There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves Orcs. -John Rogers Two Novels that can change your life...
24 November 2011
Computers
GreenArrays is Chuck Moore's 144 CPU processors, very low power. Of course it is in Forth
Storm - think real time hadoop, but in Clojure. Announcement Nathan Marz has done quite a few interesting things
20 November 2011
Graphics
Jim Blinn's Corner on the Graphics Pipeline comes recommended
Unifying rasterization and ray casting
Rasterization on Larrabee
Education
Free Stanford classes. They keep adding more...
Windows
One of the kid's Windows 7 boxes fell over today, amusingly 60 days after we bought it. It turns out, running msconfig and turning off the Macafee firewall fixes the problem. I guess the subscription expired.
19 November 2011
Computers
USB stick with dual core System
16 November 2011
Lisp
Zen Xserver in Lisp
Computers
Steve Jobs on focus. This is OpenDOC cancel talks
Steve Jobs and role models
Some Martin Fowler article.
Boston and startups.
Rethinking the nature of files
V6 Unix ported to modern C and x86. Actual Link
Genetics
DNA carrys memory of your childhold living conditions
Lisp
Lisp Book from ECLM 2011, and some additional notes
Zen a X11 server in lisp
Story about how MS killed their tablet
Wealth
A bunch of articles about wealth and worry and locks
Financial Pro loses his home.
Misc
Working at home
Reuse of modules
Bruce O'Neel
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