20+ Tools to Create Your Own Infographics
http://goo.gl/VGOEq #doqc #opendata #do101
/v @DO101Mtl @thomfound

... Big Data, cloud computing and mobile are all intimately connected to open source.  Hence, it's not surprising that of the top-10 tech skills in demand on Indeed.com, listed in order of how fast these keywords are growing in online job postings, six of them are explicitly open source :

1.HTML5
2.MongoDB
3.iOS
4.Android
5.Mobile app
6. Puppet
7. Hadoop
8. JQuery
9. PaaS
10. Social Media

http://goo.gl/2e0rO

#Git  for  #Functional  programmers
#functionalprogramming  for #GitUsers  

Currently reading free ebook on #GraphDataBases


http://graphdatabases.com/


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The NOSQL Phenomenon
3. Graphs and Connected Data
4. Working with Graph Data
5. Graph Databases
6. Working with a Graph Database
7. Graph Data in the Real World
8. Predictive Analysis with Graph Theory

Ice Cream Sandwich is the current version of Android (version I). #ICS #K4Kouign
Next version will start with a K.
+Eric Schmidt is asking for suggestions.
+Mathias Herberts just started a proposal to lobby for Kouign-Amann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kouign-amann
Support this proposal by retweeting.

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Perhaps we need both true innovators and vulgarisators? However we should get rid of patent brokers ASAP.

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Image is enough! In my opinion C is way more important that any Apple device.(that's using C).

What motivation do I have as a programmer(I am not saying that I am a good one) to do dope shit? Not even credits!

If you do something useful and open source everybody loves it but you still don't have money nor reputation.


If you do something useful and closed source everybody loves it but you have money and reputation.

If society is driven on non valuable values every individual follows and ...

Multiple Inheritance?

Amazing letters game
 /via @Know: This is mind blowing.

#OpenAccess   #ScientificPublishing  

Move a pile of obsolete language manuals to the incinerator

#GoLang presentation by +Rob Pike

Why #Concurrency is not #Parallelism

http://goo.gl/IIkp6

#Samsung & #SamsungMobile look really strange:
Twitting announcements for Galaxy from an iPhone!

/v @iLaurent +Tugdual Grall

#Programming  

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The truth is scary...

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Nice animated GIF /v +Dirk Deridder 

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How a key works.  That's the best use of an animated GIF that I have ever seen. Now I'm off to my lock-picking class.

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#vim #emacs #visualstudios #learningcurves
If you find this hilarious I congratulate you

Great selection of data visualization tools: say goodbye to bar charts!

/v +Pau Giner

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#QuantumComputing  

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In line with our short discussion yesterday about quantum mechanics.

#scienceeveryday   #sciencememe  +Memetic Engineering 

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#InsectDrone  

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The servant oppressing it's master and maker:
Is this a mosquito? No. It's an insect spy drone for urban areas, already in production, funded by the US Government. It can be remotely controlled and is equipped with a camera and a microphone. It can land on you, and it may have the potential to take a DNA sample or leave RFID tracking nanotechnology on your skin. It can fly through an open window, or it can attach to your clothing until you take it in your home. Given their propensity to request macro-sized drones for surveillance, one is left with little doubt that police and military may look into these gadgets next.

And for all you who automatically say "fake" because you don't think your glorious government is funding this... do some research.

Source: http://is.gd/Uy5DJT
Actual research paper: http://is.gd/1UcubI
Actual footage: http://is.gd/wYN00X
Another source: http://is.gd/0sVVAS
And another: http://is.gd/u5DC9s

#ProgrammingParadigms  
/v +Paul Klint 

The "Orange Algorithm" they say ...

http://goo.gl/kjunb

/v +Debasish Ghosh @debasishg
An open source book on Algorithmic Graph Theory
http://goo.gl/5yd6s


Contents:

