Kaliatech

Other

• The father of the Sandy Hook killer searches for answers – Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker

Misc

• The science of raising happy kids
• Why ‘Cosmos’ Host Neil deGrasse Tyson Has the World in His Hands
• Mississippi River Basin

• Van Cleef & Arpels Complication Poétique Midnight Planétarium Watch
• Flying the world’s fastest plane: Behind the stick of the SR-71
• Lego paper airplane folding machine

• Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama
• Photoshop gone too far

• Cunningham’s Law
  • “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer“

Technical

• SimpleCV – Computer vision platform using Python

Quote

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” ― Stanisław Jerzy Lec

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

– Michael Crichton

(Above seems to be paraphrased from his essay “Why Speculate?“)

Excellent

• What’s gone wrong with democracy – The Economist
• The Eagleman Stag
• Advice From A Single Guy Who Spent A Year Interviewing Couples
• Russia in color a century ago

Miscellaneous

• Kickstarter at a billion
• Breaking out of your comfort zone
• Small Gestures

• An engineer’s website
• Bare Conductive – Conductive Paint

• Sex Predator
• Perspective…

Technical

• Technology stack of Imgur
• Building a Radar
• The C++/Programming books I recommend
• Salted Password Hashing – Doing it right
• Best practices for API versioning
• LastPass Enterprise

Quote

A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: “How heavy is this glass of water?”

Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.

She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.” She continued, “The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything.”

— Source Unknown

Cool

• “Oh Sweet Lorraine” –  A Letter from Fred

Miscellanous

• Luxo – a light painting robotic arm
• An app to improve neurological eye sight processing
  • Discussion on reddit with author and scientist participating
• Newgrange – Prehistoric monument in Ireland

• 10 questions people ask when I tell them I own an airplane
• speaking.io – Tips for Public Speaking
• 45 ways to avoid using the word ‘very‘

• Kama Sutra for couples who have been dating for over three years
• Crypto Reality
• XKCD: Frequency
  • Reverse Engineered

Technical

• fbthrift (thrift v2)
• angularj-requirejs-seed
• Collection of less commonly used unix commands

Miscellaneous – Interesting

• Riding along in a snow plow in Minnesota
• ELI5: Why Does E=mc2? More specifically, what does the speed of light have to do with the amount of energy in a given amount of matter?

• Thank God At Least Half My Life Is Over. Good Riddance. – James Altucher
• How to get an MBA from Eminem – James Atucher

• HemingwayApp – Check and make your writing clearer

Miscellaneous – Less

• Cable company consolidation over the years
• To the ticket agent at the Delta counter
• “One Day” – Matisyahu (video by Life Vest Inside)
• Pennsylvania Roads
• Reddit thread on interesting statues

Technical

• ThoughtWorks Technology Radar
• Why don’t software methodologies work
• Zero Downtime, Instant Deployment and Rollback at Ebay

• Magic Jelly Bean Finder – Find all product keys on a system

• Why we left AngularJS: 5 surprisingly painful things about client-side JS
• Reactive programming with JavaScript
• React – A JavaScript libraryf or building user interfaces
• JSX in Depth -Preprocessor for React.js
• JSX – A faster, easier, safer JavaScript – same/similar?
• Ractive.js
• 15 Bootstrap Tools

Miscellaneous

• 10 Ways to Make Life Better Today – James Altucher
• Thank You, Mom
• Build with Chrome – An opengl lego builder

• Edward Snowden and the Death of Nuance
• 13 things Quora should do – James Altucher
• Celebrity Math
• Max Martin – The brains behind many pop hits

• Dave Grohl on being a rockstar

Technical

• The Descent to C – A good review
• Infographic on Node.js – by EngineYard

Excellent

• Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures
  • Link to paper

Misc

• Swedish House Mafia Documentary Premiere at SXSW
• Map of all microbreweries in the United States – click “Zoom in Fullscreen” button
• Dig This –  Heavy Equipment Playground in Las Vegas
• Preferences in Muslim countries for how women should dress in public
• QuikScann3D – Full 3D body scanning in 5 seconds, with subsequent 3D print capability
  • More Examples
  • Reddit Thread
• EAGER by Allison Schulnik
• It must suck to be blind
• How a dog drinks water
• Stop motion of stop motion – Belgan Bros Animation
  • More

Technical

• Docker on Linode

Quote

“You will always believe you can become the best – but you must never believe you have done so” – Juan Manuel Fangio

Miscellaneous

• Five New Years resolutions I am never going to do again – James Altucher

• Self making inside out Christmas Ornament
• Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk
• Big robotics stories of 2013
• Three-Dimensional Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation 

Technical

• Milkdrop in WebGL

• Why I no longer contribute to StackOverflow – Michael Richter
• Backdoor (TCP-32764) in many consumer grade routers  (Presentation is excellent)

Quote

• “Races are never won in the first corner, but they are often lost there.” – Unknown (via @MotorsportReg.com)

Miscellaneous

• Particle Tests #13 – Matthias Müller
• A Material Point Method For Snow Simulation – Disney Animation

• Furniture – Veraseri Designs
• Orc face motion capture
• Trying to get a robo-caller to admit she’s a robot
• Merry Christmas from the Holderness Family
• Life-sized lego car with working engine

• Undocumented Feature – XKCD

Music Videos

• Pedals – Conte
• Daft Punk Mix – Pentatonix

Semi-Technical

• Interactive Map Shows Github & StackOverflow as a Sprawling Cities
• Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer
• An Engineer’s Guide to Stock Options

Quote

• “The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live” – George Carlin

Miscellaneous

• News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
• Google acquires Boston Dynamics

Technical

• No Managers: Why we removed Bosses at Treehouse
• Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy?
  • “I would submit that the appearance of hard work is often an indication of failure.”

• Exploring Canvas Drawing Techniques
• websocketd
• Announcing Spring Framework 4.0 GA Release

Miscellaneous

• Art by Gianlorenzo Bernini
• F1 2014 – New Rules Explained
• Google acquires a few robotics companies, including Bot & Dolly
• What goes in to a robot
•  “Car-L” meets the lions

Miscellaneous – Longer

• The Mission of Tesla
• 23 and You
• Helpless
• Interview with author Vaclav Smil
• Old Loves – Bill Murray

Technical

• Read less Hackernews <- Speaks to me…and the irony is not lost.

• Do you even lift?
• Scala – Would not use Again
  • Response from Martin Odersky

• What it takes to run StackOverflow
• Core Algorithms Deployed

• Electronic Component Purchasing for Manufacturing – Part 1
• What Every Hardware Startup Should Know About the Electronic Component Landscape – Part 2

Miscellaneous

• Visualizing Traffic Waves (uses D3)
• inFORM – a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically

• How Apple manufacturers the Macbook Pro
  • Additional Details
• F1 Cylinder Head Design and Pneumatics
• Trainable Robotic Arm 1 (and 2), inspired by Baxter

• onlycoin.com — A digital credit card holder available for preorder
• ImageQuilts — Edward Tufte & Adam Schwartz
• DIY Snowflake Photos — Alexey Kljatov
• More than half of humanity lives within this circle

• A graph showing the frequency of miracles over time
• The Magic Trick — Harrison Greenbaum (RooftopComedy)
• Ill Mind of Hopsin 5 — Hopsin
• Minecraft: The Story of Mohang (full version)

• Test Pilot Bill Weaver’s story about in-flight breakup in an SR-71 Blackbird

Business

• The Right Way to Grant Equity to Your Employees
• How to take your whole company overseas
• “At the end of the day, we need to break a pattern,” he said. “Face it: I’m a pattern.” – Steve Ballmer

Technical

• Fourier series visualisation with d3.js.
• In CSS, “px” is not an angular measurement and it is not non-linear
• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now available
• How long do harddrives actually live?

• js2js – the next big thing in javascript evolution!

Quote

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”
– C. Pavese

Miscellaneous

• Ishikawa Oku Laboratory
  • Janken (rock-paper-scissors) robot with 100% winning rate …sort-of
  • 1ms Response Pan-Tilt Tracker

• Why you should not interrupt a programmer
• Tilt-shift Timelapse Video 

• Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing 2014
• 3D Printshow London 2012
• 3D Printing: The Business Opportunities

Technical

• High performance animations in the browser
• 10 Things I hate about git

Good

• The theory of evolution CAN be disproven. And that’s the beauty of it. – Quora
• How The Economic Machine Works in 30 Minutes – Ray Dalio

• The Battle We Didn’t Choose – My wife’s Fight with Breast Cancer
  • “I loved it all.”
• Look for Love – DJ Sammy (Jose De Mara Remix)

• Bad Guy – Eminem
  (listen through until the end, MMLP2, Release date Nov 5)

So one last time, I’m back
Before it fades into black and it’s all over
Behold the final chapter in the saga
Trying to recapture that lightning trapped in a bottle
Twice the magic that started it all
Tragic portrait of an artist tortured
Trapped in his own drawings
Tap into thoughts
Blacker and darker than anything imaginable
Here goes a wild stab in the dark
As we pick up the last Mathers left off

– Lyrics from “Bad Guy”, The Marshall Mathers LP2

Distracting

• Imagination Pictures – Photographer is 14 years old
  • His tutorials
• Naptime Dream Adventures  – Queenie Liao
• Wood Models
• Custom Bike

• The Bill Clinton Era
  • More

• Flipping a Coin: Levels of Uncertainty
• Punch Analysis
• Africa is much, much bigger than most think

Technical

• Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.264 – Monty Montgomery
• The list of FOSS licenses included in Mercedes Benz cars
• Patent war goes nuclear
  • Rockstar (a MSFT, AAPL, ETC owned patent troll) paid $4.5 billion for Nortel patents and has launched a major attack

• Don’t go into programming if you don’t have a good thesaurus
• Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API

Quote

I’m sorry that this was such a long letter, but I didn’t have time to write you a short one. – Blaise Pascal

Excellent

• The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Reinventing Yourself – James Altucher

Miscellaneous

• Global Pop, Now Infused With Country (re: Avicii)
• Real Medieval Armor
• Calvin & Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Gives Rare Interview

• What ‘Lean In’ Misunderstands About Gender Differences
• The way we think about charity is dead wrong – Dan Pallotta (Ted Talk)
  • Counter: Getting the Facts Straight About the Nonprofit Sector – Phil Buchanan

• Visualizing 3.14159265359
• Space Shuttle Endeavour Exclusive: A Timelapse of the Final Ride

Technical

• (Re)defining Blender – Ton Roosendaal

• Inside GitHub’s Super-Lean Management Strategy
• Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives

• Game Programming Patterns
• Visual Sedimentation
• With IE, WebGL Is Ready For Prime Time

Excellent

• “What is your desire?” – Alan Watts
  • What if Money was no Object? – Alan Watts
    • 50 People, One Question
  • It Starts Now – Alan Watts
• Photo of Earth as seen by Cassini

Technical

• Less vs. Sass vs. Stylus – from Less point-of-view
• Beautiful native libraries

• Maven is broken by design
  • Reddit Comments
• What do people in Silicon Valley plan to do once they hit 35
  • The value is in the comments.

Quote

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” – Henry Ford

Misc

• Vitali Klitschko posted this picture on Twitter: Arnold Schwarzenegger replied the following day
• Home Again – Elton John

Semi-Technical

• Cocktails for Programmers
• FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition (browse github source)
  • …funny and yet so much truth
  • Reddit Comments

• If You’re Programming A Cell Phone Like A Server You’re Doing It Wrong
• The best programmer in the world is the one having the most fun

• The second coming of Java

Technical

• Animate Your Way to Glory: Math and Physics in Motion
• D3 on AngularJS
• Qt planning switch to Chromium
• 7 command line tools for data science

• Deciphering the business card raytracer

Quote

Obamacare’s illegitimacy:
He campaigned on it
Won election
Passed the house
And the Senate
Signed by the President
Ruled OK by Supreme Court

– @justinwolfers

Misc

• The Future of Design (SpaceXChannel) – uses Leap Motion & Oculus Rift
• HydraDeck Humans – Infinite Realities demo for the Oculus Rift
• 3D Printed Hand Demo – Described by inventor (17 yrs old at the time) at TEDx Mile High

• The word ‘weekend’ didn’t become common in English until the mid-20th century
• “Victoria’s Secret: objects in this t-shirt may be smaller than they appear” – @Sarcasm_Machine

Technical

• AngularJS vs GWT

• Threenodes.js – 3D data pipeline and editor in WebGL
• Research from Oculus Rift: The Latent Power of Prediction in VR

• Cargo cult programming
• Headless browser and scraping solutions

Miscellaneous

• Start thinking of decisions as experiments
• Why I love Twitter, and barely tolerate Facebook
• Visualizing the Bible’s Contradictions

• The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running A Business – James Altucher
• The website redesign that is hurting your business

• A future brief history of Apple’s iWatch
• “Samir, Please!” – Rally Instruction
• Stop Motion Mayhem

Technical

• Tridiv – CSS 3D Editor
• Beautiful native libraries
• Spring Security 3.2.0.RC1 – CSRF Protection
• Big-O Cheatsheet
• A collection of programming jokes – reddit