Yes, Virginia, Mac OSX does support directly mounting NTFS drives, if by "support" you mean "requires a command line hack that enables a driver of uncertain quality."
- Tim Jarrett
Very cool--a bunch of recordings from Don Loach's Glee Club in 1978 at the Harvard Festival of Men's Choruses. This is the one where someone walked up to Loach afterward asking which label the Club was on and was shocked to learn that they didn't have a record deal.
- Tim Jarrett
GUI wrapped text mining software that takes a feed from Excel or other data files, is scriptable in Scala, and otherwise is kind of very cool.
- Tim Jarrett
There are cultural factors that encourage "go slow". Seth lays out some of those factors and some simple -- but challenging -- ways to avoid them.
- Tim Jarrett
Really nice summary of a bunch of performance and optimization tricks, along with the admonition that experimenting is the best way to find out what works for your application.
- Tim Jarrett
Cypherpunk rising: WikiLeaks, encryption, and the coming surveillance dystopia | The Verge - http://www.theverge.com/2013...
The guy who mixed Carly Rae Jepsen's song also worked with Nine Inch Nails in 1994, which may explain the success of the mashup with "Head Like a Hole."
- Tim Jarrett
Mitch O'Connell: Unintentionally Hilarious Vintage Valentine's Day Cards! See the top 100 Risque, Rude and Sexy examples of all time! - http://mitchoconnell.blogspot.com/2013...
In which my friend's simple calculation - that urban voters would get their votes counted as 3/5s of a vote - ignited a groundswell of coverage that may yet doom the GOP's efforts to rig the 2016 election.
- Tim Jarrett
This is how I feel about the flu shot. The denialism is probably not on the same lines as "I don't wear seat belts and I never get killed in car crashes" but it's pretty close.
- Tim Jarrett
My opinion on this one is probably suspect, because I'm a product of the liberal arts mafia myself. But I think Dave is right on. You might be able to go all the way without a college degree, but the odds against that are about 3 in 50 million or more. Better hedge your bets.
- Tim Jarrett
My opinion on this one is probably suspect, because I'm a product of the liberal arts mafia myself. But I think Dave is right on. You might be able to go all the way without a college degree, but the odds against that are about 3 in 50 million or more. Better hedge your bets.
- Tim Jarrett
"'How can I hurt them, the king and his thanes?' Alone in his barrow, it drove him insane. Then he got an idea! An awful idea! Grendel got a horrible, awful idea! "
- Tim Jarrett