Introduction to Graph Theory
Graphs and digraphs
Subgraphs and other graph types
Representing graphs as matrices
Isomorphic graphs
New graphs from old
Common applications
Application: finite automata
Graph Algorithms
Representing graphs in a computer
Graph searching
Weights and distances
Dijkstra's algorithm
Bellman-Ford algorithm
Floyd-Roy-Warshall algorithm
Johnson's algorithm
Trees and Forests
Definitions and examples
Properties of trees
Minimum spanning trees
Binary trees
Huffman codes
Tree traversals
Tree Data Structures
Priority queues
Binary heaps
Binomial heaps
Binary search trees
AVL trees
Distance and Connectivity
Paths and distance
Vertex and edge connectivity
Ford-Fulkerson theorem
Menger’s Theorem
Whitney’s Theorem
Centrality of a vertex
Network reliability
Optimal Graph Traversals
Eulerian graphs
Hamiltonian graphs
The Chinese Postman Problem
The Traveling Salesman Problem
Planar Graphs
Planarity and Euler's Formula
Kuratowski's Theorem
Planarity algorithms
Graph Coloring
Vertex coloring
Edge coloring
Applications of graph coloring
Network Flows
Flows and cuts
Ford and Fulkerson's theorem
Edmonds and Karp's algorithm
Goldberg and Tarjan's algorithm
Random Graphs
Network statistics
Binomial random graph model
Erdos-Renyi model
Small-world networks
Scale-free networks
Graph Problems and Their LP Formulations
Maximum average degree
Traveling Salesman Problem
Edge-disjoint spanning trees
Steiner tree
Linear arboricity
Acyclic edge coloring
H-minor

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#Git   #TryGit  

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A nice interactive web tutorial on trying and learning Git!
Very nicely executed!

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#SoftwareEngineering

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http://www.bonkersworld.net/building-software/ #cartoon

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If this was a program, rather than just gravity, it would be way less cool.
via +Jake Gross

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In doing this, New Zealand is essentially taking the position that existing laws provides enough protection to software as it is; patents only serve to stifle innovation because of the ever-looming threat of being sued by so-called patent troll companies.
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#DataViz  

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Thanks. Nice summary.
Apparently there is some consensus on GWT is dead?
No mention of GoogleTV
No much mention of ChromeBook either. It this ChromeBook still important in Google Cloud strategy?

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The last session of the Google Developer Day 2011 Berlin just ended. As a brief summary these are the key impressions I took from today:

Judging from the keynote, Android and Google+ are the two focus products most strongly promoted by Google at the moment. Of course, the web (with Chrome Browser and HTML5) ist still an important topic, too. The now released in earnest Google AppEngine got its fair share of promotion, too.

Google, the geeky technology company, has finally discovered the importance of good User Experience (remember stuff like the UI of AdWords?). Many of the speakers kept reiterating how crucial UX is. A nice insight by +Mike West: The time of the functionality behemoths (like MS Word) seems to be finally coming to an end with the shift to smaller applications (aka “Apps”) on mobile devices and in the web that focus on solving a small problem space really well. Providing in some cases gorgeous UIs, that are a selling point of their own. - And that users might come to expect after decades of suffering. :-)

Dart is to be watched. If this project takes flight, it will almost certainly replace GWT (see below). And things like CoffeeScript might quickly lose traction, with a neat language that effectively compiles to Javascript and has native implementations on popular browsers.

In the long run, GWT is dead: No single mention in the sessions I visited, apart from (anxious) questions by visitors of the Dart session. Google’s Dart advocate asked about Dart’s relation to GWT underlining that many former GWT developers are now working on Dart is telling, I guess.

Google (like other companies) is working hard on enabling small companies or even individuals to launch and monetize new cloud services and applications with a minimum effort (and risk). And earning their share in doing so (Google App Engine, BigQuery, Chrome Web Store, In App purchases, Google AdSense for games, etc.). In part, this is somewhat backporting the experience of the mobile app economy into the web space.

