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by mark_h 17y ago
Hard to believe this hasn't been posted before, but this is one of my favourite Feynman stories (collection of, really) ever. Absolutely magical. (Worth re-visiting the other side of Thinking Machines too, I suppose: http://thedailywtf.co
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by mark_h 17y ago
Thanks so much for posting that; it has been on my todo list for a while now to figure out a neat way of hooking virtualenv into emacs!
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by mark_h 17y ago
Fair call I guess; the Wolfram anecdote just resonated with me personally! I thought that it had several interesting snippets, but wasn't sure that "Wil's overview of TED" would be that interesting so it needed something else. But yeah: Zo
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Wil Shipley on TED 2010: Wolfram uses conversation tracking numbers(wilshipley.com)
38 points by mark_h 17y ago|6 comments
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RE2: Google open-sourcing their regexp library(code.google.com)
17 points by mark_h 17y ago|0 comments
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Scott and Scurvy: How the cure for scurvy was lost(idlewords.com)
244 points by mark_h 17y ago|36 comments
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ReMail now open-source(gaborcselle.com)
1 points by mark_h 17y ago|0 comments
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by mark_h 17y ago
Obligatory emacs link: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ZenCoding
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by mark_h 17y ago
It's painful, but I intend to -- I was planning on getting a new macbook pro soon (not to mention a bigger ipod), but while I love their hardware I think I've bought my last piece for some time now.
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An Experiment in HTML Data Extraction(callvirt.net)
4 points by mark_h 17y ago|0 comments
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by mark_h 17y ago
That was about copyright though, this is about patents.
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by mark_h 17y ago
Excellent, thanks for pointing that out! I hadn't seen that.
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by mark_h 17y ago
His paper on dancing links is a delight of a read, too. Highly recommended.
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by mark_h 17y ago
I love lifting and exercising, but I don't get at all how you're supposed to listen to audio-books or think through problems (consciously anyway; that wasn't made explicit) while you're giving it proper effort. I've always found that it cl
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by mark_h 17y ago
Second that. Ross sells a few training manuals that are all excellent value; they're quite scientific too, albeit distilled down to what you need to know (+ citations). Check out any video clips of him in action if you need any further ins
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by mark_h 17y ago
It's a separate label, but replies go to your inbox (from the video, again). Agreed on the need for a critical mass, but integrating with gmail suggests that it's a bit more of a serious push for them, as opposed to say wave which looks a b
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by mark_h 17y ago
This, exactly. My only real concern is that my inbox could get drowned, but my cursory skim that would only be a danger if posted a lot yourself (and got a lot of replies). I wonder though if we're really that representative? It reminds m
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Linux.conf.au: Hackability for disability support devices(lwn.net)
1 points by mark_h 17y ago|0 comments
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by mark_h 17y ago
My favourite bit, regarding the infamous blue-boxes poster: Ends up a bunch of them, including the porno site, already have iPhone-optimized versions with no blue boxes, and video that plays just fine as straight-up H.264.
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Google proposing DNS extension for improved server locality(googlecode.blogspot.com)
12 points by mark_h 17y ago|5 comments
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by mark_h 17y ago
For django, I've been using django-compress: http://code.google.com/p/django-compress/ Works with javascript as well as CSS, nicely incorporates cache control, ahead-of-time or on-the-fly generation, etc. Works out of the box* in pure py
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by mark_h 17y ago
It's a little bit light on detail, and the article it's referring to (in Science) is pay-walled, but here's the abstract: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5964/439
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Communication networks inspired by slime mould(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by mark_h 17y ago|1 comments
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by mark_h 17y ago
The most interesting part of this for me was at the very end, where he mentions a trend of chess masters taking up poker instead; has anyone else heard of this? It isn't really explained, except in association with the earlier paragraph com
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by mark_h 17y ago
A plug for un-tiny: http://untiny.com/ Can be used with greasemonkey (my revisions: http://github.com/markhepburn/untiny-greasemonkey/ )
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by mark_h 17y ago
You could always log out first, before clicking on it.
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by mark_h 17y ago
Awesome, thanks. (and just donated too; thanks again!)
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by mark_h 17y ago
They're using the Google Closure compiler as their minifier now. Resig in this presentation (warning: video autoplay), in response to the last question, said that while it's slick if you simply throw jquery into it you'll just get broken ja
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by mark_h 17y ago
I still really like the "cards" metaphor that Palm WebOS uses (well, I like the idea of it -- I've only played with it in a shop, not lived with it full time, but I do live with android and I still want to be able to do it)
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by mark_h 17y ago
LOAF (site isn't responding at the moment; http://loaf.cantbedone.org ) used bloom filters in email attachments to determine common friends without divulging your address book.

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