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April 2013 Reading
Ramnath tells an history of decolonization from an anarchist perpective. Or anarchism from a decolonizationary perspective. Focussing on the history of liberation struggles in South Asia, Ramnath tells the stories of people who …
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Programming with our communal exocoretex
There was recently a cartoon on xkcd that dealt with ineffective sorts. In the title tag it proposed the stacksort — a sort that searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them until it returns a sorted array. Gregory Koberger liked the idea so much that he implemented stacksort. …
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Snipp.IO: A pastebin made out of Haskell, Yesod and mongodb
I’ve recently been learning about the Haskell-based Yesod web framework. This is about my experience of building a simple pastebin with Yesod, mongodb and Haskell, which took a couple of evening sessions and a Saturday afternoon.The first question to answer is why choos …
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March 2013 Reading
A recent translation of this Guatemalen novel of the mid 70s, it reads like Joyce and indeed references him a few times. Its also uncomfortably misogynistic at times, brutal, occasionally funny, and very moving. Oh and heavy going. I really need to read …
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Stop MediaWiki thinking that a .ppt is a .doc
New Internationalist, along with teacher friends Linda Ruas and John Shepheard runs an Easier English wiki, which provides simplified versions of many of the stories from New Internationalist magazine. We are just running MediaWiki, nothing fancy. A few weeks ago after upgrading MediaWiki we hit …
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Comic: Appreciation of xkcd comics vs. technical ability
I very much enjoyed this comic, posted by Steve Hanov. He has a great blog that you should check out too. …
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Xmonad made me more productive
I have been using Xmonad as my main window manager for several months now. I wrote about my initial experiences with the Haskell tiling window manager a while back. I want to talk briefly about how I have found myself more productive since making the leap from Gnome in this quick addendum to the …
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On safari with the feral rich
The New Internationalist recently published a great issue, about the Feral Rich. Given the rivers of bile that the likes of the Daily Mail seem to enjoy spewing forth at the poor, it is rather nice to see the shoe on the other foot for once. This cartoon follows the rich on a fiscal safari. Great …
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SOLVED Nautilus is slow when browsing a Windows/Samba network
I recently hit an exciting and hard to solve problem at work, or at least my colleague and co-web wrangler did. You see at New Internationalist our office network is a mix of *nix, windows and mac machines. We use various Samba servers to host all our documents. So its pretty important to browse …
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February 2013 Reading
A gift from a friend of mine in Germany. A fast paced thriller. Its kind of fun but I found the animal rights guy a little on the unbelievable side. Nevertheless Boyle writes wonderfully and the story was well told and …
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