January 2012
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Santorum: Annul all same-sex marriages
It’s been well-established that Rick Santorum is a piece of shit, so I was surprised this morning to watch this new MSNBC interview in which he lays out the case for federal marriage equality:
Marriage has to be one thing for everybody. You can’t have 50 different marriage laws in this country. You have to have one marriage law. You can’t go to one state and be married and...
December 2011
3 posts
November 2011
4 posts
Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a... →
Very detailed breakdown of the UX and design decisions and strategies. (via TUAW)
October 2011
7 posts
The Typewriter (In The 21st Century) →
Video and details on a Kickstarter campaign for a new documentary about the movement to preserve the classic typewriter.
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September 2011
6 posts
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Cheap Kindle Good
When Amazon announced the new Kindles yesterday, I bought the $79 Incredibly Basic Kindle with Ads. I wanted the absolute dumbest device possible so I wouldn’t be tempted to do anything with it other than read books. (I already have an iPad 2, which I adore, but is more work-and-play than reading device.)
The Kindle came today. It’s ridiculously light, and really is as thin as a...
Tip 4: Move the Photographer’s Eyes to the Lens Looking into a camera lens...
– Shalom Harlow has very good advice here on how to be photographed.
And so, here’s a new problem that has surfaced since everything has...
– Bryan Safi: Bravo, Patti Stanger!
August 2011
5 posts
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
9 posts
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Euler in CoffeeScript, problem 4
Problem 4 reads:
A palindromic number reads the same both ways. The largest palindrome made from the product of two 2-digit numbers is 9009 = 91 99.
Find the largest palindrome made from the product of two 3-digit numbers.
Felt like a safe bet that the three-digit number would be in the 900s.
I’m sure there’s a mathematical way to flip a number, but I already...
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Euler in CoffeeScript, problem 3
Problem 3 reads:
The prime factors of 13195 are 5, 7, 13 and 29.
What is the largest prime factor of the number 600851475143 ?
This is where the Euler problems started getting extra math-y.
I remember prime numbers from junior high school, but I never really grokked them. I was certain there were helpful rules for finding them, but I didn’t want to do a lot of...
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Euler in CoffeeScript, problem 2
The problem reads:
Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be:
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, …
By considering the terms in the Fibonacci sequence whose values do not exceed four million, find the sum of the even-valued terms.
Pushing and popping were my first instinct,...
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Euler in Coffeescript
I’m working my way through the classic Project Euler problems using CoffeeScript, my new favorite language.
Problem 1 reads:
If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23.
Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000.
I’m making two lists and totaling them. It’s not...
On Palin and Paul Revere
daveholmes writes:
I tweeted a joke about Sarah Palin’s hasty book report of an answer about Paul Revere’s significance, because I am a human being and therefore could not resist, and I have gotten my share of pushback from her fans. “She was right,” they tell me, “Paul Revere did warn the British!” Terrific.
But consider a hypothetical:
Let’s say you’re talking to a new friend. Let’s say,...
Greenpoint Gazette:An Open Letter from Eugene... →
/via @bethshax
May 2011
9 posts
The Girl Who Fixed the... →
By Nora Ephron, no less. It’s old, but new to me.
The secret behind all modern trailers →
Thanks Todd Stein for the heads up.
Grouponomics →
Felix Salmon looks at how Groupon makes money for itself and retailers, restaurants in particular. I agree that OpenTable is really well positioned to wedge its way in here, particularly in cities like LA where it’s ubiquitous.
Text Editor Intervention →
chipotle:
“Don’t write a text editor; you’re reinventing fire.” — Ben Straub As I’ve mentioned here before, I’ve been a TextMate user for the last few years, albeit increasingly reluctantly. TM has always been a mix of sheer brilliance and stone cold stupid, and while the former outweighs the latter,…
April 2011
6 posts
It seems clear to me Boehner would much rather be doing something else, but even...
– David Link on the DOMA Battle