Kaliatech

Other

• I’m Not Gonna Miss You – Glen Campbell  (His last song. He is now in final stages of Alzheimer’s)

Miscellaneous

• IRIS+ Personal Drone – Quadcopter w/ HD video, auto-following, path control via smartphone, ~$1500
• ELI5: Why are there inconsistent costs of procedures within the US healthcare industry?

• What are some things that neuroscientists know but most people don’t? – Quora
• Nobody knows what they hell they are doing
• What are common mistakes by parents with good intentions?
• What it’s like to carry your Nobel Peace Price through airport security

• Columbus Day – The Oatmeal
• A conference call in real life
  • also, conferencecall.biz …the realism is amazing
• Introducing Carrot (watch the video)

Technical

• IBM’s Watson Developer Cloud – a base platform for building cognitive apps

Misc

• Animator vs. Animation IV
• How does a knife cut things at the atomic level?

Technical

• Cubic Bezier Curves – Under the Hood
  • Extended examples
• Path Finding Algorithms – Interactive Visualization

• CSS Guidelines
• Draggable CSS Gradients

• Analysis of the Shellshock (Bash) Vulnerability – Troy Hunt
• The shockingly obsolete code of bash

• Codeship’s TOS
• How much equity to distribute in a startup? – Quora

• New Programming Techniques and the Productivity Curve
• Switching from AngularJS to Server-Side
• Postgres full-text search is good enough

Excellent

• I’m leaving Mojang – Notch
• Why I Hope to Die at 75
• 11,000mi: Riding a motorcycle to the end of the world
  • reddit discussion

Miscellaneous

• A Watch Guy’s Thoughts On The Apple Watch After Seeing It In The Metal
• How Pat Flynn Made His First $3 Million In Passive Income
• Why Amazon has no profits, and why it works
• A Simple Way to Memorize a Speech (Infographic)

• Where Are They Now?
• 1911 Colt Cut Away (Rendering)
• 3D printed gargoyle bottle opener (polished nickel steel)
• Pillow Strategies

Technical

• The future of AngularJS
• Microservices and PaaS (Part 3) – The Downsides
• Web Animation at Work – Rachel Nabors
• Design Patterns on Codepen.io
• Bezier clock with processing.js
• Notes on XKCD’s “Pixels”

Quote

• “It’s easier to build products for people you know than find people for products you know” – Steve Johnson at #BoS2014 (via @Ghidinelli)

Miscellaneous

• Where did the Gold on Earth come from?  – Quora
• If the universe started about 15 billion years ago, according to the Big Bang Theory, how can the universe be 46 billion light years wide if nothing can travel faster than light? – Quora

• Laser Cut Helical Springs

• Seneca on Busyness and The Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long
• What happened when I liked everything on Facebook for 60 days

• If Disney Princes Were Real

Technical

• On building teams: experience or talent?

• ShaderToy – In browser shader experimentation
• Vispy – Scientific visualization with Python and OpenGL

• Secure Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right

Miscellaneous

• Most detailed map yet of our place in the universe

• ACHIRES: Bipedal Running Using High-speed Visual Feedback
• 3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph using Stock 3D Models
• Glassified: Ruler with transparent display to supplement physical drawing

• The Windows Store is a Cesspool of Scams

• You can learn anything – Khan Academy

Music Videos

• Take Me To Church – Kiesza  (Hozier Cover)
• Waves – Mr. Probz (Robin Schulz Remix)
• Hideaway – Kiesza
• Giant In My Heart – Kiesza
• Peace – O.A.R.
• Do I Wanna Know – Arctic Monkeys
• Pills N Potions – Nicki Minaj

Technical

• Query – XKCD
• Yahoo no longer developing YUI

• VisuAlgo – Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
• Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms
• Vision Blocks – Drag-and-Drop Computer Vision Experimentation

• Useful Unix commands for exploring data

Quote

In a response to the common sentiment of: “wtf do I have to be ungrateful for as a bored middle-class american” when seeing other people’s more dire situations:

“It’s because our emotions are primarily relative to our own experience.  Your discontent is no less real, it’s just that your new awareness of an emotional scale used by another person in a completely different context has led you to attempt to place your feeling of discontent on their emotional scale, where it seems so out of place as to not even fit on their scale at all.” – jay135 on reddit

Miscellaneous

• Interactive Design and Optimization of Free-formed Free-flight Model Airplanes
• Last statements by prisoners executed in Texas
• ATC routing at ATL during  a thunderstorm
• Ask HN: Who isn’t in the software industry/not a hacker?

