ranit8

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• Android Sooner, ill-fated prototype killed by iPhone

  by ranit8 on 5/28/2012, 12:59 AM with -1 comments

• Bare Conductive - ink to draw circuits

  by ranit8 on 5/27/2012, 9:38 PM with -1 comments

• Continuation Passing C

  by ranit8 on 5/27/2012, 2:55 PM with -1 comments

• Try altjs - Javascript compiler test suite

  by ranit8 on 5/27/2012, 10:51 AM with -1 comments

• Software Interface design tips

  by ranit8 on 5/26/2012, 5:52 PM with -1 comments

• Draw working electronic circuits with this conductive ink

  by ranit8 on 5/25/2012, 11:23 PM with -1 comments

• The Swiss Army knife of cryptography

  by ranit8 on 5/19/2012, 10:31 PM with -1 comments

• Mathematical cultures

  by ranit8 on 5/19/2012, 12:54 PM with -1 comments

• Creating awesome applications when you're clueless

  by ranit8 on 5/18/2012, 10:31 AM with -1 comments

• Quantum Mechanics: Moyal versus Dirac

  by ranit8 on 5/17/2012, 11:13 AM with -1 comments

• Sniffer tool displays other people's WhatsApp messages

  by ranit8 on 5/13/2012, 8:52 PM with -1 comments

• Apache OpenOffice 3.4 released

  by ranit8 on 5/8/2012, 11:41 PM with -1 comments

• LXC in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

  by ranit8 on 5/6/2012, 4:53 PM with -1 comments

• Exact algorithms from approximation algorithms? (part 2)

  by ranit8 on 5/5/2012, 1:11 PM with -1 comments

• Persisting data on Android using SQLite

  by ranit8 on 5/3/2012, 1:57 PM with -1 comments

• Exact Algorithms from Approximation Algorithms

  by ranit8 on 5/1/2012, 12:29 PM with -1 comments

• How a Fight Club philosophy could save black hat SEO

  by ranit8 on 4/30/2012, 11:05 PM with -1 comments

• Free your mind: the Peano axioms

  by ranit8 on 4/30/2012, 5:38 PM with -1 comments

• Tiny, cheap, and dangerous: Inside a (fake) iPhone charger

  by ranit8 on 4/28/2012, 6:52 PM with comments

• Codemap - software cartography

  by ranit8 on 4/28/2012, 1:51 PM with 0 comments

• Does the quantum wave function represent reality?

  by ranit8 on 4/28/2012, 12:10 PM with 0 comments

• Troll Math

  by ranit8 on 4/28/2012, 10:37 AM with 0 comments

• When GOTO makes sense

  by ranit8 on 4/25/2012, 10:42 AM with 4 comments

• Rare-earth magnets in action

  by ranit8 on 4/23/2012, 11:40 AM with 0 comments

• When object orientation is the wrong answer

  by ranit8 on 4/22/2012, 2:14 PM with 0 comments

• Topics deleted from StackOverflow

  by ranit8 on 4/21/2012, 1:09 PM with 34 comments

• Benchmarking block-swapping algorithms

  by ranit8 on 4/21/2012, 10:30 AM with 0 comments

• Solving FizzBuzz with C++ compiler error messages

  by ranit8 on 4/21/2012, 10:27 AM with 30 comments

• Building a preemptible Linux kernel

  by ranit8 on 4/20/2012, 10:29 PM with 0 comments

• Tricks with the floating-point format

  by ranit8 on 4/20/2012, 12:52 PM with 0 comments

• A Turbogears financial calculator

  by ranit8 on 4/20/2012, 11:49 AM with 0 comments

• Face recognition through eigenvectors

  by ranit8 on 4/17/2012, 6:42 PM with 0 comments

• A Programming Language, now in HTML (50th anniversary)

  by ranit8 on 4/15/2012, 12:47 PM with 13 comments

• How to teach someone how to prove something

  by ranit8 on 4/15/2012, 10:15 AM with 0 comments

• "in plain English" explanations

  by ranit8 on 4/14/2012, 11:47 AM with 0 comments

• ProofCheck: Checking Mathematical Proofs written in TeX

  by ranit8 on 4/14/2012, 11:19 AM with 1 comments

• ProofCheck: checking mathematical proofs written in TeX

  by ranit8 on 4/14/2012, 12:59 AM with 0 comments

• Qlobe, a ruby quine with a rotating globe

  by ranit8 on 4/12/2012, 3:02 PM with 0 comments

• Waiting for one-off events with Futures (C++)

  by ranit8 on 4/12/2012, 12:57 AM with 0 comments

• File extensions are ridiculous

  by ranit8 on 4/11/2012, 12:22 PM with 1 comments

• Point-and-shoot infrared random number generator

  by ranit8 on 4/11/2012, 11:39 AM with 0 comments

• IO monad realized in 1965

  by ranit8 on 4/10/2012, 11:57 PM with 0 comments

• Why Forth?

