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Interesting Tech Links
#1'cause I know there are a few of us in here that could use a new link or two on tech stuff. Slashdot only goes so far.
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http://angrycoder.com/
The forums are useless, but there are some good articles that I can relate to.
http://angrycoder.com/article.aspx?cid=1&y=2002&m=8&d=26
http://angrycoder.com/article.aspx?cid=10&y=2002&m=5&d=24
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#2This site is an alright Windows resource:
http://labmice.techtarget.com/
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#3http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
I'm your host, Joel Spolsky, a software developer in New York City. Since 2000, I've been writing about software development, management, business, and the Internet on this site.
A lot of very good articles and general advice. Been following him for a few months now and when he writes, it is always interesting. -
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#4http://www.codeproject.com/
Ain't nothing like the code project!
http://www.codeguru.com/
Them guys at code guru are purty advanced and sow-fist-i-catered. -
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#5http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-read/
PHP stuff. More for me but, hey... -
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#6http://www.milwaukeepc.com
we sell bawls. let me know if you want them for cost :wink: -
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#7http://www.roguesci.org
Rogue Science, a great website for all that knowledge that everyone thinks is "illegal" or such. The knowledge isn't, and the free flow of information is vital to not being defenseless when the crap hits the fan. Check it out.
As a side note, the IP of the site has been blocked by various organizations, so if you can't get to it, chances are your ISP/government (Germany is one)/school is blocking it. If you can, use a proxy server to get past it. Of course, if you're using AOL, Roguesci is blocking YOU. -
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#8Beware: this is insanity on wheels. You will want to play with it.
http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
A TiddlyWiki is a self-contained hypertext document - meaning a single html file that can house a full webpage, which you can edit directly in itself... :o -
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#9I think I just wet myself:
http://www.getfirebug.com/
How come I didn't know about this until now?
This thing is the most awesome web developement tool I have EVER seen...for HTML and CSS that is.
Inspecting the HTML is awesome!!!! You have to see it to understand I think.
(already found two formatting bugs I have been looking for. A 404 on the forum index and why the '1' shows up on the codex left menu. I am quickly getting to like this more and more. -
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#10Looks dangerously nice... -
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#11Wow! -
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#12Another plaything... weeeeeeee!
http://www.bubbl.us/ is a little tool for helping creativity along. You can create bubbles linked into a tree, and organize content that way. It looks like a funny little thing to play with, so fool around, the controls are very easy.
What I'm missing is the possiblity of linking more things together from above... well, maybe in a further version. Also the auto-aligning goes sometimes against my design, but is easy to fix. Should the first thing be fixed some day, I may be even using it occassionaly - nothing about mapping out those many-scrolled submissions! (Plus it can be shared.) -
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#13Shi-it! This reminds me of work! :puke:
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#14Gee... guess I am lucky in that it doesn't remind me of work in any way. :D -
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#15http://www.bassictech.com/blogs/bassictech_news_blog/archive/2007/01/20/remapping-the-universe-using-this-gui.aspx
Oh, YES! -
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#16http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Oh, OH, YES
MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) makes the course materials that are used in the teaching of almost all MIT’s undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world. This initiative continues the tradition at MIT, and in American higher education, of open dissemination of educational materials, philosophy, and modes of thought. Through November 1, 2006, MIT OCW has published 1550 courses. -
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#17That link is AWESOME. Wow. -
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#18took me a while to figure out what I was looking out as usual, but WOW is right!!!!
great link Strolen! -
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#19http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=f1fpvfrbun
hehehe....Bill is not amused. -
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#20HAHA!! strolen, that vid is awesome! -
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#21reCAPTCHA
Digitizing Books One Word at a Time
A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books.
Funny idea that has some usefulness, ain't it? Hat tip to hackszine. -
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#22I hesitate to post it here, as it has wider applications, but in itself, it is for software development:
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
The article is about group dynamics, and their effects on social software (particularly the negative ones). If you have a little time, and any of the two interest you, go read it.
(Oh, and: we seem to be doing pretty good by those standards. :) ) -
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#23http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=i85su1w6uz
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#24Ah yes, the wonderful article about social software and groupings online. I remember reading that a year or two ago. Amazing how stuff gets around on the 'net, eh?