Whether it’s app or web, nowadays it has become extremely difficult to bypass Google (in contrast thinking back just 3 years, when there was no Chrome and no Android to mention).

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#OOP  

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Is OOP dead?

OOP has been eliminated from the introductory CS curriculum at Carnegie-Mellon-University (CMU) in favor of an introductory course to functional programming. They say that OOP "is eliminated entirely from the introductory curriculum, because it is both anti-modular and anti-parallel by its very nature, and hence unsuitable for a modern CS curriculum". And this is but one of the many criticisms of OOP.

http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/teaching-fp-to-freshmen/

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#WindPower

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BRILLIANT and AT LAST : )

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Tautochrone curves
Drop a ball on this curve and it'll reach the bottom in the same amount of time, no matter where you drop it.

A tautochrone is the curve for which the time taken by an object sliding without friction in uniform gravity to its lowest point is independent of its starting point. The time is equal to π times the square root of the radius over the acceleration of gravity.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautochrone #math #physics

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#UNIX #C

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Goodbye Dennis Ritchie

{ RIP( dennis_ritchie ); }

Author of C, co-author of one of the best guides to a programming language that I've ever read The C Programming Language, not to mention his work on Unix, he was hugely important to the development of modern computing.

I'll leave you with this quote from the great man:

"UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity."

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html

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This is an important problem that should not be hidden. Many scientists (outside computer science) are still using Fortran and strongly believe that software engineering has made no progress in 50 years.

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Scientists make terrible software engineers [1]

Every once in awhile I run across some code written by a scientist. It's pretty terrible.

I get it, of course. Usually the code they write is just a tool to support their research in some manner, not an end in and of itself. The problem with this is that inevitably someone else has to use it.

In my ideal world, scientists would be paired with software engineers to make their code maintainable, readable, and optimized. One big benefit to this would be when peers are trying to reproduce the scientist's work they could actually figure out what the hell the code is actually trying to do.

[1] Sweeping generalizations make great headlines. I think I'll use them throughout this post.

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#ChromeBook   #Ubuntu  

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I flipped the developer switch on my $249 Chromebook, downloaded crouton, typed in a few commands, waited several minutes, and now I'm running a full version of Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS.

My Chromebook is no longer just a content-consumption device, as I now have access to the full suite of GNU/Linux programs that I'm already used to using. I immediately installed Emacs, GCC, gEDA, and a cross-compiler so I can use it to design circuit boards and program microcontrollers.

There is no dual booting involved, nor am I paying the performance/memory hit of running an entire OS in a virtual machine (it shares its kernel with Chrome OS). The Chromebook still cold boots in just a few seconds, wakes from sleep instantly, and receives its updates like normal. Chrome OS handles the network, power management, and other hardware like a champ, the only difference being that if I want to do something more than just surf the web, I can hold down a few keys, and instantly switch between Chrome OS and Ubuntu.

I can't believe that I ever considered buying an expensive MacBook Air and installing GNU/Linux on it, when for just the price of the AppleCare Protection Plan alone, I was able to buy an entire (brand new) laptop that got me the same end result with minimal effort.

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We all perceive the world differently...

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#GoogleFunctionPlotter #Batman

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Batman equation done with the Google function plotter. Find the live demonstration here: http://goo.gl/QTzAq. All you need to do is, adjust the axis.

Thanks to +Axel Freyn for the input.

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One picture says a lot. Plenty of examples come to mind.

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#diferencias

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Excellent

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Es gibt doch Ähnlichkeiten ...

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I guess this guy had to run after the picture...

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A classic from xkcd...

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'cause they both play the wideos! #boycottapple  

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via +Hans-Martin Mosner #SaveTheBankers

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#Nostalgia

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This has been making the rounds but I think it's great :) If you don't know the connection between these two, well, then you weren't around in the 80s :)

#GitHub  for beginners

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Yet another #MVC  alternative. 

