reddit/programming
Stop the Traffic
My gift to /r/programming: rd - the command line reddit viewer (Windows)
Your Code Sucks
Today, I learned that <% and %> can be substituted for { and } in C.
Thoughts on web development: automation, code generation, and scheme
Stanford Colloquium: Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence, Stephen Omohundro
Recorded Future aims at precrime detection
Reginald, the RegEx explorer - an app to test and experiment with regular expressions
jhc-0.7.6 released, now comes with Wii (homebrew) target
I just discovered this: Visual Studio 2008 Shell - Free tool to run IronPython, F# and more with full intellisense and debugging!
The Mercury language - take Prolog, speed it up, sprinkle with a bit of ML
Is Good Code Impossible?
Commercial Users of Functional Programming (CUFP) presentation schedule is now available
Why you can’t rely on a replica for disaster recovery
Rainbow-Colored Game of Life
Why Johny can't program? NAMCO sends DMCA takedown notice asking to remove a homage to Pac-Man created by a kid using MIT's Scratch language
Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything | Interveiw from Wired
Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth
How Boost FOR_EACH works, and the secrets of the ternary operator
Code Barrel Pro Now Free For Open Source Developers
Path finding algorithms visualized in ASCII
Damien Katz: Getting Your Open Source Project to 1.0
The Xchat for Mac OS X needs your help if there are any cocoa developers that have some free time please help, I hate coloquy.
More recognition for this: What's Wrong with PHP? [answer]
So I was watching MIT's open course ware on introduction to algorithms and decided to look up the professors. Here is one of them.
reddit/geek
The infamous Batvader. [PIC]
Man, if only I had $4,000 to blow...
College student in the US with a .edu email address? I just found out today that if you do, you can get one free year of Amazon Prime. Discounts on games, phone stuff, and free shipping on lots of stuff...
How To Make a 100ft Glow Stick
USPTO has released new guidelines on what kind of IP can be patented - and has provided an email address for public comments on these guidelines.
This actually happened at my internship
#wookieleaks : Improved Wookie translation protocol reveals "Nothing but profanity. Every $*%*%$ word!"
Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0
Draw a cute elephant in photoshop at The MegaMag
Tor Browser Bundle for Windows 1.3.9 Released | The Tor Blog
A few panoramic shots I took at SDCC 2010.
WTF Chrome? I thought you were supposed to be better than this.
Apple creates new "Friend Bar" ( The Onion)
Need help making my internet experience private and secure
1dl.us - Disposable E-Mail, URL Shortener, Image Hosting, Pastebin -- All in one!
This should be required reading for everyone involved in running a higher ed Web site.
How fast is the Beacon of Gondor?
Cute knitted Thor doll
Penny Arcade: The Series - The Season Finale. This one kind of choked me up.
What are your qualifications for being a geek?
Snatch vs Star Wars - Snatch Wars
Adventure Time with Finn and Jake awesome t-shirts Like whatever, I'll take one you stupid poser
What has been your favorite purchase from dealextreme.com?
Happy Birthday, Wil!
Arthur C. Clarke predicts GPS, satellite TV, and satellite communications in a 1945 letter.
reddit/science
Nasty chemical BPA found in cash register receipts at concentrations 250-1000 times the amount found in other items... and it absorbs through your skin & can't be washed off. Up to 42x increased risk for register workers.
Ok, maybe this is a stupid question, but if our body temperature is 98.6 degrees, how come when it's 95 degrees out it feels hot? Shouldn't all weather under 98.6 degrees feel relatively cold?