And yeah, we are doing quite good by those standards. "Higher rank == more votes" and whatnot.
AG: Heck of a kid, aye? Seen it before, but it's still amazing. (On the other hand, my old trig teacher could do square roots of insane levels in his head. Admittedly, I think he was using a formula, or rules of square roots, but still quite amazing.)
Old, and hasn't been updated in a while, but a decent webpage for various activities that use different algorithms:
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/1767/pol.html
"Sick of hearing people name off algorithms that you should use, yet you have no clue what they are, much less how to implement them? Sick of people who won't take the time to explain algorithms and instead reference you to a book that you can't afford? Well, here's some info to help you out, for both the beginner and the advanced."
I found it quite helpful when I was looking up ray tracing, and I learned new stuff about exactly how some compression algorithms work. -
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#25Look what year 2000 was supposed to be like:
http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/09/french-prints-show-year-2000-1910.html -
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#26Those car shoes are amazing.
Why haven't we actually invented those yet? Come on, mankind; time's a-wasting - we should be wearing car shoes! -
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#27Wow!
That looks like it would make an awesome setting...
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#28I particularly like that 'Airship On the Long Course". I can see more than one campaign inserting that as a technological wonder of 'xxx empire'. After all, hydrogen blimps really aren't all that technologically advanced. Are they?
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#29I'm not sure if this is in the right place... but it has me thoroughly confused:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%83%C2%B6dinger's_cat
check it out! Cat... Box? Zombie? -
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#30Heh. Schroedinger's Cat is a great lesson in quantum mechanics. -
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#32http://www.carlzimmer.com/articles/2005.php?subaction=showfull&id=1177184710&archive=&start_from=&ucat=8
Evolution in action! I'm tempted to download this program, but I worry about what I might get. -
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#33http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVwbUljGs3g
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/04/the-land-walker-robot-hits-the-market/
They're heeeeeeeeerreeeee! Truthfully, this might be fun to try and engineer...Hrm... -
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#34Now at least some scenes from the Star Wars are not too distant from our time... should we be overjoyed or afraid? :) -
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#35Today was an unlimited trip to the world of geekiness for me. Hooray. :)
Firefox is a pretty neat browser, and it's got some pretty neat plugins/add-ons. One of them is Greasemonkey, which basically enables you to rewrite websites on the user end in whatever ways you desire. Go JavaScript!
It's quite easy to make such a script, I made one that enlarges the main posting field on the Add Submission page, and focuses on the submission title field... so one can write straight away, while the idea is hot.
The only downside noticed so far seems to be that loading the page takes longer. Other than that, it is an interesting toy to play with.
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I found Dive Into Accessibility, with many tips on how to make a website more readable even for those with very nonstandard ways of browsing. Since we want to simplify stuff, there is some inspiration here. (As a side note, some of the techniques described are noted to have a positive effect on Google.) I don't think we would need all of it - just a few things, and as a general inspiration.
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And I also happened on Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design. No, we are not all bad according to them. Some points:
- don't include a link to the homepage on the homepage (or other circular links for that matter)
- use headers
- cannibalize Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability - it's commercially oriented, and we've got some of that, but has some good poinst -
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#36http://cybernetnews.com/2008/02/25/firefox-3-performance-gets-a-boost/
Some speed comparisons. Firefox nightly build, in front by a head. Look at that crappy IE score. Geesh.
1. Firefox 3 Nightly (PGO Optimized): 7263.8ms
2. Firefox 3 Nightly (02/25/2008 build): 8219.4ms
3. Opera 9.5.9807 Beta: 10824.0ms
4. Firefox 3 Beta 3: 16080.6ms
5. Safari 3.0.4 Beta: 18012.6ms
6. Firefox 2.0.0.12: 29376.4ms
7. Internet Explorer 7: 72375.0ms
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#37Ohhh, now that's something! Hope the FF3 will be out soon!
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On Greasemonkey again: you know, that if I play with something, it starts generating random stuff sooner or later... it is inevitable. Therefore: have a little dice rollerto eat up a part of your screen. -
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#38Somehow, I'm absurdly pleased that Opera has the number three score. -
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#39Observe "BigDog", the mostly creepily realistic and cool mobile robot you've seen since this morning:
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#40Cool and scary. Real ground combat robots are going to be coming soon.