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goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell
via Slashdot by kdawson on June 01, 2008
ohxten writes "Stefan Grothkopp has come up with a pretty neat tool called goosh. It's essentially a browser-oriented, shell-like interface that allows you to quickly search Google (and images and news) and Wikipedia and get information in a text-only format. This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a good while."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Comic for June 5, 2008
via Dilbert Daily Strip by (author unknown) on June 04, 2008
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Google Gets Serious About Open Source Mac Projects
via Slashdot by Soulskill on June 07, 2008
mjasay sends us a link to a CNet story, which begins: "In the '20 percent time' that Google employees have to work on projects of personal interest, it turns out that an increasing number are spending time writing open-source projects for their Macs. Google has long had a fondness for the Mac, with upwards of 6,000 of its 20,000 current employees opting to use the Mac over Windows. It is...
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The Laser Elevator
via Feedheads | top shared by xkcd on February 14, 2008
Solar sails suck.In the paper Laser Elevator: Momentum Transfer Using an Optical Resonator, Thomas R. Meyer and friends talk about a neat little trick for getting more momentum out of light (the paper’s not free online, but you can likely get it through your local school or library — it was published in the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2002) The basic physics behind it are simple, but...
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The most import thing to understand about new products and startups
via RB | Upcoming | min 3 by (author unknown) on February 16, 2008
... be fulfilled, by the first viable product that comes along.The product doesn't need to be great; it just has to basically work. And, the market doesn't care how good the team is, as long as the team can produce that viable product....Conversely, in a terrible market, you can have the best product in the world and an absolutely killer team, and it doesn't matter -- you're going t...
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Yahoo! Search running Apache Hadoop on Large Scale
via Jeremy Zawodny's blog by (author unknown) on February 18, 2008
Over on the Yahoo! Hadoop blog, you can read about how the webmap team in Yahoo! Search is using the Apache Hadoop distributed computing framework. They're using over 10,000 CPU cores to build the map and processing a ton of data to do so. They end up using over 5 petabytes of raw disk storage, eventually outputting over 300 terabytes of compressed data that's used to power every single...
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Richard Feynman, the Challenger, and Engineering
via Slashdot by CmdrTaco on February 19, 2008
An anonymous reader writes "When Richard Feynman investigated the Challenger disaster as a member of the Rogers Commission, he issued a scathing report containing brilliant, insightful commentary on the nature of engineering. This short essay relates Feynman's commentary to modern software development."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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The StatBot Launches to Analyze Blog and Web Trends, Statistics
via louisgray.com by louisgray on April 30, 2008
Yuvi Panda, a 17-year-old technology whiz kid from India has been behind detailed analysis of many high-profile blogs, including Engadget, Robert Scoble, Raymond Chen, Techmeme, Digg, TechCrunch and Matt Cutts. Last month, we connected, and he did me the great favor of looking at louisgray.com, helping me gain more insight into my links, trends and topics.Now, Yuvi is ready to take what's...
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The Secret History of Star Wars
via Slashdot by samzenpus on May 21, 2008
... big an influence were the films of Akira Kurosawa on the whole saga? Michael Kaminski's The Secret History of Star Wars, Third Edition is a free, thoroughly unauthorized, e-book that brings together a huge amount of literary detective work to sort fact from legend and reveal how the story really evolved. Download it or have your nerd credentials revoked."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Video Introduction to Cocoa
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Mat Lu on May 22, 2008
Filed under: Video, Developer, Found FootageOver at Theocacao Scott Stevenson has posted the video of his Introduction to Cocoa talk (entitled "Best of Both Worlds") aimed at those who want to learn a bit about Apple's preferred API for building OS X applications. The talk runs to over 90 minutes and includes "an introduction to Xcode, Interface Builder, Objective-C, Mac UI standards and...
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