Will Olbrys and His Ego

"Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around. […] That’s the radio. If..."

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:33:17 -0500

“Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around. […] That’s the radio. If you really want to hear it, let’s make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.”

- Neil Young: Piracy Is The New Radio (But The Quality Sucks)

Oni Labs: StratifiedJS Reference

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:22:46 -0500

Oni Labs: StratifiedJS Reference:

StratifiedJS extends the JavaScript language with a small number of constructs for concurrent programming. It allows you to express asynchronous control flow in a straightforward sequential style.

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Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:19:23 -0500

MegaMega - an early 90s dance mix

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:17:45 -0500

neonarcade:

Finished this up this weekend and I’m quite happy with it! Classic “oh I love this song” jams from the early 90s. Wether you heard these songs at the club or at the rollerskating rink, most of you should dig it.

MegaMega by Neonarcade on Mixcloud

Support Details | Tech Support Management

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:52:05 -0500

Support Details | Tech Support Management:

Saw this on HN. Just a handy tool for tech support.

How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:47:26 -0500

How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system:

Ubuntu + Postfix + Courier IMAP + MySQL + Amavisd-new + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + SASL + TLS + SquirrelMail/Roundcube + Postgrey

I’m not a sysadmin 24/7, but knowing the mail system is important as knowing any other subsystem as an admin or a developer and it’s intricacies have always eluded me…

PUT or POST: The REST of the Story « Open Sourcery

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:51:57 -0500

PUT or POST: The REST of the Story « Open Sourcery:

A nice article describing some of the finer points of REST.

Dividing one by 998001 produces list of three digit numbers

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:49:09 -0500

Dividing one by 998001 produces list of three digit numbers:

fta:

Unfortunately, a lot of calculators are going to truncate the results. However, if you manage to get a hold of one that doesn’t, solving 1/998001 will generate all the three digit numbers from 000 to 999.

hnet - an experimental decentralized and anonymous database

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:19:55 -0500

hnet - an experimental decentralized and anonymous database:

hnet spreads small amounts of data across several non-traditional storage engines such as images, gists, pastebin, twitter streams, irc chat rooms, etc…

By design, it is not reliable, fast, or consistent.

An ideal use-case for hnet would be storing tuples of server IP addresses and ports.

SPDY of the Future Might Blow Your Mind Today

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:09:49 -0500

SPDY of the Future Might Blow Your Mind Today

Strace -- The Sysadmin's Microscope (Ksplice Blog)

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:05:53 -0500

Strace -- The Sysadmin's Microscope (Ksplice Blog)

The coming war on general computation

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:56:23 -0500

The coming war on general computation

Eli Bendersky's website » Python threads: communication and stopping

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:46:10 -0500

Eli Bendersky's website » Python threads: communication and stopping

yongfook: Design is Horseshit!

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:06:00 -0500

yongfook: Design is Horseshit!:

from the article:

Your startup is like Apple when Apple was a startup. When Apple was a startup they sold computers made of wood and nailed together in a garage. Apple wasn’t concerned with design when it was an early stage startup. Goal #1 was figuring out if people even gave a shit about compact personal computers. So in 1976 they built computers, out of a garage, from wood, and sold them to people.

xkcd: Tradition

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:07:57 -0500

xkcd: Tradition

Maximal Information-based Nonparametric Exploration [M.I.N.E.]

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:08:00 -0500

Maximal Information-based Nonparametric Exploration [M.I.N.E.]:

from the article:

MIC and the other MINE statistics are calculated from a matrix of scores generated from a given set of two-variable data. This matrix, called the characteristic matrix, is created by searching for grids that maximize the penalized mutual information of the distribution induced on each grid’s cells by the data. Different relationship types give rise to characteristic matrices with different properties. For instance, strong relationships yield characteristic matrices with high peaks, monotonic relationships yield symmetric characteristic matrices, and complex relationships yield characteristic matrices whose peaks are far from the origin.

A geek with a hat » Why programmers work at night

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:04:18 -0500

A geek with a hat » Why programmers work at night:

new idea: a network attached to your phone’s alarm that resets all the clocks in your life to the timezone you just woke up in. it may be two p.s. here in brooklyn when i role out of bed, but i woke up right on time in auckland, new zealand.

for those who love freelancing from home this would be perfect for figuring out what timezone the companies you work for should be in. conversely, i can be a sleepy coder hermit in new zealand and work for companies all along the eastern seaboard and not worry about missing a meeting…

The Day I Saw Van Gogh's Genius in a New Light

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:08:47 -0500

The Day I Saw Van Gogh's Genius in a New Light

Jeff Erickson's Algorithms Course Materials

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:28:06 -0500

Jeff Erickson's Algorithms Course Materials:

so much more about algorithms than i was even comfortable with.

Instagram Engineering: What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:03:17 -0500

Instagram Engineering: What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies