Buley

"I have to say, I’ve done optimization work on lots of projects over the years, and it’s rare that..."

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:11:32 -0500

“I have to say, I’ve done optimization work on lots of projects over the years, and it’s rare that you’ll see a single piece of functionality leave a path of destruction this massive in its wake. The usual patterns you’ll see are either “localized performance hog” (a few functions completely dominating the profile, like I saw in the first round with the texture loading) or the “death by a thousand paper cuts”, where the profile is dominated by lots of “middle-man” functions that let someone else do the actual work but add a little overhead each time. As you can see, that’s not what’s going on here. What we have here is the rare “death in all directions” variant. Why settle for paper cuts, just go straight for the damn cluster bomb!”

- A string processing rant

"Remember those old video games which had the final enemy boss level? Yeah. The nginx.conf file..."

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:06:55 -0500

“Remember those old video games which had the final enemy boss level? Yeah. The nginx.conf file became that for me.”

- Linode Forum :: View topic - nginx configuration full derp

"The MIME type of JSON is application/json http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt..."

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:01:03 -0500

“The MIME type of JSON is application/json http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/ More specifically here: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt”

- What MIME type if JSON is being returned by a REST API?

"The key insight I had while wearing my own version of Google Glass is that the true value of..."

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:14:04 -0500

“The key insight I had while wearing my own version of Google Glass is that the true value of wearable point-of-view computing will not be in the initial goal of supporting augmented reality, which simply overlays information about the scene before the user. Instead, the greatest value will be in second-generation applications that provide total recall and augmented cognition.”

- Build Your Own Google Glass

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:01:20 -0500

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

- Ferris Bueller (via briancapozzi)

Steam Linux Beta

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:18:56 -0400

Steam Linux Beta

How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:27:17 -0400

How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole

In a few words: this picture shows so much that it shows...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:02:07 -0400

In a few words: this picture shows so much that it shows nothing

newsweek:

This is an illustration of the “Twitter Activity Network” for The New York Times, which allegedly shows a “high number of users participating in long chains of tweeeting and retweeting.”

(via Jonathan Harris: the Web’s secret stories | Video on...

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:59:06 -0400

(via Jonathan Harris: the Web’s secret stories | Video on TED.com)

Encoding for the iPad and iPhone? Better Learn About H.264 First

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:49:57 -0400

Encoding for the iPad and iPhone? Better Learn About H.264 First

Photo

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:21:58 -0400

Video

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:16:28 -0400

Romancing the Second Screen

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 11:17:21 -0400

Romancing the Second Screen

"The bot that is scored as most human-like by the human judges is named the winner. UT^2, which won a..."

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:39:19 -0400

“The bot that is scored as most human-like by the human judges is named the winner. UT^2, which won a warm-up competition last month, shared the honors with MirrorBot, which was programmed by Romanian computer scientist Mihai Polceanu. The winning bots both achieved a humanness rating of 52 percent. Human players received an average humanness rating of only 40 percent. The two winning teams will split the $7,000 first prize.”

- Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing’s centenary

Momentum: "Loom" short film Now Online. By Ridley Scott, Luke Scott & RED

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:37:08 -0400

Momentum: "Loom" short film Now Online. By Ridley Scott, Luke Scott & RED

via http://paulmillr.com/posts/simple-description-of-popular-soft...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:43:22 -0400

via http://paulmillr.com/posts/simple-description-of-popular-software-licenses/

Set operations illustrated with Venn diagrams

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:19:34 -0400

Set operations illustrated with Venn diagrams

R they making changes at Yahoo?

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:25:22 -0400

R they making changes at Yahoo?

Google Research Publication: Spanner

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:12:53 -0400

Google Research Publication: Spanner

What's slowing down Mobile Facebook

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:34:54 -0400

What's slowing down Mobile Facebook