May 2013
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
– Vincent van Gogh (via l-autre-moi)
Wise words
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April 2013
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Mana's Musings: Book Review: Roy Dean's The... →
djmana:
I should have been studying for my final exams, but I discovered a free electronic book by one of my favorite martial artists, Roy Dean, and I couldn’t put it down until I finished reading it this afternoon.
Roy Dean is a second-degree black belt BJJ practitioner, well-known for his sleek YouTube…
February 2013
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January 2013
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Algorithms that design structures better than...
jordnburgess:
(200px tall x 600px wide beam supported on the left hand edge and with downward force applied to the bottom right.)
You are watching an optimisation algorithm come up with the best design completely automatically. The outcome is greatest stiffness shape possible for a given amount of material. And amazingly it’s a nuanced truss that isn’t far removed from the look of most...
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December 2012
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October 2012
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September 2012
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August 2012
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Troubleshooting High I/O Wait in Linux →
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July 2012
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May 2012
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April 2012
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To be fair, all white people look the same →
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December 2011
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The Heart of Unix →
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Linux: Check memory used by program
rashmash:
There is a great python script out there called PS Mem showing you exactly how much private + shared RAM one program is using. It’s awesome as quick overview and for debugging, instead of looking at top and counting all listed processes. This is how it looks like:
You can download it at github: PS Mem
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HTML5 Scorecard: Amazon Kindle Fire →
webkitbits:
We take a look at the power and performance offered by Amazon’s latest entry in the tablet market.
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Linux Interview Questions, Answers, and...
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Linux Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations The Ultimate Reference
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November 2011
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Great interview to Andrew Tanenbaum →
The reason MINIX 3 didn’t dominate the world has to do with one mistake I made about 1992. At that time I thought BSD was going to take over the world. It was a mature and stable system. I didn’t see any point in competing with it, so I focused MINIX on education. Four of the BSD guys had just formed a company to sell BSD commercially. They even had a nice phone number:...