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BlackBerry 10: How to fix photos when people blink

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:46:00 +1000

via YouTube

It's official. Facebook is stupid and for old people

Wed, 16 May 2012 17:38:00 +1000

via @PatrickMoorhead’s 12yo daughter

Judge Alsup can code

Wed, 16 May 2012 13:02:00 +1000

The latest from the Oracle vs Google trial

Judge: We heard the testimony of Mr. Bloch. I couldn’t have told you the first thing about Java before this problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I’ve written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an accident. There’s no way you could say that was speeding them along to the marketplace. You’re one of the best lawyers in America, how could you even make that kind of argument?

Oracle: I want to come back to rangeCheck.

Judge: rangeCheck! All it does is make sure the numbers you’re inputting are within a range, and gives them some sort of exceptional treatment. That witness, when he said a high school student could do it

via Ray Cromwell

Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:46:00 +1000

via The Oatmeal

How Pixar nearly delete Toy Story 2

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:14:01 +1000

Full technical details on Quora

Not knowing things / the lucky 10,000

Wed, 09 May 2012 17:30:31 +1000

I never understood why it seems to be every geek’s prerogative to put people down when they say they are unaware of something.

I believe that for someone to improve, not just in knowledge on a certain topic, but for life in general, they have to admit (not just to others) but to themselves that they are lacking in that area.

I intentionally make it a habit to do this, to admit that I don’t know something (usually, much to the annoyance of my friends), though once I am educated on that topic, I find the discourse later much more indepth and enjoyable.

Had I just pretended that I knew what the other person was talking about and just nodded my head, I’m sure in the short term it would please the person talking, but it helps no-one and future discussion on the topic would be moot

via XKCD

The first Android smart phone, the Sooner

Tue, 08 May 2012 10:48:08 +1000

It’s quite clear that Android was being designed to a completely different target before the iPhone was released. What we see here would have fitted in perfectly with the world of Symbian and BlackBerry. This early build of Android is in fact even less capable and mature than the 2004 release of Symbian Series 90 (Hildon), the OS that runs on the Nokia 7700 and 7710 - Nokia’s first, and only, pre-iPhone touchscreen smartphones. It’s not hard to see that iPhone really changed the thinking across the entire industry, and caused everybody to start from scratch. Android, webOS, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8, BlackBerry 10 - all of these exist because of the iPhone, and standing on its shoulders they have made some amazing and unique contributions to the ecosystem.

via High Caffeine Content

Good morning sports racers!

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:23:00 +1000

Welcome back Ze!

via Ze Frank

We are all explorers

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:06:00 +1000

Adam Savage form Mythbusters

We are all bags of meat and water, we all start with the same tools.

I love the idea that different branches of science are called fields of study. Most people think of science as a closed black box when in fact it is an open field, and we are all explorers.

via Curiosity Counts

How Apple iPads are Manufactured At Foxconn

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:12:32 +1000

Reporter Rob Schmitz is the Bureau Chief of Marketplace in Shanghai. He is the person who discovered a large portion of Mike Daisey’s accounts about Apple’s Foxconn factories from China. Now, he has become only the second reporter ever to get the opportunity to visit the Foxconn factory floor.

via techieapps

Firefox's 3D developer tools

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:17:23 +1000

First signs that Firefox may have finally jumped the shark …

The Poetry of Science: Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:40:39 +1000

If you have an hour to spare, a very fascinating talk between two of the greatest minds of our time.

via YouTube

Paper, by FiftyThree

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:21:40 +1000

Wow

Paper, by FifttyThree

Flashback trojan reportedly controls half a million Macs

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:51:06 +1000

Variations of the Flashback trojan have reportedly infected more than half a million Macs around the globe, according to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web. The company made an announcement on Wednesday—first in Russian and later in English—about the growing Mac botnet, first claiming 550,000 infected Macs. Later in the day, however, Dr. Web malware analyst Sorokin Ivan posted to Twitter that the count had gone up to 600,000, with 274 bots even checking in from Cupertino, CA, where Apple’s headquarters are located.

Technology commentators have always attributed the lack of malware on Macs, to the platform not being popular enough for malware writers to target.

This is both great, and sad news to hear that Macs have now become popular enough for this to happen …

via Ars Technica

So you want to be a developer

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:28:50 +1000

via Extra Credits

Google Maps: Quest mode

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:22:00 +1000

Fluid Corners

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:57:27 +1100

via Toiki Woki via Hacker News

A very early interview with Mark Zuckerberg

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:00:39 +1100

Regarding Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:43:34 +1100

via Shawn Blanc

Rant: I love photography

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:35:00 +1100

Last week, his father passed away following heart surgery. I knew his father for 20 years. I saw my first snow at their house over Christmas break in 1994, where I also did my first snow angel at the age of 18. I spent hours at the piano while his father played the guitar. I spent hours at the computer looking at all his father’s flower photos. Tell me that this is a shitty photo. (It is) Tell me that you could have done better. (You could have) Tell me that I didn’t need a $5000 camera to capture this. (I didn’t) Then tell me how I would feel without this photo, and tell me how photography sucks.

Allen Murabayashi via Wired