24/01/2009 @ 20:00 GMT
Simon Willison : EuroDjangoCon - EuroDjangoCon. 4th-6th of May 2009, in Prague. Talk submissions are open now, and registration starts on the 6th of February.
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jcgregorio : Free the facts! - a set on Flickr
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24/01/2009 @ 18:00 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : No new global mutexes! (and how to make the thread/connection pool work) - No new global mutexes! (and how to make the thread/connection pool work): the folks at google continue to do interesting mysql work
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Jeremy Zawodny : MySQL Bugs: #42288: thread_handling = pool-of-threads is slow - MySQL Bugs: #42288: thread_handling = pool-of-threads is slow: performance fail
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cobra libre : NYT: No Snickering -- That Road Sign Means Something Else - DATELINE: Crapstone, England #
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cobra libre : Barack Obama's Prose Style - Fish on the inaugural speech. #
deusx : Barack Obama’s Prose Style - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com - "Barack Obama’s inaugural address is proving to be more powerful in the reading than it was in the hearing. "
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Andy Baio : John Resig explains how the Greasemonkey CAPTCHA solver works - step by step
deusx : John Resig - OCR and Neural Nets in JavaScript - "A pretty amazing piece of JavaScript dropped yesterday and it's going to take a little bit to digest it all. It's a GreaseMonkey script, written by 'Shaun Friedle', that automatically solves captchas provided by the site Megauplo
Simon Willison : OCR and Neural Nets in JavaScript - OCR and Neural Nets in JavaScript. John dissects the brilliant Greasemonkey script that solves simple captchas using the canvas element and HTML5’s getImageData API.
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gleuschk : James Fallows: Boiled-frog Archives - wow, it just goes on and on
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Linkorama : Kids On Facebook - Facebook Briefs Parents in Palo Alto - Where does Facebook's Business Model Fit into Protecting our Kids? Furrier.org - Business & Technology Blog
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Andy Baio : Greasemonkey: Neural network in Javascript solves Megaupload's CAPTCHAs in the browser - weak captchas, but still impressive; the author explains why cracking reCAPTCHA is much harder, with more discussion on Reddit [via]
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Cameron Moll : Dan Cederholm on Beautiful Accidents - Dan Cederholm on Beautiful Accidents: "We can’t plan these mistakes, but wish we could. What seems like disaster, turns into the spark that ignites what we perceive later as 'rightly so'." Couldn't agree more with Dan's point, and I've benefitted from t
Greg Storey : "We can't plan these mistakes, but wish we could." - I don't know about that, Dan. Have you ever licked the back of a toad and then used Photoshop?
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Ethan Marcotte : Dan Cederholm on “beautiful accidents” - We can’t plan these mistakes, but wish we could. What seems like disaster, turns into the spark that ignites what we perceive later as “rightly so”. And it happens all the time when I’m designing. Oops, I dumped a white paint can where color use
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Ethan Marcotte : Stopdesign has returned - Doug Bowman is back, which is a cause for celebration. Love the new design, of course, but I’m most looking forward to seeing more of Doug’s writing. ∞
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