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Seth's Blog: I need to build a house, what kind of hammer should I buy?

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fsethgodin.typepad.com%2Fseths_blog%2F2008%2F07%2Fi-need-to-build.html

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 no_tag

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/07/i-need-to-build.html - cached - mail it - history

Going Fast on the Mobile Web

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 mobile · presentation · optimization · browser · caching · iphone · lessons · performance

http://www.slideshare.net/grigs/going-fast-on-the-mobile-web - cached - mail it - history

txt2re: headache relief for programmers

"This system acts as a regular expression generator. Instead of trying to build the regular expression, you start off with the string that you want to search. You paste this into the site, click submit and the site finds recognisable patterns"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 regex · generator · webapp

http://www.txt2re.com/index-python.php3 - cached - mail it - history

Windows Environment Variables

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 reference · windows · variables · environment · shell · list

http://libertyboy.free.fr/computing/reference/envariables/index.php - cached - mail it - history

Using Python to create UNIX command line tools

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 python · optparse · subprocess · orm · storm · configparser · ini · cli · options · arguments

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-pythocli/?ca=dgr-lnxw06pythonunixtool&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR - cached - mail it - history

Secure Passwords Keep You Safer

"Forensic Toolkit ... scans a hard drive for every printable character string. It looks in documents, in the Registry, in e-mail, in swap files, in deleted space on the hard drive... everywhere. And it creates a dictionary from that & feeds it into PRTK"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 password · hacking · security · forensics · keylogger · PRTK

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/01/72458?currentPage=all - cached - mail it - history

Forget the Courts — Apple May Fight Mac Clones With Tech

"Apple may have a hard time shutting down the new maverick Mac-clonemaker Psystar.... while Psystar may be violating Apple's end user license agreement, or EULA, by doing this, legally there's not much Apple can do about it"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 apple · clone · osx · opencomputer · EULA · law · contract · leopard · pc

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/news/2008/04/apple_psystar - cached - mail it - history

Public asked to shape open-government bill

A lobbyist at odds with that pesky democracy thing: "Are we going to let the American people decide our defense policy, our trade policy, our immigration policy?"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 politics · lobbying · democracy · power · policy

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/04/13/0413sunlight.html - cached - mail it - history

AndyJeffries.co.uk: Why I think Ruby on Rails is an ideal web development environment

Rails apology from a Symfony/PHP developer

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 rails · ruby · RubyOnRails · php · symfony · MVC · webdev · activerecord

http://andyjeffries.co.uk/blog/why-i-think-ruby-on-rails-is-an-ideal-web-development-environment.html - cached - mail it - history

ONLamp.com: Interactive Debugging in Python

Detailed intro to pdb debugging, by Jeremy Jones

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 python · debugging · pdb · intro · tutorial · programming

http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6163 - cached - mail it - history

Debugging in Python

Short intro to pdb

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 pdb · howto · python · debugging · introduction

http://www.ferg.org/papers/debugging_in_python.html - cached - mail it - history

String wave simulator

Very nice interactive flash application that let's you experiment with string waves. You can vary the frequency, the amplitude, the tension, the dissipation and a few other parameters. Pretty well done.

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 physics · waves · animation · flash · science

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/simulations/stringwave/stringWave.swf - cached - mail it - history

The Silent Room Tone

Jokes as gauge of crowd mood: "The volume of the laugh is important, but so is the lag time. You can tell immediately if they're on your side, and if they're really following what you're saying, by how quickly the crowd responds to your jokes."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 presentation · publicspeaking · tips · mood · jokes · roomtone · twitter · backchannel

http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2008/03/the-silent-room.html - cached - mail it - history

The Game Plan : A solution framework for climate change and energy.

