3 hours ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How do we kick our synchronous addiction? - How do we kick our synchronous addiction?: I've been wondering about this too...
nelson : Async programming is hard - Nice overview of current inadequate options for asynchronous programming
# copy16 hours ago
deusx : Op-Ed Columnist - America Is Not Yet Lost - NYTimes.com - "The truth is that given the state of American politics, the way the Senate works is no longer consistent with a functioning government. Senators themselves should recognize this fact and push through changes in those rules, including eliminating or
jcgregorio : Op-Ed Columnist - America Is Not Yet Lost - NYTimes.com - """But by now, we know how the Obama administration deals with those who would destroy it: it goes straight for the capillaries."""
# copy6 days ago
cobra libre : shutup.css - Yes, it's come to this. #
Andy Baio : Shutup, disable comments on popular websites - related: Engadget disables comments and the Macheist team adds them to Daring Fireball
# copy6 days ago
philgyford : From Fish to Infinity - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com - The start of a series explaining maths to adults. Sounds good. There's a link to Steven Strogatz's own RSS feed at the bottom of the right column. (via Kottke)
cobra libre : Steven Strogatz: From Fish to Infinity - A new series on the fundamentals of math, beginning with six fish. [via] #
# copy7 days ago
Simon Willison : HipHop for PHP: Move Fast - HipHop for PHP: Move Fast. Facebook have open-sourced their internally developed PHP to C++ compiler. They serve 400 billion PHP pages a month (that’s more than 150,000 a second) so any performance improvement dramatically reduces their hardware costs
Kellan : Facebook: “our engineering team is relatively small — there are over one million users to every engineer” - Throw away line in the Facebook HipHop post gives us the Facebook RPE, 1mil vs Flickr’s 2.5mil. #
# copy8 days ago
nelson : Curt Schilling's game startup - A baseball star funds a gaming company. What could possibly go wrong? Oh, other than the $28 million.
Rod Begbie : A business school grilling for Curt Schilling? - Curt, we'll always love you for "the bloody sock" and 2004. Always. But you? Are a fucking idiot with all the business sense of my right nut. [via] #
# copy8 days ago
Rod Begbie : Chromium Blog: 40,000 More Extensions! - Hadn't noticed this -- Google Chrome has built-in support for Greasemonkey user scripts. Chrome has been my default browser for a while, so it's great to have my favourite tweaks back. [via] #
Andy Baio : Google Chrome 4 adds support for native Greasemonkey scripts - yay!
# copy11 days ago
nelson : Unhappy Hipsters - Funny captions on design photos
Jeremy Zawodny : Unhappy Hipsters - Unhappy Hipsters: this site cracks my shit up
# copy11 days ago
Andy Baio : Steven Frank on the iPad and a generational shift in computing - the single smartest essay I've read about the iPad yet; don't miss it
Rod Begbie : stevenf.com - I need to talk to you about computers. - One of the best things I've read following the iPad launch. #
# copy12 days ago
Rod Begbie : Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News - Brilliant clip of TV news clichés in action. [via] #
Andy Baio : How to Report the News - from Charlie Brooker's News Wipe
# copy12 days ago
Andy Baio : Rafe Colburn on the iPad and the closed future of consumer computing - I'm concerned it'll shift creation to consumption; even the iPhone was better on that count
cobra libre : Is the iPad the harbinger of doom for personal computing? - Yes, almost certainly. #
# copy13 days ago
Andy Baio : Anil Dash on geek attention on the iPad vs. tonight's State of the Union - a little perspective
Anil : Free Publicity: Who do we help? - I'm not a Democrat; I don't much care about the scorekeeping of who has more seats in any given chamber of Congress. But I do think there are things that need fixing in this country, and one of the most important is acknowledging when things are going the
Jeremy Zawodny : Free Publicity: Who do we help? - Free Publicity: Who do we help?: my personal reckoning has just shown me that a bunch of libertarian-leaning geeks in Silicon Valley who refuse to engage with government and civic society at all are never going to make an impact on most of the things that
# copy14 days ago
wearehugh : Jilion - SublimeVideo
Simon Willison : SublimeVideo - HTML5 Video Player - SublimeVideo—HTML5 Video Player. Still a fair way to go (no Firefox support yet, and they plan to add a Flash fallback for IE) but in Safari this is pretty extraordinary. Smooth video, beautiful UI, full window mode and full screen mode in the latest
# copy14 days ago
nelson : Book pirate - Interview with someone in the scene of scanning and OCRing books
Andy Baio : Confessions of a Book Pirate - a voracious reader, each book takes him at least 5 hours to scan, OCR, and proofread
# copy15 days ago
Simon Willison : OSM the default map in Haiti - OSM the default map in Haiti. A search and rescue team member in Haiti sends word that digital maps constructed by the OpenStreetMap community are spreading by word of mouth and being loaded on to GPS units on the ground.