  by ranit8 on 4/10/2012, 7:55 PM with 0 comments

• Hole-in-the-wall: how kids teach themselves

  by ranit8 on 4/8/2012, 9:19 PM with 0 comments

• Writing Chrome extensions

  by ranit8 on 4/8/2012, 7:09 PM with 0 comments

• When tasks replace objects

  by ranit8 on 4/8/2012, 11:24 AM with 1 comments

• The many faces of git rebase

  by ranit8 on 4/8/2012, 11:14 AM with 12 comments

• Dynamic language tricks in C++ using Qt

  by ranit8 on 4/6/2012, 11:57 PM with 0 comments

• Plugging leaks in Python

  by ranit8 on 4/6/2012, 2:48 PM with 0 comments

• Achieving ACID transactions with common files

  by ranit8 on 4/6/2012, 10:56 AM with 0 comments

• Uncovering an advertising fraud scheme. Or "the Internet is for porn"

  by ranit8 on 4/5/2012, 11:34 PM with 4 comments

• Drawing on an oscilloscope - Rabiscoscopio

  by ranit8 on 4/1/2012, 1:55 PM with 0 comments

• Automatically calibrating a computer projector image

  by ranit8 on 3/31/2012, 6:46 PM with 8 comments

• Diagnosing bufferbloat

  by ranit8 on 3/30/2012, 12:40 PM with 0 comments

• Beat old-school games using math

  by ranit8 on 3/23/2012, 7:36 PM with -1 comments

• Why some wild animals are becoming nicer (self domestication)

  by ranit8 on 3/19/2012, 12:07 PM with 0 comments

• Mastering Threads on MacOS X

  by ranit8 on 3/18/2012, 2:57 PM with 5 comments

• ASL.js American Sign Language Javascript

  by ranit8 on 3/17/2012, 9:18 PM with 0 comments

• by ranit8 on 3/17/2012, 9:16 PM with comments

• Whitespace interpreter in 1024 bytes of JS

  by ranit8 on 3/16/2012, 12:47 PM with 0 comments

• A Continued Rant on Electromagnetism Texts and the Pedagogy of Science

  by ranit8 on 3/16/2012, 12:04 PM with 0 comments

• Trend Micro releases HijackThis source code

  by ranit8 on 3/12/2012, 11:33 AM with 0 comments

• Automx: automated mail account configuration

  by ranit8 on 3/12/2012, 2:52 AM with 0 comments

• Introducing Adobe SWF Investigator

  by ranit8 on 3/12/2012, 2:46 AM with 0 comments

• How to correctly use code you didnt write

  by ranit8 on 3/11/2012, 6:19 PM with 24 comments

• Rename files and folders with git

  by ranit8 on 3/9/2012, 12:37 PM with 0 comments

• How many neurons make a human brain? (hint: not 100 billion)b

  by ranit8 on 3/6/2012, 7:06 PM with 0 comments

• Pigeons outperform humans at the Monty Hall Dilemma

  by ranit8 on 3/5/2012, 12:19 PM with 0 comments

• Designing game mechanics into calendars

  by ranit8 on 3/4/2012, 7:50 PM with 0 comments

• Is summation notation ambiguous?

