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The Difference Between the Rich & Famous and the Rest of Us
via Jeremy Zawodny's blog by (author unknown) on February 24, 2008
Occasionally the Zen Habits blog publishes something I find particularly interesting--usually because the author has figured out way to explain something that's more simple and more clear than I do. And I'm a big fan of simplicity and clarity.But today's interview with Stephen Covey is not only useless, it's a slap-in-the-face reminder of how different the lives of the Rich and...
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Using IoC TDD To Design Tomorrow’s Car
via Rob Conery by Rob Conery on February 17, 2008
I spent Saturday with my buddy Eric, in his garage, drinking really bad Coors Light and talking about cars. He was rebuilding this Jetta of his, swapping out the gas tank to add in a Bio Diesel system. As he was working, I was asking him about car design, and what he would do if he built one from scratch…* I Can Be Manly TooI took Auto Shop during my senior year of high school, and it was one...
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Email organization in GMail (Aka the Zen of Gmail)
via Ryan in Seattle by Ryan on April 27, 2008
I keep on getting friends who complain about GMail and pine for the "good old days" of Outlook.I've received hundreds of emails a day for over 7 years. Now that I am able to use Gmail as my primary work email every day, the situation is thousands, nay, millions of times better than the "good old Outlook days". Or as they say, Outlook, not so good.I think part of the problem is people take...
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YAPES: Problem Five
via Did it with .NET by Dustin Campbell on May 04, 2008
... natural numbers, filter those that are evenly divisible by 1 through 20, and pop off the first element of the sequence (the head). Something like the code below would do the trick. { 1L .. Int64.max_int } |> Seq.filter (fun n -> [1L .. 20L] |> List.for_all (fun d -> n % d = 0L)) |> Seq.hd Unfortunately, that solution, while direct, falls far outside of Project Euler's ...
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YAPES: Problem Six
via Did it with .NET by Dustin Campbell on May 05, 2008
Project Euler problem six is another easy one. The sum of the squares of the first ten natural numbers is, 12 + 22 + ... + 102 = 385 The square of the sum of the first ten natural numbers is, (1 + 2 + ... + 10)2 = 552 = 3025 Hence the difference between the sum of the squares of the first ten natural numbers and the square of the sum is 3025 − 385 = 2640. Find the difference...
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Hospitals are No Place for Sick People
via Nick Bradbury by Nick Bradbury on May 07, 2008
... that our medical system is working. Numerous friends I've spoken with have recounted similar horror stories, as I'm sure many readers here will, too. My father is a wealthy, well-connected, fully-insured, brilliant man, and this all took place at what is supposed to be one of the best hospitals in the country. God help the rest of us, for if it failed him, it will fail us, too.
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The smallwig theory of optimization
via smallwig by Kevin Bourrillion on April 15, 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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SkyNet Lives! (aka EC2 @ SmugMug)
via SmugBlog: Don MacAskill by Don MacAskill on June 02, 2008
Everyone knows that SmugMug is a heavy user of S3, storing well over half a petabyte of data (non-replicated) there. What you may not know is that EC2 provides a core part of our infrastructure, too. Thanks to Amazon, the software and hardware that processes all of your high-resolution photos and high-definition video is totally scalable without any human intervention. And when I say scalable,...
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Google's Lock-in
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on February 24, 2008
Hal Varian argues in the latest post from Google's main blog that "if you look at Google's business, the competition is only a click away. Users can trivially switch search."While it may seem easy to change your search engine, the reality is that it's difficult. Google is the default search engine in Firefox, Opera, Safari and it becomes the default search engine if you install any...
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World Wide Telescope: An Example of Why Nobody Wants to Install Software
via Nick Bradbury by Nick Bradbury on May 19, 2008
... without requiring so much work.Those of us who believe that desktop software is still relevant in a browser-based world should be up in arms about how hard it is to install software (on Windows, at least - it's easier on the Mac). Multiple security warnings, required OS updates, and tech-heavy language make downloading and installing software too scary a prospect for non-technical users.
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