Long Tail Pre-Filters vs Post Filters

For my reference, this is a nice categorization of filters for content in Long Tails as expressed by Chris Anderson on his book The Long Tail Pre-Filters (Old School Business Models based on Top 10s, Best Sellers) Editors Record Label Scouts Studio Executives Department store buyers Marketers Advertisers vs Post-Filters Blogs Playlists Reviews Customers Recommendations […]

Google Glass to enrich Google Maps/Earth with fine grained 3D Models of reality

I was imagining a world maybe 5 years from now, where there’s an insane amount of Google-Glass-like devices out there. If Google was bold enough to map the streets with cars equipped with GPS and cameras, I think one of the top uses they must have somewhere on their master plan is to use every […]

VIDEO: Coding the FrostWire search filters UI

Get in the zone with me for a good 15 minutes, maybe you’ll catch a few eclipse tricks and you’ll learn a little bit about how I think (and make mistakes along the way of fixing something on FrostWire)

Finally my genome tells me where I’m from

Sequencing my DNA in 2013 just cost me $100, exponential technological advancements in effect. Maybe in 2 years it’ll only cost $10, and in 4 years only $1. 23andme.com rocks, I highly recommend you try this and know in advance what you can do to preserve your health and learn so much about genetics and […]

How to obtain the coordinates of the JTable cell a mouse is hovering over, useful for tooltips within cell renderers.

public String getToolTipText(MouseEvent event) { /* * This is a Java Swing lesson on how to obtain the coordinates of the current cell * as you hover with the mouse on a JTable. * * You cannot use the renderer component, since it seems that once the table is done * stamping the cells with […]

Browser breakdown of gubatron.com visitors, the Internet is a better place

IE only 5.47%, YES! Follow the geek, and you will taste the future ahead of time. How did Google get this market share? Let’s just say that it wasn’t only because they do have a great product, think monopolistic-like powers and a lot of bullying and dictating to partners conditions that favor the adoption of […]

#VIDEO FrostWire 5.6.0 preview – Increase/Decrease Font Size

Download FrostWire 5.6.0 beta (under “BETA RELEASES”)

#SCALA #NOTES Difference between list.foreach() and list.map()

[scala]val l = List(1,2,3,4,5) val lAfterForEach = l.foreach(x => x * 10) val lAfterMap = l.map(x => x * 10) println(“Original List: ” + l) println(“For each operates on each element, returns nothing:” + lAfterForEach) println(“Map is like foreach but returns new post-processed list: ” + lAfterMap)[/scala] output: [bash]Original List: List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) […]

If I were Microsoft (Dictator) CEO for a week

(and things were hypothetically simple, no federal agencies forcing me to do certain things, sending a lot of partners to hell and deal with the lawsuits) I would… 1. Stop fucking around with the huge dominance I still have over the PC Market and milk it as it slowly seems to die. This means, don’t […]

New FrostWire for Android 1.0.8 out

A new FrostWire for Android is out on Google Play. In this release we improved our search algorithm to include relevant search results that were being hidden in previous versions. We’ve also made use of Square’s Picasso Image loading/caching library for displaying all the images on the user interface, resulting in less crashes due to […]