June 2011
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RIM responds to employees open letter [The Loop] →
Part of the official response:
It is obviously difficult to address anonymous commentary and it is particularly difficult to believe that a “high level employee” in good standing with the company would choose to anonymously publish a letter on the web rather than engage their fellow executives in a constructive manner […]
Considering that one of the biggest contention points in the...
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Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec... →
Today, in “RIM is fucked” news.
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The Entire State Of Texas Has been Declared A... →
I was a little surprised when I clicked through and found out it had to do with their weather, and nothing to do with them being Texas.
Ba dum psh.
Also, welcome back Texas tag!
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Shattered Dreams and Broken Promises
I’m going to have to put off the rest of those articles about scripting and the terminal because I’ve become a little bogged down with some work that suddenly upped itself in importance.
In the mean time, enjoy my queue.
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John Lu: Impressions of Winnipeg's Draft Party →
On Mark Chipman’s nonchalant announcement that Winnipeg’s team would officially be called the Jets:
[Chipman] gave his blood, sweat and tears (and substantial dollars) to bring the NHL back to Winnipeg. The fans repaid his largesse by selling out the season ticket base of 13,000 seats in a heartbeat. What was left for Chipman to give in return? He gave the people what they...
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I want to meet more computer science people.
simulas-ego:
myconsole:
geeksathome:
djbooter:
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Reblog this if you are and I’ll follow you and we can be nerds together!! :D
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Just a student, but hello!
A year out from finishing degrees in Computer Science, Physics, and Math. Worked for a year and a half doing numerical analysis and GPGPU hardware acceleration for simulations and...
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Fun With bash and AppleScripts, Part 0
I come from a primarily Windows background, but through the CS department and my own toying around with various Linux distributions, I’ve built up a fairly reasonable proficiency with the *nix shell, specifically the bash shell.
In February, I did something I’ve wanted to do for almost 5 years: I made the switch. I bought myself a 2011 i7 MacBook Pro. I’ve been a huge fan of...
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RIM's various hardware, OS options make app... →
Telling quote of the day:
I even felt like developing for BlackBerry could be hurting our reputation.
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Conversational Italian for the Cast of Jersey...
ratsoff:
Conversational Italian for the Cast of Jersey Shore
By Mary Green
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Quale modo alla farmacia? Which way to the pharmacy?
C’è una lavanderia nelle vicinanze? Is there a laundromat nearby?
Io sono perduto. I am lost.
Seite sgradito alla notte ravioli. You are unwelcome at ravioli night.
La toilette è fuori servizio. The toilet is out of order.
Mi scuso per urinare sul...
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The Nokia N9 →
There’s been a great deal of surprisingly positive press for a phone built on an operating system that wasn’t supposed to be released from a company that’s effectively beginning to gasp for air (although they’re fairing about a million times better than RIM).
I like everything about it except the iconography and the app screen itself. I tend to have hundreds of apps on...
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Humanists of Manitoba are Gettin' their Ex on →
I used to love the Red River Exhibition, or as we called it back in Winnipeg, just The Ex.
Makes me miss spending my summers at home. But alas, as a lowly intern, I can’t make it up there this year.
Maybe next year.
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TalkOrigins Wants To Buy Expelled →
Wesley R. Elsberry:
As most of you already know, the production company Premise Media went bankrupt. Their execrable propaganda film, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”, is on the auction block. The online auction is proceeding now, and will end on Tuesday, June 28th.
PZ Myers:
I think it would be wonderful and ironic if the most heavily promoted creationist propaganda film of the...
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More & More Scientists On Board With Global... →
I can’t help but be upset at how partisanship, bureaucracy, and greed have led the people to be colored by a senseless public debate when the actual evidence so clearly states that we’re destroying ourselves.
And before I get accused of being an unwashed hippy, I’m not suggesting that we all go off the grid and start farming our own food again or anything like that. I fucking...
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Microsoft Herps some Derp about some Open Source... →
A brief introduction on dubstep production computer graphics
Computer graphics is hard. It’s a field that’s steeped in esoteric math and bit-mangling voo-doo. I won’t pretend to be an expert on the subject by any means. Most people will never have to deal with this stuff, because they either
a.) Don’t need to deal with it, or
b.) Someone has provided them with the...
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"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and... →
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Announcing GitHub for Mac - GitHub →
The general feel as gleaned from the comments: this was unexpected.
And it was.
But it’s awesome. So incredibly awesome.
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Famous Dead Mormons →
I’m not sure why, but the Mormon church makes a pretty big habit of baptising folks that are already dead. I guess so that they can claim more awesome for their ranks.
It’s absurd, obviously. But here’s a list of some famous dead “Mormons”. Gave me a good chuckle (George Carlin?).
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