Month: September 2009

Gilligan goes to the movies

Culture

Last night, Amanda, Max and I went to see Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. It was a funny movie,...
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Zen Cynicism: maitri

zen

  There was a story about the Zen master Suzuki Roshi. This was a situation where his students had been sitting and they were 3 or 4...
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The Mind Models of a Developer

Coding

The Interpreter – sees role as interpreting the back end processes to the user – application is a specialized gui to the...
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Graphs in the database: SQL meets social networks

Coding

Graphs are ubiquitous. Social or P2P networks, thesauri, route planning systems, recommendation...
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open without leaving process fragments in your terminal

Coding

open() { NO_ARGS=0 if $# -eq "$NO_ARGS" then echo " enter a program"; else $1 &>/dev/null & fi }...
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