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 environment · energy · presentation · climatechange · sustainability · green · slides

http://www.wattzon.org/gameplan.htm - cached - mail it - history

Common Error No. 61

"There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing and it will come.... For most of humanity's existence on this planet, poverty has been the norm"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 poverty · wealth · development · value · innovation · economics

http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/globalization/common-error-no.-61-200803151059/ - cached - mail it - history

The Good Guy Behind "Don't Be Evil" and Google Mail

"The very first version of [AdSense] was actually a side project while I was working on Gmail because we had no way of making money for Gmail.... I just built it one night and released it on our internal prototype of Gmail."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 interview · buchheit · adsense · google · friendfeed · business · startup

http://rajeshbarnabas.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/29/1335333-the-good-guy-behind-dont-be-evil-and-google-mail - cached - mail it - history

My IP Address Lookup - Community Geotarget IP Project - what country, city ip addresses map to - IP Trace

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 geo · location · geolocation · ip · internet

http://www.hostip.info/ - cached - mail it - history

IP Geolocator - Trace an IP address to city, country, ISP - Geody

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 ip · internet · geolocator · geolocation · database · network

http://www.geody.com/geoip.php - cached - mail it - history

Newshoured - Local news without fuss

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 local · news · aggregator · postcode

http://newshoured.com/ - cached - mail it - history

MaxMind - GeoLite City | Free IP Address to City Database

"GeoLite City is similar to the GeoIP City database, but is less accurate. Should you require greater accuracy, GeoIP City is a drop-in replacement for GeoLite City."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 geolocation · geoip · geocoding · free · database · ip

http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity - cached - mail it - history

Blog - 9 Essential Rails Tips - Fortytwo.gr

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 rails · tips · activerecord · rubyonrails · optimization · performance

http://fortytwo.gr/blog/18/9-Essential-Rails-Tips - cached - mail it - history

seattlerb's production_log_analyzer-1.5.0 Documentation

"production_log_analyzer lets you find out which actions on a Rails site are slowing you down."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 rubyonrails · logging · rails · performance · tools

http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/production_log_analyzer/ - cached - mail it - history

Cycling '74 || Tools For New Media

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 max/msp · Software · music · audio · jitter · live · programming · art · video

http://www.cycling74.com/ - cached - mail it - history

In Response to “What Sucks About Erlang”

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 erlang · Language · programming · advocacy · riposte · rebuttal

http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/03/09/in-response-to-what-sucks-about-erlang/ - cached - mail it - history

Damien Katz: What Sucks About Erlang

"it's time to whine about my favorite language I use quite extensively. Erlang, I love ya, but we need to have a word."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 erlang · programming · language · functional · critique

http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html - cached - mail it - history

Twin Sunset: Structured Python Editor

"One of my perpetual second week projects is to make an IDE that understands Python as the serialization format of a graph of objects — modules, classes, and functions — rather than text."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 subtext · ast · programming · python · editor · IDE · graph · MVC · structure

http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2008/04/structured-python-editor.html - cached - mail it - history

We Don't Know How To Program...

"Somewhere, Out There, There's a Way to write large programs without me having to sweat out Every Bloody Little Detail about how my parallel program communicates internally. Screw Java: I got a JVM with a super GC, fantastic JIT & decent concurrent libs"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 java · programming · concurrency · jvm · performance · erlang · hotspot · jit · gc · serial · concurrent

http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2008/04/we-dont-know-ho.html - cached - mail it - history

A VC: We Need A New Path To Liquidity

"there is another private liquidity market under development called Opus-5. The idea behind both of these new emerging (and currently illiquid) markets is to provide a place for private equity investors to trade securities with each other."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 business · vc · internet · liquidity · web2.0 · startups · venture_capital · acquisition · innovation

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/04/we-need-a-new-p.html - cached - mail it - history

Google App Engine for developers

"Google App Engine is a managed hosting environment with a tightly managed stack running in a machine-independent environment. It simplifies the deployment and management of your web application software stack while constraining you to a specific stack."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 google · appengine · python · programming · framework · architecture

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/04/google-app-engine.html - cached - mail it - history

Using Django with Appengine

"This is a port of the Django tutorial to use appengine instead of Pure Django. Like in the Django tutorial, we build a poll engine, where you can create polls and others can vote for them."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 django · appengine · google · tutorial · python · webdev

http://www.42topics.com/dumps/django/docs.html - cached - mail it - history

PDF: The Five Orders of Ignorance - Viewing software development as knowledge acquisition and ignorance reduction.

