Category: Computer Science
Amazon’s cloud is the world’s 42nd fastest supercomputer
I posted about this on Twitter, but it’s still a little astonding.
Analyzing Network Characteristics Using JavaScript And The DOM, Part 1
Pretty sure I would never have thought of attempting measuring the speed of the TCP packest with JavaScript.
Stanford researchers outsmart captcha codes
The only two that came out unscathed, Google and ReCaptcha.
Mozilla Popcorn – Making video work like the web
The concept is basically at points in the video you can load in data from the web about the video or what’s shown in the video from Twitter, Wikipedia, Google Maps and other stuff.
GMane.Comp.Version-Control.Git – Linus Torvalds on C and C++
Programmers are an opinionated bunch.
ExtremeTech – Mozilla puts Firefox on a memory diet
I still use Firefox as my main browser but this is a needed improvement.
DARPA Shredder Challenge
Neat challenge, it would be cool to work on this problem but image analysis is so far out of my area of expertise.
Panic Blog – Panic State of the Union ’11
Coda is the app I probably spend the most time in outside of the browser, can’t wait for version 2.
TechCrunch – Creator Of Lisp, John McCarthy, Dead At 84
Reminded of what I wrote not even two weeks ago after Dennis Ritchie died, of how the innovators of Computer Science were mostly still alive and it became a little less true.
Tim Bray – Dennis Ritchie
One of the giants of Computer Science dies.