Posted it to my reading section. Take a look. Summary: If you’re into physics go buy it, it’s an excellent book.
A simple, clean Markdown editor I stumbled across today.
via →A good top ten list of Django tips. Many of these took a while for me to learn on my own. Recommended reading
via →I’m adding some simple recipes that are, potentially, useful for fellow computer hackers. Most of these recipes are great for getting dinner out of the way, without resorting to a fast food trip.
My first recipe: tacos made with a vegetarian ground beef substitute. I’m not a vegetarian, but the soy protein substitute is faster and easier to make. I usually grab a few bags of ground beef substitute and keep them in the freezer for when I want to throw something quick together.
It’s pretty damn tasty, and very easy. Now back to coding!
I put a little reading list together on this site where I can make small comments on recent reading and whether or not I recommend the book.
Take a peek as I get started with my list
I’ve finally gotten around to releasing a new version of MailCore… Since my last release a few patches have been submitted, special thanks to those that sent in patches.
MailCore is now being used in a few iPhone apps (maybe someone can submit a patch to make MailCore buildable on the iPhone?), and I’m currently using it for an unannounced product (and no, not Kiwi, something else I’ve been working on).
Here is a list of the major changes:
Grab a prebuilt framework here or grab the source from BitBucket
“I had applied for the nuclear submarine program, and Admiral Rickover was interviewing me for the job... Finally, he asked me a question and I thought I could redeem myself. He said, "How did you stand in your class at the Naval Academy?" ... I swelled my chest with pride and answered, "Sir, I stood 59th in my class of 820!" I sat back to wait for the congratulations - which never came. Instead, the question: "Did you do your best?" I started to say, "Yes, sir," but I remembered who this was ... I finally gulped and said, "No, sir, I didn't always do my best." He looked at me for a long time, and then finally turned his chair around to end the interview. He asked one final question, which I have never been able to forget, or to answer. He said, "Why not?"”
“SHRINK: Do you like your work? RICKOVER: No. SHRINK: Do you like people? RICKOVER: No. SHRINK: Are you happy? RICKOVER: No. [Shrink pauses, to figure out where to go form here] RICKOVER: Are you going to ask any more damn fool questions? SHRINK: No. ”
For you emacs users out there. Try out auto-revert-tail-mode. Open up a log file you’d like to monitor in emacs and then do M-x auto-revert-tail-mode. Emacs will automatically watch the file.
I like to open up a small frame and watch log files this way.
via →Very interesting overview of the btrfs design, its history and its relationship to ZFS.
I really want ZFS or btrfs to become widespread and stable enough that I can use them on my Mac and Linux machines. It’s unfortunate that Mac OS X will probably go ZFS and Linux will go btrfs, which hurts interoperability.
It’s not clear to me if btrfs has as strong a focus on data integrity as ZFS. I was thoroughly impressed when Jeff Bonwick (the founder and designer of ZFS) came to UIUC and did a data integrity demo. In the demo he created a filesystem and then scribbled randomly over a large percentage of the disk, and showed how ZFS was on the fly repairing the damage.
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