18/08/2007 @ 22:00 GMT
deusx : Informal Survey: Do Rewrites Really Fail? - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog - "I’ve seen plenty of studies regarding the success of projects and correlating their success with project size, I can’t recall seeing one correlating success with whether or not the project is a rewrite."
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18/08/2007 @ 20:00 GMT
plasticbag : I just got friended by Björk on Twitter. Bit weird. Advertising? Sponsorship? Official? Unofficial? - Not sure what I think about this. Very weird thing to happen.
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18/08/2007 @ 17:00 GMT
nelson : Riyadh solar time - Python timezone database gave up trying to cope with a weird time zone definition tried in Saudi Arabia for three years
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18/08/2007 @ 14:01 GMT
Simon Willison : The Python docs have been redesigned for 2.6 - The Python docs have been redesigned for 2.6. They’re beautiful. The docs for a module are on a single page now (rather than splitting over multiple pages), they’ve added unobtrusive permalinks to individual sections and the whole thing is built on
Jeremy Zawodny : Python Documentation - Python Documentation: apparently this has been recently revamped.. and I have to say, it's quite good
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18/08/2007 @ 14:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Group Membership Protocol Endpoint on LiveJournal - Group Membership Protocol Endpoint on LiveJournal. “All LiveJournal users and communities have their friend or member lists exposed via group membership protocol.”
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18/08/2007 @ 13:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Changeset 5925 - Changeset 5925. You can now register custom commands for your application with Django’s manage.py script. More sensible than littering your application’s root directory with shell scripts.
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18/08/2007 @ 09:01 GMT
adamrg : Are We Failing Our Geniuses?
deusx : Are We Failing Our Geniuses? - TIME - "it can't make sense to spend 10 times as much to try to bring low-achieving students to mere proficiency as we do to nurture those with the greatest potential."
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18/08/2007 @ 06:01 GMT
joshua : Sanus Systems: Online Source for TV Mounts, AV Furniture, Speaker Stands, Home Theater Furniture, & more
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18/08/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Base32 encoding - Base32 encoding. I was on the verge of inventing this when I discovered that Douglas Crockford had invented it for me. [via]
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18/08/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Simon Willison : A Change of Pace - A Change of Pace. David Recordon is heading back to Six Apart as Open Platforms Tech Lead, where it looks like he might get to work on social network portability.
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18/08/2007 @ 01:01 GMT
Simon Willison : Thoughts on the Social Graph - Thoughts on the Social Graph. I think social network portability will happen within the next year.
Linkorama : Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph - Goal 1: Ultimately make the social graph a community asset, utilizing the data from all the different sites, but not depending on any company or organization as "the" central graph owner.
Andy Baio : Brad Fitzpatrick's Thoughts on the Social Graph - this nicely articulates the problem and leaves me hopeful
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18/08/2007 @ 01:00 GMT
Simon Willison : Fixing GC issues on IE 6: New IE download - Fixing GC issues on IE 6: New IE download. Microsoft have released Windows Script Host / Script Runtime version 5.7, which apparently cleans up a bunch of IE 6 memory leaks.
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18/08/2007 @ 00:01 GMT
jcgregorio : Edge: HERETICAL THOUGHTS ABOUT SCIENCE AND SOCIETY By Freeman Dyson - we need more heretics
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