March 2012
107 posts
“knowing what other middle managers are working on encourages petty infighting...”
– Extreme compartmentalization prevents the main pain points of working in a large… | Hacker News @bri3d
“Designers are treated like royalty at Apple, where the entire product conforms...”
– How Apple’s Top Secret Product Development Process Works /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3647905
“The goal of USE is to complete a quick check of server health, identifying...”
– Brendan’s blog » The USE Method “Utilization Saturation and Errors” performance method /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3650027
February 2012
87 posts
“computers are “radically novel.” Meaning that no metaphor to previous technology...”
– Dijkstras view /via All your metaphors about computers are wrong | scaramanga /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3647329
“The use case for this proposal is to meet the needs of the educational community...”
– Submission of draft education terms (LRMI) for discussion from Greg Grossmeier on 2012-02-28 (public-vocabs@w3.org from February 2012)
The latest version (0.7) is available at:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LRMI/Properties
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LRMI/UseCases
...
We started requiring code reviews for everything,... →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3644110
linux - Runnig OS functions with modified... →
“It does seem disgustingly easy, but once you move from “getting” the...”
– The uncanny valley of web scraping | Hacker News
“While extracting most of the content with a bit of cruft works perfectly well...”
– The uncanny valley of web scraping | Zemanta Ltd. /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3642774
“In order to model long-term investments, you need to use Monte Carlo techniques...”
– DSHR’s Blog: Talk at PDA2012
Google Prediction API — Google Developers →
cloud based machine learning tools /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3639746
“The goal of listening to customers is not please every one of them. It’s to...”
– Killing Your Startup By Listening to Customers « Steve Blank /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3638896
“Established by statute in 1878, UC Hastings is governed by a Board of Directors....”
– Faculty & Administration (emp. original)
“Hastings College of the Law, created in affiliation with the University of...”
– University of California and UC Hastings (emp. mine)
“the data and code used to generate a figure could be bundled with the figure...”
– Nature Editorial: If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636618
InfoQ: WebSockets versus REST? →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636681
Archival Resource Key →
http://ark.cdlib.org/
WebSchemas/SchemaDotOrgProposals - W3C Wiki →
a fairly comprehensive list of schema.org-related extension proposals.
This document is long and dense. Do I have to read it?
No, it usually just works.
“mod_cache is now capable of serving stale cached data when a backend is...”
– Overview of new features in Apache HTTP Server 2.4 - Apache HTTP Server
“In real life these systems take a long time to develop, run slowly and cost...”
– williamedwardscoder Cogs Bad: /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3620712
“development within DepositMO of a DropBox-style client for a digital repository....”
– DepositMO extensions for SWORDv2 clients – Modus Operandi for Repository Deposits
“At the end of 2011, the International Association of Scientific, Technical and...”
– A thorn in the side for science publishers
Watch(via Designing better user interfaces) /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3602640
“When the tasks are expected to last for many days, weeks, or months, then...”
– Mechanical Turk vs oDesk: My experiences - A Computer Scientist in a Business School
Use something like this to replace the old feed of UC websites we used to get from LII?
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3608548
pagedown - A JavaScript Markdown converter and... →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3608532 used by stack overflow
“The goal is to allow people who work with big data to stop worrying about...”
– The Julia Language /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3606380
Welcome — LOD2 – Creating Knowledge out of... →
Interesting goal, can knowledge be created?
“For many, learning a new style of entry was a small price to pay to be able to...”
– HP Calculator Museum # Why Did/Does HP Use RPN?
“What’s powerful about mobile devices is that they exist to complement what we...”
– The New Interface Is There Is No interface | TightWind /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3605010
“Provides compatibility shims so that legacy JavaScript engines behave as closely...”
– kriskowal/es5-shim - GitHub
“Requirements should be the simplest, most understandable description of a system...”
– How to write good requirments | Atomic Spin /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3603551
Java SE Development Kit 6u31 Downloads →
The Licenses Service - an API for Open Licenses -... →
A Decade of Open Access (And the Challenges Ahead)... →
“Start an instance on an internal cloud, then with the same code start another on...”
– Deltacloud | Many Clouds. One API. No Problem.
1 tag
Indiana University President's Office... →
Cool viewer for objects in archival collections.
“A booktype is like a wiki, but instead of ending up with a web page you get a...”
– sourcefabric/Booktype - GitHub /via slashdot
“Don’t fall in love with your technology […]. If it gives you an...”
– Don’t Fall in Love With Your Technology /via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597304
Qualys SSL Labs - Projects / SSL Server Test /... →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3598153
2 tags
* { box-sizing: border-box } FTW « Paul Irish →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3598500
Social Networks and Archival Context Fall 2011 -... →
“The CoUL responds to the introduction of HR3699, The Research Works Act (RWA),...”
– UC Libraries: University Librarians and Systemwide Operations
2 tags
“
Annotate Anything
Now you can Annotate any web page simply by...”
– Home - AnnotateIt - Annotating the Web
“Ember is a JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications that...”
– Ember.js - Documentation
004 JSJ Backbone.js with Jeremy Ashkenas [podcast] →
/via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3587689
“Ice is a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is...”
– http://NYTimes.github.com/ice/demo/
Connecting Archival Collections: The Social... →
these guys have pretty good SEO