The crazy, true-life adventures of Norway’s most radical billionaire
Fred Olsen is both the owner of Timex and its most successful watch designer. He’s also a world-class sailor and an oil industry pioneer, and was rumored to have inspired a Simpsons character. Now he’s leading a revolution in offshore wind.
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Posted on 2015-03-11T16:19:11+0000
Using Named Pipes and Process Substitution in Bioinformatics
It’s hard not to fall in love with Unix as a bioinformatician. In a past post I mentioned how Unix pipes are an extremely elegant way to interface bioinformatics programs (and do inter-process communication in general). In exploring other ways of interfacing programs in Unix, I’ve discovered two gre…
Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline: (near)online data at an offline price
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Posted on 2015-03-11T15:56:31+0000
Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
Migrating from MongoDB to PostgreSQL
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Posted on 2015-03-11T00:54:42+0000
The poor kids of Silicon Valley
CNN’s John D. Sutter finds this rich valley’s children living in garages and homeless camps.
USB Killer
It was a usual gloomy winter morning. My colleagues and I were drinking our morning coffee, sharing the news and
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Posted on 2015-03-10T16:44:19+0000
Bill Watterson talks: This is why you must read the new ‘Exploring Calvin and Hobbes’ book
Coming out tomorrow, the bound catalog for OSU's Bill Watterson retrospective offers a rarity of a revealing, in-depth interview.
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Posted on 2015-03-10T15:54:08+0000
Raytracing a Black Hole
It's now clear I'm on a Black Hole binge (I can stop when I want, by the way). They're endlessly fascinating. My recent interest was in particular focused on simulating visualizations of the Schwarzschild geometry. I was preoccupied by the problem of generating a decent accurate representation of ho…
Hasnain says:
Raytracing a black hole. I didn't follow all the math though
Posted on 2015-03-10T01:33:20+0000
Apple - MacBook
The incredibly thin and light new MacBook features a stunning 12-inch Retina display, a redesigned keyboard, and the new Force Touch trackpad.
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The new MacBook. I haven't seen this many comments on a link in a while...
Posted on 2015-03-10T01:19:46+0000
Announcing Starfighter
Thomas Ptacek, Erin Ptacek, and I are pleased to announce Starfighter, a company that will publish CTFs (games) that are designed to develop, improve, and assess rare, extremely valuable programmin...
Hasnain says:
This is awesome! A great approach to hiring, from some really well known people. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this turns out
Posted on 2015-03-10T01:15:01+0000