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12/3/14 Gil's LotD: Internet Mainframes Project

By gil on Wed, 12/03/2014 - 6:00pm

http://mainframesproject.tumblr.com/ Mainframe terminals available on the public internet.

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12/2/14 Gil's LotD: WiFi signal propagation

By gil on Tue, 12/02/2014 - 6:00pm

http://jasmcole.com/2014/08/25/helmhurts/ Modeling the propagation of WiFi signals in an apartment to find the perfect router location.

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physics
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12/1/14 Gil's LotD: Mitch Hedberg and GIS

By gil on Mon, 12/01/2014 - 6:00pm

http://njgeo.org/2014/01/30/mitch-hedberg-and-gis/ Finding all the La Quintas that are close to a Denny's.

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11/30/14 Gil's LotD: The colors of chemistry

By gil on Sun, 11/30/2014 - 6:00pm

http://jiahao.github.io/julia-blog/2014/06/09/the-colors-of-chemistry.html A step-by-step tour on how to derive the visible spectra from absorption and emission spectra.

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11/29/14 Gil's LotD: Scrabble data structures

By gil on Sat, 11/29/2014 - 6:00pm

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/87682811573/compressing-scrabble-dictionaries Efficient ways to store Scrabble wordlists.

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scrabble
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11/28/14 Gil's LotD: Porting GHC to amd64 and ppc64el

By gil on Fri, 11/28/2014 - 6:00pm

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2014-04-15-porting-ghc-a-tale-of-two-architectures.html The compelling story of how the Glasgow Haskell Compiler was ported to two new architectures.

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11/28/14 Gil's LotD crap: Porn star or My Little Pony?

By gil on Fri, 11/28/2014 - 5:00pm

http://brunching.com/pornorpony.html Is that a porn star or a My Little Pony character?

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10/20/14 Gil's LotD: git manpage generator

By gil on Mon, 10/20/2014 - 6:00pm

http://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ Convincingly fake git manpages.

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software
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9/10/14 Gil's LotD: DevOps Against Humanity

By gil on Wed, 09/10/2014 - 6:00pm

https://github.com/bridgetkromhout/devops-against-humanity Hacker version of Cards Against Humanity.

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9/9/14 Gil's LotD: X colors

By gil on Tue, 09/09/2014 - 6:00pm

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0272.html The complete history of the X Windows color list.

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unix
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