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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Wonderful to see them up. However it seems not all of them are there (full list here: https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/ ). I hope 'The real-time web with co-routines' tutorial gets uploaded, along with any slides. I heard that some spea
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Django 1.4 release candidate issued (djangoproject.com)
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
No-one else has pointed this out yet, apparently, but I just got my mind blown by one little UI decision -- clicking toward either the upper or lower part of the content body, it scrolls to that direction. Wonderful, and very impressive. So
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What is a Leap Year? [video](youtube.com)
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8 GDB tricks you should know(blogs.oracle.com)
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
It all happened pretty quickly. It started with this post: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/oye34/meet_omari_two_d... -- made by a person working with Longonot Education. The person only asked for $2000, but Redditors have donated 70
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Redditors create 'Redditors Without Borders' in response to a donation post(reddit.com)
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Or just press Esc very quickly so it stops loading the page before rendering the protest message overlay.
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iPhones at Foxconn built, in part, by 13 year-olds working 16 hr/day for 70¢/hr(businessinsider.com)
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Perhaps I should rather have linked directly to the post: http://www.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/nxdzz/im_not_as_... Anyway, I want to emphasize that while his response was specifically to some guy in MIT feeling down, his words are
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A Redditor's insightful message for discouraged students(reddit.com)
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100 Million Usernames, Passwords Leaked from Chinese websites(english.caixin.com)
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
How about applications involving NFC? http://www.fastcompany.com/1795224/2012-the-year-nfc-goes-ma... Not to toot my own horn here, but I've got a good record in being accurate with these predictions so far ;) -- http://news.ycombinator.c
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
My goodness. So someone tell me, which registrar then actually has sensible terms & policies?
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
In the words of Elie Wiesel, "Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor. Never the victim. Never the tormented." It obviously doesn't feel quite right to equate this whole fiasco to what Wiesel was talking about, but I just cannot think of
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
A more convenient link for easy navigability: http://www.worldmapper.org/textindex/text_index.html Pretty fascinating stuff! If you have other stuff like this that a data junkie like me might enjoy, please let me know!
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Some direct interesting links: * The world: http://www.worldpopulationatlas.org/carto_world.htm * China: http://www.worldpopulationatlas.org/carto_chn_hkg.htm * United States: http://www.worldpopulationatlas.org/carto_usa_main.htm * I
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Map of the world (and all individual countries) showing population density(worldpopulationatlas.org)
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Go Daddy realizes it perfectly well the part Reddit played in this whole fiasco and how much of an effect it can potentially have in the future for its business, so it's very, very difficult to buy that this isn't a calculated PR move. Ever
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
So far as I have observed, while the group is loosely-knit, and really is in concept "anyone" -- in terms of general perception by media and people there rather actually is some consensus of who is more Anonymous than the other. And that's
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Yes. I had been wanting to participate in the Dec-29 mass de-activation protest but it just so happened that a handful of my domains were expiring on this 25th. Something I was very conscious about was the hoops and hassles Godaddy makes yo
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Just wondering here -- would you go so far as to consider the domain registrars of YC hopefuls when going through the application process, or would their choice hold essentially zero weight in whether they get accepted or not?
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
> The next warning is stay off IRC or other places where "hackers" hang out. They think it's funny to hand you commands that can destroy your computer. The command rm -rf / is a classic that you must never type. Just avoid them. If you
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Just a reminder: you shouldn't download extensions from non-official sources. Here's one place to install it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cgbhdenfmgbagncdmg...
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Android malware explodes, jumps five-fold since July (computerworld.com)
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Samsung phones with AccuWeather give away precise location to any app(forum.xda-developers.com)
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Granick sold out a long time ago. She works for HBGary now. If I recall correctly the whole e-mail dump revealed her to be the backstabbing twit she is.
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Very impressive. Besides your very clever ploy to get us all to see your profile for the link ;-), the landing page is beautifully well done. I found it immediately useful for my own purposes.
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An Open Source Hardware Project - Global Village Construction Set [video]
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Just out of plain curiosity, could I please see the scraping script?

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