Category: Geek
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My grandparents #throughglass
My grandparents enjoying their great-grandchildren #throughglass. I may have to get an extra pair…
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PDLBKBR Part II
A little over two years ago, I attended an event and listened to Brad Templeton speaking about the Google driverless car and how hard it would be for society to adapt to this new method of transportation. I’ve stumbled upon a recording of him lecturing about the topic at “Driving Innovation: A Speaker Series Powered by Nissan…
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What happens next starts with you…
You are a pioneer, a founder and an architect of what’s possible. You are a Glass Explorer. We have an exciting journey ahead of us, and what happens next starts with you. Start exploring at google.com/glass I can’t remember the last time I had to RTFM before figuring out how *turn on* a gadget I…
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Tracx Dashboards in Times Square
Next month marks the 8th anniversary since the registration of the tra.cx domain name. Words can’t describe the way I feel right now, after reaching yet another peak in this amazing journey, with my five partners and a dream-team of amazingly talented people making Tracx a global leader, a family and a home. For the…
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Thermodynamics
Brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space. – Bruce Schneier
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Our inability to understand the Exponential function
I was reminded of this quote, due to the discussions triggered by the Bitcoin private key database troll website about the feasibility of brute-force searching for the private key of a Bitcoin address. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. – Albert Allen Bartlett A reddit user made some…
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Now You Have Two Problems
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. – jwz (via) However, if you really have to, use Grant Skinner‘s very useful RegExr tool.
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We don’t have the technology
One thing humans don’t know how to do is shut down peer to peer networks. We don’t have the technology. – Peter Vessenes, founder and CEO of Bitcoin exchange CoinLab (via)
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Google+ Auto Stupefying Awesome Thinger
I love love love the Google+ automatic photo combiner and GIF maker (GIF or JIF?). It even managed to automatically tag this photo with #BlackCat. However, when I tell people about it, they say “but who the hell uses Google+?“. I say, let them stay where they are, for now. There are awesome people on Google+,…
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Patent US7028023 – Linked list
Today I wanted to write a new software module, and considered using Linked Lists. To my surprise, while searching for Software Patents (which is common practice before writing a new module), I realized I have to either give up using such lists (and go over the existing code base to make sure no else does),…