February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
12 posts
The 10X Samurai
TLDR; If you haven’t seen 13 Assassins yet, do so.
We watched 13 Assassins last night. At one point, the assassins find themselves facing tremendous odds, outnumbered ten to one.
It seems insurmountable until you realize they only have to kill ten each.
Programmers aren’t samurai, they’re not ninja, and they’re not rockstars, but cultivating skill is universal....
November 2011
14 posts
How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the... →
Reddit's AskScience Fair! →
Ancient bronze artifact from East Asia unearthed... →
Cities and the Northern lights from space (New... →
hanjeanwat:
Circling the Earth from space, the inhabitants of the International Space Station (ISS) witness spectacular views as they orbit the planet every 91 minutes. Now, a series of time-lapse videos, produced from still images captured at night, reveals…
October 2011
3 posts
15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality... →
Design that outlasts humanity: the real meanings... →
September 2011
6 posts
how github uses github →
naturalistic explanations on natural selection and... →
August 2011
2 posts
Why are tensors a generalization of scalars,... →
June 2011
2 posts
python's answer to rvm →
Setup isolated, independent python installations
Running erlang on heroku
Update: Kristian Kristensen writes on how to run webmachine on heroku.
With heroku’s new celadon cedar stack, you can run ruby, node.js, logo, and clojure. Since Heroku uses erlang it in their routing mesh, they may have erlang installations accessible from the slugs themselves.
Let’s try it out with beepbeep.
~ $ cd projects ~ $ git clone https://github.com/davebryson/beepbeep.git...
May 2011
2 posts
March 2011
2 posts
Watchvincecima:
Why didn’t anyone tell me that F1 cars have actual “boost”? Awesome video on modern open wheel racers.
February 2011
1 post
working with git submodules →
January 2011
1 post
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December 2010
2 posts
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Hosts on OSX
If you’ve done web development on a local machine and had to juggle multiple applications, you probably wound up assigning independent URLs to each application via the hosts file. And if you’ve jumped between platforms, you may have stumbled for a moment trying to figure out where to add your new records. OSX is no different.
OSX’s host file, located at /etc/hosts contains...
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transfer files via rsync with resume
Ages ago, at an old gig, we wound up regularly having to juggle large tarballs when deploying to the staging environments. We used scp, which worked great when there weren’t network issues. I had heard of rsync, but in a windows shop I wasn’t given leeway to change how things were done for our legacy RHEL environments.
But I’ve learned better since.
via the manpage
rsync...