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I’ve been hacking up a user interface for my motion capture/computer vision project called “Hand2Hand,” found here. At first I was gonna do the user interface in Python and have the image processing done in C, but then I decided that the user interface was simple enough that I should just give GTK+ in “pure … Continue reading User interfaces with GTK+ and Glade

I think everyone should revisit Outfoxed, if you’re interested in a truly interesting new approach to bookmarking and web browsing that actually takes advantage of all this “Web 2.0” hype and nonsense. I just mentioned this to Free Coders on the mailing list yesterday. The application of “trust-based networks” is very wide. I think it’s … Continue reading Outfoxed and trust networks, revisted

This /. article has responses from Microsoft Linux Lab manager Bill Hilf. I responded to this post from a Microsoft employee. My response follows.

I wrote a pretty sweet script tonight. It parallelizes the getmail retrieval process, while still printing prefixes so I know which accounts download which messages. This means that instead of my mail fetching process taking sum(i1,…,in), where i is the length of time for a given mail retrieval, my fetching process now takes max(i1,…,in). #!/bin/sh … Continue reading N-way parallel mail retrieval with getmail and bash

Gene Amdahl once applied the law of diminishing returns to computation. He pointed out that when optimizing part of a computer program or computer system, one must take into account what percent of the overall task at hand that optimization affects. I recently read some articles comparing the speed of Python to Java, most of … Continue reading Amdahl’s Law