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My 'buntu desktop environment is the most solid I've ever used, with the caveat that once a year I can expect to spend a few hours in driver hell. I think this balances out with th…

The patent by itself does not describe a skip list, but the most common skip list implementations use a multilevel list data structure similar to what's described in the patent.

The underscore.js source ( http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/ ) also serves as a great primer on the effective use of 'this'. My rule of thumb is to never rely on 'this' u…

I'm working on a distributed app that shares code between the client and server, and there are already a multitude of open-source libraries that are designed to run in any JS envir…

"On my minimal Debian box, you point your web browser at http://localhost:631 and click shit and then the printer works." I just learned something.

I had this problem until I disabled vertical refresh. Based on posts in the ubuntu forums this appears to solve most people's problems with the AMD drivers.

I was thinking less about the conflict in Iraq than the conflict in and around Israel, where small groups of insurgents have over the past decade mounted increasingly sophisticated…

Any battle tech that's an order-of-magnitude cheaper to kill than to produce is destined for obsolescence. You can see this happening now with main battle tanks, which are easily k…

Am I the only one who thinks it looks like a high-tech baby stroller?

Bitwise operations pop up fairly often in advanced data structures (Hash Array Mapped Tries, Bloom Filters, etc). The big advantage in my view is being able to perform complex, dat…

Yep. To upgrade the memory on the compact macs one needed a hex driver, a soldering iron and a spare resistor. I'm still shocked my Dad let me tinker with expensive university prop…

Good background from the bitcoin people: "A number of Byzantine Generals each have a computer and want to attack the King's wi-fi by brute forcing the password, which they've learn…

Sounds like the Feynman algorithm: 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3. Write down the solution.

"The only thing even remotely close to the bubble of old would be Twitter, and they have 200 million users. Name one service during the dot-com era with anything approaching that n…