A few days ago, I got a call from my girlfriend, Olivia. I was so deep in working on my startup, Parse.ly, that I hadn’t checked my bank account statements in several weeks. We just went into private beta last Thursday, after DreamIt Demo Day.
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server Developer Tools,Code-Named "Juneau": An Introduction to Doing Database Development in a Modern WayIn the SQL Server code-named “Denali” release,SQL Server Developer Tools,code-named "Juneau" will provide a brand-new developer experience for database developers by bringing a familiar Microsoft Visual Studio development paradigm to bear,debug,refactor and maintain your database declaratively,
Winning is the worst thing that can happen in VegasThere’s nothing more appealing than thinking you’re just that good. Our brains are optimized for fondly remembering our successes and quietly downplaying our failures. The casinos in Vegas are primed for this by making it relatively likely you’ll win something early on.
HTML5's missing tag: sarcasmI attended Barcamp Shanghai (Twitter: #barcampsh) at the weekend. It was an entertaining day with talks and demos on a variety of geeky topics. Here's a reproduction of my talk about HTML5's missing tag: <sarcasm>. Let's review the 3 tiers used in modern frontend web development.
Love Hotels and UnicodeOn Sunday 28 October I attended Shanghai Barcamp 9, organised by TechYizu. It was great to catch up with everyone in the local tech scene. Barcamps are "unconferences", meaning anyone can show up without registering, and give a talk on a geeky topic of their choice.
Learning to Generate Mona Lisa, AnimatedThis is a follow-up to my previous post. It shows the learning process over the course of 300 epochs. The neural network being used has 3 hidden layers of 300 rectified linear units.
30 years of TCP-IP-enabled InternetThe first day of the New Year marks a significant anniversary in this history of the Internet: 30 years ago today, on 1 January 1983, the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) changed from NCP to the TCP/IP protocol suite – thus initialising the modern Internet era.
Breaking Murmur: Hash-flooding DoS ReloadedDISCLAIMER: Do not use any of the material presented here to cause harm. I will find out where you live, I will surprise you in your sleep and I will tickle you so hard that you will promise to behave until the end of your days.
Top ten algorithms preprints of 2012Happy new year! As in previous years the growth of the cs.DS section of arXiv.org continues: there were 935 data structures and algorithms preprints this year, compared with 798 in 2011. We're not quite to the point of having 100 papers per month but July came close with 98.
The Process Myth – Rands in ReposeOn the list of ways to generate a guaranteed negative knee-jerk reaction from an engineer, I offer a single word: process. Folks, in order to make sure that we hit our ship date, we have a new bug triage… process.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.