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Scratch @ MIT 2010 Day 2 and 3

August 17, 2010

This is a picture of the the Event Space, the main presentation space. Besides the obviously very high ceiling, the room is laid out diagonally. It works. A simple idea. Brilliantly executed. The building really is designed (by Fumihiko Maki) with function in mind.
Loneliness is failed Solitude

I find the most value at the conference not [...]

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LinkedIn Group Management Problem

May 23, 2010

LinkedIn is one of those sites that you hate but use. It is boring. It has horrible user interface. But it is useful as a secondary professional network — to loosely stay in touch with professional acquaintances.
There is however one ridiculous problem with how it support groups. You can setup a group for managing communications [...]

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My Love of Gadgets Started from my First Calculator

April 9, 2010

When I was maybe ten years old, electronic calculator became available. I lusted after this basic scientific model, the size of a paperback book, at my local stationary store for a year. My dad bought it for me and I loved that thing. It has all the log and trig functions.
Since then, I slowly saved [...]

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Massachusetts DOT Opens Transit Data for Public Access

November 16, 2009

Massachusetts department of transportation, Mass DOT, recently decided to
offer real time and other transit data on a trial basis to the public. I attended
their very first developer conference (official website). My Notes follow:
Open is Good – Don’t Build Apps like Bridges
The central message was voiced by many presenters: Open is good for everyone. The case [...]

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The Beautiful Candle

April 4, 2008

Michael Faraday’s lectures at the Royal Institution in London – “The Chemical History of the Candle” :
A candle is beautiful. “Beauty means not the best-looking things, but the best-acting thing.” A candle is beautiful because its functioning elegantly and efficiently rests upon a wide range of universal laws. The heat of the flame melts the [...]

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