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James Fallows on Google Keep
What to trust and not trust to Google: A Problem Google Has Created for Itself – Technology – The Atlantic. HT: Boing Boing
Fogbeam Labs: Post “Good Google”, Who Will Defend The Open Web?
It is up to us to save the Open Web. Fogbeam Labs: Post "Good Google", Who Will Defend The Open Web?.
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Wonder Why There Were So Many Videos of That Meteor in Russia?
There are so many Russian drivers with dash cams, some of which captured spectacular video of a meteor exploding over Russia. Wired’s Damon Lavrinc reports, “A combination of inexpensive cameras, flash memory and regulations passed by the Interior Ministry in … Continue reading
TED Talk: Everything is Remix
Kirby Ferguson talks about patent law and remix. “Remix may sound like common sense until you’re the one being remixed.”
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NBC seem to thin it’s a good location too #atoc
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Found my spot #atoc
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They’re on the sidewalks #lamarathon
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Surrounded by runners #lamarathon
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Getting ready for the start of #lamarathon at mile one
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs ePub
Thanks to Calibre, I was able to convert Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman to ePub.
Some Lesser-Known Truths About Programming
David Veksler offers up some lesser known truths about programming. http://www.facebook.com/notes/david-veksler/some-lesser-known-truths-about-pr… Posted via email from nomadicoder’s posterous
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Some Lesser-Known Truths About Programming
David Veksler offers up some lesser known truths about programming. http://www.facebook.com/notes/david-veksler/some-lesser-known-truths-about-pr… Posted via email from nomadicoder’s posterous
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Zapping Malaria With Lasers
A very cool way of controlling Malaria… Zapping mosquitos with lasers! Posted via email from nomadicoder’s posterous
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Tom Woods’ Interview with a Zombie
via thomasewoods.com There’s just no reasoning with a zombie. Posted via email from nomadicoder’s posterous
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RSpec test code extracted from Sinatra Ruby
From: http://www.sinatrarb.com/testing.html#frameworks In app/hello_world.rb require ‘sinatra’ get ‘/’ do “Hello World #{params[:name]}”.strip end In app/spec/app_spec.rb require ‘hello_world’require ‘spec’ require ‘rack/test’ set :environment, :test describe ‘The HelloWorldApp’ do include Rack::Test::Methods def app Sinatra::Application end it “says hello” do get ‘/’ last_response.should … Continue reading
Quick RVM Rubinius 1.0.0 Install Recipe
Here are the quick and dirty commands I used to install Rubinius 1.0.0 with Rails, RSpec, and Sinatra in RVM on Mac OS X. So far I haven’t been able to get Cucumber to install. The problem has been fixed … Continue reading
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Pogonip: the visual expression of clouds, wind and cold
In the freezing, windswept hours of late Thursday night, weather conditions in the Tehachapi Mountains turned the upper elevations white, like the hair of a mother worried about her grown but troubled children. This phenomenon is known by several names, … Continue reading
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The App That Lets Me Leave the iPhone at Home
Though I had switched to a Motorola Droid, I kept carrying my iPhone with me. But now that I have Google Listen, Evernote and VIP Access for Android, I have duplicated all of my critical apps on my Droid. It’s … Continue reading
Too Many Apps
Monday I had to factory reset my Motorola Droid. I was unable to wake my phone. It was on, the green new mail light was flashing, but when I pressed the power button to wake it up, nothing happened. The … Continue reading
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Stupid Smilies!
It was a good idea to start blogging lessons learned as I code, but it took almost as long to post a correctly formatted entry when I ran into one problem. WordPress creates emoticons automagically. Even if the text is … Continue reading