Technical

• Cybersecurity as Realpolitik by Dan Geer presented at Black Hat USA 2014  – Excellent
  • video of the presentation
• JavaScript templating w/ Gulp & Handlebars
• The Night Watch – James Mickens
  • James Mickens is a very interesting person
• Reconsidering ffmpeg in Debian

Quote

• “Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.” – Fyodor Dosteoevsky
  • found on rememberwinapp‘s website

 Miscellaneous

• Estimating and Predicting Epidemic Behavior for the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak

• Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan (1930 Newsreel Footage)
  • Photo of Helen Keller with Anne Sullivan in July 1888

• Friendship paradox
• Israeli Jets Strike Gaza, photos and video
• List of journalists killed in Russia

• Ball and Plate PID control with 6 DOF Stewart platform
• How Times Square works
• LEGO Great Ball Contraption (GBC) Layout 2012.9
• Getting started with drones & quadcopters

• Linus Torvalds Guided Tour of His Home Office
• Unedited full performance of Diva Plavalaguna from The Fifth Element
• 46 Interesting Photos

Technical

• The FFmpeg/Libav situation
• Cloth simulation w/ tearing in-browser
• Replacing a 32-bit loop count variable with 64-bit introduces crazy performance deviations
• Parallax Propeller 1 P8X32A Released as Open Source Design
• Introducing Heroku Button

Quote

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” – Robert Brault

Miscellaneous

• If you injure a bug, should you kill it or let it live and not die? – Quora
• How Tea Party tax cuts are turning Kansas into a smoking ruin
• Chess: Is it a good idea to let kids beat me sometimes to encourage them? – Quora
• 6 design concepts from IDEO that rethink aging
• Anthrolume 4.0: The LED Trench Coat Experiment

Technical

• Spark.io – Letter from the CEO
• Pinboard Turns Five
• NoSQL vs PostgreSQL 
• Matrix Syntax Cheatsheet (Matlab/Octave, NumPy, R, Julia)
• Perlin Curves I and II with D3
• Spring Framework 4.1 – handling static web resources

Quote

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” – John Barrymore

Really good

• The Gunfighter
• How Will I Know – Sam Smith (Whitney Houston Cover)

Miscellaneous

• What’s Happening Inside Those 4th Of July Fireworks
• Various physics animations, created during my MSc in Physics
• Google withdraws Shaft robot from DARPA competition
• Letter to Patent Office in 1994 from Donald Knuth

• Those of you who have been with your SO for several years, how do you feel about their body after all this time?
• Should the dealth penalty ever be used? – Quora

• The Art of Frank Frazetta
• Spraycasso

• Coolest Cooler – Kickstarter
• Wii vs PS3
• Whoever made this is a monster
• “Science” says the ship is sinking

Technical

• Visualizing Algorithms – Mike Bostock
• Why Lingohub is switching from RoR to Java/Spring

•  9 Things I Learned as a Software Engineer …that I wish I had known when I started grad school
• The Developer’s Dystopian Future

Excellent

• The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats

Miscellaneous

• Time is not money – James Altucher
• Custom wedding band design and build sequence
• Petra, The Treasury, 360°
• This Guy
  • post #1
  • post #2

• Just let them play
• Rogan & Goldberk Commentate EA UFC Glitches (not really)\
• Bud Light

Technical

• Wolfram Programming Cloud is Live
• OpenRoss – fast, scalable, on-demand image resizer
• Microservices – Not a free lunch!
• NativeScript
• The emperor’s new clothes were built with Node.js
• Design Patterns in Stories
• What actually happens when you plug-in a USB device in linux

 Miscellaneous

• Secrets, lies and Snowden’s email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
• What are good ways to prepare my kids to be billionaires?  – Quora
  • 1st answer is excellent, as well as 1st comment
• No time. How did we get so busy? – Elizabeth Kolbert of the The New Yorker

• Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free
• America dumbs down
• It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition

• Big Sandy
• Motivation quotes with drinking photos
• My dog: the paradox – The Oatmeal

Technical

• Choosing a Web Framework/Language Combo for the Next Decade
• Practical tmux
• BeagleMiP Robot Development Kit  ($150)
• Selecting a Cross-platform Game Engine

Excellent

• F1 Telemetry for Rookies

Miscellaneous

• What’s it like to own a Tesla Model S? – The Oatmeal
• WWI in Photos – The Atlantic (still work-in-progres)
• WWII in Photos – The Altantic

• Should your job exist?
• discussion on reddit
• Reddit’s /r/BasicIcome subreddit
• Jason Fried: Why work doesn’t happen at work
• 25 Things I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco

• I work in a medieval castle

• The Night PlanetSide Nearly Got Cancelled – Don Neufield
  • … that 2nd lead programmer who left after a week? Guess who that was. Except it was after four months, not a week. And I left because I realized some things are too far broken to be fixed without making major life sacrifices.
  • But I am glad to see that Don is doing well. He was a brilliant C++ programmer. And from this recent article, I see he’s transcended c++ and is still brilliant.

