"In his remarkable ruling, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner stated that there was no point in holding a trial because it was apparent that neither side could show they had been harmed by the other’s patent infringement. He said he was inclined to dismiss the case with prejudice — meaning the parties can’t come back to fight over the same patents — and that he would enter a more formal opinion confirming this next week."
Looks like a successor to Blosxom and PyBlosxom and maybe also IkiWiki.
NLP toolkit by the same team that built the Java Wikipedia database indexer/API. Looks pretty good.
A bunch of R code to fit your power law distributions.
Some day, I'm going to want a script that does this. When that day comes, I hope I remember I bookemarked it here.
"So, while nobody in their right mind would've paid money for Dr. Sbaitso as an actual video game, I credit it with saving my life."
IV response to TAL piece critical of IV. Summary: "Haters gonna hate."
Nice little gloss on the TAL take on software patenting.
This is absolutely worth the hour. Intellectual Ventures really is that bad.
There should be a better way of finding your R package than searching though a page of short descriptions of all 2800 package.s But there isn't.
It's exactly what it sounds like. Good? Slightly horrifying?
Stet is a cool piece of software that was used in the GPLv3 process. I think there are better tools now, but it's nice that the code is now easily available online.
Antifeatures as a way of saving the environment.
Some nice GNU/Linux-based ways to secure erase SSD and other disks.
Yikes. I guess I'll think twice before I buy a bunch of software. ;)
A dozens tools to do the job poorly.
