January 2008
77 posts
“Paul Graham has acquired (or perhaps cultivated) a religious following. The...”
– Alex Rubinsteyn
“To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back...”
– Richard Stallman
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Niebo fizyków - Metafizyczne wnioski z kwantów i... →
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OOP basics in prototype.js
Creating a class with a constructor and a simple getter.
Foo = Class.create({
initialize: function(name) {
this.name = name;
},
getName: function() {
alert(this.name);
}
});
var foo = new Foo("hello");
foo.getName(); // --> alerts "hello"
WatchArthur Benjamin: Lightning calculation and other “Mathemagic”
WatchMurray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics
Arc is out →
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“I tried as an experiment drinking coffee on top of the Modafinil, but this...”
– Sleeping Is Giving In
Wordventure - Graphic WordNet database editor →
“It is a graphic WordNet database editor, based on TouchGraph engine. It allows exploration, addition and modification of dictionary contents using Java applet or a standalone Java client application.”
“A key insight in solving any problem is knowing which operators (such as...”
– “The Research of Allen Newell”
Naukowcy-showmani robią furorę w internecie →
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Uczyć się pisania dokumentacji od ludzi, którzy nie potrafią stworzyć przyzwoitych materiałów do nauki. Czyż to nie idiotyczne?
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Just watched Rails performance tutorial. Useful tip: use MySQL’s --log-slow-queries option to discover hot spots early. PostgreSQL counterpart is named log_min_duration_statement.
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Rails won’t work with default Ubuntu Ruby install, you’ll need openssl package as well. — source
Painless upgrade to Rails 2.0.2.
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Ach, te wzorce
Wszystko wygląda ładnie, proszę tylko pokazać, czy w środku są wzorce.
Piękne podsumowanie PSO, sam nie wymyśliłbym tego lepiej.
Information Processing Language →
Updated xmonad to version 0.5. Configuration file finally looks reasonable.
Contact lenses with circuits for superhuman vision →
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“The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner...”
– David Ausubel, follower of Jean Piaget. (via wikipedia article on concept maps)
“How do we explain this curious doubleness? How can robots be both rational...”
– Sex + Love With Robots
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Robot Sex Studies: Cyberpunked Living is On Its... →
Martin Fowler's big mouthful →
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You Sucjk at Photoshop. →
WatchFaith, Evolution, and Programming Languages with references to lambda calculus, Curry’s paradox and the Curry-Howard correspondence.
Planner Mode tutorial →
“This page documents how I use Planner Mode for emacs as my part of my personal information management. “
WatchOne Laptop Per Child
Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? →
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“Jednym z najlepiej znanych genów zaburzających segregację jest tak zwany gen t u...”
– Richard Dawkins, “Samolubny gen”, s. 292
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Skończyłem czytać “Samolubny gen”. Teraz czas na trochę fantastyki. :-)
taw on problems with Scheme: car/cdr/lambda - come on, just throw away the historical garbage. The only true names are hd/tl/fn. Now, that’s an improvement! :P
