Stories by danso

Hurdle in Hunt for Missing Jet: Tracking System

Dear Mom and Dad: Thanks for Teaching Me Unix

The Wire in HD

Why Team America Suceeds as Satire Where the Interview Fails

How Bad Software Leads to Bad Science

Scraping Craigslist for sold-out concert tickets

Why influence mapping matters to journalism

S3plz – A polite, minimal interface for sending Python objects to/from Amazon S3

My favourite interview question (2006)

Doug McIlroy facts

The Exit Interview

The Problem with Praising Famous Scientists

Bedfellows: Python library for finding political action committee relationships

Mining data to understand Street Fighter's balance and meta-game

Seven Segment Optical Character Recognition

Content, Forever

Inside the Firewall: Tracking the News That China Blocks

First web scraper

Simple Project Planning for Sysadmins

Breaking Quake [pdf]