January 2012
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Jan 25th
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“You know what charm is? A way of getting the answer yes without having asked any...”
– Albert Camus, The Fall (via aloneleinone) Oh GOD, this is great.
Jan 21st
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WatchWatch
thedistanceinsidious: plainflavored: hackedy: Gary Bernhardt did a lighting talk at CodeMash entitled Wat. I am dying. Even if you’ve never written a line of code in your life, this is sheer brilliance. This is hilarious, but for all of the worst semantic reasons. Were the language design committees drunk?
Jan 21st
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The OPEN Act: What SOPA Should Have Been →
The OPEN Act is a bill with the same goal as SOPA: To stop online piracy from damaging legitimate business in America. However, its scope is much more focused than SOPA was: Its target is websites that “primarily and willfully” break copyright laws and promote the illegal distribution of such materials. This protects web sites like Youtube, Facebook, and, yes, Tumblr, because these...
Jan 17th
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One Bill Down: SOPA withers in House →
This is what democracy looks like.
Jan 17th
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“Since you’re all computer scientists here, I’m going to have to tell you to...”
– My new computer science lab tutor. And the sad thing is, it’s true. In a lab room of around 20 people, no-one said a word to anyone else until he told us to. (via nunnit)
Jan 13th
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Concurrency in Java
Or, Why you should never try to multitask.
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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Games for Engineers: The Codex of Alchemical... →
Whoops, there goes my afternoon.
Jan 3rd
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Richard Stallman Was Right All Along →
angwe: Yup. He was. I’ve made peace with the amounts of control I’ve ceded, but I don’t think most people are aware yet of how much they don’t, and can’t, know. Information should be free. Information wants to be free
Jan 3rd
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