nelson : OpenStreetMap in Haiti - OSM is the only map you can download and manipulate freely
# copy16 days ago
wearehugh : Christopher Blizzard · HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web
nelson : HTML5 video licensing - Very thoughtful post about Mozilla's position in the H.264 and HTML video kerfuffle
# copy17 days ago
nelson : Terrorball - Lancing editorial about the ridiculousness of current domestic antiterrorism policy
deusx : Undressing the Terror Threat - WSJ.com - "No amount of statistical evidence, however, will make any difference to those who give themselves over to almost completely irrational fears. Such people, and there are apparently a lot of them in America right now, are in fact real victims of terro
# copy19 days ago
deusx : Benlog » Don’t Hash Secrets - "So the next time you’re using a hash function on anything, ask yourself: is any of the stuff I’m hashing supposed to stay secret? If so, don’t hash. Instead, use HMAC."
Simon Willison : Don't Hash Secrets - Don’t Hash Secrets. A well written explanation from 2008 of why you must use hmac instead of raw SHA-1 when hashing against a secret.
Jeremy Zawodny : Don’t Hash Secrets - Don’t Hash Secrets: thoughts on when HMAC-SHA1 is better than just SHA1
# copy19 days ago
Andy Baio : Zeldman on posthumous hosting and the fragility of the creative web - maybe a nonprofit focused on archiving individual authors? Archive.org's wonderful, but it's darkweb
philgyford : Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report - I've been pondering the same things, wondering about some kind of foundation you pay who will archive a static copy of your sites after your death. (via Waxy)
cobra libre : Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture - "But there's gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes. We are not clairvoyants, so we cannot say which fledgling, presently little-read web publications will matter to future historians #
# copy20 days ago
Simon Willison : A successful Git branching model - A successful Git branching model. This looks eminently sensible. The master branch is used for production-ready code, and is only updated by merging from either release branches or emergency hotfix branches. A develop branch is used for integration (fro [via]
deusx : nvie.com » Blog Archive » A successful Git branching model - "In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now, but I’ve
Jeremy Zawodny : A successful Git branching model - A successful Git branching model: good explanation of a very sane looking release and branching model
# copy21 days ago
cobra libre : The Demise of CSS: Why Sass and Languages Like It Will Triumph #
deusx : The Demise of Plain CSS: Why Sass And Languages Like It Will Triumph - "Just like higher-level programming languages compile to assembler, so Sass compiles to CSS. And just as higher-level programming languages eventually replaced the regular usage of assembler, so Sass (or a language like it) will eventually replace CS
# copy22 days ago
Andy Baio : Baratunde Thurston speculates how MLK might have used Twitter - "I just became mayor of The Albany Jail on @foursquare!"
Rod Begbie : What Would Martin Luther King Make of Twitter?: Baratunde Thurston - Thoughtful and funny piece by Baratunde Thurston. [via] #
# copy22 days ago
Simon Willison : Locations of Ancient Woolworths Stores follow Precise Geometrical Pattern - Locations of Ancient Woolworths Stores follow Precise Geometrical Pattern. Excellent send-up of shoddy science reporting.
Eric Meyer : Did aliens play a role in Woolworths? - I think the answer is clear to any who have the courage to see it.
# copy23 days ago
Andy Baio : Frank Cifaldi's annotated Mr. Gimmick playthrough - obscure NES gem I'd never heard of, the annotations are expertly done [via]
nelson : NES Mr. Gimmick - Great annotated playthrough of an obscure Nintendo game. Sort of Kirby aesthetics
# copy25 days ago
Andy Baio : Oink founder cleared of fraud charges - still amazed he was pulling in over $200k in donations a year
Rod Begbie : BBC News - Music file-sharer 'Oink' cleared of fraud - Hurrah! The founder of OiNK's Pink Palace found not-guilty of fraud. So in summary, by getting OiNK shut down, the music industry have achieved: Pissing off a large community of music lovers and no conviction. Good work fellas! [via] #
# copy
