- Transcendental Meditation for veterans
Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images How interesting—David Lynch, who's practiced Transcendental Meditation for 40 years, gives a million dollars to teach TM to veterans. I've never practiced TM and I don't know much about it, [ ... ]
- Scott
Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis September 17, 2011. Scott in Chicago.
- New York C++ Meetup recap
My gig, 10gen, sponsored the The New York C++ Developers meetup tonight. Roman Shtylman presented a just-the-facts primer on writing C++ extensions for Node.js. The use cases were: if you need to spawn threads, if you need to interface [ ... ]
- Matthew
Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis November 7, 2011. Matthew in Union Square.
- 3D printed math sculptures!
I happened across this hyperdodecahedron sculpture on Shapeways, available in a dozen materials. It's designed by Bathsheba Grossman, who has a series of math art on her site.
- Consistency in MongoDB
Friend and colleague Dan has a nice post on ensuring consistency in MongoDB by maintaining a version number in your documents.
- Dharma Combat
Photo: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis August 2010. Dharma combat with Enkyo Roshi during the Village Zendo's summer ango at Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY. Dharma combat's the most fun you can have at a Zen temple. A senior Zen student or a [ ... ]
- Mongo profiling hacks
Log the line number of your code that made each MongoDB query.
- NYC Python Meetup recap
I went to the NYC Python Meetup tonight at an East Village Bar. We drank, we ate pizza, we fended off recruiters (they knew they couldn't recruit at the meetup proper, but one ambushed me as I left!), and heard two quirky presentations: [ ... ]
- More on Google Reader
Two quick followups to my rant against Google Reader's new UI the other day: Followup the first: A friend from Google points out that you can hit the F key to toggle all the bullshit away and just see your list of articles: In fact, if you hit '?' [ ... ]