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Show Notes for April 12, 2012

JM Crispy Kale Chips OM Nissan LEAF EB Slap in the face at the Taiwan parliament BMW M5 plays engine sounds through speakers to make sure you know it’s a V8

Show Notes for April 10, 2012

TP Dynamic Code Evolution VM , A modification of the Java HotSpot(TM) VM that allows unlimited class redefinition at runtime

Show Notes for April 6, 2012

AV Just how big are porn sites? A behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering The Verizon iPad can be used a WiFi hotspot , for no additional charge

Show Notes for April 5, 2012

JM True Colors personality test (no Wikipedia page?), which may be seen as a simplified version of the  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator , and the videos on YouTube part of Leading@Google Nokia Maps in WebGL , for instance check out San Francisco, using C3 technology , since then acquired by Apple The Ides of March , directed by George Clooney Atomic Adaptive Rocker Bear Valley Chemin de fer du Lötschberg EB The controversy about  Brendan Eich contribution to prop 8 AV White noise as a sleep aid, in particular the WhiteNoise iPhone app

Show Notes for April 4, 2012

EB True Scala complexity  - Yang Zhang's January post Scala @switch annotation  - "If present, the compiler will verify that the match has been compiled to a tableswitch or lookupswitch and issue an error if it instead compiles into a series of conditional expressions" Scala universal traits - traits that can extend Any (no official doc on this term yet, but here is a  commit )