May 2012
10 posts
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“Put scripts and stylesheets in the ideal order (as much as we could). All...”
– How we made Portent.com really freaking fast
In the 24-hour retest—where all subjects had a full night of sleep—those participants who went to bed shortly after learning the words did much better than those who went through an entire day before sleeping.
Divide and Conquer - The Scalability Technique
This is the scalability technique. Everything is about partitioning out work. Deciding how to execute it. Applies to many things, from web tier, you have a lot of web servers that are more or less identically and independently and you grow them horizontally. That’s divide and conquer.
“Vitess - a new project released by YouTube, written in Go, it’s a frontend to...”
– 7 Years of YouTube Scalability Lessons in 30 Minutes
x86 Assembly Primer for C Programmers →
“Every new choice she made in her life — whether it was to return to graduate...”
– It’s Not Me, It’s You - How to End a Friendship
“The notion that you’re trying to control the process and prevent error screws...”
– Inside Pixar’s Leadership « Scott Berkun
“When we are open with people, we avoid surprising them. We keep them in the...”
– Community-building tip: surprise is the opposite of engagement « Dark Matter Matters
April 2012
8 posts
The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can't Build iPads in... →
“A clearly defined cilent/server model (windows are their own clients which...”
– TMUX – The Terminal Multiplexer
“Despite what people of faith believe, the vast majority of atheists, when faced...”
– An Atheist Reviews the Atheist in “The Sunset Limited” « Belief in People
“Forcing people to undress is the first step in breaking down their sense of...”
– How the US uses sexual humiliation as a political tool to control the masses | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free
March 2012
4 posts
“He mentions that re-writing a script from memory produces a better script. I...”
– Brilliant talk by John Cleese on creativity
“Habits aren’t destiny — they can be ignored, changed or replaced. But it’s also...”
– Charles Duhigg, New York Times Magazine: How Companies Learn Your Secrets (via habitlabs)
February 2012
9 posts
“Tartaglia divulged to Hieronimo Cardano (1501-1576) the solution of the three...”
– How Tartaglia Solved the Cubic Equation
“People tend to try to learn in blocks,” Bjork said. “Mastering one thing before...”
– Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong
“Stop making to-do lists. They’re simply setting you up for failure and...”
– To-Do Lists Don’t Work - Daniel Markovitz - Harvard Business Review
“Self-help books and workshops arm us with ways to trick ourselves into doing...”
– Forget Self-Improvement - Deliberatism
“Zen coder prefers long-term happiness and productivity. He is capable of...”
– Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?
January 2012
17 posts
“It’s troubling when the counterculture, often the only voices that rise...”
– RAW Week: “Some of this stuff might be bullshit,” by Peter Bebergal - Boing Boing
AI Class Playlists - O! Mr Speaker! →
Lil’ reference for anyone doing the Stanford AI class… It’s a collection of playlists for each unit, so you can grab them with something like youtube-dl (I use the command youtube-dl -w -t -f 18 http://playlisturl. I didn’t check what those flags do, but it says “wtf”, and that’s all that matters).
The problem with the make included with MozillaBuild is that it doesn’t take advantage of multiple processor cores on Windows. So even if you have a crazy-powerful 8-core machine, when you just use the vanilla “make -f client.mk” command, you’re only going to be using one of your cores. Enter pymake. Pymake is a Mozilla-maintained mostly-compatible implementation of make in Python. The advantage?...
CANABALT →
great free online game! wot?!
'The Little Schemer' for rather common lispers →
explains stuff from ‘The Little Schemer’ in ordinary prose. Uses Common Lisp for examples
Kahneman and Tversky, the guys who first really began to probe human cognitive errors, found in their research that there was a systematic human tendency to either under or overestimate the expected value of a reward that varied as a function of time. I’ll give you an example. Do you want a dollar today, or 10 dollars in a year? Most people will say a dollar today. How about a dollar today,...
Importing 3d Models in Android, using blender-ogre... →
“arguments to a function are evaluated before calling a function: ( (- 3 1)...”
– Lisp Newbie q: Why is if a special form? Why isn’t it just a function?
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Badass JavaScript: 2011: A Badass JavaScript Year... →
badassjs:
2011 has been a great year for JavaScript. Web browsers have given us great new tools to use and we have taken web applications to new heights, competing with native applications and bringing sexy back to the web with countless impressive demos. A week or so ago, we put out a survey to all of you…
“t took a long time. It was really hard to do because you’ve got to...”
– Bill Joy’s greatest gift to man – the vi editor [printer-friendly] • The Register
“Perhaps, like writer William Gibson we could be persuaded to give up television...”
– MITx: Can Higher Learning Be Made Habit Forming? - Forbes
December 2011
79 posts
“stress kills slowly, suppressing the immune system, shutting down growth, and...”
– BrainConnection.com - Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
“Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those...”
– “Into my heart an air that kills…,” by A. E. Housman