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Unixrealm Posts 08/21/2012

10 Personal Productivity Mantras For Entrepreneurs – Forbes Great article and love the productivity mantras. tags: productivity unixrealm Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Unixrealm Posts 04/27/2012

Religion and Reason | Psychology Today             Psychologists William Gervais and Ara Norenzayan, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, predicted that people who were more analytic in thinking would tend not to believe in religion, whereas people who approach problems more intuitively would tend to be believers. Their study confirmed the hypothesis and […]

Unixrealm Posts 04/03/2012

Backblaze Blog » Petabytes on a Budget v2.0:Revealing More Secrets How backblaze offers mass-storage on a budget. Several good tips for anyone planning to put together a cheap storage pod. tags: unixrealm storage hardware Symmetricom Clock Card Reads Time One Million Times Per Second tags: unixrealm tim ntp ptp latency Posted from Diigo. The rest […]

Unixrealm Posts 03/29/2012

The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review A great read on the magic of doing only one thing at a time, definitely a lost art in the modern workplace. tags: unixrealm productivity organization Easter Egg Hunt In Colorado Canceled Due To Aggressive Parents : NPR A […]

Physics Buzz: Physics Spinoffs

Sometimes the best discoveries are the ones you aren’t looking for. There’s a physicist in Washington today. That’s not terribly uncommon, but Steve Gass isn’t here to warn us of global warning, beg for research dollars, lobby for/against nuclear power, or many of the other common reasons scientists talk to politicians. He’s here to save […]

High Frequency Trading at Royal Bank of Scotland on NetBeans (Geertjan’s Blog)

via blogs.oracle.com I love that Netbeans RCP platform is getting used for application like this now. I actually wonder sometimes why it’s not MORE widespread.

Blame Canada no more. – Fortune Finance

The Great White North shakes off its historical politesse and starts kicking ass, financial-style. Will the rest of the world listen? via finance.fortune.cnn.com My favorite quote: “So why don’t we move back to Toronto, a place of great living standards and high culture? Because it’s too cold, says my wife. And that’s where the discussion […]