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Martian landscapes - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:30:17 +1100

Martian landscapes - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Closure Tools - Google Code

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:52:14 +1100

Closure Tools - Google Code:

Google releases their JavaScript libraries and compiler. Looks highly useful.

Jaml: Haml in Javascript

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:36:29 +1100

Jaml: Haml in Javascript:

Neato.. HAML is pretty cool.

BLEUBIRD VINTAGE OFFICIAL BLOG: YES PLEASE…

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:11:34 +1100

BLEUBIRD VINTAGE OFFICIAL BLOG: YES PLEASE…

dhotson's Profile - GitHub

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:13:34 +1100

dhotson's Profile - GitHub:

Nice.. GitHub redesigned their profile page.

Charting time series as calendar heat maps in R

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:36:11 +1100

Charting time series as calendar heat maps in R:

Pretty cool visualisation.

When the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved, a coded phone call was made by one of the physicists..

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:42:13 +1100

Compton: The Italian navigator has landed in the New World.
Conant: How were the natives?
Compton: Very friendly.

(via equivalence)

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:33:23 +1100

(via equivalence)

Introducing Resque

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:34:14 +1100

Introducing Resque:

defunkt talks about queues. Man, those GitHub guys are awesome. They just keep on coming out with all this cool shit. Respect.

Today I hired a new designer, this is how we equipped his cube!

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:29:39 +1100

Today I hired a new designer, this is how we equipped his cube!:

Rad cube!

"Lately I’ve begun to think that the word “simple” is the programmer’s version of “for the children”."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:55:20 +1100

“Lately I’ve begun to think that the word “simple” is the programmer’s version of “for the children”.”

- Simplicity is Complicated | Virtuous Code

What algorithms compute directions from point A to point B on a map?

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:07:37 +1100

What algorithms compute directions from point A to point B on a map?

Iphone 3D engine with openGL 2.0 experience.

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:05:25 +1100

Iphone 3D engine with openGL 2.0 experience.

Brush & Spoke

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:26:36 +1100

Brush & Spoke

Poltras comments on Handling out-of-memory conditions in C

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:09:57 +1100

Poltras comments on Handling out-of-memory conditions in C:

Some discussion on git’s xmalloc implementation.

Brush & Spoke

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:04:07 +1100

Brush & Spoke:

“Brush & Spoke is a website built to showcase bicycles, bicycle related art, and anything else bicycles!”

Richard Feynman, the Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:53:02 +1100

Richard Feynman, the Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering:

Really insightful stuff, I’ll have to read the full report.

Need to make some numbers look nicer? No worries, fudge them!

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:26:00 +1100

   1 
   2 
   3 /**
   4  * Need to make some numbers look nicer? No worries, fudge them!
   5  * @author dennis.hotson@gmail.com <Dennis Hotson>
   6  */
   7 class Fudge
   8 {
   9   /**
  10    * Makes a number look nicer
  11    * @param $n int
  12    *  3 - 30 rounds to the nearest 1
  13    *  30 - 300 rounds to the nearest 10
  14    *  300 - 3000 rounds to the nearest 100
  15    */
  16   public static function round($n)
  17   {
  18     return self::_round($n, self::_accuracy($n));
  19   }
  20 
  21   /**
  22    * Makes a number look like a bargain price
  23    * @param $n int
  24    */
  25   public static function price($n)
  26   {
  27     $accuracy = self::_accuracy($n);
  28 
  29     if (self::_accuracy($n, 3) < self::_accuracy($n, 1))
  30       $adjustment = $accuracy / 10;
  31     else
  32       $adjustment = $accuracy / 20;
  33 
  34     return self::_round($n, self::_accuracy($n)) - $adjustment;
  35   }
  36 
  37   /**
  38    * @param $n int
  39    * @param $offset
  40    * @return int A power of 10 eg 1,10,100....
  41    */
  42   private static function _accuracy($n, $offset = 3)
  43   {
  44     return pow(10, floor(log10(max(1, $n)) - log10($offset)));
  45   }
  46 
  47   /**
  48    * Rounds $n to the nearest $accuracy
  49    */
  50   private static function _round($n, $accuracy)
  51   {
  52     return round($n / $accuracy) * $accuracy;
  53   }
  54 }

Also on github.

Totem | design work life

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:19:16 +1100

Totem | design work life

A Map of the Cat?

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:51:28 +1100

A Map of the Cat?:

A story of what happens when a Physics professor tries out Biology.