Categorie: Links
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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…
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Links van 3 juni 2014 tot 6 juni 2014
Adactio: Journal—Notes from a small websitePostel’s Law is alive and well in 2014: afstappen van Twitter en toch niet en toch wel. En zelf controleren wat en hoe. Steve Wozniak – Founders at WorkI built this whole Basic up and it worked, and that was the hardest project I did. Normally you type a computer…
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Links van 28 mei 2014 tot 2 juni 2014
Brainfuck beware: JavaScript is after you! | Patricio Palladinotl;dr I just made a tool to transform any javascript code into an equivalent sequence of ()[]{}!+ characters. Bayesian AB Testing | Technology on Heels with Lyst EngineeringBayesian inference is robust and fun. You too should try it out. Typography in 8 bits: System fonts » DamienGMy…
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Links van 25 mei 2014 tot 27 mei 2014
Core War Tournament – Spring 2014 – Computing HistoryTo celebrate the 30th anniversary in May, The Spring Core War Tournament will be held at The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge UK on Saturday 31st May 2014. The Centre was established to tell the story of the Information Age and presents an interactive collection of…
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Links van 22 mei 2014 tot 23 mei 2014
5 metrics that will soon be dead (page 3 of 5) – iMediaConnection.comIt's the metric that just won't seem to die. The click-through rate has proven time and time again to be at best an intermediate success metric and at worst an inaccurate snapshot into how well creative is converting sales. Now, with the advent…
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Links van 18 mei 2014 tot 20 mei 2014
808 Cube State of MetaFilter | MetaTalkToday I need to share some unfortunate news: because of serious financial downturn, MetaFilter will be losing three of its moderators to layoffs at the end of this month. What that means for the site and the site’s future are described below. Vagrant 1.6 – VagrantVagrant 1.6 is now…
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Links van 13 mei 2014 tot 18 mei 2014
The death of the homepage in one simple graphSo it’s an odd thing when you’ve been saying something for years and nobody believes you, then suddenly, someone publishes one leaked graph, and overnight all the world agrees with you: The homepage is dead. And still they’ve got it wrong. Gamasutra – The Cabal: Valve’s Design…
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Links van 3 mei 2014 tot 13 mei 2014
Joshua Sortino — 14 Things Learned Designing at DisqusDisqus is now used on millions of websites and is served to billions (with a "b") of unique users every month. Here are some of the lessons I learned while helping design the "web's community of communities." Fairy ChessA fairy chess piece or unorthodox chess piece is…
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Links van 24 april 2014 tot 28 april 2014
Bras in Space: The Incredible True Story Behind Upcoming Film Spacesuit | The Credits.Instead, pitted against the military-industrial complex, Playtex created the 21-layer spacesuit, each layer distinct yet interrelated in function to the rest of the whole—a masterly combination of elegance, complexity, and form. Where the military contractors created cybernetic, armor-like suits (that failed, and…