  by ranit8 on 3/3/2012, 12:19 PM with 0 comments

• Scriptometer: comparing script-oriented programming languages

  by ranit8 on 3/3/2012, 12:51 AM with 0 comments

• When (and how) to use HTML frames

  by ranit8 on 3/1/2012, 11:03 AM with 0 comments

• Cojac, A Numerical Problem Sniffer

  by ranit8 on 2/29/2012, 11:13 AM with 0 comments

• Optimizations Can Have Side Effects

  by ranit8 on 2/29/2012, 1:35 AM with 0 comments

• The Mathematics of Volleyball

  by ranit8 on 2/28/2012, 11:13 AM with 0 comments

• Why I'm not an open source person any more

  by ranit8 on 2/27/2012, 1:44 PM with 0 comments

• Real software engineering: the good, the bad and the ugly

  by ranit8 on 2/22/2012, 5:29 PM with 0 comments

• Newton Project

  by ranit8 on 2/21/2012, 4:12 PM with 0 comments

• Google is Facebook is AOL: what happens when a good Google goes bad

  by ranit8 on 2/20/2012, 2:02 PM with 0 comments

• Advanced caching in Rails

  by ranit8 on 2/20/2012, 11:37 AM with 18 comments

• Nessus 5.0 vulnerability scanner

  by ranit8 on 2/18/2012, 2:35 PM with 0 comments

• New DNS Exploitation Technique: Ghost Domain Names

  by ranit8 on 2/18/2012, 12:05 PM with 1 comments

• Detecting auto-answer in videoconference equipment

  by ranit8 on 2/17/2012, 8:16 PM with 0 comments

• LDT: Lua tools for Eclipse or standalone

  by ranit8 on 2/15/2012, 1:02 PM with 0 comments

• An autopsy on compromised phishing websites

  by ranit8 on 2/15/2012, 12:04 PM with 0 comments

• Libguestfs - tool for virtual disk images

  by ranit8 on 2/14/2012, 12:12 PM with 0 comments

• Triple buffering as concurrency mechanism

  by ranit8 on 2/14/2012, 11:48 AM with 0 comments

• TRENDnet IP cameras acessible without authentication

  by ranit8 on 2/11/2012, 1:39 PM with 15 comments

• Introducing the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix, by Canonical

  by ranit8 on 2/11/2012, 1:05 PM with 0 comments

• Researching and documenting censorship

  by ranit8 on 2/9/2012, 9:10 PM with 0 comments

• Working with Dropbox

  by ranit8 on 2/9/2012, 1:51 PM with 0 comments

• Statuscode first issue

  by ranit8 on 2/9/2012, 12:21 AM with 0 comments

• Virtual machines: virtualizing virtual memory

  by ranit8 on 2/7/2012, 1:49 PM with 0 comments

• TPL scripting language

  by ranit8 on 2/7/2012, 11:54 AM with 0 comments

• Memoizing recursive JavaScript functions

  by ranit8 on 2/7/2012, 10:46 AM with 0 comments

• Introduction to OS/2 and Presentation Manager Programming

  by ranit8 on 2/7/2012, 10:25 AM with 1 comments

• Usb Host Controller for Android

  by ranit8 on 2/4/2012, 8:54 PM with 0 comments

• Maps, bimaps, priority queues and multimaps

  by ranit8 on 2/4/2012, 10:50 AM with 0 comments

• Build a Chrome extension with CoffeeScript

  by ranit8 on 2/4/2012, 1:49 AM with 0 comments

• Algorithmic Complexity Attacks and the Linux Networking Code

  by ranit8 on 2/4/2012, 1:37 AM with 1 comments

• Acme::Eyedrops

  by ranit8 on 2/1/2012, 10:59 AM with 0 comments

• How Parents Normalized Teen Password Sharing

  by ranit8 on 1/31/2012, 1:25 AM with 0 comments

• Desurium (Desura game client open sourced)

  by ranit8 on 1/30/2012, 2:56 PM with 0 comments

• Brainfuck interpreter for Windows Phone 7

  by ranit8 on 1/29/2012, 1:27 PM with 0 comments

• Learn Nintendo DS a Haskell

  by ranit8 on 1/29/2012, 12:17 PM with 0 comments

• Simple virtual machine

  by ranit8 on 1/27/2012, 11:36 AM with 6 comments

• Countably uncountable

  by ranit8 on 1/27/2012, 10:38 AM with 0 comments

• Chessudoku

  by ranit8 on 1/25/2012, 1:38 AM with 0 comments

• Try IPython from your browser

  by ranit8 on 1/24/2012, 2:07 PM with 0 comments

• by ranit8 on 1/24/2012, 2:02 PM with comments

• Destructors Considered Harmful

  by ranit8 on 1/20/2012, 1:51 PM with 0 comments

• Analyzing Social Networks on Twitter

  by ranit8 on 1/20/2012, 1:18 PM with 0 comments

• Tor operations security

  by ranit8 on 1/20/2012, 12:52 PM with 0 comments

• You can use backups for things other than restoring

  by ranit8 on 1/19/2012, 6:04 PM with 0 comments

• Embedding Prolog in Haskell (comments from 2012)

  by ranit8 on 1/18/2012, 9:37 PM with 0 comments

• Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part II

  by ranit8 on 1/18/2012, 2:35 PM with 0 comments

• TSA Top Good Catches of 2011

  by ranit8 on 1/18/2012, 1:08 PM with 0 comments

• What is your favorite deep, elegant or beautiful explanation?

  by ranit8 on 1/15/2012, 3:52 PM with 0 comments

• Why drinkers earn more than nondrinkers (2006)

  by ranit8 on 1/15/2012, 1:28 PM with 9 comments

• What is the Big Society Equivalent of Gandalf the White?

  by ranit8 on 1/15/2012, 11:38 AM with 0 comments

• Commercial Users of Functional Programming - Videos 2011

  by ranit8 on 1/15/2012, 9:18 AM with 0 comments

• Who's behind the Koobface botnet?

