Colors are perhaps the visual property that people most often misuse in visualization without being aware of it. Variations of the rainbow colormap are very popular, and at the same time the most problematic and misleading.
Visualizing AlgorithmsJune 26, 2014Mike BostockVisualizing Algorithms The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated… The real powers come from devising external aids that enhance cognitive abilities. —Donald Norman Algorithms are a fascinating use case for visualization.
Please Calculate This Circle’s CircumferenceIt sounds like the sort of question you might get in the first week of a C++ programming class. And yet. This question is filled with subtlety if you dig into it. Let’s try some solutions.
Raising Lazarus - The 20 Year Old Bug that Went to MarsTwenty Years Old It's rare that you come across a bug so subtle that it can last for two decades. But, that's exactly what has happened with the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) algorithm.
Debunking the LZ4 "20 years old bug" mythA recent post on a security blog has claimed that LZ4 is affected by a subtle bug which could result in remote code execution on basically any machine using LZ4 algorithm.
OpenRoss - fast, scalable, on-demand image resizerThe OpenRoss image proxy service provides a way of serving dynamically resized images from Amazon S3 in a way that is fast, efficient, and auto-scales with traffic. We have hosted the source for this service at Github.
Top 10 Java Developers for Hire in Sep. 2014Today, nearly 20 years after its initial launch, Java is reported to be the most in-demand language skill, and by a wide margin (twice as popular as the runner up, PHP). With Java usage being so pervasive, there is no shortage of developers with Java listed on their resumes.
The Simpsons in CSSBelow are some Simpsons characters made in pure CSS - Made by Chris Pattle.
Chris PattleSimpsons in CSS I put a side project on Github the other day, Simpsons in CSS. CSS is becoming more and more powerful and often with a bit of though you can replace basic graphics with CSS. The advantages of this are obviously better performance and graphics that scale.
DEC64: Decimal Floating PointDEC64 is a number type. It can precisely represent decimal fractions with 16 decimal places, which makes it well suited to all applications that are concerned with money. It can represent values as large as 3.6028797018963968E+143 or as small as 1.
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.