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Wrap your head around this one: http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-funct... Also, I'd recommend taking a look at Magma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma_compu…

Has anyone tried Gimp for OS X? http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

But you can't actually simulate a TM on any machine with a fixed amount of memory. And any "special purpose" computing hardware would have at least a little memory. So I don't thin…

The best mirror I could find (nyud.net and Google let me down): http://substancedigital.com/2012/10/21/nokias-price-for-excl...

Could you explain what you mean by "to a lesser extent Android"? Android lets apps add widgets to the home screen, replace the home screen, replace the browser, run arbitrary backg…

I'm a little disappointed that Wirth doesn't mention one of the key reasons that financial institutions use decimal floating point: that binary floating point can't produce exact r…

You can turn the pages using the volume buttons (enabled from Settings on the home screen). I reallly love that feature.

This is one of the best critiques so far of the decision. There are two sides to this trial. On the one side is the emotional appeal: Samsung copied Apple, and documents detail the…

Click on the "More" link at the bottom.

Here's the ruling: http://www.scribd.com/doc/98367038/Galaxy-Tab-Injunction-Rul... The injunction is being granted based on this patent: http://www.google.com/patents/USD504889 It'…

This article is missing a couple of facts: First, Apple has been designing its own "Ax" series of ARM chips with its purchase of PA Semi, currently with the A5/A5X. If Apple switch…

I looked twice to verify that she needed the wheelchair. I'm not quite sure why Pike wrote this. Was he afraid that the wheelchair concealed a weapon of some sort? But how can you …

I'm not quite sure what the issue is here. It turns out that the author modeled the domain incorrectly. At least that incorrect model is completely explicit in the code. If it were…

This was fun! (I only did the first two paragraphs.)

You are thinking of "homophone" rather than "homonym." Baseball bat and vampire bat are homonyms.

At runtime init, Go programs attempt to reserve 512mb of RAM. If they can’t do this, they crash. Go needs the space because it is garbage collected - presumably, all GC languages, …

Facebook's testing practices and culture of developer accountability help to prevent serious bugs from being rolled out in production code. When a developer's code disrupts the web…

I was interested in his response to the question, "What you dislike the most about Lisp?" I must say that the lack of static typing really gets in the way on larger projects. Being…

Here's the most interesting link I found after a few minutes of clicking (obligatory: I am not a doctor): http://saveourbones.com/calcium-heart-attack/

Google for the following phrase to find the site: "Run unmodified Access applications, right inside a web browser." (Edited to remove link to not affect Google juice)

Scott Aaronson recently wrote an informative article about his trip to D-Wave: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=954 Most interesting to me: "Geordie presented graphs that showe…

Reference counting does have runtime overhead, though. Incrementing and decrementing references as a reference gets passed around isn't free. If you have many small objects, the re…

Andy Hertzfeld used this same trick on the original Macintosh, in a move he called his "worst blunder": http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...