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Are there any fitness cultured startups out there? Companies where some of the engineers are active and management is willing to flex schedules for training or activities. Of cours…

Although the article is written in a slightly humorous vein, the concept may be valid; there's the case of 28 year old woman who fell 300 feet onto a rock and survived (see http://…

The neolucida is now selling to the general public at amazon, limited supply 3k: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G1SYTZM See the original kickstarter project here: http://www.k…

Hummingbird - shot down in flames.

hanging out for beers is great but so is exercising, so consider going outside for activity for a change. Don't pat yourself on the back too much though, walking only provides a lo…

Data Structures and Algorithms in Java by Adam Drozdek has a lot of actual code that works. I think the code is online, but the book is worth buying because things are explained we…

Russ's articles are an excellent write-up and explanation. However, many finite-state automata regex implementations have existed for years (e.g. Java http://cs.au.dk/~amoeller/aut…

compare: http://www.blogdelnarco.com/ with http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-IL-LIkvoN4J:www.blogdelnarco.com/+blog+del+narco&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=fi…

A lot of people get the CS degree and stop learning or lose the drive to write or create anything interesting. Who knows, maybe they never had it: It's easier to take a creative pe…

"I am okay at what I do, a .Net software developer" see page 4: http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/08/05/sodini.pdf Perhaps if he was more flexible with languages, he would ha…

Spring and J2EE are modular, not object oriented to any great degree. One can implement more OO further down the chain, such as in model objects, of course, and in other custom sub…

Does anybody have any favorite Javascript analysis tools, scripts, or an IDE that they find really helpful? Yeah, I know, "emacs and Venkman"--but is there something better to tack…

This sounds like a good recurring opportunity: TopCoder is launching a number of upcoming private bug races in a large, rule-based expert system, and we need more bug racers! The s…

Good idea, now just start refining it. Users love a sparse UI, but you've gone overboard. You need to add descriptions to the different pricings; the labels aren't intuitive. I ass…

from http://www.sans.org/top25errors/ see also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7824939.stm What Errors Are Included in the Top 25? The Top 25 Errors are listed below in thre…