There's a fish called the Sarcastic Fringehead, and it's pretty cool. (video)
Strained Graphene Creates Pseudo-Magnetic Fields Stronger Than Any Before Seen
Vatican slams US green light for human stem cell trial
Brain On a Chip
An undisturbed garbage pit from a feast & some carefully placed offerings are being excavated at Marden Henge, which sits halfway between Stonehenge and Avebury -- Stone-working tools & flakes suggest new theory
A Danish study of early puberty onset aims to prove whether oestrogenic pollutants are to blame
Genes from Ebola Virus Family Found in Human Genome -- A rush of new research has found evidence that some RNA viruses made their way into vertebrate genomes millions of years ago
Life on Earth without the sun: the planet would freeze down to a certain depth, but the amount of energy contained in the molten planetary core could provide ample heat and electric power to maintain human civilization for hundreds of thousands of years or longer
Physicists Dream Up the Antilaser
Scientists Map Entire Brain Network: “The most complex mass of protoplasm on earth—perhaps even in our galaxy."
Virginia Heffernan vs. ScienceBlogs- “ScienceBlogs has become Fox News for the religion-baiting, peak-oil crowd” Heffernan/New York Times piece “Unnatural Science”, launches strong attacks on science blogging: its naivete and its corruption....too much vindictiveness and bigotry, not enough science
Happy Shark Week!!
How the fuck does driving work?
Photosynthetic algae have been found inside the cells of a vertebrate for the first time
Control a wheelchair by sniffing!
Costs and values: The legacy of the Exxon Valdez disaster
Table of nuclides wouldn't fit as well on the inside of text books
New Madrid fault may have resulted from melting ice sheet
Do Our Personalities Pilot the Way We Live Our Lives?
Negative stereotypes shown to affect learning, not just performance
World’s First Human Test Of Embryonic Stem Cell Treatment Read The Full Story: World’s First Human Test Of Embryonic Stem Cell Treatment – IndyPosted
Odyssey Moon, a contender for the Google Lunar X Prize, developed a prototype greenhouse meant to grow a flower on the Moon
What's that weird thing around Saturn's moon Rhea?
reddit/technology
Researcher detained at U.S. border for 3 hrs on his way to Defcon and questioned about Wikileaks.
The Obama administration wants to "clarify" FBI power to get online records without warrants -- and vastly expand it.
A robotic arm being able to flip a pancake is impressive, but a robotic arm learning and failing to flip a pancake is hilarious
Imagine if back in 1994-96 someone decided to sit back, think about what kind of web services can be provided via the internet, and then decided to patent them. Apple's doing that now for mobile app ideas
Hacker builds $1,500 cell-phone tapping device
Booted up a TM. It contained Flash. Teach Flash to iPad?
Microsoft still doesn't understand why its Tablet PC concept has repeatedly bombed over the best part of a decade. Apple sold more iPads in its first three months of availability than PC vendors sold Tablet PCs in the whole of last year.
Reports of the mouse's death are greatly exaggerated.
Ballmer: Microsoft feels tablet 'urgency'. This is the one time I really wish MS could just get it right, for once.
Imagine if back in 1985-86 someone developed a way to automate restaurants with a graphic user interface and a touchscreen, then did not patent any of the ideas for point of sale, and freely demonstrated the advantages of the system at computer and restaurant shows to all who were interested.
Adult Entertainment Industry Seeks To Provide Through FaceTime Video Sessions
Telenoid R1: Hiroshi Ishiguro's Newest and Strangest Android
The First-Timer's Guide to Building a Computer from Scratch
Motorola Fight Back Against Apple
Outsourcing nightmare: Sacramento woman describes Dell tech support abuse (watch video report)
Just in case you didn't know, you SHOULD NOT EXPECT 4th Amendment Protection when you enter the US at a border.
Noam Chomsky on Technology, Military and Education
Judge rejects request by the music industry to freeze assets belonging to Lime Wire and founder Mark Gorton
The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets - WSJ.com
Lockheed Martin Launches Open-Source Social Networking Project
14-year-old spends a year, $4,000 turning a '72 VW Beetle into a fully functioning electric vehicle
Gotta say that Google News is just inane sometimes. This is the algorithm's top story.
Intel demos chips that can transfer an HD movie in 1 second
Your Privacy Online - What They Know - WSJ.com
Top 50 sites write ~64 cookies or Flash cookies on your PC; Dictionary.com writes over 200