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Sun eclipses Red Hat Firestar pact as patent invalidated

Thursday at 4:47 am - Link

Patent covering object-relational mapping invalidated. Good work by Sun. - Nick Lothian

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“People to avoid arguing with when you are paying for their services: Surgeons, tattoo artists, haircutters.”

Tuesday at 5:10 am - Link

“@ruiboy King Canyon == win! An incredible place.”

Tuesday at 5:09 am - Link

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Ghost-imaging could have satellite application

Monday at 9:23 pm - Link

Just like magic.... - Nick Lothian

Java theory and practice: Stick a fork in it, Part 2

Monday at 8:32 pm - Link

Multithreaded merge sort in Java 7. Scales well up the the number of cores available. - Nick Lothian

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“@fang http://tinyurl.com/6zcywd”

Monday at 7:28 pm - Link

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“Coolest name for a core Java lang class ever: Phaser http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/js...”

July 14 at 5:59 pm - Link

“Address book spamming by social apps is a good thing because it gives you an excuse to friend people you don't know well. Discuss....”

July 14 at 5:50 pm - Link

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July 11 at 12:14 am - Link

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“Differences in successive calls that span greater than approximately 292 years (2^63 nanoseconds) will not accurately compute elapsed time”

July 10 at 5:37 pm - Link

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Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle

July 10 at 4:23 pm - Link

The Norvig Sudoku solver. I have no possible comment. - Nick Lothian

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Yahoo! Search BOSS - YDN

July 9 at 11:23 pm - Link

BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!'s open search web services platform - Nick Lothian

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“Hmm - anyone else noticed that when you update twitter the default avatar is used for you on the "home" screen?”

July 9 at 4:41 pm - Link

“Prowling for abandoned LCD monitors larger than my current 2. You can never have too much monitor space...”

July 9 at 4:23 pm - Link

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“For all the second life fans: http://www.lively.com/html/lan... (from Google)”

July 8 at 4:32 pm - Link

“@ruiboy good luck simon!”

July 8 at 4:27 pm - Link

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“@mza Be very, very good at 2 things, then you'll be world class at the intersection http://tinyurl.com/26amvj”

July 7 at 9:28 pm - Link

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“Well that went pretty well. Apparently Nvidia 9600GTs aren't supported out of the box, but EnvyNG+Manual config fixed that. No other probs.”

July 7 at 5:20 am - Link

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“Installing Ubuntu on new computer. Nice to be able to use firefox while it installs.”

July 7 at 3:32 am - Link

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Sharpe's Rifles (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #6) by Bernard Cornwell

July 6 at 8:56 pm - Link

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“@ruiboy pics of the trailer...”

July 6 at 4:07 pm - Link

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“@lucychili That would be stupid - which is why we wouldn't do something like that. Not exactly sure how that relates to anything though.”

July 5 at 10:48 pm - Link

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“@adhoctg @nextfaze - whats the point point trying to get 3-4 year Java programmers and offering $35-$45/h (for 6 mon contract via agency)?”

July 5 at 3:52 am - Link

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OpenAustralia.org: Are your Representatives working for you in Australia's Parliament?

July 5 at 12:10 am - Link

Like TheyWorkForYou but for Australia. - Nick Lothian

Power of Information Task Force

July 4 at 11:52 pm - Link

UK government releasing raw data via dumps and APIs - Nick Lothian

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“What the FUCK is the point of trying to hire cheap programmers?!?”

July 5 at 12:05 am - Link

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Apache Hadoop Wins Terabyte Sort Benchmark (Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!)

July 3 at 7:03 pm - Link

One of Yahoo's Hadoop clusters sorted 1 terabyte of data in 209 seconds, which beat the previous record of 297 seconds in the annual general purpose (daytona) terabyte sort benchmark. - Nick Lothian

ratproxy - Google Code

July 3 at 6:39 pm - Link

Ratproxy is a semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool. - Nick Lothian

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Sharpe's Prey: Richard Sharpe & the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807 by Bernard Cornwell

July 3 at 5:37 pm - Link

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Cascading

July 3 at 5:23 pm - Link

API ontop of Hadoop - Nick Lothian

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“@nextfaze eyo.com.au - Built a custom one around a Q6600 CPU. Decent specs (4Gb RAM etc), but only spent $150 on video card and no O/S.”

July 3 at 3:20 am - Link

“@adhoctg I've just a bought a 4-core desktop (under $1000). Should arrive on Monday...”

July 3 at 3:07 am - Link

“"Nick Lothian of Scootle".. Well kinda.... http://tinyurl.com/5st6ty”

July 3 at 3:03 am - Link

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“Hurray! Data Execution protection in Vista killed off the virus checker and now my computer actually works...”

July 1 at 4:29 pm - Link

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“The Google thing: http://tinyurl.com/5k2dl5”

July 1 at 5:14 am - Link

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On not going to Google

July 1 at 5:13 am - Link

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“My wife has a new job in Adelaide.. no move to Google London OR Sydney for me...”

July 1 at 2:33 am - Link

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The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross

June 29 at 8:13 pm - Link

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“Umm yeah. Union of 3 tables + 5 tables + huge data + running on every page request. Bad idea. Yay for Moodle.”

June 29 at 6:24 pm - Link

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