February 2012
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Illegal prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
cab1729:
An illegal prime is a prime number that represents information that it is forbidden to possess or distribute. One of the first illegal primes was discovered in 2001. When interpreted in a particular way, it describes a computer program that bypasses the digital rights management scheme used on DVDs. Distribution of such a program in the United States is illegal under the Digital...
January 2012
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December 2011
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
November 2011
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"Yoda Conditions", "Pokémon Exception Handling"... →
October 2011
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May 2011
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Square Signals: The Problem with... →
andymatuschak:
I sat down to my very first Caltech math problem set with the adorable exuberance that only a freshman could muster. Pencils sharpened, whiteboard ready, textbooks unwrapped, I read the first problem:
I read it again, hoping I’d missed something—additional constraints or guidance, perhaps?…
April 2011
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Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes →
March 2011
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“Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority. This, of course,...”
– John Taylor Gatto
February 2011
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Daring Fireball: The Next Six Months →
minimalmac:
The post-PC era has started, and the iPad blazed the trail. Look at who is following Apple’s lead in this direction: Google, RIM, Motorola, Dell, and Samsung. HP — the biggest PC-maker in the world, at least by unit sales — wants in, and they want everyone to know it.
One startling omission from that list: Microsoft.
The usual spot on analysis and plenty of healthy guessing from...
January 2011
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“Simplicity is not the opposite of complexity: complexity is a fact of the world,...”
– Donald Norman, Living with Complexity
December 2010
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“The technological revolution is more intertwined every day with our economy and...”
– Steve Jobs to Playboy in 1985. We’re still waiting for this to happen. (via marco)
Space Jam Website →
Untouched since 1996
“I am, frankly, a mixture of disappointed and sad that after Yahoo! shut down...”
– Jason Scott
“Grötschel, an expert in optimization, observes that a benchmark production...”
– Progress in Algorithms Beats Moore’s Law
Hatebeak →
bestofwikipedia:
Hatebeak is a death metal band, formed by Blake, Mark and Waldo, a 19 year old Congo African Grey Parrot. The band members do not use their last names “for the mystery.” Hatebeak is unique in that they are the only band to feature a parrot on vocals. They are currently signed to Reptilian Records.
Can a Ship Sail Faster Than the Wind? →
“People don’t want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.”
– Theodore Levitt
November 2010
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http://www.ihas1337code.com →
This is shockingly good, considering the lame domain name.
October 2010
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September 2010
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July 2010
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“Science advances one funeral at a time.”
– Max Planck
June 2010
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“Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects...”
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“Bananas are radioactive enough to regularly cause false alarms on radiation...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
Best Worst Website Ever →
April 2010
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“The telephone was an aberration in human development. It was a 70 year or so...”
– Rick Webb about this (via toldorknown) (via marco)
“The popular buzz-phrase ‘thinking outside the box’ encourages us to...”
– The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Explanations to common Java exceptions →
Some of these are gold.
“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest...”
– Paul Rand
“Don’t try to be original. Just try to be good.”
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
March 2010
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I’m a Barbie Girl in a CS World →
February 2010
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