November 2009
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Quantum computing for everyone →
This article explains quantum computing in about 2000 words.
No, it doesn’t. But it gives you an idea of why it’s so hard to grasp the idea using ordinary computer science methods. It’s all about changing lots of things with little effort. I still don’t have a clue on how to solve any problems with it though.
It links to Feynman’s “QED: The Strange Theory...
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[swedish] Stockholm inför Creative Commons →
Det här kom som en glad överraskning för mig. Jag har inte hängt med riktigt. Bra!
Stockolms gömda samlingar ska bli mer tillgängliga för invånarna. Därför beslutar kulturnämnden idag att införa Creative Commons som licenssystem för Stadsarkivets och Stadsmuseets bilder. Detta blir början på ett arbete med en policy för användningen av digitala bilder från Stockholms stads samlingar.
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The Pirate Bay - The world's most resilient... →
TPB drops the tracker. Apparently, DHT works well enough for TPB to start relying on this distributed “super tracker” for all its torrent distribution. Here’s another article on DHT.
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Tea Partiers Punked, Prankster Leads Chant... →
“Columbus go home” is quite a catchy phrase, I must say.
Nice prank!
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“If I have to write one more polyglot bash / awk / python script to gather data...”
– [FoRK] Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger
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French and Irish fall out over ‘box’ incident «... →
This made my day. Hilarious.
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News from Google: A 2x Faster Web →
I read that Google makes a new HTTP, the protocol spoken by web browsers and servers. The other day they I learned that they’ve announced The Go Programming Language.
There’s this Google Wave thing too, possibly changing the way we’ll look on sharing documents, possibly killing the killer app email. Google probably knows more about our search and reading habits than any other...
Recursively nested parens →
Humour for nerds. Lovely!