire - Electronic Music Pioneer(delia-derbyshire.org)
1 points by alatkins 16y ago|0 comments
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by alatkins 16y ago
Nope it was about academic politics: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayres_Law

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