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by paulsmith 17y ago
This is by Evan Miller, whom this crowd may know from what was once titled the "Balls Out Guide to Nginx Module Development": http://www.evanmiller.org/nginx-modules-guide.html
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Rails Idioms + Django Templates + Erlang Power = Chicago Boss(chicagoboss.org)
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New EveryBlock feature: draw your own neighborhood(blog.everyblock.com)
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MongoDB 1.0 released(blog.mongodb.org)
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Actually, wars against populations and not just between armies began to disappear as a consequence of the end of the Thirty Years' War in the 17th Century. Until that point, armies were largely expected to be self-funding, so they would tak
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"Here's how I've been spending my time recently. * On sabbatical at Google for calendar year 2009" Yup.
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"Right now we're in the early adopter phase, with startups and ISVs using Clojure as a secret weapon and power tool." Are any YC start-ups using Clojure?
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Sorry, but this smacks a little of "I Can't Believe the Zed Shaw Posts They Make Me Read!" http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33604
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Schuyler Erle, who wrote the venerable Geo::Coder::US in Perl, updates it for Ruby, SQLite, and with a more modular design. Announced by Andrew Turner at the State of the Map conference in Amsterdam.
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GeoCommons open-sourced their geocoder(highearthorbit.com)
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A little context: this was the article that so moved the President that he insisted that Senators read it at a recent White House meeting on health care reform: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/us/politics/09health.html
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by paulsmith 18y ago
In a nutshell, they are discussing changing GNOME Terminal to "speak" GNU screen -- automatically attach to existing screen sessions, option to automatically enter a screen session when starting a new Terminal session, list screen "screens"
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Making GNOME Terminal GNU screen-aware(live.gnome.org)
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by paulsmith 18y ago
I got one yesterday and can say I'm already reading better (i.e., more thoroughly, more attentively) than I would at desktop or laptop. No zillions of tabs, virtual desktops, tiled windows -- just you and your book or news article. And no t
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by paulsmith 18y ago
I thought this piece by Atul Gawande on how health-care reform in the U.S. will proceed was illuminating. He uses the social science term "path-dependent" to describe systems that grow up around early design decisions, and they win out over
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Health-care reform will resemble the evolution of browsers + HTML: both are path-dependent(newyorker.com)
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If they would just think of the content as syndication ala RSS, or YouTube embedding, they'd recognize that we Boxee users see the same pre-/post-/middle-roll ads that appear on Hulu.com actual. This is especially frustrating for me because
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Comparison of the House and Senate versions of the stimulus bill(propublica.org)
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Demo of a process monitor web app being built in Seaside/Smalltalk(cincomsmalltalk.com)
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How the Web is opening up our democracy(cjr.org)
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A Markov chain generator in Clojure(michaelharrison.ws)
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by paulsmith 18y ago
Urk, I'd love to watch the screencasts but sadly can't open your Keynote file on my defiantly un-Mac Ubuntu box. Little help?
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by paulsmith 18y ago
I'd love to see a real-world map/reduce example that wasn't wordcount.
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You may also want to take a look at pkgsrc, which lists OS X/Darwin as a supported platform: http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html
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Right, it’s interesting that you wind up seeing these formats extended with additional complexity, basically reimplementing HTML in their custom syntax, for dealing with the publishing/processing pipeline. I suggest an editor like vim or Em
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The Freakonomics guys discussed deliberate practice recently on their NYT blog: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/how-did-a-r...