Links for 23-04-2008
The man behind SuperMemo; Javascript nav hax; open source software economics, Rudy Rucker measures the universe …
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“Landauer and Bjork were looking for the optimal moment to rehearse something so that it would later be remembered. Their results were impressive: The best time to study something is at the moment you are about to forget it.”
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“This is a relatively easy way to get your feet wet with DOM scripting. So I’ll first show how to do it with some very basic JavaScript functions. Also, I’ll show how to do it with jQuery.”
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“I’ve long told my readers to pick their own clients — that waiting for clients to pick you renders your copywriting career about half as gratifying as it could be. And no, I’m not talking about the basic marketing activities everyone does.”
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“If the $60 billion is true (and I would assume based on Standish’s five years of research it is) then we have been dramatically underestimating the impact open source is having on the traditional vendors.”
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“These days there are a wide range of competing notions about the size and shape of the space that we live in. The cosmologists are kind of lost. So I might as well put in my two cents worth!” Rudy Rucker = made of win.
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“Dungeons & Dragons made me a professional futurist.” Jamais Cascio = made of win.
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