Interesting links from 6-7th March 2009
A mixed bag of reading over the last few days.
- Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? - http://www.simulation-argument.com/
Not sure what to make of this one. Go read it yourself. - David Chalmers - http://consc.net/chalmers/
A collection of stuff by David Chalmers on consciousness and philosophy. - Derek Parfit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Parfit
- Introduction to Guice Video (Redux) - http://crazybob.org/2007/06/introduction-to-guice-video-redux.html
Bob Lee (one of the creators of Guice) demonstrated how Guice simplifies dependency injection. - google-guice - http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/
- Chinese 'gold farmers' making a living playing computer games - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/05/virtual-world-china
Gold farming makes main-stream news again. - Why this economy is good for IT operations - http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/030509-forrester-economy.html
Forrester talks up the IT sector. I'm not sure if the analysis is over simplistic or not. - How to stop the drug wars - http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=13237193
Should be titled "Why to stop the drug wars". Prohibition still doesn't work.
posted by lokulin on Mar 07, 2009 #
Interesting links from 22nd February 2009
- Stack Overflow - http://stackoverflow.com/
a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers - The Crippling Fear of Corriearklet - http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/oped/the_crippling_fear_of_corriearklet.php
What it is like to commute in London - Apache Velocity Engine - http://velocity.apache.org/engine/index.html
Velocity is a simple yet powerful template language to reference objects defined in Java code.
posted by lokulin on Feb 22, 2009 #