The Stack - Week 37/2012

Algorithms

• Fenwick Range Trees – Rapidly Find Cumulative Frequency Sums

Data Mining

• k-means clustering

E-Mail

• Mail in 2012 from an admin’s perspective

Experiments

• I feel I am building a new Google Wave

Fonts

• Computers, Software

Go

• Revel - a high-productivity Go web framework modeled on Play Framework
• Why Go gets exceptions right
• Why I went from Python to Go and not node.js
• Go-powered web-services with Rails

Hardware

• Fluffy2 - 5.9 Watt high-end desktop computer
• london underground circuit map radio
• iControlPad 2 - The open source controller by Product 3 LLC

Interviews

• William Gibson on Punk Rock, Internet Memes, and 'Gangnam Style'

IRC

• thedjpetersen/subway

JavaScript

• Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript

Rails

• Want to learn Rails? Start here.

Security

• WhatsApp is broken, really broken

Startup

• Dear Programmer, I have an idea
• My startup story

Tags

• The music classifying nightmare (Hacker News discussion)

Tools

• blahed/chainsaw - search in logfiles for dates
• The Silver Searcher: Better than Ack
• Setup a fancy development environment... on a linux system console only

VIM

• gitv

WTF

• avleen/bashttpd
• videlalvaro/gifsockets

Music

• Elders react to Dubstep (Skrillex)