  by ranit8 on 1/14/2012, 10:46 AM with 0 comments

• First official release of Ceylon IDE

  by ranit8 on 1/14/2012, 9:03 AM with 0 comments

• Sound Toy (WebAudio demo)

  by ranit8 on 1/13/2012, 6:44 PM with 0 comments

• Rules to write a good research paper

  by ranit8 on 1/13/2012, 11:10 AM with 0 comments

• Network server programming with OCaml

  by ranit8 on 1/12/2012, 12:16 PM with 0 comments

• Graphtoy - simple on-line graph visualizer

  by ranit8 on 1/12/2012, 10:44 AM with 0 comments

• Power factor correction (PFC)

  by ranit8 on 1/12/2012, 1:54 AM with 0 comments

• How to write bad documentation that looks good (2003)

  by ranit8 on 1/11/2012, 12:09 PM with 0 comments

• Why Functional Programming Matters

  by ranit8 on 1/11/2012, 12:01 AM with 0 comments

• McCarthy’s recipe for a programming language

  by ranit8 on 1/10/2012, 7:05 PM with 0 comments

• Don't return null; use a tail call

  by ranit8 on 1/10/2012, 10:37 AM with 42 comments

• Analyzing Social Networks on Twitter

  by ranit8 on 1/7/2012, 7:39 PM with 0 comments

• How to parse HTML

  by ranit8 on 1/7/2012, 2:19 PM with 32 comments

• A Programming Idiom You've Never Heard Of - followup

  by ranit8 on 1/7/2012, 12:08 AM with 0 comments

• IDEs are dead. Long live the IDE

  by ranit8 on 1/6/2012, 8:26 PM with 0 comments

• Definitive set of HotSpot performance command-line options

  by ranit8 on 1/6/2012, 1:33 AM with 0 comments

• Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R

  by ranit8 on 1/5/2012, 9:51 PM with 0 comments

• Indie game developer resource list

  by ranit8 on 1/5/2012, 5:42 PM with 0 comments

• Why English is hard to learn

  by ranit8 on 1/5/2012, 1:14 AM with 0 comments

• Anatomy of a scam investigation: all posts

  by ranit8 on 1/4/2012, 11:53 AM with 0 comments

• Filming locations from the past 100 years (Map)

  by ranit8 on 1/3/2012, 11:15 PM with 0 comments

• FreeDOS 1.1 is released

  by ranit8 on 1/3/2012, 3:11 PM with 2 comments

• Fun with pop evolutionary biology

  by ranit8 on 1/3/2012, 2:41 PM with 0 comments

• Smalltalk screencasts

  by ranit8 on 1/3/2012, 12:37 PM with 0 comments

• WarVOX - telephony and VoIP hacking

  by ranit8 on 1/2/2012, 2:37 PM with 0 comments

• The fine art of the Zero Knowledge Proof

  by ranit8 on 1/2/2012, 2:06 PM with 0 comments

• Combinatorics and intuitionism

  by ranit8 on 12/29/2011, 11:00 PM with 0 comments

• Anti-statistical statistic

  by ranit8 on 12/29/2011, 7:57 PM with 0 comments

• Programmer Archeologists

  by ranit8 on 12/29/2011, 1:01 PM with 0 comments

• Daily tagxedo

  by ranit8 on 12/29/2011, 12:28 PM with 0 comments

• Unicode holiday Xmas tree

  by ranit8 on 12/29/2011, 10:00 AM with 0 comments

• Google Maps free alternatives

  by ranit8 on 12/28/2011, 10:17 PM with 0 comments

• Junk Charts

  by ranit8 on 12/28/2011, 1:24 AM with 0 comments

• How Advertising Manipulates Your Choices and Spending Habits

  by ranit8 on 12/26/2011, 1:11 AM with 0 comments

• Encyclopedia of human-computer interaction

  by ranit8 on 12/24/2011, 7:26 PM with 0 comments

• Molecular videos

  by ranit8 on 12/24/2011, 12:47 AM with 0 comments

• by ranit8 on 12/24/2011, 12:35 AM with comments

• 20 heads in a row (improved algorithm)

  by ranit8 on 12/23/2011, 1:23 PM with 1 comments

• Math books released in 2011

  by ranit8 on 12/22/2011, 1:58 PM with 0 comments

• 20 Heads In a Row - What Are the Odds?

  by ranit8 on 12/21/2011, 6:59 PM with 0 comments

• The origin of tech's favorite insult - fanboy

  by ranit8 on 12/14/2011, 12:29 PM with 0 comments

• AltDevBlogADay is down

  by ranit8 on 12/11/2011, 4:07 PM with 0 comments

• Recent Developments in Full Disclosure

  by ranit8 on 12/6/2011, 2:32 PM with 0 comments