Technical

• Learning modern OpenGL
• Computers are *fast*!
• iPad charger teardown: inside Apple’s charger and a risky phony

Excellent

• Look Up
• 40 maps that explain the Middle East
• An inside look at a Formula 1 steering wheel
• An introduction to kit planes

Miscellaneous

• Scatterplot of audience vs. critic ratings for a broad sample of films
• Live visualization of public transits across the globe
• Explore inequality across countries
• The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop

• AMA: Sarah McLachlan
• The ultimate cheat sheet to be a great negotiator – James Altucher
• Less time separates humans from Tyrannosaurus rex than separated T. rex from Stegosaurus

•  Programming is a dead end job
•  How to offend four groups of geeks with one picture

Technical

• 2048, success, and me
• If you *must* use .NET System.IO.Ports.SerialPort

Miscellaneous

• The 12 principles of animation
• Sid: internet controllable robot arm
• “On my recent trip to Indonesia, I got to feed the world’s deadliest animal.“

• Boyhood – A film by Richard Linklater using same cast filmed over 12 years
• With a Piece of Chalk

Technical

• Opportunity Awaits In Analyzing The Internet Of Things
• Docker-Based Development Environments with Vagrant
• An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java Development, Part 1
• Web Fundamentals: A handbook for best practices

Miscellaneous

• F1 Pitstops, 1950 vs 2013
• AMA: Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero (guitar duo)
• Dolly Parton’s other Voice (Listen to ‘Jolene’ slowed down to 33rpm)
• How Americans Die – Data Analysis by Bloomberg
• Project Habu – photographing remaining 30 SR71 Blackbirds
  • Still leaking fuel after 24 years
• Hallelujah, not expected

• How a face changes in different lighting
• 9 reasons kickstarter projects are typically late
• Kids inflatables marketing

• Circle driven waves
• I’m Comic Sans, asshole
• Programming Sucks
  • Programming is Amazing

Music Videos

• Am I Wrong – Nico & Vinz
• In Your Arms – Nico & Vinz
• Night By Night – Chromeo

Technical

• The Twelve-Factor App (I have posted multiple times, but it continues to improve)
• How DevOps is killing the developer
• Deis – open source PaaS
• Are high-reputation users answering fewer questions, and if so, why?

Quote

“I’ll tell you a secret. Something they don’t teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” – Achilles (Brad Pitt) in the movie Troy

Miscellaneous

• MorpHex MKII teaser – Zenta
• 2014 Audio S4 Review by RegularCarReviews
• KitRex: the 3D paper velociraptor – Kickstarter
  • Based on my Oculus Rift success, perhaps this will be be my first 3 billion exit?

• Non-advice for investing – James Altucher
• How to use heroin legally – James Altucher
  • “Socialize also doesn’t mean “networking” or going to a work-related meetup. Socialize, to me, means play, sharing, talking, having fun with others.”

• Unsung Hero
• Brendan Eich And Hillary Clinton

• Skeleton of a turtle
• Houston coffee and cars event
  • Photographer notes
• He got his jump

• Do you have any idea?

Technical

• NASA’s Software Catalog available for download
• LIDAR-Lite by PulsedLight
• stdin & stdout, the right way with node.js
• Raspberry Pi Compute Module
• Boost::Geometry in MySQL

Quote

“Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.” – David Attenborough

Misc

• To the People of New Jersey – Elon Musk
• Bot & Dolly and the Rise of Creative Robots
• Facebook to acquire Oculus Rift 
  • Probably thanks to my early backing of Oculus Rift on kickstarter. My first two billion dollar investment exit!
  • We’ll miss you
  • Right and wrong reasons to be upset – Peter Berkman

• F1 vs. NASCAR, which is better?

Technical

• Visualizing Git Concepts with D3
• Less is more in table design
• Communication at Github
• Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS 2.0 and Word for Windows 1.1 Available

Quote

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between their work and their play, their labor and their leisure, their mind and their body, their education and their recreation, their  love and their religion. They hardly know which is which. They simply pursue their vision of excellence at whatever they do, leaving others to decide whether they are working or playing. To them, they are always doing both.” – James A. Michener

Misc

• A reply letter by Kurt Vonnegut

• 2013 vs 2014 F1 engine sound
  • Recap of the first race this season
• Visual comparison, 4-series vs M4

• The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage
• Who Had Richer Parents, Doctors Or Artists?
• Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

• UBESTORMER 3 Smashes Rubik’s Cube Speed
• 2048 – the official game by Gabriele  Circulli
  • Digits – xkcd
  • AI Solver
• Concrete Angel – Gareth Emery feat. Christina Novelli

Technical

• Nobody expects 3D – Interaction tips by Paul Lewis
• Epic drastically drops the price of Unreal Engine game development

• CDNs & SSL affect on performance: Lessons from the super bowl
• Littlest database that could
• The Programmer Productivity Paradox

• Lucene’s FuzzyQuery is 100 times faster in 4.0
• Why can I look at a graph and immediately find the closest point to another point, but it takes me O(n) time through programming?
• Differential equations in data science
• The Best Of Both Worlds: Hierarchical Linear Regression in PyMC3

Quotes

• “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” ― John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 October 1780)

• “I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.” ― John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams (12 May 1780)

• “Do not raise your children the way [your] parents raised you, they were born for a different time.” ― Ali bin Abi Taleb (599 – 661 A.D.)