programming
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I agree that cutesy error messages are irritating. I'd rather see a more serious "we're on it" notice.
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Great collection of miscellaneous tech tips. I have a bunch of these in a text file too. I should make them public like this.
Paul Bausch
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"So maybe, instead of waiting for the MPAA’s next law and changing our Twitter avatars for a few days in protest, it would be more productive to significantly reduce or eliminate our support of the MPAA member companies starting today, and start supporting campaign finance reform."
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Russ Cox explains how the retired Google Code Search used to work. It includes links to a similar project you can install locally to search code using the same method.
Paul Bausch
Paul Bausch
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"Cities cannot 'come to the end of their patience' because they’re not people. Mayors and local officials can come to the end of their patience. So can cops. But cities?" Analyzing and comparing the coverage of Occupy Oakland violence with Kent State coverage. [via bluishorange]
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It's not a great idea, but if you want to write a regular expression to define a numeric range, this tool makes it easier than doing it by hand.
Paul Bausch
Paul Bausch
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Solarized is a color palette for code editors. I've been using these colors in TextMate for a day or so and I'm enjoying it.
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"Diesels are wildly popular in Europe, accounting for roughly 50 percent of the car market there. So why don't automakers simply bring the European cars here?" An older article that explains why diesels are hard to come by here.
Paul Bausch
Paul Bausch
Paul Bausch
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"Dennis Delimarsky compared several weather APIs and decided that Google’s is best, despite having no documentation or support from the company." Looks nice!
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A bit outdated, but full of good advice for tuning SQL Server applications.
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"Eligible Kindle books can be loaned once for a period of 14 days. The borrower does not need to own a Kindle -- Kindle books can also be read using our free Kindle reading applications for PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android devices." It's a start!
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"...the Pro users of yesteryear’s products, the people with the biggest investment in old technologies, are not the people who should be calling the shots in the design of their successors." Let Beginner's Mind have a shot! [via torrez]
Paul Bausch
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Nice list of board books for kids to revisit.
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"This demo is an implementation of a full 8-bit color cycling engine, rendered into an HTML5 Canvas in real-time." Nice look at the lost video game art of color cycling to show movement.
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Great list of design laws to keep in mind. Seems that users are waging a constant battle against Hick's Law. [via glass]
Paul Bausch
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"There is an error in most photography scaling algorithms." Wha? This is hard to believe.
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I think we're safely out of spoiler territory now so I can post this great analysis of Toy Story 3.
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Neven Mrgan has a great point: when a satire gets too close to the subject it's taking down is it still satire?
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Great 50's comic art.
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Frozen bananas in a food processor = ice cream? I need to try this!
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Great idea, I'd use them.
Paul Bausch
Paul Bausch
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