jufo | 12 years ago | on: For Sale: Soviet Military Ferrite Core Memory Stack Cube and Manual
True, I've got a 4k x 12bit core store in mine, and it's been there over 30 years :-)
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jufo | 12 years ago | on: Twitter launches ‘Twitter University’, acquires OS training company Marakana.
...and all Marakana's videos have disappeared from the net.
I have many links to videos from JAXConf2013, the SF Java User Group, the 2012 Northeast Scala Symposium, etc. and they now all redirect to https://marakana.com/ - a single page announcing their acquisition by Twitter.
:-(
jufo | 12 years ago | on: Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Servers”
or can I just host my blog and a few Git repositories?
jufo | 13 years ago | on: The Beauty of Concurrency in Go
Yes, it is part of their magazine: http://pragprog.com/magazines/2012-06 (also available in PDF, epub and mobi from http://pragprog.com/magazines)
jufo | 13 years ago | on: MemSQL ships 2.0, scales across hundreds of nodes, thousands of cores
Try again - I found the bottom ticks were 8 cores and 256GB.
jufo | 13 years ago | on: Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits
I think the "half an hour" bit is significant. If someone complained that they tried to learn Prolog and gave up after half an hour they wouldn't get much sympathy from me.
jufo | 13 years ago | on: Hoodie: very fast web app development
Nice presentation. In the description of back end modules, you mention payments as a future capability. What kind of payment service would you be able to work with? (I don't see how you could handle card details in the Hoodie architecture). Thanks.
jufo | 13 years ago | on: Write code, fix the space station, win $10,000
A good solution should also minimise movement, to conserve energy and reduce mechanical wear. And part of the orbit is in darkness - the criteria would be different there (not optimising illumination, but needing to be ready for the return to daylight).
jufo | 13 years ago | on: Stanford Introduction to Databases Course, Winter 2013 edition, starts today
Thank you - I'm just starting this course, and your write-up has given me a much better idea of what to expect.
jufo | 13 years ago | on: Dependency injection is not a virtue
If you have to do this, you could check that the published time was >= the time at which you started the test, and <= the time at which you are doing the check.
jufo | 13 years ago | on: A Pickpocket's Tale
The authors also worked with Robbins - there are two paragraphs about this towards the end of the article.
I enjoyed reading Sleights of Mind, but never got round to watching the videos on their site, http://www.sleightsofmind.com/media/
I'll do that today. Happy New Year!
jufo | 13 years ago | on: Getting better and finding happiness through cycling
Thanks very much - that app shows me a quiet way from home (Raynes Park) to work (Leatherhead); 13.4 miles. It's far enough off the busy roads I know that I would never have discovered it unaided. On to Street View... then the forecast is good for New Year's day, so it's a good opportunity for a practice run.
jufo | 13 years ago | on: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only
Me too. Long delay for 'processing payment' at element5, but it did go through.
jufo | 13 years ago | on: Introduction to Databases
In the video, Prof. Widom mentions that the platform they are using now, Class2Go, has been developed at Stanford and is open source. A quick look at http://class.stanford.edu/ shows that it depends on external components - YouTube for video, and Piazza for forums - but it's good to have an open platform, and one of the aims is to avoid lock-in of content.
jufo | 13 years ago | on: Interactive Data Visualization for the Web (a D3 book by Scott Murray)
I'm having a quick read through (3 chapters so far) and I think it is beautifully written. (quite a few broken images in the SVG parts of chapter 3 at present)
Edit: just purchased the eBook, and the images are fine in the PDF.
jufo | 13 years ago | on: Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok
As a 60-year-old, I'm glad to see Jim Weirich in the Brit Ruby lineup :-)
jufo | 13 years ago | on: Why Brit Ruby 2013 was cancelled and why this is not ok
Rails was developed when David Heinemeier Hansson was still in his home town, Copenhagen, Denmark. He was working part-time for 37signals, but it was several more years before he moved to Chicago.
jufo | 13 years ago | on: Small
Maybe a bit more with the spacesuit glove on!
jufo | 13 years ago | on: Raspberry Pi now with 512MB RAM
On Saturday Maplin's online stock check said there were two starter kits still in stock at Wimbledon - a little over a mile away from me. There had been five in stock a few days before. I walked there and was in time to get the last one. Now there seem to be none left in the London area, and the online site says new stock is due in 16 days. Let's hope the next batch will have 512MB Pis - the Pi in my kit is in an element14 box, but is not the latest board version (not made in UK, no mounting holes).
jufo | 13 years ago | on: Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?
Dead right. I'm 60 and I feel the same.
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