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  1. From Managing Gigabytes: "to read a gigabyte of text and parse it into terms takes several hours of computation." Moore strikes again.
  2. Dear people who use DjVu for documents: Please die.
  3. And then I got crapped on by a bird.
  4. ugh... which image library for Ruby should I use? There are like 50 of them.
  5. woo.. submitted my proposal for the Scottish Ruby Conference.
  6. @techpickles Nice. I'll join you guys after I get back from JRubyConf.
  7. Duby looks awesome. Will be using it for some mathy scripts at the least.
  8. @barrykwok He'll never even notice the difference. It's genius.
  9. @divi Awesome. I was just about to write a shell script to do that...
  10. "HTML and regex go together like love, marriage, and ritual infanticide." -- bobince on StackOverflow
  11. Wow, Apple, really? You somehow forgot my current billing info and have reverted to trying to use my address from 3 years ago?
  12. "If the data structure can't be explained on a beer coaster, it's too complex." -- http://lambda-the-ultimate....
  13. @pcdinh Sure. I'll post it on my github account later: http://github.com/tyler.
  14. Awesome! RT @emcmanus Opensourced my Flash port of SNES9x. Enjoy! http://bit.ly/flashsnes
  15. Writing a better n-gram tokenizer... The one that comes with Lucene is strange and broken.
  16. Zipf's law is neat: "The nth most common word in a human language text occurs with a frequency inversely proportional to n."
  17. Hm... Just kicked out a couple of guys trying to have sex in our front yard. Isn't halloween great?
  18. I can't really imagine using a non-open-source language. How do you know *exactly* what a method does? Documentation only goes so far.
  19. What? Why would anyone use Redis as a pretend queue when there are, you know, real queues?
  20. Landlord is trying to make us pay the electricity bill for a communal area. Right... I have a better idea...