Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/14
Great music. Still a few hours left: Why De La Soul Is Giving Away All of Its Music for Free – Businessweek.
All you are required to do is sign-up on their mailing list. They will then send you an email with links to download each album individually. Afterwards, you can unsubscribe if you’d like.
Be sure to read the comments at De La Soul to Make Entire Catalog Available for Free | Hacker News, as there are various reasons they published it this way.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/10/21
If you recognize this picture
3.5 inch floppy disk (top side)
then you likely love this FloppyTable designed and created by Neulant van Exel and made of 2 kinds of welded steel:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/20
Came accross the Chemistry Cat jokes on quickmeme, some of which are more generic science jokes than chemistry ones.
The ones I like most:
How often do you like chemistry jokes?
Periodically
What to do with a sick chemist?
If you can’t helium, and
you can’t curium then
you might as well barium.
I studied exothermic reactions
before they were cool.
Blew my chemistry experiment
Oxidents happen
Is silicon the same in Spanish
Si
Neutron wants to pay tab
Bartender: no charge for you
Chemistry jokes
are elemental
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/22
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/11
Don’t increase your Windows Timer Resolution. And keep an eye on programs that do:
Raising the Windows timer frequency is bad. It wastes power and makes your computer slower. Routinely doing this in all sorts of programs that end up sitting idle for hours really needs to stop.
You can use ClockRes to monitor the time resolution and what programs changed it.
–jeroen
via: Windows Timer Resolution: Megawatts Wasted | Random ASCII.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/09
A decade ago, Lenovo had top-notch IPS displays with (back then high) DPI of 133 in some of their laptops called FlexView and FFS.
The IPS ThinkPad history is this: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/27
Once every while you come across a post that is so good, you add another feed to your RSS list. This time I added Su-Shee’s posts,
Quote from: A constant source of confusion: Simplicity.
what is it really about all this simplicity stuff
It is a post about IT development. Teams. Platforms. Tools. Frameworks. Etc.
Striking a balance to keep things simple enough to be manageable is always key and her examples are just great!
–jeroen
via: A constant source of confusion: Simplicity.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/07
Just came across this: Astronaut Chris Hadfield: how to take photos from the ISS
Great stuff!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/07
It is such a pity that StackOverflow is not the place any more for questions like these:
c# – What’s the hardest or most misunderstood aspect of LINQ? – Stack Overflow.
These questions and answers historically got me most of the insight from SO.
Alas, no more.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/27
graphics – How can this image be created with Mathematica? – Mathematica Stack Exchange.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 