I've been reading some 10K forms recently. They are, to put it mildly, dry (like Kissinger Dry but without the occasionally and awkwardly worded sex joke). However the fixed and rigid format of them is somehow pleasing. Don't get intimidated! I have found it especially helpful to read a 10k report of a company you don't really know along something that you do. I've been using eBay's 2007 10K form as my Rosetta stone.
YouTube - Firefox 3.5 Treats Videos Like Web Pages
Topic: Miscellaneous
10:11 pm EDT, Jun 9, 2009
Firefox 3.5 Treats Videos Like Web Pages
... ... WOW! I would expect something like this with Silverlight, but being able to do this all with just HTML and JavaScript is amazing! And this dawning generation of browsers isn't running your momma's JavaScript. Here a graph on SunSpider performance benchmarks which looks at benchmarks world JavaScript scenarios like walking a graph, crypto, string ops, etc.
Got their album off of Amazon MP3 a month or so ago but really haven't been listening til today. Nice and Mellow. This guy's voice reminds me of Bruce Springsteen.
This animated map provides a striking visual of employment trends over the last business cycle using net change in jobs from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on a rolling 12-month basis.
Don't miss this short animation which provides a clear view of job growth and contraction across the USA in the past few years. You can mouse over the regions for job loss numbers. I don't know about Munich, but Atlanta has certainly been hit hard. The job losses here meet or exceed that of much larger cities. I didn't realize it was that bad here.
Company makes hosting software. Hosting software has 0day SQL Injection. Hackers exploit an entire hosting provider running the software and destroys 100,000 websites, 1/2 of which have no backups (shit!). Software CEO commits suicide.
We're speaking, of course, of the first-ever guidance system baked into the US Minuteman 1 nuclear missile. Maximum portability: about 9,700 km (6,000 mi). Target demographic: Commies.
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Atomic explosions in the atmosphere can disrupt radio communications. Missiles at the time were controlled by ground-based computers, so huge amounts of radio interference made America's ability to direct a second volley of fission sandwiches unreasonably hard. And on the other side of such an exchange, not being able to control your rockets can make mutual assured destruction up to 50 per cent less mutual. What's the fun in that?
The solution developed was to put a digital guidance computer right dab on the missile. (Somewhere in the multiverse, Skynet cackles maliciously in anticipation). Easier said than done at the time, as a computer with dimensions less than that of a family sedan was considered slim and chic.
Chris: [About an internal experimental web crawler] Not bad for 222 lines of ruby... just imagine if it were written in something faster, like... anything.