"software is not a product, but rather a medium for the storage of knowledge.... the fifth such medium that has existed since the beginning of time. The other knowledge storage media being, in historical order: DNA, brains, hardware, and books"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 pdf · ignorance · process · product · software · knowledge · acquisition · storage

http://www-plan.cs.colorado.edu/diwan/3308-07/p17-armour.pdf - cached - mail it - history

Errata: Entities That Have Suffered Large Personal Data Incidents

List of major incidents where personal data was stolen or compromised

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 dataloss · security · privacy · reference · disclosure · history · list · theft · legal · internet · data

http://attrition.org/dataloss/ - cached - mail it - history

Javascript and Smalltalk

"Dan Ingalls, one of the father of Smalltalk, is working on a new project called Lively. It is a rewrite of Morphic in Javascript, especially target for building a Squeak-like interface."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 lively · morphic · smalltalk · javascript · performance · problems · ingalls

http://blog.objectsroot.com/blog/2008/feb/16/javascript-and-smalltalk/ - cached - mail it - history

rb-appscript

"Ruby appscript (rb-appscript) is a high-level, user-friendly Apple event bridge that allows you to control scriptable Mac OS X applications using ordinary Ruby scripts."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 ruby · applescript · rb-appscript · script · scripting · macosx · osx · programming

http://appscript.sourceforge.net/rb-appscript/index.html - cached - mail it - history

RubyOSA - a Ruby/AppleEvent Bridge

"RubyOSA provides a bridge from Ruby to the Apple Event Manager. It allows Ruby programs to automate Mac OS X applications in the same way as AppleScript. "

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 ruby · applescript · osx · scripting · mac · programming

http://rubyosa.rubyforge.org/ - cached - mail it - history

Pyro - About

"Pyro is short for PYthon Remote Objects ... an advanced and powerful Distributed Object Technology system written entirely in Python, that is designed to be very easy to use.... when using Pyro you just write your Python objects like you would normally"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 python · distributed · programming · rpc · framework

http://pyro.sourceforge.net/ - cached - mail it - history

Python Package Index : processing 0.50 - Package for using processes which mimics the threading module

"processing is a package for the Python language which supports the spawning of processes using the API of the standard library's threading module. It runs on both Unix and Windows."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 python · parallel · concurrency · process · programming · threading

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/processing - cached - mail it - history

cairo - introduction

"Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, Win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL, Quartz, and XCB"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 graphics · library · programming · cairo · rendering · visualization · opensource

http://www.cairographics.org/ - cached - mail it - history

Squeak by Example

"Squeak by Example, intended for both students and developers, will guide you gently through the Squeak language and environment by means of a series of examples and exercises."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 squeak · smalltalk · programming · book · tutorial · free · online · pdf

http://www.squeakbyexample.org/ - cached - mail it - history

BecomeAnXcoder

"Bert Altenburg, author of AppleScript for Absolute Starters, in co-operation with Alex Clarke and Philippe Mougin, has released a book for newcomers to Cocoa programming using Objective-C and XCode."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 xcode · Cocoa · programming · tutorial · osx · mac · development · introduction · ebook · free

http://www.cocoalab.com/?q=becomeanxcoder - cached - mail it - history

WikipediaVision (beta)

"Anonymous edits to Wikipedia (almost) in real-time."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 wikipedia · visualization · maps · mashup · google · googlemaps

http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/ - cached - mail it - history

NetworkX

"NetworkX (NX) is a Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 python · graph · visualization · network · library · programming · networkx

https://networkx.lanl.gov/wiki - cached - mail it - history

Monkey-patching is Part of the DIY Culture

"Anyone who has had an experience in a less-flexible language or caught in a hard place trying to debug a closed-source library can appreciate how liberating it is to take matters into your own hands [and] fix your own problem"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 ruby · programming · open_classes · closed-source · monkey-patching

http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2008/03/14/monkey-patching-is-part-of-the-diy-culture - cached - mail it - history

