April 2010
22 posts
“Bill Murray gets defensive when told he has a reputation for being difficult....”
– USATODAY.com - Bill Murray reacts to ‘difficult’ reputation (via skybarn) (via andrearosen)
Apple to "go after" open source codecs? →
Wow! Steve Jobs answers an open letter regarding Apple’s double standard on open platforms (Flash-HTML vs. h.264-Theora) with a veiled threat on Theora.
NYPD: Suicidal student with cyanide container... →
(via neighborhoodr-eastvillage)
Crazy shit. Full story sans subscription here.
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Let's talk about something incredibly geeky.....
Dug this out of a forgotten draft from awhile ago. It’s still relevant so here goes..
So last time we talked about avoiding ALTER TABLE with vertical tables. Now it’s time to put your real hacker hat on.
Replication isn’t magical. It’s just a log of SQL queries that happened on the primary(master). (Side note: I’ve always hated the obsession with...
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3 ways to measure your impact with Arduino
The NY Times Magazine has a feature this week on individuals reshaping their behavior via numbers and measurement. Inspired by this I decided to find out how I could measure my personal environmental impact using Arduino.
1. Create a low cost water meter
This project uses a microphone to measure the vibrations coming from a water pipe to detect when the water is on. It uses some LEDs to...
Slipmat →
jacobjoaquin:
I’m designing a programming language. I call it slipmat. It’s for music and visuals. Influences: Python, Csound, SuperCollider, ChucK and Processing.
There's still another way Adobe
Look I semi-understand Jobs’ point of view on 3rd party development platforms producing substandard apps. What ends up happening is that 3rd parties will jam in their own stuff like UI elements because they’re already built and you end up with this divergent experience, something which Apple cannot accept.
Section 3.3.1 really isn’t the end of the game though. Suppose Adobe...
