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Tail recursion
via Lambdacats by (author unknown) on October 09, 2007
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It’s tax season again
via Kraig's Blog by Craig on March 17, 2008
No one likes to pay taxes. What I find even worse is all the work that goes into figuring out how much, to whom, and when you have to pay. I’ve used TurboTax for the past few years to help with this problem. Last year was the first year that I needed to use the ‘Premier’ edition of the service. Good lord, there were about 7000 questions. I’m about to start the process again this...
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wikihistory
via jwz by jwz@jwz.org on March 18, 2008
"Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip."
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Cleaning up my online life
via will work for doughnuts by edward on March 23, 2008
Twitter account: deletedFriendfeed: removed all services, for now I’ll just ignore friend requests since I’m not publishing anything.Flickr: all photos are friends only, removed some contacts.Facebook: profile is still there, but made use of their new privacy settings (unchecked everything) and heavy use of the limited profile. Facebook only serves as a rolodex for me, and I don’t use it...
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large-scale color name survey
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on March 18, 2008
a chart mapping about 1,300 colors & the according (English) names that people gave for them. each name is printed in its own color & positioned on a color wheel. there seem to appear distinct regions for different names, while there are also rich sets of modifiers (”light”, “dark”, “sea”), multi-word names (”army green”), & fun obscure ones (”cerulean”).[link:...
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RSS 2.0 guid is broken by default
via Nelson's Weblog by Nelson Minar on April 10, 2008
RSS 2.0 is a bad format. I just helped Andy debug a problem with his linkblog's feed. Google Readerwas sending folks to his own domain rather than directly to the linkdestination. Why? Because RSS 2.0 is stupid.The problem is the guidelement in the feed was being used instead of the linkelement you'd expect. Why? Well, read the spec:There are no rules for the syntax of a guid.Aggregators...
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied.
via www.mcsweeneys.net by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
Shared by Mihai Re-sharing with full text since Blackmad wasn't kind enough to provide.January 22, 1939 Assistant Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr.Department of AnthropologyChapman Hall 227BMarshall College Dr. Jones: As chairman of the Committee on Promotion and Tenure, I regret to inform you that your recent application for tenure has been denied by a vote of 6 to 1. Following past...
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High cpu load web page diagnosis
via ecmanaut by Johan Sundström on February 23, 2008
For web development, a laptop with a case fan that starts screaming like a jet engine when your cpu load skyrockets is sometimes a Really Good Thing, since it gives you cues to what happens in your browser, whether you set out do do profiling or not when, bad enough things happen. (A bit like how you could debug your programs on the C64 from the overtones that would leak from cpu to audio...
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The smallwig theory of optimization
via smallwig by Kevin Bourrillion on April 16, 2008
There are three kinds of optimization. Optimization by using a more sensible overall approach.Optimization by making the code less weird.Optimization by making the code more weird.You've probably heard, and maybe even spouted yourself, the phrase "premature optimization is the root of all evil." It's exclusively "Type 3 optimization" that this aphorism applies to. Types 1 and 2 are...
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