Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Tech Links: February 7, 2012


Breaking down Facebook’s initial public offering

Infographic: The Day the Internet Stood Still 

Google wants to make sci-fi a reality with “Solve for X,” a conference for radical tech ideas

Hacker group Anonymous joined the FBI - Scotland Yard conference call coordinating their strategy against Anonymous. Call recording is now on YouTube with some suspect names bleeped.

How (and why) to set up Google Cloud Print.

Professor Thrun has quit Stanford and will be running a 7-week course on how to build a search engine to anyone with or without previous programming experience. While the reasons why Professor Thrun has quit Stanford is unclear, it is amazing he is equipping, and empowering, so many people with computer programming skills and fundamentally changing the dynamics of how higher education is delivered. For anyone interested, his course is starting in February 2012 and you can sign up at Udacity.com.

WAT  is a lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012, on the peculiarities of some popular scripting languages.

You will never kill piracy and piracy will never kill you.

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