December 2014 Archive
1231.
Using the Plan9 Plumber Utility (2013) (mostlymaths.net)
1232.
The Dark Side: Making War on Light Pollution (2007) (newyorker.com)
1233.
How Victorian London Almost Ended Up with a Roman Sewer (theappendix.net)
1234.
Wrapping web APIs made easy (github.com)
1235.
Ancient doodle hints that Homo erectus was smarter than we thought (arstechnica.com)
1236.
Deal forcing Microsoft to offer browser choices ends (bbc.com)
1237.
Computer Language Benchmarks Game – Rust vs. Go (benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org)
1238.
Why I Hate Object Orientated Programming (2010) (blog.jot.fm)
1239.
Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009) (slate.com)
1240.
New paper claims that the neutrino is likely a faster-than-light particle (phys.org)
1241.
Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman (1997) [pdf] (ubu.com)
1242.
Option and null in dynamic languages (codewords.hackerschool.com)
1243.
How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View (technologyreview.com)
1244.
Recent Train Times (recenttraintimes.co.uk)
1245.
Instacart (YC S12) Scores $220M Investment (recode.net)
1246.
Hipster Business Models: A New Book by Priceonomics (priceonomics.com)
1247.
The wreck of the Kulluk (nytimes.com)
1248.
Programmable Materials (monograph.io)
1249.
The Eudyptula Challenge: Learn how to contribute to the Linux kernel (eudyptula-challenge.org)
1250.
Performance of Python runtimes on a non-numeric scientific code (arxiv.org)
1251.
Scalatex: Type-safe, programmable documents (github.com)
1252.
FastMail's CardDAV System (blog.fastmail.com)
1253.
Writing a Phase-locked Loop in Straight C (liquidsdr.org)
1254.
Kubernetes on Mesos (mesosphere.com)
1255.
Kill Me Softly – Kill processes in a reliable manner (github.com)
1256.
What Students Do (And Don't Do) in Khan Academy (blog.mrmeyer.com)
1257.
Solidarity against online harassment (blog.torproject.org)
1258.
Old-school desktop using Debian Jessie (sohcahtoa.org.uk)
1259.
Secure Mail for Devs (developermail.io)
1260.
Zelkova – Elm-style FRP for Clojure and ClojureScript (github.com)