VIM Adventures is an online game based on VIM's keyboard shortcuts. It's the "Zelda meets text editing" game. So come have some fun and learn some VIM!
Say what you will about QR (Quick Response) codes: they are just a fad, they will be forgotten once augmented reality takes hold or they’re just an extra step
"Open Data Excuse" Bingo
We might want to use it in a paper People may misinterpret the data Thieves will use it There's no API
I don't mind, but someone else might Lawyers want a custom License It's too complicated We will get too many enquiries
It's too big Terrorists will use it Poor Quality There's already a project to...
What if we want to sell it later It's not very interesting Data Protection We'll get spam
For open data teams; print out a copy and put it on your office wall. Cross out each excuse people give you. There are no prizes, but you can tweet "bingo! #openDataExcuses" if you think it might make you feel better
Generate your own bingo grids at http://data.dev8d.org/devbingo/
As a Google user, you're familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.
The mission of the Journal of Machine Learning Gossip (JMLG) is to provide an archival source of important information that is often discussed informally at conferences but is rarely, if ever, written down.
Every field comes up with its own jargon, and oftentimes subgroups within a field come up with their own specific words or phrases (those of you familiar with Microsoft Canada’s Developer and Platform Evangelism Team know that we have our own term for “broken”, named after one of our teammates who is notorious for killing all sorts of tech gear).
A question recently posted on Stack Overflow asked for people to submit programming terms that they or their team have coined and have come into regular use in their own circles. I took a number of the submissions and compiled them into the alphabetically ordered list below for your education and entertainment.