Categorie: Links
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Links van 31 juli 2014 tot 9 augustus 2014
The War Photo No One Would Publish – The Atlantic“It was one picture after another of a sunset with camels and a tank.” An Empire of Stars » Lapsed HistorianAs the V-2 disappeared into the distance the men of the AVKO couldn’t help but smile and cheer. Their delight was catching, and soon the rest…
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Links van 18 juli 2014 tot 26 juli 2014
In a hospital. At the beach. Hamas, Israel tells us, is hiding among civilians | Richard Seymour | Comment is free | theguardian.comHamas, they tell us, is cowardly and cynical. Hamas Didn’t Kidnap the Israeli Teens After All — NYMagAfter Israel's top leadership exhaustively blamed Hamas for kidnap of 3 teens, they've now admitted killers…
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Links van 14 juli 2014 tot 18 juli 2014
Gamasutra – The History of CivilizationGamasutra is proud to be partnering with the IGDA's Preservation SIG to present detailed official histories of each of the first ten games voted into the Digital Game Canon. The Canon "provides a starting-point for the difficult task of preserving this history inspired by the role of that the U.S.…
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Links van 10 juli 2014 tot 14 juli 2014
Clone-a-beacon: iBeacon and the proof of location issueIn our previous issue, I covered the basics of using iBeacons in iOS and Android apps, today I want to show some privacy and security issues, as well as how to clone and fake beacons such as Estimote, Shopkick, and how to get location based app rewards without…
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Links van 5 juli 2014 tot 9 juli 2014
‘Israel under renewed Hamas attack’, says the BBC. More balance is needed | Owen Jones | Comment is free | theguardian.com"Israel under renewed Hamas attack": this was last night's BBC headline on the escalating bloodshed in Gaza. It is as perverse as Mike Tyson punching a toddler, followed by a headline claiming that the child…
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Links van 30 juni 2014 tot 3 juli 2014
The Internet’s Own Boy. Aaron Swartz HD – YouTubeThe story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26. Terry Pratchett forced to cancel appearance by Alzheimer’s | Books | theguardian.comUrgh. Right in the feels: "the Embuggerance is finally catching up with me". Eric’s Archived Thoughts:…
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Links van 26 juni 2014 tot 30 juni 2014
random thoughts: Dissecting the 128-byte raycasterLately a Reddit post caught my attention which is about a raycaster demo, animated, with mouse control and texture mapping, in only 128 bytes. Out of curiosity, I took a look at the source code and spent some time trying to figure out how it works. Fontblog | Ed Sheeran’s…
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Links van 24 juni 2014 tot 26 juni 2014
The Elephant was a Trojan Horse: On the Death of Map-Reduce at Google : Paper TrailMap-Reduce is on its way out. But we shouldn’t measure its importance in the number of bytes it crunches, but the fundamental shift in data processing architectures it helped popularise. This morning, at their I/O Conference, Google revealed that they’re…
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Links van 23 juni 2014 tot 24 juni 2014
sino-platonic.org/complete/spp194_justinian_silk.pdfIn this study I will be looking at three aspects of the international silk trade as it affected Justinian’s Byzantium in the mid-sixth century: the introduction of sericulture, the availability of draw-loom technology, and Procopius’ allegation that Justinian bankrupted the Syrian silk merchants by a policy of price-cutting at a time when the Persians had…
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Links voor 19 juni 2014
Moving product recommendations from Hadoop to Redshift saves us time and money | Monetate Engineering BlogWe’ve demonstrated the ease with which we can transition one of our legacy MR jobs to pure SQL running against Redshift. Not only was this a neat problem to solve, but it will end up lowering the cost of our…
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Links voor 17 juni 2014
Twitter’s Founding Engineer Launches Collaboration Platform, Poetica | TechCrunchThe ability to collaborate on the draft of a document is actually fiendishly tedious online. Many people might be used to Microsoft Word ‘Track Changes’ (ugh) despite the fact it looks awful and takes some getting used to. Nor does Google Docs really create a collaboration experience…
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Links van 13 juni 2014 tot 15 juni 2014
rm -rf remainsJust for fun, I decided to launch a new Linux server and run rm -rf / as root to see what remains. As I found out, rm lives in the future with idiots like me, so you have to specify –no-preserve-root to kick this exercise off. The Making Of: Elite | Features |…
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Links van 8 juni 2014 tot 9 juni 2014
2001: A Space Odyssey | Typeset In The Future2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi masterpiece – seems an appropriate place to start a blog about typography in sci-fi. Amongst other delights, it offers a zero-gravity toilet, emergency resuscitations, exploding bolts, and product placement aplenty. It's also the Ur Example of Eurostile Bold Extended's regular appearance in spacecraft user…
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Links van 6 juni 2014 tot 7 juni 2014
Contrabass Trombone: Saint-Saens – YouTubeThe rare contrabass trombone is a very loud and powerful instrument. I'm convinced it can also be an instrument of warmth and beauty. In the few days I had access to one I wasn't able to fully achieve that beauty. Nonetheless, I think this video has a few glimpses of the…