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Slides for "Go at Google"
+Rob Pike's keynote at SPLASH #Tucson  #Splash12
#GoLang  

Peer review doesn't work any more. What could be the alternative?

Another interesting Guardian article :
"By and large, the problem does not arise from outright fraud, which is rare. It arises from official pressure to publish when you have nothing to say."

http://goo.gl/et1kl

http://goo.gl/UfUIO
#Ifihadglass  
I would suggest to #Google not to restrict the applications to USA only. 
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Are we still in March or already in April?

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haHA! Now isn't that the truth!

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#Wireless everywhere

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Oh this new wireless technology :)

#GoogleReader  

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#ControlOfInternetSpeech

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/v +Jim Wilson 

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#Truth  +1 and share if you agree!

http://sixpacktech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/comic-15.jpeg

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Thanks for sharing. Very useful

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Nice layout. 
What is the social scheme behind this organization?
Very different from a main street village.

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UNIQUE URBAN PLANNING IN DENMARK

It looks great, but there is no garage and the parking is limited. Not loving it.

via http://onebigphoto.com/unique-urban-planning-in-denmark/

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OUTPOURING OF EMOTION: A powerful combination of earlier communication format with today's capability to spread a message: People are writing their stories, taking a photo and sharing them at the tumblog http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/ At this point there are 83 posted. One wrote, "The middle class should be considered TOO BIG TO FAIL. We are the 99%."

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So true.

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Thought for the day.

America's scientist surplus *

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#Google   #ChromeBookPixel  

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That summarizes Google's Chromebook Pixel.
Don't get me wrong... Pixel is a true beauty.
All she needs is an OS, a real one.

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Imperative vs. Declarative Programming again

Humorous Programming Language Debate  "Erlang The Movie II: The Sequel"

Erlang The Movie II: The Sequel

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Scientific publications are some of the most outrageously expensive pieces of literature you can buy We should repeat this again and again in order to convince some academic institutions to move.

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Very good story and I really agree that the model of publishing in science should be redesigned. It is just wrong:

"Academic publishing is an odd system — the authors are not paid for their writing, nor are the peer reviewers (they’re just more unpaid academics), and in some fields even the journal editors are unpaid. Sometimes the authors must even pay the publishers.
And yet scientific publications are some of the most outrageously expensive pieces of literature you can buy. In the past, the high access fees supported the costly mechanical reproduction of niche paper journals, but online distribution has mostly made this function obsolete."

Wholse text on:

http://gigaom.com/2011/07/21/pirate-bay-jstor/

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Hilarious
Sarkhollande: They call them Dupont and Dupond
/v +Jean-Michel Billaut

Hilarious
Very well observed

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Why does Google need a new language (Dart)?

1. as a "Get out of Jail Free" card in the Oracle lawsuit http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/16/us-oracle-google-lawsuit-idUSTRE75F6DI20110616
2. so Google can control its own destiny
3. to provide a single, unfied language across all its platforms: GAE, Chrome, and Android
4. because so many people religiously hate Java
5. because after 15 years, Java is showing its age (see Clojure, Scala, JRuby, JPython, etc)
6. because so many people religiously hate Javascipt
7. because as a language, Javascript is an abomination unto man
8. because Javascript doesn't support threads, and therefore can't easily take advantage of multicore, the now dominent axis for chip growth
9. no other language works well on the client, server, and mobile, except maybe Lua (which isn't enough like C)
10. because "We don't just reinvent the wheel. we vulcanize our own rubber" according to V8/Dart guru +Ivan Posva

#OpenResearch #OpenInnovation #OpenData

All scientific research funded by British taxpayers will be made available online free of charge

The British government even intends a website, to be named Gateway to Research, to eventually incorporate research funded by other bodies.

This is a real progress. Hope that countries like France still following an opaque model of resarch with agencies like #ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) will have a new look at their current practices.

