Sweet, just got a custom MacBook Decal thanks to @diabloskinz Guess what animated TV show it’s based from?
4am, the world’s largest daily deals website wants a CSV of 1.5M tickets, by the morning. Maybe tell me before midnight, next time…
I’ve got the Apple Live Stream, Engadget, and TWiT Live all in one window.
Written 20 lines of code for the UK Government. Running it now. If I told you what it did I’d have to kill you. (Taken with Instagram )
A sexually frustrated teenaged programmer explaining the existence of his code project.
> Gever Tulley teaches life lessons through tinkering @TED > > Tinkering School offers an exploratory curriculum designed to help > kids – ages 8 to 17 – learn h...
“Oddly enough, scheduled distractions may be worse than unscheduled ones. If you know you have a meeting in an hour, you don’t even start working on something hard.” - Paul Graham
Ruby Programming: A good breakdown of Ruby Mixins
JJ Abrams (Director & Producer - Super 8, Star Trek, Cloverfield) talks about the freedom and accessibility to high end tools that technology brings. > Canvas and brushes and paint ...
The Canadian Olympic Team has been rebranded and I must say, I do like it.
> “Typically when social context cues are strong behaviour tends to > be relatively other-focused, differentiated, and controlled. > > When social context cues are weak,...
My mother just recently asked me a question in all seriousness, in the same tone a voice as if she was asking me what I had for breakfast or how my day was. She asked me if I had affiliation to...
“ In fact history does not belong to us, but we belong to it. Long before we understand ourselves through a process of self examination, we understand ourselves in a self evident way in the ...
> It’s appalling,“ said an elderly aunt, "to see how they use > > telephones nowadays. Last night Mary, who was dressing, > > answered the telephone in her...
First off I’m an academic failure (what I like to believe, was part by choice). I didn’t submit my final year dissertation for my Computer Science degree at Queen Mary, University. Nor did...
SQL WORKLOAD REDUCED BY Efficient structuring of the data (indexes, clusters, keys Efficient structuring of queries Providing more information to the DBMS query optimiser AVOID the use of *, coun...
We are seriously near to a future where a lot of high end packaging has digital screens (smart packaging). Original ‘HackADay’ Source (http://hackaday.com/2011/01/28/wireless-electricity-en...
A lot of people often misunderstand how they should utilise customer feedback. People often cry ‘design by committee’ or the opposite. Jeff Bazos has a good point on this. > Think Long...
DON’T setup indexes on small tables which can be loaded in memory. There is a certain cost benefit which won’t be achieved in smaller tables DO Index Primary Keys The majority of the ti...
A problem (or not) with product reviews and giving them a score is that they don’t often decay (get worst/lower as time goes on). As a product, movie, restaurant, e.t.c that was popular be...