Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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  • My dad put this up after a fight we had when I was a kid. I find that at the years pass by it gets truer and truer. (imgur.com)submitted 8 hours ago by Vantagonist to pics957 commentssharesavehidereport

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  • Soon the U.S. Congress will reconvene to consider the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Mythbuster and PM contributing editor Adam Savage says that if these sweeping pieces of legislation pass, the U.S. will join the likes of China and Iran in censoring the Internet, and destroy the openness that made the Web perhaps the most important technological advance of his lifetime.

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  • Do you remember your first computer program? When you had finished writing it, what was the first thing you did? You did the simplest possible test: you ran it.

    As programs increase in size, so do the amount of possible tests. It’s worth considering which tests we actually end up running: imagine the children’s game Battleship, where the ocean is the space of all possible program executions, the battleships are the bugs that you are looking for, and each individual missile you fire is a test you run (white if the test passes, red if the test fails.) You don’t have infinite missiles, so you have to decide where you are going to send them.

    tags: programming

  • The Big Story: End-of-the-Year Lists

    Here’s a list of 10 things that have shaped our lives over the last 10 years. Joshua M. Brown offers the 10 biggest moments for the markets, a slide show displays the most innovative products, and Anthony Weiner leads the 10 worst media disasters of the year. Andrew O’Hehir lists his 10 top movies, Gizmodo lists the most expensive computer bugs, and let’s not forget the top 10 pranks of 2011. More? O.K. Google issues its 10 most searched terms. And here are the most overused buzzwords on LinkedIn this year. Wendy’s wins top tweet of 2011. Lifehacker shares its most popular Windows downloads and posts, and of course there are the 50 most viral videos of the year. Can you guess the 20 most played Christmas songs on the radio?

    tags: news

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