Stronger Validators for the Django Admin

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 django · programming · validation · webdev

http://blog.capstrat.com/articles/stronger-validators-for-the-django-admin/ - cached - mail it - history

The Total Growth of Open Source

"the total amount of source code as well as the total number of open source projects is growing at an exponential rate.... Our work shows that open source is expanding into new domains and applications at an exponential rate."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 OpenSource · research · growth · exponential · economics · expansion · source

http://www.riehle.org/publications/2008/the-total-growth-of-open-source/ - cached - mail it - history

Biosimilarity: Naming as infection

"Language co-creation is a fundamental human activity. This perspective, by the way, is what prevents me from having a lot of faith in the current ontology efforts of web 3.0. Any given ontology will be out of date before it has enough mass to be useful"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 programming · conway · language · ebnf · naming · scope · ontology

http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com/2008/03/naming-as-dialectic.html - cached - mail it - history

Special Ops for Django by Glenn Franxman at HackerMojo.com

"The gist of it is that I've added a few new views and a single function decorator that you can use to unleash the additional functionality within the admin."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 django · admin · specialops · python · webdev · customization

http://hackermojo.com/mt-static/archives/2008/02/django-special-ops.html - cached - mail it - history

FreeBSD 7.0 review

"7.0 has been widely anticipated as the release that FreeBSD fans can have confidence in. I wish I could say that FreeBSD 7.0 lived up to the hype. I've long since lost the hope of returning to FreeBSD as a desktop or server operating system"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 freebsd · review · 7.0 · critique · OS · opensource · bsd

http://www.softwareinreview.com/bsd/freebsd_7.0_review.html - cached - mail it - history

dvtm || dynamic virtual terminal manager

"dvtm brings the concept of tiling window management, popularized by X11-window managers like dwm to the console. As a console window manager it tries to make it easy to work with multiple console based programs like vim, mutt, cmus or irssi."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 linux · console · shell · windowmanager · tiling · manager · screen · commandline · cli

http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/ - cached - mail it - history

Why your Flash website sucks - glyphobet • глыфобет • γλυφοβετ

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 flash · usability · webdesign · web · critique · accessibility · searchability · standards

http://glyphobet.net/blog/?p=206 - cached - mail it - history

Musings on SciPy and ETS

"Enthought has been doing fantastic things for SciPy by contributing tools that help connect the algorithms of SciPy with real users who need so much more in the way of UI to make valuable use of those algorithms."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 SciPy · Python · programming · math · numeric · science · numpy · UI · usability

http://blog.enthought.com/?p=17 - cached - mail it - history

Abaababa: Monads are a class of hard drugs

"In Haskell, you have to start in the correct monad if you plan on doing any I/O (and you do). Ocaml's "implicit" monad is the same monad the overwhelming majority of programs live in: the imperative monad with exceptions."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 Monads · Haskell · functional · ocaml · programming · critique

http://abaababa.blogspot.com/2008/02/monads-are-class-of-hard-drugs.html - cached - mail it - history

open-source scripting environment Komodo Edit 4.3

"Komodo edit uses Scintilla for its editing component but offers a few unique twists... it comes with passable Vi and Emacs keybinding schemes. The Vi scheme doesn't just shift around a few key bindings, it completely changes the way the editor operates

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 komodo · editor · scripting · opensource · IDE · vi · emacs · bindings · review · activestate · python · Ruby · javascript

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080316-hands-on-open-source-scripting-environment-komodo-edit-4-3.html - cached - mail it - history

