If you’ve been on the Internet long enough, you’ve probably heard buzz about how hackers can spy on you using your webcam. This is not just some scare story. The truth is that hacking into webcams has been demonstrated over and over. Even so, I’ve always thought that such webcams were accessible only by elite government-employed computer geeks. It turns out that …
You may have heard the saying, “once you learn one programming language, every nth language is 1/2^n times as difficult”. Well, that’s only true if you’re learning from a good source. There are many places to learn how to code in Programming Language X, from YouTube to Khan Academy, to reading the raw documentation. However, the problem that I’ve found with …
http://www.winningsolitaire.com/ If you ever played Solitaire on the archaic Windows 2000/XP operating systems, and won, congratulations! Like me, you probably enjoyed watching the card waterfall at the end. Now you can relive the nostalgia at WinningSolitaire.com. Click anywhere, and it will spawn a bouncing playing card. Click again, and it spawns more. Protip: This website is especially entertaining on touch …
Unless you have the comfort of using a WYSIWIG editor like Excel or Word, creating tables by code can be a huge pain. Whether it’s LaTeX, HTML, or WikiText, it feels like 90% of your time is spent on markup, and 10% spent on data entry. And that’s if you get the table correctly formatted the first time. Fortunately, there …
LaTeX is the go-to language for typesetting scientific and mathematical research papers. While there are many LaTeX editors out there, the one that I can definitely recommend is ShareLaTeX. ShareLaTeX does for mathematical typesetting what Google Docs does for document collaboration. It allows you to edit documents in real time with other collaborators, although it works just as well for …