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beacon hill engagement session
Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef: and finally, there's teff - http://glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/2005...
Chocolate banana bread with teff flour. Haven't tried this yet but fundamentals look good. Does use butter though. - Emil Sit
Showcase: 12,000-Faceted Diamond - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com - http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
Ghost Town by Mark Dubovoy - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Ghost Town by Mark Dubovoy
With Facebook, you can turn your closest friends into celebrities, characters you gawk at and obsess over without actually gaining the benefits of social intimacy and bonding. - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Perspectives - Jeff Dean: Design Lessons and Advice from Building Large Scale Distributed Systems - http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009...
Summary of stats and advice from Jeff Dean. Particularly like the rules of thumb on distributed systems timing. - Emil Sit
Chocolate Zucchini Teff (Gluten-Free) Bread-Cake - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Grazing life. - Chocolate Zucchini Teff (Gluten-Free) Bread-Cake - http://grazing.emilsit.net/post...
Gluten-Free Bay: Quinoa-Cannellini Burgers: A Gluten-Free Veggie Burger for Grown-Ups - http://glutenfreebay.blogspot.com/2007...
Excellent veggie burger. Seems fine without egg, thyme; used potato and rice flour instead of sorghum flour. Might help to cook garlic first. - Emil Sit
Geeking with Greg: Advice from Google on large distributed systems - http://glinden.blogspot.com/2009...
Jeff Dean says, "Do your back of the envelope calculations." "Don't prematurely scale." And more. - Emil Sit
ThemeHybrid Themes - http://themehybrid.com/themes
A set of elegant themes for wordpress. Free too. Thank goodness. - Emil Sit
Fossil: Fossil Home Page - http://www.fossil-scm.org/index...
Roughly speaking, like Mercurial or Monotone. Not sure how it compares to git w.r.t branching, speed, index. Big selling points would be integrated bug tracking and wiki and a single binary, with builds for Windows, OS X and Linux. Uses SQLite for the repo. No worse than hg/git rolling their own, probably better than svn using BerkeleyDB. - Emil Sit
Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting |  NoSQL Ecosystem - http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog...
Comparison of 10 or so modern DHTs along three axes: scalability, data and query model, and persistence design. - Emil Sit
Android Notes - eLinux.org - http://elinux.org/Android...
Generic set of useful overview information about Android internals including oom killer, bionic, init, tips for how to flash a device using fastboot, etc. Mostly serves as a place to record links to other useful write-ups (largely blog posts). - Emil Sit
Android Initialization Process - Android的专栏 - CSDN博客 - http://blog.csdn.net/loughsk...
Description of high-level actions of Android init, the role of common things started by default, plus where to find the sources. - Emil Sit
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Chai Bread with Cranberries | Gluten-Free Recipes ... - http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com/2008...
Another pumpkin bread recipe, without explicit mix of flours (though some notes in the comments on good ratios or ways to vary) and no yeast. Also, English units. - Emil Sit
Android - strace runtime - http://benno.id.au/blog...
A detailed look at how Android (used to) boot up. I think init has been re-written and there's no more runtime but architecturally should be similar. - Emil Sit
Effective Code Reviews Without the Pain — Developer.com - http://www.developer.com/tech...
Pig in the Kitchen: Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread & New York (egg free, dairy free, gluten free) - http://piginthekitchen.blogspot.com/2009...
Once you get past the trip to NY, a flexible looking pumpkin-bread recipe that involves teff and brown rice flour. Want have. - Emil Sit
Comforting Potato-Broccoli Soup " Simply Cooking - http://simplycooking.wordpress.com/2006...
Mixed in some russet, and, of course, bacon. - Emil Sit
Leadership: How to Ask the Right Questions - BusinessWeek - http://www.businessweek.com/print...
"The right questions rely on the leader's ability to communicate authentic interest in learning the answer. They come from a place of not knowing. The right questions are open-ended, carry the possibility of true discovery, and demonstrate a willingness to share and bestow credit." Classes of questions: perspective, evaluative, action, knowledge. - Emil Sit
XMonad, Gnome Panel, and xmonad-log-applet - http://uhsure.com/xmonad-...
Uses dbus to make a panel applet that acts like xmobar. - Emil Sit
never could get this to work. kept asking for libpanel-applet.2 for configuring. - jan
Cappuccino Web Framework - Learn About Cappuccino and Objective-J - http://cappuccino.org/learn/
"Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with." Runs on JavaScript, and you write code in something called Objective-J which looks like Objective-C. Sometimes it is scary what you can do in JS. - Emil Sit
Programming for Scientists - http://www.programming4scientists.com/
If you're not in computer science, you typically receive no training in how to write good programs--part science, part art, part engineering. This blog has many posts about what you want to think about in terms of developing good code. Probably takes a bit more work up front but will pay off for your science in the long run. - Emil Sit
Load balancing at Github: Why ldirectord? | Anchor Web Hosting Blog - http://www.anchor.com.au/blog...
Discussion (in comments) between the developer of haproxy and a user of ldirectord on considerations when choosing a load balancer. Application level proxy versus layer 2 proxy, performance, etc. - Emil Sit
Obie Fernandez: 10 Reasons Pair Programming Is Not For the Masses - http://blog.obiefernandez.com/content...
What one person thinks you need to get productive pair-programming coders. Looks like a good list to me. - Emil Sit
QUINOA VEGETARIAN STEW | QUINOA RECIPES - http://www.quinoa-recipes.com/Quinoa_...
Double the quinoa, add some turkey and chard. Very filling, super healthy. - Emil Sit
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