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Bjoern··on Q – A Data Language
Interesting... here is a tool, which is also going twoards data oriented approach.

"Drake - a kind of make for data"

http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for...

Bjoern··on In Memory of Jim Weirich [video]
https://github.com/jimweirich/wyriki/commit/d28fac7f18aeacb0...
Bjoern··on Kobra – Real-time collaborative code editor with built-in video Chat
Curious question, how does version control (SCM) fit into this picture?
Bjoern··on Announcing gitsh: A dedicated shell for git commands
The only thing which I personally found interesting was the empty enter command shows git status.

Here is something like that for zsh in case you need it.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/0aa22dc97ef832f88026

Bjoern··on The AeroFS Private Cloud
I'm new to AeroFS. How does it measure up against eg. Owncloud? Any important pro's and cons?
Bjoern··on Show HN: Handkommando – Real-time multiplayer RPS game
Screenshots?
Bjoern··on Julia for Numerical Computation in MIT Courses
Octave?
Bjoern··on Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
> And this is the way forward to developing new antibiotics.

I personally think there is much potential in Phages in the future. It has already show to be one of the ways to go fighting resistant bacteria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

Bjoern··on Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
> Bacteria don't desire anything, and they don't seek out anything or plan anything.

Bacteria are not fully understood and there are things such as Quorum Sensing which implies some method to the chaos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum_sensing

Bjoern··on HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla
Draining excessively my CPU and Memory for no good reason, being insecure, etc.
Bjoern··on We Let Our Employee Set Their Own Salaries
Doesn't this open model proposed by Joel Spolsky make much more sense?

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000038.html

Bjoern··on Attack-driven defense
In this slidedeck there is a interesting reference to another one from the FB Sec Team in case you missed it. http://www.slideshare.net/mimeframe/ruxcon-2012-15195589
Bjoern··on A horrifying startup accelerator story
Not quite Anatoli Bugorski, but still a very interesting discussion here:

"Putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMqPT6oKJ8&list=TLwUB7ALPnO...

Bjoern··on New Zealand bans some software patents
I don't think the original patent idea was bad, only the recent years mutated it into an abomination.

A long time ago this model made sense. Inventors would invent and would be protected to benefit exclusively for a very short period of time (e.g. one year). After the grace period, it would be a free for all again, and people would move on.

Having patent durations of >1 year is obviously ridiculous, particularly 100+years protections etc.

Bjoern··on Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders
Historical heritage unfortuantely. /sbin and /usr/sbin are other examples...

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952

Bjoern··on Show HN: Turn a single video into an interactive pinboard
I personally would prefer signing up for an account directly.
Bjoern··on Show HN: Turn a single video into an interactive pinboard
Seems to be broken when pasting a Youtube URL? (showing an error, but its indexed aparently)

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofitTGfcz6k

Facebook only login :(

Bjoern··on Show HN: Turn a single video into an interactive pinboard
This is pretty cool, great work! How are you finding the products? Computer Vision?
Bjoern··on Puma, a fast concurrent web server for Ruby
Interesting goes against directly what they claim on their own page. Its tested on a four core machine. I'm suspecting the 16 default threads were the problem, since Unicorn only ran with 4 processes not 16.

http://puma.io/

Bjoern··on Don't use bcrypt (2012)
The first figure he shows is from Colin Percivals SCrypt paper, he should have cited his source.

http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf

Bjoern··on The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business
Some of these answers are outright dangerous in my opinion. This list is quite a mixed bag.
Bjoern··on Tengine: a web server based on Nginx, offering advanced features
Anyone here using this in Production who could comment if using Tengine makes sense over vanilla NGinx and workarounds?
Bjoern··on NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars
Relevant

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6238482

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5761898

Bjoern··on Bootstrap 3 Grid Introduction
Is it possible to combine Framelessgrid with Bootstrap3? Skipping the grid system of bootstrap and using this or would that be a world of pain?
Bjoern··on Nanomsg – MIT-licensed ZeroMQ alternative
Since the title mentions it.

The ØMQ library is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. All add-ons and examples are published under the GNU General Public License.

http://zeromq.org/area:licensing

Bjoern··on New UI Pattern: Website Loading Bars
Here is a nice implementation example. http://www.ynh.io/2013/05/24/rebuild-youtubes-progress-bar.h...

Previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5761898

Bjoern··on Hopscotch – easy product tours by LinkedIn
Thank you for all the great work! Good to see more Open Source about this. (Apache licensed)

There is much more out there in the same spirit, here is a short collection of the alternatives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427851

- jQuery Impromptu http://trentrichardson.com/Impromptu/

- Zurb Joyride http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/joyride.html

- Intro.js (js only) http://usablica.github.com/intro.js/

- Bootstro.js - http://clu3.github.com/bootstro.js/

- pageguide.js - http://tracelytics.github.com/pageguide/

- chardin.js - http://heelhook.github.com/chardin.js/?hn

Bjoern··on PostGIS 2.1.0 Released
Interesting question, what are good resources to find geo data for different areas around the world?
Bjoern··on What the Steve Jobs movie got right, and wrong
Made a lot of sense, thanks for the writeup. Probably I am just silly for not understanding why our society doesn't cherish people who had so much more impact on our lives.
Bjoern··on What the Steve Jobs movie got right, and wrong
Borlaug has nothing to do with CS.
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