December 2009
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Dwa powiązane cytaty z “Rozplatania tęczy” Richard Dawkinsa. W pierwszym pisze on o wiarygodności zeznań naocznych świadków: Większość z nas, łącznie z ławnikami i prawnikami, ma wewnętrzne poczucie, że dowód w postaci zeznań naocznego świadka jest szczególnie wiarygodny. Pod tym względem prawie na pewno nie mamy racji, ale owo błędne przekonanie można zrozumieć. Niewykluczone, że takie...
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
KenKen
Nice puzzle, see description and solve a few.
Dec 30th
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It's hard to change a little. It's much easier to... →
When you try to change a little, your old mindset still has its old values and attachments, and you inevitably slide back into your old groove. But when you change enough to create a new mindset, you can free yourself from your old way of looking at things and create a new groove.
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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YourKit Java Profiler 9.0 Early Access Program →
Great profiler that works with Clojure flawlessly.
Dec 29th
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“When the YouTube API team saw Totlol they liked it. At about the same time...”
– The story of Totlol
Dec 29th
Project 880: The Avatar That Almost Was →
Dec 28th
“So, I think the small fighter craft would be nearly spherical, with a single...”
– The Physics of Space Battles
Dec 27th
CoffeeScript →
CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Think of it as JavaScript’s less ostentatious kid brother — the same genes, roughly the same height, but a different sense of style. Apart from a handful of bonus goodies, statements in CoffeeScript correspond one-to-one with their equivalent in JavaScript, it’s just another way of saying it.
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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“No bo czasami wszystko mogą spieprzyć nagłośnieniowcy. Raz jest za mało gitary,...”
– Krzysztof Varga, “Tequila”, s. 12-13
Dec 23rd
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Funding Clojure 2010 →
Dec 14th
World's shortest explanation of Gödel's theorem →
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
“I learned to type on a key-punch. The keystrokes were long and slow and noisy....”
– Chuck Moore
Dec 11th
Dec 10th
“With web transaction processing, there’s only one event processed...”
– Don Hopkins
Dec 6th
“// sometimes I believe compiler ignores all my comments”
– Sergey Kornilov
Dec 4th
Dec 4th
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“Perhaps it was commercialization in the 1980s that killed off the next expected...”
– Alan Kay
Dec 3rd
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No More Iterations →
Also worth reading: 5 Right Reasons and 5 Wrong Reasons to Apply Kanban.
Dec 2nd
“If you pray for something and nothing happens like a million times, but then...”
– Erik Naggum
Dec 2nd
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Installing Mongrel under Ruby 1.9 →
Dec 1st
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invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
In Ruby 1.9 files with non-ASCII characters need a comment specifying an encoding, e.g.: # coding: utf-8 much like it works in Python.
Dec 1st
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When 2Gb of RAM is not enough
Number of Google Chrome and tinyproxy processes is killing me. Adjusting tinyproxy.conf helped a bit: MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10
Dec 1st