Our machines could become self-aware without our knowing it. We need a better way to define and test for consciousness.
JSF**king ebay (via thedailywtf.com).
Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster.
“Far from being any single inventor’s grand stroke of genius, the modern computer is the result of work by many individuals with disparate motivations over decades. Using as its backdrop an exhibition that ran at the IBM Corporate Exhibit Center between 1971 and 1975, this classic 1972 short documentary by the legendary husband-and-wife design team Charles and Ray Eames explores how shifting economic pressures and small-scale breakthroughs drove the development of modern computing and the information age.”
From SVG to icon font and back.
“GitHub.com no longer delivers its icons via icon font. Instead, we’ve replaced all the Octicons throughout our codebase with SVG alternatives. While the changes are mostly under-the-hood, you’ll immediately feel the benefits of the SVG icons.”
“Personally, I'm increasing the use of SVG symbols in my projects, and avoiding icon fonts when it's possible.“
“If you can go IE 9+ / Android 3+, inline SVG is better at pretty much everything than icon fonts.”
Ten reasons Lonelyplanet.com switched from an icon font to SVG.
“(…) ‘magic’ in programming is often performed under the guise of productivity. In this post, we’ll look at what defines a magical programming experience for better or worse.”
One device, multiple platforms.
MaruOS: Your phone is now your PC.
NexDock: Turn your Smartphone into a Laptop.
São Paolo’s Secret Vegetation Invasion – and five other stories from outside your news bubble.
How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub.