Susan Pinochet at 2013-09-10T14:00:46Z
"Memorization is a frontage road: It runs parallel to the best parts of learning, never intersecting. It’s a detour around all the action, a way of knowing without learning, of answering without understanding."
excerpted from "When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning"ɯu, laurelrusswurm, William L. Anderson, Christopher Allan Webber and 1 others likes this.
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Gordon Sinclair at 2013-02-13T23:10:50+00:00
Texas DMV Sells Personal Information To Hundreds Of Companies; Drivers Not Allowed To Opt-Out http://goo.gl/ljfSNɯu likes this.
Glyn Moody at 2013-02-13T16:47:39+00:00
Why it's time to stop using #opensource licences - http://bit.ly/Vg1uVv #freesw won: it's time to move on... #pdɯu likes this.
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Profoundly disagree; that business-focussed paper ignores community and fails to recognise well-understood solutions like the MIT license.
@glynmoody This seems to buy into the "we don't need Copyleft" message sent on all channels by the neo-proprietary companies. I disagree.
and we have all seen this in action with mac and osx right?
Command Line Magic at 2012-12-03T14:34:23+00:00
echo "Happy 20th SMS" | mail -s "Happy Birthday" http://ur1.ca/brv4l # Send an SMS message using an email to SMS gateway.ɯu likes this.
Command Line Magic at 2012-12-03T14:40:10+00:00
http://bit.ly/Email2SMS List of E-mail to SMS gateways. Useful for sending info to your mobile device from the command lineɯu likes this.
Unhosted at 2012-08-07T08:38:35+00:00
looks like Google Chrome just became a closed app platform http://ur1.ca/9wow0 what about the open web?ɯu likes this.
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Command Line Magic at 2012-08-07T20:38:32+00:00
echo 'man $(ls /usr/bin | shuf -n 1)| sed -n "/^NAME/ { n;p;q }"' >> ~/.bashrc # Learn a command on each new shell open.Jesús E. Franco Martínez, ɯu likes this.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation at 2012-02-10T18:28:58+00:00
6 heartbreaking #privacy and #security flops on major online dating sites - and what you can do about it. https://eff.org/r.5Sdɯu likes this.
Electronic Frontier Foundation at 2012-02-10T17:54:53+00:00
A comparison of #privacy and #security practices on 8 major online dating sites (yes, it's bad news): https://eff.org/r.S9aɯu likes this.
@eff scary stuff. btws, is there any chance of an #httpseverywhere add-on for Firefox Mobile?
Jan Wildeboer at 2011-06-24T13:30:06+00:00
Microsoft #Azure: Give us YOUR data for free, pay US to get YOUR data back. Vendor Lock-In complete :-) http://is.gd/kbDhIoCarlos Solís, ɯu likes this.
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♻ @jwildeboer Microsoft #Azure: Give us YOUR data for free, pay US to get YOUR data back. Vendor Lock-In complete :-) http://is.gd/kbDhIo
LWN.net at 2011-06-11T20:02:53+00:00
SeaMonkey 2.1 released http://lwn.net/Articles/447170/rssɯu likes this.
uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs at 2010-11-19T22:01:46+00:00
Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl) on how the open web is dying (the resurrection of walled gardens) http://ur1.ca/2drpqɯu likes this.
Tim Dobson at 2010-11-19T18:13:05+00:00
articles like this: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/entangled-uncertainty/ make physics interesting for a change...ɯu likes this.
@tdobson "It is very difficult to be more interesting than quantum mechanics." --Gaspar, to the frustrated wife of a physicist
headphonica netlabel at 2010-08-09T08:21:40+00:00
"decided to first of all join the !procrastination @identica group before doing some cleaning up in the kitchen and then maybe..." !q
bigbrovar at 2010-06-19T17:36:14+00:00
My neice has been using !Ubuntu on her netbook for yr. told her when i come to UK i would upgrade her linux . she asked what is !Linux.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2010-05-23T16:47:08+00:00
Really hate "Your download will begin in a moment" links. Always end up wgetting their HTML instead of the file I want. #petpeeveBradley M. Kuhn, j1mc, ɯu likes this.
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@cwebber Don't you just love it when programmers make assumptions? "But how would anyone visit the site except with a browser?"Susan Pinochet at 2010-03-08T20:02:57+00:00
A Dr. Seuss style proof that the halting problem is undecidable. [pdf] http://ling.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/loopsnoop.pdfɯu, Christopher Allan Webber likes this.
Rob Myers at 2010-03-06T21:34:55+00:00
''"My God," I whispered in English, for Mon Dieu simply doesn't mean the same thing...''ɯu likes this.
alphazo at 2010-03-02T20:24:06+00:00
BTW, you can get a 25% discount on a pair of Yubikeys using coupon FASTMAIL !securityɯu likes this.
