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How fast can you validate UTF-8 strings in JavaScript?
When you recover textual content from the disk or from the network, you may expect it to be a Unicode string in UTF-8. It isContinue…
From Wild WebMink
? Changes, one thoughtful
Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO Jane is fantastic, so I've no fears arising from this transition, just best wishes for both...
From Schneier on Security
MagnePrint Technology for Credit/Debit Cards
This seems like a solution in search of a problem: MagTek discovered that no two magnetic strips are identical. This is due to the manufacturing process. Similar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Corkboard Database
A really simple idea, Spaaze.com, resting almost entirely on its metaphor, an infinite corkboard display. More about it.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mirrors in the Brain
In the midst of reading Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Interconnect With Others, by Marco Iacoboni. A non-technical book about mirror neurons, which...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Fall 2009 issue of Journal for Computing Teachers
The fall 2009 issue of Journal for Computing Teachers is available at http://iste.org/jct (direct link is http://tinyurl.com/yfq9qjz). JCT is a K-12 oriented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Pushes 2D Barcodes
From Storefrontbacktalk: ' ... This week, Google said it was trying to breathe life into these barcodes by mailing 200,000 2D barcode stickers to small businesses...
From Schneier on Security
Australia Restores Some Sanity to Airport Screening
Welcome news: Carry-on baggage rules will be relaxed under a shake-up of aviation security announced by the Federal Government today. The changes will see passengers...
From Putting People First
The challenge of co-production
A new discussion paper by NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, argues that the key to reforming public services is to encourage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Links Loyalty to Wireless Minutes
Retailers are starting to do more clever things with loyalty programs: ' ... The Kroger Co. is rolling out what it says is a first-of-its-kind loyalty program that...
From Schneier on Security
The Politics of Power in Cyberspace
Thoughful blog post by The Atlantic's Marc Ainbinder: We allow Google, Amazon.com, credit companies and all manner of private corporations to collect intimateMy...
From Computational Complexity
A hard problem inspired by an easy problem
The following problem was problem 1 (the easy one) on the Maryland Math Competition 2009 (I will later report on how the students did on it). Show that for every...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Entropy-efficient Computing
Microprocessors and storage devices are subject to the second law of thermodynamics: using them turn usable energy (oil, hydrogen) into unusable energy (heat).
From Wild WebMink
? Settled but not cured
Q&A: Microsoft's top lawyer on European case, future of antitrust Well worth reading to understand Microsoft's world-view. Sadly...
From Putting People First
Mag+, a concept video on the future of digital magazines
Bonnier R&D, the research unit of Bonnier, the publisher of Popular Science, invited the designers from BERG London on a corporate collaborative research project...
From Putting People First
Ubiquitous computing bridges devices and services
Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM was a speaker at XD Forum, Intuit’s internal user experience design conference, last week. His half-hour talk focused on the relationship...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New at Junaio
I recently mentioned Junaio and its IPhone App. A good example of the current state of 'augmented reality', as the term suggests its a means of adding useful information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ray Kurzweil's Future
Ray Kurzweil, noted technologist and futurist, predicts how technology will change us by 2020.-
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Programming Challenge 4 Girls (PC4G) Event in New Zealand
In November this year, a series of challenges using Alice was held at 4 venues around New Zealand. The events were staggered as the days were planned so that a...
From My Biased Coin
Avoiding Travel
I'm spending the morning as part of the committee for a thesis defense over in Europe. I'm watching the talk over Skype; we're using a conference call for sound...
From The Eponymous Pickle