Asim Ihsan

"We’d like to offer a simple framework for effective use of fonts in your dashboard. With a few simple decisions, you can ensure that the text on the dashboard will both look good and communicate effectively. " - Asim Ihsan

"One of the Americans convicted in absentia by an Italian court for her part in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric by CIA operatives has acknowledged they "broke the law" and complained she was given insufficient protection by her superiors in Washington." - Asim Ihsan

"The ones that win are the ones that ship." Debate surrounding the initial introduction of the IMG tag, with interesting discussion about MIME types at the time. - Asim Ihsan

"Condor is a specialized workload management system for compute-intensive jobs. Like other full-featured batch systems, Condor provides a job queueing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and resource management. Users submit their serial or parallel jobs to Condor, Condor places them into a queue, chooses when and where to run the jobs based upon a policy, carefully monitors their progress, and ultimately informs the user upon completion.£ - Asim Ihsan

Goldmine! "The Android NDK provides tools that allow Android application developers to embed components that make use of native code in their Android applications. Android applications run in the Dalvik virtual machine. The NDK allows developers to implement parts of their applications using native-code languages such as C and C++. This can provide benefits to certain classes of applications, in the form of reuse of existing code and in some cases increased speed." - Asim Ihsan

"OilCan lets you customize any website by inserting JavaScript to change the website and help it reach into the Android world using intents." - Asim Ihsan

"I like to be confident with post titles, but the reality in this case is a *possible* solution for very long dropdowns." - Asim Ihsan

"Exum says that he's worried by the remote-control nature of Predator warfare. "As a military person, I put myself in the shoes of someone in FATA" -- Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas -- "and there's something about pilotless drones that doesn't strike me as an honorable way of warfare," he said. "As a classics major, I have a classical sense of what it means to be a warrior." An Iraq combat veteran who helped design much of the military's doctrine for using unarmed drones also has qualms. He said, "There's something important about putting your own sons and daughters at risk when you choose to wage war as a nation. We risk losing that flesh-and-blood investment if we go too far down this road." - Asim Ihsan

"pycrc is a free, easy to use Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) calculator and source code generator." - Asim Ihsan

Sam evokes her solitude and powerlessness when faced with difficult customers. She describes moments of drifting off into a kind of computer-game reverie, suspended somewhere above the blinking screen and the moving belt, beyond the muzak and the beeps. Or, in the mode of pseudo-advice, she suggests that once your movements and words have become automatic, as soon they will, you should put your thinking mind on standby, and save your brain cells for your old age. - Asim Ihsan

Motorola development website geared towards the Motorla MB200 (aka CLIQ, aka DEXT, aka BLUR) Android phone. - Asim Ihsan

"winetricks is a quick and dirty script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries sometimes needed to run programs in Wine. " - Asim Ihsan

"Electrons dance to a quantum beat in the Hubbard model of solid-state physics...Thus we come full circle, creating a physical analog of an abstract model that in turn represents another physical system." - Asim Ihsan

"Still, the new research supports what many experimental artists, habitual travelers and other novel seekers have always insisted: at least some of the time, disorientation begets creative thinking." - Asim Ihsan

"The way signal strength varies in a wireless network can reveal what's going on behind closed doors." - Asim Ihsan

Excerpt from The Good Soldiers, David Finkel, September, 2009, pp. 142-46. - Asim Ihsan

"It has sometimes been thought that this distinction mapped onto the welfarist/libertarian divide. I will argue that this is precisely wrong. The pluralist/rationalist distinction crosscuts the economic one. Liberals of whatever economic stripe have to face the pluralist/rationalist tension and the choices it poses. As hard questions about, for instance, multiculturalism assume greater prominence than old debates over taxation, libertarians and welfarists confront much the same difficulties in much the same ways, just in virtue of being liberals and not nationalists, republicans, or something else. After socialism, as before it, liberals face a necessary tension and difficult choices between pluralism and rationalism." - Asim Ihsan

"PyBrain -- the Python Machine Learning Library" - Asim Ihsan

"Video conferencing today is broken: typically requiring cumbersome downloads, logins, and endless contact lists, it too often becomes a service that is slow and unreliable. Enter tinychat. Tinychat delivers dead simple video conferences without the extraneous ad-ons and inconvenience, making video conferencing an accessible, uncomplicated experience." - Asim Ihsan

"You have a pile of Python code. You think, “this could be useful to someone else.” You want to release it as an open-source project. You’ve come to the right place. This guide will help you release a high-quality Python project. The file layout below illustrates the correspondence between the components of a good Python project and the files you create. I’ll be using my googlemaps module as a running example." - Asim Ihsan

BAG WAG SING - Asim Ihsan

Cute little video that the Economist made as an accompanying part of their piece on mobile technology in developing countries - Asim Ihsan

"The Soviets had taken game theory one step further than Kubrick, Szilard, and everyone else: They built a system to deter themselves. By guaranteeing that Moscow could hit back, Perimeter was actually designed to keep an overeager Soviet military or civilian leader from launching prematurely during a crisis. The point, Zheleznyakov says, was "to cool down all these hotheads and extremists. No matter what was going to happen, there still would be revenge. Those who attack us will be punished."" - Asim Ihsan

Stick figure play about AES. - Asim Ihsan

"diesel is a framework for writing network applications using asynchronous I/O in Python." - Asim Ihsan

" Here the assclowns of Anonymous found the perfect antithesis of their own radically authorless, furiously remixed, compulsively unserious culture. Scientology was a target so ideal that there is now almost no point in looking for another. Perhaps this, then, is how Project Chanology will be remembered: not as the first of a new breed of online protest movements, but as the last of the epic trolls." - Asim Ihsan

Full ebook for "Signalling System No. 7 (SS7/C7): Protocol, Architecture, and Services" by Dryburgh, Lee; Jeff Hewitt (2004). - Asim Ihsan

"After three years under Gates, the Defense Department is finally learning the right lesson: You wage war with the enemies you have, not the ones you wish you had." - Asim Ihsan