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Now with naration!

...but moves like this are making it really hard.

Ads Retroactively Added to Wipeout HD, Soon Others

I was about to buy that. It was only $20, and looks outstanding. Then Sony comes along with another in the long line of idiotic moves they've been making recently, and destroys any chance of getting my money.

Realtime video, with audio, of the left SRB from the recent STS-127 mission. For a trip that leaves the ground, touches space at orbital altitudes, and returns to the earth as a splashdown in the ocean, you'd think it would be an extremely violent and energetic event. Yet there's a strange calmness, a serenity about the video...

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Anybody who is still using Social Security Numbers as a database primary-key, or any sort of authentication needs to be slapped pretty hard. This recovery technique has been known for a long time, more or less, but it seems that some researches at Carnegie Mellon can now predict SSN values with a 44% success rate.The authors point out that many ( Read more... )

An interesting insight of Functional Programming... we knew Functional Programming allowed us to use parallelism, but we can see that Functional Programming allows us to do redundant work, possibly for a speed benefit as well.
This talk is yet another reason to do away with imperative style programming - the lack of inter-process locking and ( Read more... )

So due to a conversation involving some blue-sky features for Fanime, and the desire to have the computer automagically SMS various minions to get us coffee, the site www.txt2day.com came up. Worrying that the idea would be dead in the water because of a CAPTCHA, I dismissed the idea at first ( Read more... )

So... where to start.

I woke up this morning at around 8:15. This is much earlier (by about 4 hours) than I normally get up, but such random wake-ups are typical with the funny new antidepressant I've been taking. Normally, the histamine effect kicks in again and knocks me out, so such wake-ups are reasonably minor ( Read more... )

This implementation of the K combinator is officially my favorite piece of ruby code ever.

class Object
def returning(value)
yield(value)
value
end
end
It allows for some wonderful constructs where your OO getter is also the constructor:
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