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vdm··on Explorable Visual Analytics: Visualize, Understand Large Complex Datasets
Damn. This is rad.
vdm··on Wi-FM listens to FM signals to determine best times to send and receive data
Paper http://networks.cs.northwestern.edu/publications/wifm/icnp20...

> We show that the digital signal that accompanies broadcast FM radio has sufficient structure to enable effective scheduling relative to it. It thus provides a common reference for neighboring devices to harmonize their transmissions, yet without requiring any explicit communication among them.

vdm··on How the World's Most Difficult Bouldering Problems Get Made
With tags in each shoe and on both wrists, and every hold a scanner, the data would describe exactly how and when each hold on the route was climbed.
vdm··on Everyday DSP for Programmers: Signal Envelopes
Signal Analysis for Ops https://vimeo.com/95227467

Monitorama PDX 2014 - Noah Kantrowitz

vdm··on Autocomplete as an interface
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(computing)#Reaction
vdm··on TinyCert – Become Your Own PKI/CA Authority in a Matter of Minutes
Posted today: http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/introducing-lemur.html
vdm··on We're heading for AOL 2.0
Slack.
vdm··on Cassowary – A Constraint Solving Toolkit
The React Native people looked at this and stuck with Flexbox. https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/561941079038390273
vdm··on Docker: Not Even a Linker
And John Levine's 'Linkers and Loaders'. http://www.iecc.com/linker/
vdm··on Show HN: Web Based Latency Test and ISP Comparison
apenwarr's blip uses Google servers and provides a plot output. http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201304
vdm··on How a keyboard changed what I look for in an editor
The spec says it uses 128-bit AES. https://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/b/sculpt-ergonomic-...

I couldn't find anything on Google to contradict that. Link?

vdm··on Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You
VPN + Privoxy.
vdm··on Is Git a Block Chain?
This is a more straightforward description of what GuardTime does than anything the company themselves have managed to publish.
vdm··on Homeless Millennials Are Transforming Hobo Culture
Interesting that the scarce commodity is power, more so than the network, just like in the developing world. Perhaps USB-C will help.
vdm··on Ask HN: Good books on debugging?
The Scientific Method of Troubleshooting (Blithe Rocher @ GoGaRuCo 2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9YZXuUjyOs
vdm··on There Is No Now – Problems with Simultaneity in Distributed Systems
Nice to see another example of applying CRDTs in the browser, I only knew about swarm.js. http://swarmjs.github.io/ They have a few good posts on why you would want to do this.
vdm··on Ringio is an interactive data pipe written in Go
It reminds me of a lightweight Kafka which makes it convenient to use local cli processes as inputs and outputs.
vdm··on GoJS: Interactive Diagrams for the Web
See also https://github.com/the-grid/the-graph from noflo
vdm··on Show HN: LibreBoard – An open-source clone of Trello
So now we get to set WIP limits?
vdm··on Data-Oriented Hash Table
http://objectlayout.org/
vdm··on 100 Hours of Meditation in 10 Days
I quit (and moved city) a week before the retreat. That was three years ago.
vdm··on Intel Compute Stick
http://philip.greenspun.com/business/mobile-phone-as-home-co...
vdm··on Salvatore Sanfilippo, the author of Redis: from Sicily with talent and passion
Kudos to the interviewer, Franco Folini, as well as Salvatore; these are excellent questions.
vdm··on Statecharts: A Visual Formalism For Complex Systems (1987) [pdf]
"Statecharts in User Interfaces: Warding Off Complexity", Erik Mogensen, RESTFest 2014. https://vimeo.com/109808288
vdm··on Underactuated Rotor for Simple Micro Air Vehicles
"The entire mechanical system can be assembled from 3D printed and off-the-shelf components." http://youtu.be/aEPf0QHVuMM?t=1m18s
vdm··on Atlas by Hashicorp
This Clojure library agrees with you, it reflects and post-processes the AWS Java library. https://github.com/mcohen01/amazonica
vdm··on America’s Toughest, Ugliest Warplane
https://twitter.com/FuentesDeOnoro
vdm··on Building the Largest Ship in the World
http://omegataupodcast.net/2014/04/146-container-shipping/
vdm··on Move Fast and Break Nothing
Comparing the results of requests processed against both the new and old system is a pattern. http://www.alwaysagileconsulting.com/application-pattern-ver...

It was also done in mainframes at the processor instruction level.

vdm··on IRIS+
That follow me implementation is an OpenCV computer vision application, not GPS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr0jIAT68eI&list=UUcp-_sF8s4...
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