Decoding the US Military's Cyber Command Logo code
From this Wired article here, it looks like there's a number that is part of the cyber command's logo - 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a. Well, its 32 characters long, and looks like a hash. Sure...
View ArticleReading Java properties file in Clojure
A simple and effective way to read properties files in Clojure, since they transform into Clojure maps!(into{}(doto(java.util.Properties.) (.load(->(Thread/currentThread)...
View ArticleMark Twain on Whiskey and Civilization
I found this gem of a snippet today, and I rather agree with what it says!"How solemn and beautiful is the thought that the earliest pioneer of civilization, the van-leader of civilization, is never...
View ArticleNBDJS?
For all of you who land on this site using the google query "nbdjs" - it stands for "No Big Deal, Just Saying". Courtesy of an ex Stanford post doc who shall go unnamed - you know who you are! :)
View ArticleHere's to the crazy ones
I never had the privilege of meeting Steve Jobs. And yet, on hearing the news today, it felt like someone very close to me had died. As someone I've followed from ever since I can remember - growing up...
View ArticleJudy trees
The Achilles heel of a simple digital tree is very poor memory utilization, especially when the N in N-ary (the degree or fanout of each branch) increases. Enter the Judy Tree. The Judy tree design...
View ArticleOn the technical prowess of drug cartels in Mexico
I came across an excellent article in the New York Times today that goes in detail into the inner workings of drug cartels in Mexico - specifically that of the Sinaloa Cartel. This has been a rather...
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The future of diagnostics
I was just thinking about this the other day! anofi-Aventis just unveiled the iBGStar: a stand alone blood glucose monitor that can plug directly into your iPhone and iPod Touch. The device, which...
View ArticleGrep patterns for URLs in logs
For mostly my reference, and anyone else who's googling for it, cat /tmp/my-log-file.txt | grep --only-matching --perl-regexp "http(s?):\/\/[^ \"\(\)\<\>]*" | awk '{print $1}'
View ArticleSetting up Emacs, Ensime, SBT for Scala code
Ensime is an amazing plugin for developing Scala code in Emacs - it is very similar to the way Slime for lisp works, and works on the same swank RPC system that slime uses. It stands for "ENhanced...
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