December 2009
15 posts
November 2009
22 posts
Is Child Porn Lurking On Your Computer? →
Virus? More like a trojan. Probably node for a botnet. Sucks!
Fast Inverse Square Root →
A math paper detailing the mysterious inverse square root function function made famous by Quake 3.
Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript →
Dmitry Baranovskiy talking trash on Closure and a defense of Closure on Hacker News
So, you think you know JavaScript? →
This test really demonstrates some of JavaScript’s versatility.
raccoonfingers:
Stevie Nicks & Fleetwood Mac...
Rat Park →
“Alexander’s hypothesis was that drugs do not cause addiction, and that the apparent addiction to opiate drugs commonly observed in laboratory rats exposed to it is attributable to their living conditions, and not to any addictive property of the drug itself.”
“Etymology: Middle English stoppen, from Old English -stoppian, from Vulgar Latin...”
– stop
Specialization →
A Facebooker’s recent tirade reminded me of a Roy T. Fielding blog post oozing censure against software architecture tyros that label their RPC APIs as “RESTful”. Reminds me to call my software “REST-inspired” instead!
Serial \ Language (API) \ Processing 1.0 →
The best thing Martinelli can do is attach itself to a killer app… Are you catching my drift Allen?
Bluetooth Software Download →
Broadcom WIDCOMM. A Windows Bluetooth stack that doesn’t suck?!
bluecove →
Few people are trying to replicate a cross-platform Bluetooth library using Ruby. Of course, it took a whole team at Intel Research to make one for Java.
ASCII Character Code Reference →
Includes history and notes on non-printable characters we don’t use anymore.
Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X... →
Seems smoother than Prism, at least on Mac OS X, but it’s not cross-platform. The question is: who has better scripting?