Reblogged from Programming Praxis: We studied one-dimensional cellular automata in a previous exercise. In today’s exercise, we will implement the famous two-dimensional cellular automaton by the British mathematician John Horton Conway, the Game of Life. Life was introduced by Martin Gardner in the October 1970 issue of Scientific American; I can remember coming home from [...]
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25 Apr
NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques
Reblogged from Highly Scalable Blog: NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. This aspect of NoSQL is well-studied both in practice and theory because specific non-functional properties are often the main justification for NoSQL usage and fundamental results on distributed systems like the CAP theorem apply well to NoSQL systems. [...]
20 Apr
Quick and Dirty Minecraft.jar Swap Batch File
Max likes the train mods, but we can’t play together on our Vanilla server. This lets him easily swap out Minecraft.jar files. @cd %appdata%\.minecraft\bin\@if not exist minecraft.alt.jar goto end@move /Y minecraft.jar minecraft.swap.jar @move /Y minecraft.alt.jar minecraft.jar @move /Y minecraft.swap.jar minecraft.alt.jar echo Swapped Files:endecho Done
7 Feb
Global Warming
So-called “global warming” is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy independent, clean our air and water, improve the fuel efficiency of our vehicles, kick-start 21st-century industries, and make our cities safer and more livable. Don’t let them get away with it! – Chip Giller
28 Dec
Decluttering: Regret is part of life
This struck a chord because several times after a purge I wind up missing something. I found it originally at 43 Folders, but it is by way of MetaFilter user occhiblu. On kind of a meta note: To some extent, I think de-cluttering involves recognizing that regret is part of life, and being OK with [...]
9 Aug
Frugality Cheat Sheet: 147 Tiny Tips to Live Healthier, Happier, Greener and Better
I originally found this at the Frugalist web blog. They are some sort of credit card reseller that preaches responsible credit usage. Original Link Click more to read the local copy:
2 Aug
George Orwell’s 5 Rules for Effective Writing
John Wesley wrote Language is the primary conductor between your brain and the minds of your audience. Ineffective language weakens and distorts ideas. If you want to be understood, if you want your ideas to spread, using effective language must be your top priority. In the modern world of business and politics this is hardly [...]
2 Aug
78 Timeless Wealth Building Tips from Benjamin Franklin
Most of the financial advice you get around the web is based on opportunity. People are always looking for the newest way to earn cash for the least amount of work. It’s no surprise most people struggle to build wealth, jumping from one opportunity to the next, wondering why nothing ever works. The principles that [...]
11 Jul
Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully – in Ten Minutes, by Stephen King
“Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully – in Ten Minutes”
by Stephen King
(reprinted in Sylvia K. Burack, ed. The Writer’s Handbook. Boston, MA: Writer, Inc., 1988: 3-9)
18 Jun
Simplicity
While reading up on some programming philosophies (YAGNI, KISS, XP), I found some great quotes on simplicity. Simplicity at Wikipedia The da Vinci quote is my favorite because with programming it is often true. Unfortunately simple for the programmer and simple for the user are rarely the same thing. * “Simplicity means the achievement of [...]
