http://www.acooke.org/cute/Andrew Cooke's blogTue, 15 May 2012 22:01:59 GMTPyRSS2Gen-1.0.0http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.acooke.org/cute/blockaidme0.html If you set your dns server to be the value listed here: http://www.blockaid.me/configuration/#info then you will avoid blocking of sites AND get the new opennic names http://www.blockaid.me/ http://www.opennicproject.org/ Andrew blockaidme0.html Tue, 15 May 2012 22:01:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/MagicdHask0.html http://devblog.bu.mp/from-mongodb-to-riak The article is more general, but I thought the "consistency on read" layer was interesting. Andrew MagicdHask0.html Mon, 14 May 2012 21:56:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/LongWorkin0.html Years ago I read a newspaper article that showed Chile had the second longest working hours in (as far as I remembered) the world, after only S Korea. But I never found the stats that were the source. Today, in this article from the BBC about Greece's working hours, I found a link to this table from the OECD: http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=LEVEL# So it's not worldwide, but OECD....LongWorkin0.html Mon, 14 May 2012 08:16:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/MartinWarp0.html http://www.viceral.cl The download button is "Descarga" on the left; you need to enter name and email. It's written in Spanish. Andrew MartinWarp0.html Sat, 05 May 2012 19:11:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/UsefulThre0.html http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3928837 http://keminglabs.com/c2/ Andrew UsefulThre0.html Fri, 04 May 2012 22:51:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/ClojuresMa0.html This describes (the ideas behind) Clojure's Map Implementation (it's not a functional data structure, but it's clear how to make it one). The basic idea is to use successive groups of 5 bits from the hash as indices into a 32-entry node. Hence the O(log32). http://lampwww.epfl.ch/papers/idealhashtrees.pdf Andrew ClojuresMa0.html Thu, 03 May 2012 04:01:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/Microcredi0.html Interesting article at http://microfinance.cgap.org/2012/04/11/latest-impact-research-inching-toward-generalization/ arguing that microsaving is more effective than microcredit. Cites preliminary work from Chile that mentions Fondo Esperanza. http://www.fondoesperanza.cl/ Andrew Microcredi0.html Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:49:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/Compoundof0.html This is horribly horribly nerdy, but I just spent half an hour fascinated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6kt_oQDDOk Andrew Compoundof0.html Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:31:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/ExampleofW0.html Throwing this out there because pngj is a nice little library, but the examples are fairly opaque and it assumes you know PNG internals. I'll describe the code (below) and then give a summary. You may not need the code to understand how to use the library, so feel free to skip to the numbered list... OK, first the code: The function "print-png-indexed" takes an output stream and returns two f...ExampleofW0.html Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:46:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/Achewoodis0.html No-one told me. It's slow, maybe a dozen since last November. A new e-book. http://achewood.com/index.php?date=11232011 Andrew Achewoodis0.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:32:00 GMThttp://www.acooke.org/cute/HowDoYouGe0.html Know what I'd like in an IDE? Something that would show call paths from one routine to another. You know you are calling some routine. And you know that you're seeing an error in another. Wouldn't it be nice to have something that joins up the dots? So you know where to look for the cause. Particularly when the error is in a common utility. Andrew HowDoYouGe0.html Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:52:00 GMT