http://scienceandcode.moomug.com the daily adventures of computer science Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:19:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It just happened. Thinking about the euphoria I felt about the last couple of years every time I had a internet-based search task -- I just loved using Google. After all the things that have been there since 1996, Google was by far the best search engine that I have ... http://scienceandcode.moomug.com/?p=675 One thing you have got to love about Japan is the fact that the Japanese actually apply new technologies in real-life situations. Studying computer science I've seen tons of cool things which (sadly) never made it into the real-world. Concentrating really hard, an old orange-juice commercial comes to mind. A guy ... http://scienceandcode.moomug.com/?p=657 Caused by an intensive (yet, sadly, fruitless) use of Wolfram|Alpha ((Tell me any other tool that can answer important questions like this?)) I recently came upon the strange phenomena duped NKS and its inventor ((I've read several accusations of Stephen Wolfram stealing ideas; at least one can say he did ... http://scienceandcode.moomug.com/?p=644 I recently had the task to implement a basic roll-over behavior in a Swing GUI. Pretty simple -- or so I thought. The main problem in Swing is that mouse events are consumed automatically once you employ the very convenient MouseEventHandler, but that might cause some trouble in more sophisticated components. ... http://scienceandcode.moomug.com/?p=640 "Again and again, music history (much like women) rewards the asshole with passion." A TinyMixTapes article about Die Antwoord. http://scienceandcode.moomug.com/?p=636 http://www.isthesingularityhereyet.com/ Step One: Learn the important fact this site teaches us about the time we live in. Step Two: Look into the source code. You are welcome. PS: If you don't know what the singularity is you are missing on some serious transcendental nerdiness. http://scienceandcode.moomug.com/?p=629 In an attempt to counteract the short-termed-ness of my surfing experience I have started collecting sites or articles I find interesting. Reading through it just recently, I got the idea of sharing those links; int this way I can also force myself to re-read them again. Hyperreal numbers are a very ... http://scienceandcode.moomug.com/?p=626 Decades of research finally come to fruition. There is a pretty handy tool named Detexify out there. What it does is simple but efficient. You draw some symbols on a dedicated area and the systems gives you a ranking of LaTeX-symbols (including the commands that generate them) which are visually ... http://scienceandcode.moomug.com/?p=613 There's no thing in existence that has helped the human race in its quest of procrastenating and delaying the more important things than the internet. Just now I stumbled upon the next cool thing! A japanese designer team took the world's most important people from the pop-scene and the ... http://scienceandcode.moomug.com/?p=605 http://scienceandcode.moomug.com/?p=599