April 2013
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March 2013
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November 2012
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October 2012
4 posts
“This is partly why some teams appear to have better home crowds. Seattle, for...”
– Brian Burke, on home field advantage.
August 2012
37 posts
Mystery malware that targeted energy group... →
Wiper is presumed to be a cyber-weapon and, if so, it should have been developed by a team of professionals. But experienced programmers would hardly be expected to mess up a date comparison routine.
Bwahahaha…
Why Climbing Should Be in the Olympics →
An intro to current statistical methods applied to... →
Mars Panorama from Curiosity →
Pretty neat usage of the gyroscope when viewed on iOS.
“Your first sprint in a field sport is 20% aerobic/80% anaerobic; your third...”
– From this book on sports nutrition.
Finding the True Border Between Yankee and Red Sox... →
Refueling a plane in Japan vs. China →
Strong is pretty, and Olympics are proof →
iPad: Scroll or Card? →
Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for... →
What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a... →
Increasing The Productivity of Computer... →
Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and... →
Games vs Story Generation Devices →
On games like BSG, Arkham Horror, Last Night on Earth, etc.
Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus →
Steve Yegge on software conservatism vs. liberalism. Not sure I really buy it, though.
Not all Olympic champions stand on the podium.... →
Cliff Bleszinski's Game Developer Flashcards →
I think anyone who’s ever worked with an engineer will find these familiar…
TextMate 2 goes open source →
I’m not a TextMate user, but thought this was pretty neat. Maybe if someone hacks in vim support?
Alcohol Slows Post-Exercise Recovery (and... →
Not surprising, but interesting due to how common this is.
Synergy's neat approach to OSS →
Available free, but purchasers get to vote on bugs.
You probably type too much →
Neat to see my most used commands:
664 git
605 ls
407 cd
385 vim
149 bundle
137 cat
114 rm
104 rake
103 ./bin/hive
91 ruby
git bisect →
This is pretty awesome support from Stripe.
I learned how to use git bisect from it!
Hey Patrick,
Thanks for the report. I took a quick look:
$ git clone git@github.com:archiloque/rest-client
$ git bisect start
$ git bisect good v1.0.3
$ git bisect bad v1.6.1
$ git bisect run ruby -rubygems -e ‘$:.unshift “lib”; require
“stripe”; Stripe.api_key = “KEY”; begin;...
Usain Bolt vs. all Olympic 100m sprinters ever →
Net infographic on Usain Bolt.
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Adding fill to an image using ImageMagick:
$ convert input.png -resize 960x640 \
-background black \
-compose Copy \
-gravity center \
-extent 960x640 output.png
Putting this here since I’m never going to remember how to do this otherwise.
Fair or foul? Experts split over whether Pistorius... →
Dad and the Ten Commandments of Egoless... →
The Art of in-game Photography →
ECC Exhibition Games →
Watch some elite ultimate next weekend at Starfire Sports!
I wish I could be there, but I’ll be in Canada instead.
Armored and Dangerous →
But the best way to stop a good guy with a gun is a bad guy with body armor.
All eight women disqualified for throwing... →
With footage!
Building the “First Game” engine →
Beating Big Money in Dominion’s base kingdom set.
Sparkle Motion →
Grantland on rhythmic gymnastics. Actually quite awesome, although I unfortunately can’t think of rhythmic gymnastics without thinking of this.
Understanding Cornerbacks →
The difference between off-man, boundary, and true shutdown corners. Also very applicable to defense in ultimate - being reactive vs. proactive, using the sideline, etc.
July 2012
11 posts
The Truth About Sports Drinks →
