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sesamestreet: Elmo.  Astronauts.  It’s out of this world! If I... - sesamestreet: Elmo.  Astronauts.  It’s out of this world! If I were a true grown up, I would find this less awesome than I do.

Glasgow Ice Cream Wars - Glasgow Ice Cream Wars: readmorewikipedia: The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were conflicts in the East End of Glasgow in Scotland in the 1980s between rival ice cream van operators, over lucrative territory and suggested use of ice cream vans as a cover for selling drugs. The conflicts, in which vendors raided one another’s vans and fired shotguns...

Triv And Cosmo’s Chunky Lens, Kodot XGrizzled Film, No... - Triv And Cosmo’s Chunky Lens, Kodot XGrizzled Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

Another usability pearl - One of my all time favourites:Press ENTER to exit.So short but blows your mind right away.

Molecular Coding - Well, I've done it. I pushed the first of my new podcast series "Molecular Coding" to the world. Quoting from the main page: Molecular Coding covers the software, developers, and programming problems which go into the science and algorithms of computational chemistry. If you're interested in the software that deals with life sciences at the...

Dealing with SSSR - This delves into the depths of how different toolkits use the SSSR (Smallest Set of Smallest Rings) algorithm. The end result is that I will be removing support for bits 257-262 of the ChemFP Substruct key because I cannot reliably implement "number of aromatic rings" and "number of hetero-aromatic rings" across multiple toolkits. Travel note:...

"I used to suck at e-mail. I’d let e-mails pile up, get overwhelmed, and miss important..." - “I used to suck at e-mail. I’d let e-mails pile up, get overwhelmed, and miss important messages—or forget to reply. So I set up filters on my e-mail, and that’s been working pretty well. Now, my inbox gets e-mails only from people in my company and from my girlfriend. A folder called Robots gets anything not written by a human, like bank...

chemfp-1.0a1 - Any long time reader knows that I'm interested in chemical fingerprints. That link points to a 7 part series on how to generate fingerprints, how to compute the Tanimoto score between two fingerprints, and how to do that calculation quickly. If you already know what I'm doing then I'll jump to the punchline. My chemfp project has just released...

When your code starts to look like a Nethack map, it may be time... - When your code starts to look like a Nethack map, it may be time to quit.

Anyone sending out notification emails or messages to a mailing list: put the recipient's name... - Gmail's spam filter is pretty good, but sometimes it misclassifies messages. These are normally messages from commercial mailing lists -- I'm guessing other Gmail users have reported messages as spam rather than figure out how to get off the list, and this has resulted in Gmail deciding the list is spam. I've found one pretty good indication...

Om Nom Nom - Om Nom Nom

Next Door’s Window (supported by wood) - Next Door’s Window (supported by wood)

Transactional memory - nothing but trouble - This post is a followup to a review that I have recently written for a book called "Transactional memory". Here I focus not on the book and its qualities, but on the matter it discusses - transactional memory. Still, when I say "they" and "their" I refer to the authors and indirectly - to the researchers they represent.Why at all ?To begin...

Notes on implementing TLS. #2: Version differences. - The first question when starting with TLS is this: which version to implement ? I started with version 1.2, the latest and presumably the best, initially using its specification as a reference. The other two versions I just skimmed over and since there were no apparent incompatibilities, proceeded with 1.2. Later on, when it was already...

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