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Lazyweb: VBA Access Applications.
Let's say I have an old-school Access driven VBA application that has a ton of forms. Let's say I would like to port this app to not-Access(we'll go with Java for now...), so how might one go about extracting all these lovely form definitions in Access into some format that could be used by another application to build an approximately identical -
Economics and the financial crisis.
Was the GFC a mathematical error?I thought this was pretty interesting, in particular its discussion to known issues with neoclassical economics(e.g.: the economy is, or will be soon again, in equilibrium, useful to make the math tractable, but not exactly how the world works). Of course, this doesn't explore the fact that some economists could in ( Read more... ) -
The science of failure.
The Neuroscience of Screwing Up is a pretty interesting article. At the end of the day, nothing too foreign: Our brains conspire against us to ignore interesting lessons to learn, and call it failure. Of course, when it comes to science in academia, I realize my perspective is perhaps narrow(although when I discussed this some of the Math faculty ( Read more... ) -
Photoshopping.
Saw this on Hacker News - Analysis of the "photoshopping" of a Victoria's Secret picture.
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Neat Map.
Remoteness vs. Connectedness World Map.
Its kinda neat. Reminds me of that "distance to McDonalds" map I posted a link to a while back. If I wasn't lazy and procrastinating other things, I would look it up now. I think I'll just use a tag and hope for the best.
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One reason the JVM is interesting...
So, I was reading Hacker News and saw a link to a blog post from a guy at Azul Systems. Here's the post: Touching Base...(Hacker News thread). Anyway, Azul Systems makes a special purpose computer that natively JVM bytecodes. Actually, scratch that, its a super computer. So, if I ever have a JVM project that needs to scale, its nice to know that ( Read more... ) -
MLP about C.
Someone wrote a long love note about the C programming language. Saw it here on Hacker News.
I haven't read it all, but putting it here is a form of bookmarking for me.