SVD Recommendation System in Ruby - igvita.com

"one of the most successful and widely used approaches to [Collaborative Filtering] this day also happens to be one of the simplest: SVD, also affectionately referred to in the literature as LSI, dimensionality reduction, or projection."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 recommendations · svd · machinelearning · algorithms · ai · collective · learning · algorithm · LSI · similarity · clustering

http://www.igvita.com/2007/01/15/svd-recommendation-system-in-ruby/ - cached - mail it - history

The Joy of Squeak

"There are two editions of Squeak. There’s ... the Squeakland version, and then there’s the Squeak.org version. Squeakland is the one typically used for educational purposes. The Squeak.org version is the one typically used by professional developers"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 squeak · smalltalk · etoys · programming · kids · children · education · interactive

http://tekkie.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/the-joy-of-squeak/ - cached - mail it - history

On the Relationship Between Python and Lisp

"Python is growing, but not towards Lisp. As Python becomes more popular, I expect advocates of other languages will try to claim it as a descendant of theirs"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 python · lisp · programming · comparison · essay · languages · criticism · functional · lispiness

http://www.prescod.net/python/IsPythonLisp.html - cached - mail it - history

Windows command-line fun

"One of many reasons why the Windows command line will never be taken seriously. Or, Microsoft cannot figure out shell metacharacters."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 windows · commandline · cmd · scripting · shell · metacharacters

http://www.parodius.com/~mdl/cmd.html - cached - mail it - history

A followup on Concurrency within Python — jessenoller.com

"I don't think Python's future should be tightly coupled with the implementation of a runtime on top of another runtime. I think work has to be performed on the CPython interpreter to make it a viable contender and solution within the concurrency space."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 concurrency · python · jython · GIL · lock · multithreading · Actor · erlang · proposals · threading · pycon

http://jessenoller.com/2008/03/17/a-followup-on-concurrency-within-python/ - cached - mail it - history

Django vs. ASP.NET MVC

"When I started looking at Django, there was a simple 4 step tutorial that I followed to get up to speed. I read through it and over the next couple days I got my simple app up and running. There is nothing like that for the ASP.NET MVC stuff"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 asp.net · django · MVC · .NET · python · programming · webdev · comparison · advocacy

http://totaleclipseservices.com/blog/?p=28 - cached - mail it - history

JavaScript Based Code Prettification

Automatic code syntax highlighting with jQuery

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 javascript · jquery · css · prettify · syntax · programming · highlighting · webdev · markdown · source · code

http://tomayko.com/writings/javascript-prettification - cached - mail it - history

JavaFX Is Many Times Faster And Easier Than Swing

"JavaFX Script allows you to simply and elegantly express a UI, including cross-platform layout components, with a declarative programming style. It also leverages the full power of Java, because you can instantiate and use the millions of Java classes"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 javafx · programming · interview · javafx_script · java · swing · gui · declarative

http://www.indicthreads.com/interviews/1180/javafx_script_client_java_swing_ria.html - cached - mail it - history

Eclipse launches super run-time project as alternative to Java and .NET

"The Eclipse organization ... has set its sights on the run-time arena and will take on Sun’s Java and Microsoft’s .NET with what it says is an agnostic open source component model that runs across multiple operating systems and computing tiers."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 eclipse · programming · osgi · equinox · development · runtime · components · multiplatform

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2136 - cached - mail it - history

The Mythical Business Layer

"If you’ve developed software for long enough, you’ve most certainly heard of a 'business logic layer.' .... [it] is a bad design that leads to bad software. Or at the very least, dangerously poor semantics."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 programming · architecture · design · 3-tier · n-tier · databases · layer · business · critique

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Mythical-Business-Layer.aspx - cached - mail it - history

Joel is from Mars, browsers are from Venus

"the good old consortium has sort of moved ... from the merry idealism of unimplementable X-es to the grassroots pragmatism of HTML5. Today the standard ITSELF is in beta & planning to be in beta for a while ... Standards Trotskyists aren't cool anymore"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 browsers · standards · joelspolsky · html5 · ie8 · microsoft · idealism · pragmatism · joelonsoftware · webstandards

http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/show.dml/1818385 - cached - mail it - history

Ruby as an AppleScript Replacement?

