admp

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Hello.

My email: hi@adom.as

admpon Elon Musk's Caltech Commencement Address

Video recording is also available:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/23331324

Elon is invited to speak at 29:30.

admpon Functioning Apple 1 Sells for $375,000 at Sotheby's Auction

Apple I was released in 1976, but Apple only went public in 1980.

admpon Weekend Hack: UDIDirectory

Uh, at first I misread this as UDDIDirectory, and was very glad to realize that was a mistake.

admpon The relationship between Readability and Instapaper

Thanks for introducing me to Diffbot.

From your comment I expected it to be an open source implementation, but a high-quality SaaS with 50,000 API calls/mo on the free plan is still pretty damn good.

admpon The Dropbox API

Obligatory reference: "SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more."

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.ht...

admpon Dropbox is my publish button

Besides being better suited to non-technical users (as joehewitt points out on this very thread), it also has an advantage of running in the background, i.e. you don't have to remember to run anything.

Also, there's this webapp called http://droppages.com/ which makes publishing from DropBox even easier.

Though personally, if I had to help a non-technical friend with setting up a blog, I'd just send him to Wordpress.com.

admpon Cross Platform Mobile

Fowler's summary is:

- Don't use cross-platform toolkits

- For maximum reach: built a web app that looks like web app

- To appeal to a particular platform: build a native app for that platform, with a experience design based on that platforms interaction style

admpon Unicode In Python, Completely Demystified

ICU transliterator is fairly sophisticated (and configurable), actually. Take a look at the examples:

  キャンパス -> kyanpasu
  Αλφαβητικός Κατάλογος -> Alphabētikós Katálogos
  биологическом -> biologichyeskom

From: http://userguide.icu-project.org/transforms/general

Edit: reread, OP was talking about Django transliteration, which is much simpler.

admpon Unicode In Python, Completely Demystified

Pretty hard when all you have is a touch screen. :-)

admpon Dell: Apple should close shop (1997)

And almost 10 years later, in 2006, Jobs sent the following note to his employees:

"Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve."

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/technology/16apple.html?pa...

admpon 2011-01 Pragprog magazin is available

Direct link to PDF: http://www.pragprog.com/magazines/download/19.pdf

Direct link to ePub: http://www.pragprog.com/magazines/download/19.epub

admpon Facebook Engineering Puzzles

Why have I been downvoted? Facebook suggests to practice with the puzzles linked by OP before registering for Hackercup, so these are very well connected.

admpon Facebook Engineering Puzzles

There is also Facebook Hackercup on the way: http://www.facebook.com/hackercup

admpon Development at the Speed and Scale of Google

Some things I did not expect:

- 50% of the codebase changes every month;

- Single code tree;

- All of the development happens in HEAD (ditto for dependencies);

- It seems to be (relatively) usual to touch multiple components in a single changeset.

And all of this in the first 10 minutes.

Edit: formatting.

admpon Facebook Chat Architecture (Erlang)

For those who are perfectly comfortable with viewing PDFs directly, here's a link: www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/31/EugeneLetuchy-ErlangatFacebook.pdf

admpon Pragmatic Programmers Magazine: Ruby Special

Here are the direct links to PDF and ePub versions:

http://pragprog.com/magazines/download/18.pdf

http://pragprog.com/magazines/download/18.epub

admpon The Best of edw519 from Hacker News

You might be right, but the title comes from the blog itself.

admpon Ask HN: How do I get started with version control?

Have been using it for over a month now, no problems yet.

admpon Ask HN: How do I get started with version control?

There's also an experimental fork of GitX that adds basic support for pulling/pushing, etc. See here: http://github.com/brotherbard/gitx

admpon QA with Canonical's Matt Asay: Why Linux Beats Apple

I suppose you mean 500GB (not MB) HDD, don't you? :-) Ditto for RAM.