Also this will hopefully put some pressure on Brussels to open the results of all the EEC funded projects.

http://goo.gl/qIZUp

/v +Paul Klint

I need to Cloudwash our software

We don't care what smart people think, there aren't that many of them
 

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I am impressed. And in Europe we are rapidly going in the same direction.

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Changing times: * OK, what would you like to know? *

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Kids today

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If your brain works normally

This is another example of an amazing illusion!!! The last sentence is so true.

If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, the dots will remain only one color, pink.

However if you stare at the black '+ ' in the center, the moving dot turns to green.
Now, concentrate on the black ' + ' in the center of the picture. After a short period, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will see only a single green dot rotating.

It's amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. This should be proof enough, we don't always see what we think we see.
Reshare this to all of your friends and amaze them.

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Excellent trick. Thanks Dragan. Going to change all my passwords to "incorrect". Makes life much simpler.

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How to remember a password

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#Circle

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rara! nice!!

#diagram

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Patented Emotions http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/08/17/patented-emotions/

Hey Larry Ellison from Oracle, do you hear this?

Oracle Corporation: Stop bundling Ask Toolbar with the Java installer

http://goo.gl/GH7tj

#Java   #AskToolBar  #Ask.com #Oracle 

This is bad publicity for #Java  and #Oracle 

Scala is increasingly being used by Java developers as a "Better Java"

http://goo.gl/j1QKv

(Link via +martin odersky)

http://goo.gl/UrYl

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Animated Engines. A fascinating site that shows interactively how twenty-one different engines work.

* Is University of Florida choosing football over science? *
/v +Dragan Gasevic

#GalaxySIII #Samsung
/v +Alain Regnier

Petition to the Oracle Corporation:


Stop bundling Ask Toolbar with the Java installer

http://goo.gl/zSkfg

/v +Dragan Gasevic 

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The Real Me

This is how I hang out on Google+ :) How about you?

Abstraction is the power of stating with precision (1) which elements you want to consider and (2) which elements you want to ignore (or to "abstract out") in the observation of a given system at a given timepoint, for a given purpose.

Thanks for +Antonio Vallecillo for reminding the quote from Edsger W. Dijkstra: the purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise [1]

[1] Edsger W. Dijkstra: "The Humble Programmer "ACM Turing Lecture 1972.
http://goo.gl/QAB3t

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http://rixstep.com/1/20130131,00.shtml

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Amazing

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O.O what did you see ?

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The secret to humor is surprise.

DataScience

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#iOS   #Android  

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Apple takes an epic dig at Android:

"80% of iOS devices are running the latest OS. On Android, only 7% are running the latest"

Ouch! That is going to hurt. 

#wwdc2012   #wwdc   #apple  

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India Protest !

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PLUG IT ON THE WINDOW.
Brilliant idea!

The Window Socket offers a neat way to harness solar energy and use it as a plug socket. So far we have seen solutions that act as a solar battery backup, but none as a direct plug-in. Simple in design, the plug just attaches to any window and does its job intuitively.


Designers: Kyuho Song & Boa Oh
Via http://www.yankodesign.com/2013/04/26/plug-it-on-the-window

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#solarenergy   #engineering   #coolideasaroundtheworld   #invention   #greenliving   #greenenergy  

Best Paper Awards in Computer Science:
http://goo.gl/Z97IN

/v +Lincoln Rocha

Institutions with Best Papers:

Carnegie Mellon University 19.8
Microsoft Research 19.0
University of Washington 17.3
Stanford University 17.1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 13.3
Cornell University 9.9
University of California Berkeley 9.9
University of Toronto 9.4
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8.3
IBM Research 7.9
University of British Columbia 7.8
University of Texas at Austin 7.4
University of Oxford 6.2
Georgia Institute of Technology 5.8
Weizmann Institute of Science 4.5
Yahoo! Research 4.4
McGill University 4.4
University of Maryland 4.3
AT&T Laboratories 4.1
University of California Irvine 4.0
Google 3.4
Brown University 3.3

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