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 applescript · Apple · osx · scripting · ruby · tutorial · RubyOSA · rb-appscript · tools

http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-as-an-applescript-replacement-811.html - cached - mail it - history

The Byzantine Generals Problem

"The Byzantine Generals Problem is an agreement protocol that's built around an imaginary General who makes a decision to attack or retreat, and who must communicate his decision to his lieutenants"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 concurrency · distributed · lamport · byzantine · general · decision · fault

http://www.ddj.com/article/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=206904396&dept_url=/cpp/ - cached - mail it - history

The KJ-Technique: A Group Process for Establishing Priorities

"The KJ-Method, named for its inventor, Jiro Kawakita (the Japanese put their last names first), allows groups to quickly reach a consensus on priorities of subjective, qualitative data. "

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 KJ · Kawakita · prioritization · group-decision · consensus · brainstorming · collaboration · process · planning · project_management · social · methodology

http://www.uie.com/articles/kj_technique/ - cached - mail it - history

The Right Choice?

"As an episode in modern military history, Iraq qualifies at best as a very small war. Yet the ripples from this small war will extend far into the future, with remembrance of the event likely to have greater significance than the event itself."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 politics · obama · Iraq · foreignpolicy · war · conservatism · empire · repudiation · neocon · preemptive · conservative

http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_03_24/article.html - cached - mail it - history

Simple Spark

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 web2.0 · directory · applications · web · webapps · list · sharing

http://simplespark.com/ - cached - mail it - history

Unix Toolbox

"This document is a collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users. This is a practical guide with concise explanations, however the reader is supposed to know what s/he is doing."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 unix · linux · reference · cheatsheet · commands · shell · sysadmin

http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml - cached - mail it - history

Counterparty of last resort?

"We'd better think very carefully before letting the Fed become a derivatives counterparty of last resort. The very idea represents a subsidy to those we may not wish to subsidize. There's never been such a thing as a risk-free derivatives counterparty"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 bearstearns · economics · finance · mortgage · subprime · fed · rescue · bailout · derivatives · counterparty

http://www.interfluidity.com/posts/1206422478.shtml - cached - mail it - history

Performance comparison of FreeBSD 7.0 to FreeBSD 4.11 and Dragonfly BSD 1.12

"the dragonfly 1.12 kernel does not scale to a second CPU on the benchmarks performed.... In all cases measured, FreeBSD 7.0 performs significantly better than both FreeBSD 4.11 and dragonfly 1.12 in both SMP and UP configurations."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 freebsd · comparison · benchmark · performance · smp · dragonfly · kernel

http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/dfly.html - cached - mail it - history

Ron Paul: Making a Recession Great

"Many so-called Iraq War critics criticize this administration rather than truly opposing the decades old policies that led to war. They claim they will eventually get the troops out of Iraq, but the danger is that they simply plan to move them around"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 recession · empire · congress · economy · budget · taxes

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2008/tst031608.htm - cached - mail it - history

DVICE: The 13 best electronic versions of Dungeons & Dragons

old to new: dnd, D&D Computer Labyrinth Game, Mattel's D&D, Intellivision AD&D, Treasure of Tarmin, D&D Pinball, Pool of Radiance, Shadow Over Mystara, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Tabletop Projection fan setup, Bringing D&D to 2nd Life, Stormreach

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 games · rpg · dnd · computer · adnd · gygax

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/03/10_great_forays.php - cached - mail it - history

JeffCroft.com: Django for non-programmers

Short intro for non-programmers focusing on the high-level building blocks of Django

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 django · tutorial · cms · python · programming · advocacy

http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2006/may/02/django-non-programmers/ - cached - mail it - history

Let's Get Real About Bear

"The shareholders at Bear have been essentially wiped out. Note that a third of the shares of Bear were owned by Bear employees. Many of them have seen a lifetime of work and savings wiped out, and their jobs may be at risk"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 finance · economics · business · bearstearns · bailout · subprime · bankrupcy · fed · federal_reserve

http://www.investorsinsight.com/otb_va_print.aspx?EditionID=667 - cached - mail it - history

