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The myth of the cognitive quantum jumps
Update: see this presentation given by Scott Berkun at Google, which which explains my points much more eloquently. Very often media (and I’m using the word “media” here in its most comprehensive way – including things like blogs, Slashdot, etc) tells us the story of some uber-hyper-mega-cool new-unseen-until-now method of performing X. This leads many…
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Educational investment resource
Yesterday I wrote about FORA.tv, and today I have an free other online educational resource for those who are interested for a reason or other in the world of finance / investment: the MarketPlace Whiteboard (found it via zero hedge). Here senior editor Paddy Hirsch explains with the help of a whiteboard (hence the name)…
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Windows 7 OOP overdrive
Credit goes to a good friend of mine for this (who doesn’t have a website or twitter account, so I can’t link to him :-p). Here is a (partial) list of DLL’s imported by the Windows 7 version of kernel32: API-MS-Win-Core-RtlSupport-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessThreads-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-Heap-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-Memory-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-Handle-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-Synch-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-File-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-IO-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-ThreadPool-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-LibraryLoader-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-NamedPipe-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-Misc-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-SysInfo-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-Localization-L1-1-0.dll API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessEnvironment-L1-1-0.dll…
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FORA.tv
I discovered FORA.tv just recently, but I’m already a huge fan. If you like TV channels like Discovery or National Geographic, you will certainly find something of interest here. What’s great: it’s free with very little and unobtrusive advertisement the programs are professionally recorded / postprocessed (no volume-to-low-to-hear problems here) link to individual parts of…
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Creating a closed standard
After reading on Graham Cluley’s blog that the IEEE came up with a new standard [PDF] for malware interchange, I had to check it out immediately. As always, being a cranky old man, I found several problems with the proposed standard: Even though the presentation has a section abou “Re-Inventing the Wheel”, it fails to…
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wpdesigner.com review
wpdesigner.com is an other blog / resource targeted at WordPress users. It has the usual categories, like webhosting, themes, tips, tutorials and so on. I especially liked the “How to Get Help for WordPress Problems” section, mainly because it starts with “Search Before You Ask” (but the other tips it gives are also good). The…
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A couple of challenges
The Google code-jam. Algorithmic, ACM-like programming challenge (don’t forget about UVa if you want to get some warmup). A “find the vulnerability” type contest from Immunity. A Javascript compression contest – this is not an “official” contest (in the sense that there are no prizes and no very strict rules), but more of a “one-upmanship”.…