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It’s surprising that the venerable JPEG image compression standard, which dates back to 1986, is still the best we can do for photographic image compression. There’s a sequel of sorts to JPEG known as JPEG 2000. It’s the logical heir to the JPEG throne. The promise of JPEG 2000 is higher image quality in [...]

Short blog post arguing C maybe ‘The new assembly’. I must say I agree. Interesting read, with some links for further reading.
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Are programmers or should we called them coders, the most neglected link in the Software Development Chain?Coders are like smart assembly line workers as opposed to programmers who are plant engineers. Programmers are the brains, the glorious visionaries who create things.
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If you didn’t know what a computer virus was, I hope you didn’t base your knowledge on Hollywood. There’s a lot more to it than simply typing “Upload Virus” into your fake OS. However, the fate of several Hollywood movies have been decided by a virus one way or another.
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The Open Design Community (TODC) is a group of Open Source Website Designers providing free web design templates helping to make the global internet a prettier place.
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What do Code Monkey think?
Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write god damned login page himself
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A great list of classic computer science texts. Featuring such geeky titles as ‘Let’s Build a Compiler’ and ‘A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression’
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Facebook has introduced a new interface to their API. The Facebook Query Language (or FQL) is an SQL style interface to access the data that you can normally access through their API. The advantages listed include condensed XML, a reduction in the number of queries needed, and a single consistent, unified interface for all [...]

Google has launched legal action against a group of Polish poets, demanding that they give up their Internet domain name gmail.pl, a member of the cultural collective said.
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Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate!
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