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I didn't want to link to the homepage of ubuntu.com but still wanted to let you know, that ubuntu 10.4 LTS has been released.

Is this the year of Linux on the desktop? :D

I've really come to like flot

http://code.google.com/p/flot/

The head revision also supports pie charts, which are pretty sweet.

either use aviary.com or:

all you need is imagemagick

wkhtmltopdf www.google.com google.pdf && convert google.pdf google.png

results aren't nearly as good as the browser addon but it works

Then there is the aviary.com browser plugin where you can get an image version of the website you are viewing and even upload it directly to host (and edit) it on their site:

http://aviary.com/viewfull?fguid=a1c828de-96b6-102d-a9f3-003...

usually they also provide a service where you can go to URLs like this to get an image (the plugin is faster though):

http://aviary.com/http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125638...

I like the column thing, but tomorrow is more important than in 5 days, so maybe something more like this:

http://create.ly/g7ris7m01

maybe like this mockup i just made?

http://create.ly/g7qpwcay1

it's also a good example how heteronormativity works

http://www.esendex.de/ in europe

I've successfully used cleverreach, which is a german company, because a client asked me to. It worked really well, importing addresses from CVS, personalizing, campaign monitoring, click rates, etc:

http://www.cleverreach.de/frontend/index.php?flang=en

For preparation I handcoded an html-table layout with some css which I later turned to inline css using http://premailer.dialect.ca/ because other css gets stripped out by gmail and other web mail clients.

Yes! That is the most amazing thing I hadn't known I wanted to have :D It takes greasemonkey and jetpack to a whole nother level. Awesome awesome awesome! If I didn't have a very important test tomorrow I know I'd spend hours messing with firefox till nothing was left.

yes that is really cool too but no, i meant an actual shell interface to communicate with the browser

Just noticed that there've already been interesting discussions about Uzbl on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626281

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578618

What I wonder the most about is why they don't try to bring a command line interface to firefox, kind of like how you can call safari and its content from applescript.

I think firefox can already be used with keyboard shortcuts only and they have a hard time getting their browser to be half as fast.

What configurability is concerned, I think that mozillas choice of saving all the user configs etc in a sqlite database is easy enough to access by script.

Still interesting and probably good fun to fool around with!

Exactly! There are probably hundreds of interesting people where you live you could talk to and you wouldn't have to spend so much money on the trip. You really should just try the whole interview thing at least once or twice before you head off.

Java's result is 21

gcc says 22 and it gives you a warning, that this expression is illegal, we looked it up, because you cannot use a variable which is ++incremented more than once in the same expression.

yup, that's python alright. Very odd behaviour

yes, "operator precedence" is of course the key

At first I thought it was all about Windows and I'm like "on linux there's no rebooting necessary!" mumbling: "except for kernel updates"

But reading the website, it turns out, that they seem to have found a way to do kernel updates without rebooting. Big Up!

And it seems like they want to support all major and minor OS.

in python it would be like this (get BeautifulSoup first):

--

  import urllib2

  from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

  ychtml = urllib2.urlopen('http://news.ycombinator.com/).read()

  for tdtitle in BeautifulSoup(ychtml).findAll("td", "title"):

    print tdtitle.a

It's odd how the development on the linux-based moblin operating system is not mentioned as this boots up in 13 sec on regular hardware and up to 5 seconds using a solid state disk.

that google sites link is down... see google's cached version (do you also think that that doesn't make a whole lot of sense?)

http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:vxqYQFKjExEJ:sites.goog...

I love the idea, and i'm already working on a prototype!

Sometimes it's nice not to have to search for the little button and press it that opens the next mail or goes to the next picture, but simply do a quick gesture. GMail actually has a labs setting for that.

I use gestures for navigation all the time, as a firefox plugin, so i don't have to press the back arrow, but simply do a quick gesture. It's much faster, for me anyways.

It is a real job, but if he makes that kind of money every month it's quite alright. I assume that he could stop doing that and it would still pay off for quite some time.

I don't think it's gibberish.

I would love to gather good questions and discuss the results when they are available. I think it is important to find questions to which google, yahoo, powerset or wikipedia don't provide a straight answer.

How about:

1) What is the smallest unknown prime number? ;)

2) Where on earth is the rainy days to sunny days ratio the lowest?

3) How many languages does the average person from the Benelux countries speak?

LOL!

btw python is so much better than java, took me a day to get into it, no braces no garbage...

also i have a smoke every so often. preferably after work. and yes, people who think it makes you stupid have no clue what they are talking about. it really makes me more creative an HUNGRY