- Why GNU grep is fast.
“Hi Gabor, I am the original author of GNU grep. …”
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- xkcd: So It Has Come To This.
Sometimes xkcd is just great.
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- A Year of Links.
This fellow has created (pretty nice looking) books out of his pinboard links.
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- Betsy Megas's answer to What does it feel like to have your spouse die?
You can ask all sorts of questions on Quora. This is all kinds of sad, especially if you know someone who has passed away from cancer.
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- Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire.
Some great reporting from the Verge on the rise and fall of RIM from its spot as the king of smartphones.
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- Safari Trackers.
Google (and some other advertising companies) have got in some hot water over the fact they were circumventing the privacy settings of people using Safari (which defaults to not accepting 3rd party cookies). The follow-up to this article is also well worth reading, as it shoots down a lot of the PR coming from Google and from its defenders. Daring Fireball also has a good response to this story.
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- IN STORE: Art and Crisis in Windsor Ontario.
Angry Robot is making a movie.
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- HTTP Status Codes.
Does what it says on the box.
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- Scar-bro? - MindSweeP
[42 Division is] the safest division in the city; this division includes north Scarborough. The safest part of Toronto is north Scarborough from Victoria Park Ave. to the Pickering border, north of Highway 401.
All about people’s distorted view of the greatest suburb in Toronto.
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- Matthew Avignone – Stranger Than Family.
Avignone has been photographing his (interesting) family, and the results are quite good.
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- John Nash’s Letter to the NSA.
This is really interesting. Nash discusses all sorts of things in this letter that are way ahead of their time.
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- TTC transit chief Gary Webster may not be only one to lose job.
There are lots of councillors on our city council that need to go, but at the top of that list should be: Denzil Minnan-Wong, Cesar Palacio, Norm Kelly, Frank Di Giorgio and Vincent Crisanti. It will be a big loss to the city if we lose Webster. He’s been working at the TTC for 35 years, and is well regarded in the industry. (That is to say that you should be calling up Rob Ford and complaining about all of this.)
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- There's no need to panic over factorable keys—just mind your Ps and Qs.
A good discussion of the recent discovery that we have been generating some shitty RSA key-pairs.
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- 17×17 4-coloring with no monochromatic rectangles.
This is a pretty interesting problem that I had not heard about before. Basically, can you colour a 17×17 grid so that any 4 points you pick that form a rectangle don’t all share the same colour.
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- Kain vs. Cecil.
This is epic.
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- The Holiday Crowd pen a love letter to Scarborough, Canada.
The one track I’ve listened to thus far has been very enjoyable.
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