Viewing profile — colgur

Not sure if it is retroactive but the ACM has changed their access policy a little: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/10/131401-acms-copyright-... .

Anderson is so incredibly misunderstood. He makes the same, single point over and over: interconnectivity makes niches easier to reach. That's it. No "the blockbuster is dead", no …

There's an ACM article with a time-line of new technologies (with company name) followed by date that technology based a billion dollar industry (with company name). I can't find i…

Great price compared to the Pro edition. How does Mathematica compare with R for statistics?

Facebook and Twitter cater to complete different tastes of two almost entirely different audiences This is the important point. Facebook will never be as succinct as Twitter. Faceb…

PasswordSafe (Password Gorilla for Linux/Mac users) is a nice option for password management (which I'm sure you've seen and decided against). But the Truecrypt volume sync works v…

I think the fact that we need to step back when processor technology changes shows that we (the software community) lack a truly pervasive concurrent programming model. Does Clojur…

"[...] students need to be able to do the hard jobs". Difficulty comes in all shapes and sizes. Your next point is better: "[...] teach concepts instead of tools and languages". Th…

Diigo does a pretty nice job of highlighting. I don't publish my highlights but a lot of other people do. Socialbrowse might address something I find a bit annoying about Diigo: I …

"the petabyte scale [...] forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later." Doesn't establishing a mathematical view require one to posit a theory?…

Cool idea. A couple of good points made in the comments: 1. Flexible hours 2. Privacy/Safety issues The first point is common to all ride-share including mass-transit. I think you …

Technocrati rank is kind of like karma isn't it?

Never mind, Zenbe beat them to it: http://www.zenbe.com/ .

I'd like to see segregation of attachments (should probably put the suggestion to the team). My brother's wife always sends photos as attachments. I have to download them manually …

This is great advice. Platform Security is a system unto itself and language-neutral. In fact, Symbian-C++ is quite an old dialect. Series-60 is by far the most prolific Symbian-ba…

Maybe there's an opportunity here. The article points to a number of aggregation issues.