24. March 2014

Check out my FirefoxOS game Protect Your Thing!

FirefoxOS development is really easy if you have experience with front-end web development. Apps are very similar to chrome extensions, with .manifest files set up to control the application, and html / css to handle the content and appearance.

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27. February 2014

A key-value store that forgets

Humans, like computers, have long term and short term memory. An interesting feature of human memory is that if you don’t use a memory for a while, you will eventually forget it.

So, for example, assume that 20 years ago you read War and Peace. Rather than keep the details of all 1000 pages in your memory, your brain sees that the memory hasn’t been used in a while, and eventually it forgets the details of the book.

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