February 2012
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“That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via schow36)
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“GPS “spoofers” — devices that create false GPS signals to fool receivers into...”
– GPS ‘spoofers’ could be used for high-frequency financial trading fraud (Wired UK), via Aden D. (via new-aesthetic)
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“Our worst fears lie in anticipation.”
– Don Draper, via Dustin Boyer
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UX Metrics →
Measuring the User Experience on a Large Scale: User-Centered Metrics for Web Applications. More and more products and services are being deployed on the web, and this presents new challenges and opportunities for measurement of user experience on a large scale. There is a strong need for user-centered metrics for web applications, which can be used to measure progress towards key goals, and drive...
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“The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert’s Symphony Number 9.”
– Erwin Dieterich, via fuckyeahcomputerscience
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“We have different kinds of challenges on the government side. One is a little...”
– …”To put it in mathematical terms, we’ve had a shift from thinking of the world in terms of calculus to statistics. So, where we once tracked the motions of the heavenly bodies and could send Voyager to Jupiter over a multiyear trajectory, now we tend to think nature is fundamentally...
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Open Spectrum is Good Policy
…”Fred wrote a post earlier this week advocating for more “open spectrum”. Fred argues in his post that freeing up more open spectrum will have a much larger impact than spending $7.2B in stimulus money to run wires to rural constituents. He also references our friend Tom Evslin who has been thinking and writing about telecom policy for 30 years. I’d like to flesh out...
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“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou
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How Forbes Stole A New York Times Article And Got... →
nostrich: They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but how much is a title worth? If the story that proceeds is any indicator, a title is worth over 6700 words and months of research. It all began Friday when the New York Times published an article “How Companies Learn Your Secrets“. It was an extremely long article which discussed how large companies like WalMart and Target collect data...
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