Python Spreadsheets: Like Resolver, Only in Excel and Free

"Here's a demo of how to add Pythonability to Excel.... This demo will show you how to synchronize the visible range in Excel from a running Python session"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 python · excel · spreadsheet · programming · resolver

http://fpgacomputing.blogspot.com/2008/03/python-spreadsheets-like-resolver-only.html - cached - mail it - history

Famous Compsci Books and their acronyms

Key to the following famous Compsci book acronyms: AIMA, AMOP, ATTAPL, AWDWR, CLR, CLRS, CLtL, CTM, EOPL, GOF, HOP, HTDP, K&R, LL, LiSP, PAIP, PCL, PLP, SICP, TAOCP, TAPL, TCPL, TCS, TLS, TRS, TSPL, TSS & WELC

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 books · acronyms · list · compsci · cs · programming

http://mbishop.esoteriq.org/stuff/books.txt - cached - mail it - history

http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html

"Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 humor · scifi · fiction · funny · history · hitler · timetravel · timeline · paradox · China · Taiping · Xiuquan

http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html - cached - mail it - history

Scientific American: A Solar Grand Plan

"A vast area of photovoltaic cells would have to be erected in the Southwest. Excess daytime energy would be stored as compressed air in underground caverns to be tapped during nighttime hours."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 solar · energy · science · environment · dc · hvdc · compressed_air · storage · grid · power · electricity · america

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan&print=true - cached - mail it - history

Ranking of Foreign Language OpenCourseWare Education Sources

Top 10 from 1st to 10th: MIT, BBC, Open University, eLanguage School, Mango Languages, FSI Language, Utah State University, U.S. Institute of Languages, Carnegie Mellon, Wikiversity

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 language · learning · foreign · lessons · lectures · resources · tutorials · education · classes

http://degreedirectory.org/articles/Ranking_of_Foreign_Language_OpenCourseWare_Education_Sources.html - cached - mail it - history

The Best Tools for Visualization - ReadWriteWeb

Useful list of resources and tools for visualization

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 visualization · tools · web2.0 · image · infographics · presentation · graphics · graph · utilities · resources · list

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_best_tools_for_visualization.php - cached - mail it - history

Lisp vs All The Rest: Semantics vs Syntax

"In Lisp you program semantics, in all of the others you program syntax. In all languages except Lisp there is an n to 1 relation between semantics and syntax ... while in Lisp there is an n to 1 relation between semantics and syntax"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 lisp · semantics · syntax · philosophy · essence · learning · programming

http://prophipsi.blogspot.com/2007/08/lisp-vs-all-rest-semantics-vs-syntax.html - cached - mail it - history

shoebox

"Shoebox is a pure Python version/rewrite of Nodebox, a Mac OS X application developed by Frederik Bleser and Tom de Smedt at St. Lucas University in Antwerp, Belgium, from the DrawBot application developed by Just van Rossum."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 graphics · nodebox · visualization · Python · art · cairo · shoes · shoebox · drawbot · programming · processing

http://shoebox.sollec.org/ - cached - mail it - history

Pictures of Pi

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 pi · visualization · images · digits · math · mathematics

http://www.befria.nu/elias/pi/lookpi.html - cached - mail it - history

Number of Types in the .NET Framework

119 assemblies; 933 namespaces; 39,509 types; 384,300 methods; 240,070 fields; 8,562,828 IL instructions.

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 programming · c# · statistics · ndepend · dotnet · types · namespaces · methods · fields

http://codebetter.com/blogs/patricksmacchia/archive/2008/03/18/number-of-types-in-the-net-framework.aspx - cached - mail it - history

Vote fraud 'undermines democracy'

"the safeguards introduced by the government to combat electoral fraud particularly in relation to postal voting are easily bypassed because of the fundamental weaknesses in the current system of electoral registration."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 fraud · registration · voting · elections · safeguards · vulnerability · manipulation · tampering

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7303606.stm - cached - mail it - history

TextMarks - Welcome - Make information accessible from any mobile phone - via text messages网站托管用户输入的内容和对应的关键词，其他用户只需通过短信输入关键词，就能收到相关内容

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 sms · messaging · phone · social · text · Mobile · textmarks

http://www.textmarks.com/ - cached - mail it - history

Chatterous

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 chat · mobile · sms · messaging · twitter · socialnetworking · web

http://www.chatterous.com/landing/ - cached - mail it - history

Picnik

"Picnik is photo editing awesomeness, online, in your browser. It's the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos. "

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 photo · editing · online · web2.0 · photography

http://www.picnik.com/app - cached - mail it - history

The Coming Death of Paper as an Information Storage Medium - ReadWriteWeb

"people are increasingly being fed up with receipts, envelopes, bank statements, and other forms of paper as an information transfer medium.... It is the moments when we see things like this that we realize: this is wrong and this has to go"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 paper · future · obsolescence · digital · storage · books · information · persistence

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_coming_death_of_paper.php - cached - mail it - history

Lessons from the Skeptics Conference - TierneyLab - Science - New York Times Blog

"Given the sum of the evidence today, I think the risk of global warming is sufficient to warrant buying insurance. The question then becomes how much insurance and what kind, and here I think the skeptics are especially useful"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 global_warming · environment · ecology · energy · risk · skeptics · criticism · insurance

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/lessons-from-the-skeptics-conference/ - cached - mail it - history

Stevey's Home Page - The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions

"write some simple code ... define basic OO concepts ... describe how to find the phone numbers in 50,000 HTML pages ... demonstrate basic knowledge of the most common data structures ... answer simple questions about bits, bytes, and binary numbers"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 interview · programming · questions · hiring · interviewing · phone · screening

http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/five-essential-phone-screen-questions - cached - mail it - history

IE8: The Bad

"There are quite a few good things about the Microsoft release ... but there are quite a few evil things as well:" DomainRequest, HTML5 DOM Storage, ARIA, Switch, Parsing

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 ie8 · browser · standards · webdev · web · critique · microsoft

http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/03/ie8-bad - cached - mail it - history

Firecookie

"Firecookie is a an extension for Firebug that makes possible to view and manage cookies in your browser."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 firefox · firebug · extension · cookies · browser · debugging · firecookie

http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/?page_id=5 - cached - mail it - history

Games People Play

"The correlation between a question and the likelihood of a positive outcome for you changes over time as candidates discover what you are seeking and pretend to supply it. This is exactly like spammers writing emails"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 hiring · interview · programming · captcha · questions · filtering

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/03/games-people-play.html - cached - mail it - history

SitePoint Blogs » Table-Based Layout Is The Next Big Thing

"IE8 will be the last of the major browsers to add support for CSS tables, which will enable designers to use table-based layout techniques without misusing HTML table markup"

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 layout · css · html · webdesign · table · css3 · ie8 · standards · browser

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/28/table-based-layout-is-the-next-big-thing/ - cached - mail it - history

Markmail

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 search · email · opensource

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/markmail-provides-amazing-sear.html - cached - mail it - history

LFE - Lisp Flavoured Erlang

"LFE, Lisp Flavoured Erlang ... is a lisp syntax front-end to the Erlang compiler. Code produced with it is compatible with 'normal' Erlang code."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 lisp · erlang · lfe · programming · skin · functional · syntax

http://forum.trapexit.org/viewtopic.php?p=40268 - cached - mail it - history

Git's Killer Feature | CodeMac.net

"The Git index is the killer feature of git. Now obviously Git has many other things going for it, but I was searching for the real differences between Git and Mercurial and this appears to be the trump card of Git."

by olifante 2008-07-25 11:38 git · mercurial · comparison · scm · vcs · versioncontrol · advocacy

http://codemac.net/blog/18/ - cached - mail it - history